2 August 2024

Nanyang academy of fine arts

Programme

Now in its fifth edition, our hybrid Forum includes livestreamed presentations, performances, and dialogue to inspire an exploration of Southeast Asian arts and its discourses; facilitating an exchange of knowledge from the community to the classroom and vice versa.

10:00 Opening Address

Dr. Bridget Tracy Tan

10:15 - 10:30 Opening Performance

Sticky Rice Basket

Khao Niew Theatre (Laos)

10:30 - 10:45 Keynote / Presentation 1

Dark was the Night

Taiki Sakpisit (Thailand)

10:45 - 11:10 VoD Screening

The Latvian National Museum of Art in Support of Ukraine

Kristīne Milere (Latvia)

"Day by Day" Project

Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai (Vietnam)

 

Quê hương

Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai (Vietnam)

VR Spirituality: Creating a Borderless Safe Space for Communal Healing

Benedict Yu Zhu Ye (Singapore)

11:10 - 11:25 Presentation 2

Making Material Personal: Sign Of Strength in Precarious Times

Choy Chun Wei (Malaysia)

11:25 - 11:55 VoD Screening

Warm Bodies: Exhibition-Making as Protest Against Precarity

Lisa Ito-Tapang (Philippines)

ARE WE IN A FAILED STATE? An Alternative Art Education System in Chaotic Myanmar

Aung Myat Htay (Myanmar)

12:00 - 13:20 Lunch + Performance

ASK Dance Company

Ngajat Iban

13:30 - 13:35 Intro to part 2 + dialogue speakers

Dr. Bridget Tracy Tan

13:35 - 13:50 Presentation 3

A Note Beyond Nostalgia

Lê Giang (Vietnam)

13:50 - 14:30 Online Engagement Rooms @ UOB World + Tea Break

Treasures of Angkor

14:40 - 16:00 Dialogue Session

How can art and creative practices maintain and assert its relevance in such challenging times?

16:05 - 16:45 Southeast Asian Roundtable presentation
17:00 Farewell Tea Reception + Performance

ASK Dance Company

Ngajat Iban