This symposium explores memory, trauma and the politics of the past in Asian contemporary art. It investigates the legacies of violence in the region, probing its continued, if repressed, imprint on Asia’s sociopolitical landscape. If history is written by the victors, who speaks for history’s victims? Art historians Dr Wulan Dirgantoro and Dr Nayun Jang team up with acclaimed Indonesian artist FX Harsono to share their intimations, considering the politics of remembering from diverse vantage points. The session will be moderated by Dr Zehra Jumabhoy.

Arrhythmia: Performance Pedagogy and Practice is a blended-format international conference organised by the Faculty of Performing Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore. Artists and academics, faculty and students, will articulate the pandemic experience beyond its disruption and consequent digital turn.

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A STORY LAB WEBINAR SERIES

This is the launch event for Embodied performativity in Southeast Asia: Multidisciplinary corporealities, edited by Dr Stephanie Burridge with chapters by Dr Elizabeth de Roza and Shelly Quick; Dr Timothy O’Dwyer, Susan Sentler and Glenna Batson; Dinu Bodiciu, Dr Clare Veal and Dr Darren Moore.

Thinking archipelagically from the Carribean, Édouard Glissant noted that “each island embodies openness. The dialectic between inside and outside is reflected in the relationship of land and sea.” Similarly, Epeli Hau’ofa considered the Pacific an oceanic continent punctuated by dynamic island homelands, with fluid genealogies to the migration of the Austronesian peoples from Southeast Asia into and across the Southern hemisphere, and forward into new affiliations outside inert colonial temporalities.

A STORY LAB WEBINAR SERIES

In this webinar, Lord Puttnam will discuss the work of two of his great friends and collaborators – director Alan Parker and composer Ennio Morricone. Both men had a huge influence on Lord Puttnam’s life, career and body of work, upon which he will reflect. Morricone is widely considered to be one of the greatest film composers of all time, and Parker’s film credits including award-winning musicals such as Bugsy Malone, Fame, The Wall, The Commitments and Evita.

2020 has become one of the most devastating years most of us have ever lived through, grappling with the realities of life in post-COVID-19 shock – states of quarantine, a decimated global economy, unprecedented job losses, failures of political leadership and the terrifying prospect of a world without art experiences the way we knew them. A sense of precarity and uncertainty assails us as new concerns threaten to overshadow pre-existing ones.

LASALLE College of the Arts, together with the International Institute of Asian Studies and KUNCI Study Forum and Collective, is organising an In Situ Graduate School (ISGS) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, which deals with current developments in art networks in Asia.

Speakers:
Prof Adam Knee, Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Media & Creative Industries, LASALLE
Prof Michael Earley, Dean of Performing Arts at LASALLE
Milenko Prvacki, Senior Fellow, LASALLE

Plants and Other Objects in Cold War Science Fiction
Prof Adam Knee

Speakers:
Dr Harah Chon, Lecturer MA Design, LASALLE
Kiven Strohm, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, National University of Singapore
Zarina Muhammad, Lecturer Fine Arts, LASALLE 

Experience and the Design Object
Dr Harah Chon