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#Repost @asia.forum ・・・ “Pocket Utopias”: How to Rethink Asia and Art To read: link in bio Thank you to our media partner @artreview_magazine for leading a conversation with Asia Forum’s working council Annie Jael Kwan, Hammad Nasar, John Tain, and Ming Tiampo. @hammad_nasar_8 @ming_tiampo @mirrortravels @alikati @asia.forum @bagrifoundation #asia #asias #globalasias #contemporaryart

An opportunity to watch four short films as part of the @asia.forum programme in Venice and live-streamed by @artreview_magazine . The screening programme includes recent works from artists @lawrencelek , @yarliallison , Jin-me Yoon and @sinforvictory . 🟠Black Cloud 黑云 | Lawrence Lek, 2021 Winner of the 4th VH Award Grand Prix Black Cloud continues Lawrence Lek’s ongoing ‘Sinofuturist’ cinematic universe, in which he explores the psychological impact of technology on emerging forms of nonhuman life. 🟠In 1875 We Met At the Docks of Liverpool / 1875 於梨花埠遇上 | Yarli Allison, 2021 Explores a unique connection to Liverpool, focusing on Pitt Street, a part of the city that a multicultural mix of migrant workers, including the British Merchant Navy’s Chinese seafarers, inhabited at the turn of the 20th Century. 🟠Mul Maeum | Jin-me Yoon, 2022 Mul Maeum reimagines human and planetary connectivities across boundaries by weaving together three disparate Korean sites through the flow of water. 🟠The One | Sin Wai Kin, 2021 Screening in place of the artist's planned performance, The One is a meditative video, redefining and eroticising the limits of the body. 🔗 Book now at link in bio (https://bit.ly/AsiaForumVenice2022) The @asia.forum working council is made up of an international group of curators and researchers @alikati (Founder), @hammad_nasar_8 , @mirrortravels , @ming_tiampo . @asia.forum is presented by the @bagrifoundation and made possible with thanks to the additional support of @shcurating and is presented in partnership with @artreview_magazine , @fondazionequerinistampalia , @ied_official , @cafoscarialumni , @giudeccaartdistrict , @curatorial.school . With the patronage of the DVRI – Distretto Veneziano della Richerca e dell'Innovazione and @cafoscari . 📷 (1) Courtesy Lawrence Lek and Sadie Coles HQ, London (2) Courtesy Yarli Allison (3) Courtesy Jin-me Yoon (4) Courtesy Sin Wai Kin

Reza Afisina is a new media artist from West Java, Indonesia. Since 2008 he directs ruangrupa’s ArtLab that focuses on giving a space for individual artists or groups from different disciplines and backgrounds, from Indonesia and internationally, to work together through specific collaborative research and artistic projects. Reza is one of ruangrupa artistic directors for documenta fifteen. For Asia Forum’s collective enquiry Reza offers a page from @ruangrupa ’s 2011 “Siasat” / tactical guide for artist collective - a kind of 'survival kit' for artists, entitled “Networking” which begins “Make friends not art”. Swipe right to read the full text excerpt from Siasat. Reza Afisina joins some of the most urgent voices in contemporary art at the first in-person @asia.forum on 23 April @fondazionequerinistampalia and live streamed by @artreview_magazine . 🔗 Book now at link in bio (https://bit.ly/AsiaForumVenice2022) The @asia.forum working council is made up of an international group of curators and researchers @alikati (Founder), @hammad_nasar_8 , @mirrortravels , @ming_tiampo . @asia.forum is presented by the @bagrifoundation and made possible with thanks to the additional support of @shcurating and is presented in partnership with @artreview_magazine , @fondazionequerinistampalia , @ied_official , @cafoscarialumni , @giudeccaartdistrict , @curatorial.school . With the patronage of the @DVRI – Distretto Veneziano della Richerca e dell'Innovazione and @cafoscari . 📷 Courtesy Reza Afsina

Meet @asiaxforum contributor, artist and filmmaker Saodat Ismailova @saodatismailova (b. Tashkent) who came of age in the post-Soviet era in Central Asia. She remains deeply engaged with her native region in Uzbekistan as a source of creative inspiration. Her work has been shown worldwide and can be found in the collections of Stedelijk Museum and The Centre Pompidou. In 2022 Saodat Ismailova will be participating at documenta fifteen. The artist has been thinking for some years about the region of Central Asia, and what it would take to unite the local art scene, “perhaps researching together on ancestral knowledge we could reinvent ourselves to stand together.” For Asia Forum’s collective enquiry Saodat offers a playlist of sounds of memory often used in her films, available at link in bio: /anniejaelkwan/sets/playlist-saodat-ismailova?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Saodat Ismailovia joins some of the most urgent voices in contemporary art at the first in-person @asia.forum on 23 April @fondazionequerinistampalia and live streamed by @artreview_magazine . 🔗 Book now at link in bio (https://bit.ly/AsiaForumVenice2022) The @asia.forum working council is made up of an international group of curators and researchers @alikati (Founder), @hammad_nasar_8 , @mirrortravels , @ming_tiampo . @asia.forum is presented by the @bagrifoundation and made possible with thanks to the additional support of @shcurating and is presented in partnership with @artreview_magazine , @fondazionequerinistampalia , @ied_official , @cafoscarialumni , @giudeccaartdistrict , @curatorial.school . With the patronage of the @DVRI – Distretto Veneziano della Richerca e dell'Innovazione and @cafoscari . 📷 (1) Courtesy Saodat Ismailova (2) Saodat Ismailova, Qyrq Qyz” (forty girls), 2018. Filmed by Carlos Casas. Courtesy of the artist.

As Asia Forum’s first in-person event in Venice approaches, artists are providing resources for Asia Forum’s collective enquiry. Sheelasha Rajbhandari @sheelasha_rajbhandari , Hit Man Gurung @hitmaangurung and Tsherin Sherpa @tsherinsherpa contributed an article from Asia Pacific Art Papers on “Afterlives, aftershocks, afterthoughts: Suturing memories of loss and fissures in Nepal” which explores the past three decades of sociopolitical upheaval in Nepal. It focuses on the artistic and curatorial practices with narratives that go beyond the scale of loss to reorient discussions on our relationship with the recent past - from examples of remembrance as resistance to shared spaces of healing. For Asia Forum Sheelasha Rajbhandari, Hit Man Gurung and Tsherin Sherpa will will discuss curatorial directions - working with the decolonial, time, territory and the spiritual - with respect to their practices in Kathmandu, and the developments for Tales of Muted Spirits – Dispersed Threads – Twisted Shangri-La, Nepal Pavilion 2022. 🔗 Book now at link in bio (https://bit.ly/AsiaForumVenice2022) The @asia.forum working council is made up of an international group of curators and researchers @alikati (Founder), @hammad_nasar_8 , @mirrortravels , @ming_tiampo . @asia.forum is presented by the @bagrifoundation and made possible with thanks to the additional support of @shcurating and is presented in partnership with @artreview_magazine , @fondazionequerinistampalia , @ied_official , @cafoscarialumni , @giudeccaartdistrict , @curatorial.school . With the patronage of the @DVRI – Distretto Veneziano della Richerca e dell'Innovazione and @cafoscari

Joining the excellent lineup of speakers at the @asiaforum in Venice is curator, art historian and convenor of "Impossible Dreams" program (Taiwan Exhibition in Venice) Patrick Flores. Together with the Asia Forum, we’re pleased to be inviting back Flores who was part of Asia Forum’s very first digital gathering in the Spring of 2021. Patrick Flores is Professor of Art Studies at the Department of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines, which he chaired from 1997 to 2003, and Curator of the Vargas Museum in Manila. He is the Director of the Philippine Contemporary Art Network. He curated an exhibition of contemporary art from Southeast Asia and Southeast Europe titled South by Southeast and the Philippine Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2015. He was the Artistic Director of Singapore Biennale 2019. Patrick Flores will be joining Hoor Al Qasimi and the Asia Forum council of curators Annie Jael Kwan, Hammad Nasar, John Tain, Ming Tiampo for the roundtable discussion "Tracing Asia Art Histories: Modernism as Crime Scene" in Venice. 📅 23 April 📍@fondazionequerinistampalia and live-stream via @artreview_magazine 🔗 Booking now open at link in bio https://bit.ly/AsiaForumVenice2022 The @asia.forum working council is made up of an international group of curators and researchers @alikati (Founder), @hammad_nasar_8 , @mirrortravels , @ming_tiampo . @asia.forum is presented by the @bagrifoundation and made possible with thanks to the additional support of @shcurating and is presented in partnership with @artreview_magazine , @fondazionequerinistampalia , @ied_official , @cafoscarialumni , @giudeccaartdistrict , @curatorial.school . With the patronage of the DVRI – Distretto Veneziano della Richerca e dell'Innovazione and @cafoscari .

We’re pleased to introduce Hoor Al Qasimi @horalq , curator, researcher and President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation @Sharjahart and the driving force behind Sharjah’s transformation into an international art capital. She has curated a range of solo exhibitions including most recently The Otolith Group (2021–2022), Tarek Atoui (2020–2021), Zarina Bhimji (2020–2021). As well as the UAE National Pavilion, Venice Biennale (2015) and the second Lahore Biennale (2020). Hoor Al Qasimi will be joining Patrick Flores, curator, art historian and convenor of "Impossible Dreams" program (Taiwan Exhibition in Venice) and the Asia Forum council of curators Annie Jael Kwan, Hammad Nasar, John Tain, Ming Tiampo for the roundtable discussion "Tracing Asia Art Histories: Modernism as Crime Scene", that kicks off Asia Forum in Venice. 📅 23 April 📍@fondazionequerinistampalia and live-stream via @artreview_magazine 🔗 Book now at link in bio https://bit.ly/AsiaForumVenice2022 The @asia.forum working council is made up of an international group of curators and researchers @alikati (Founder), @hammad_nasar_8 , @mirrortravels , @ming_tiampo . @asia.forum is presented by the @bagrifoundation and made possible with thanks to the additional support of @shcurating and is presented in partnership with @artreview_magazine , @fondazionequerinistampalia , @ied_official , @cafoscarialumni , @giudeccaartdistrict , @curatorial.school . With the patronage of the @DVRI – Distretto Veneziano della Richerca e dell'Innovazione and @cafoscari .

We’re pleased to welcome artists Saodat Ismailova @saodatismailova and Reza Afisina (ruangrupa) to @asia.forum in Venice. They will join Asia Forum’s working council of curators, Annie Jael Kwan, Hammad Nasar, John Tain and Ming Tiampo for a session entitled “Collective Futures”. The participatory session will invite the audience to collectively consider critical issues such as working with institutions, funding, territory, power - and finding ways of being resilient, resourceful, and regenerative. 📅 23 April 📍@fondazionequerinistampalia and live-stream via @artreview_magazine 🔗 Booking now open at link in bio (https://bit.ly/AsiaForumVenice2022) The @asia.forum working council is made up of an international group of curators and researchers @alikati (Founder), @hammad_nasar_8 , @mirrortravels , @ming_tiampo . @asia.forum is presented by the @bagrifoundation and made possible with thanks to the additional support of @shcurating and is presented in partnership with @artreview_magazine , @fondazionequerinistampalia , @ied_official , @cafoscarialumni , @giudeccaartdistrict , @curatorial.school . With the patronage of the @DVRI – Distretto Veneziano della Richerca e dell'Innovazione and @cafoscari .

For @asiaforum on 23 April, we are pleased to Introduce artists Sheelasha Rajbhandari @sheelasha_rajbhandari , Hit Man Gurung @hitmaangurung and Tsherin Sherpa @tsherinsherpa who will discuss curatorial directions - working with the decolonial, time, territory and the spiritual - with respect to their practices in Kathmandu, and the developments for Tales of Muted Spirits – Dispersed Threads – Twisted Shangri-La, Nepal Pavilion 2022. 🟠Tsherin Sherpa (b. Kathmandu, 1968) trained in thangka painting, his artworks incorporate Buddhist iconography and pop culture references. Sherpa’s practice stems from his personal experiences within the Himalayan Diaspora as well as the nomadic history of Himalayan peoples. His experimentations with visual languages adapt, reimagine, and reappropriate identities, symbols, colours, and gestures to surpass their chronological and cultural constrictions. 🟠Sheelasha Rajbhandari, (b. Kathmandu, 1988) is a visual artist, cultural organiser, and co-founder of the artist collective Artree Nepal. Her longitudinal research repositions quotidian and plural narratives, by weaving folktales, oral histories, and performative rituals as a juxtaposition to conventional historiography. 🟠Hit Man Gurung, (b Lamjung, 1984) is a multidisciplinary artist concerned with some of the most pressing political, economic, and cultural phenomena transforming Nepal’s physical and societal landscapes. In parallel, his art also speaks to the strong impact of global capitalism, the dramatic economic boom in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Explore their resource for @asiaforum ’s collective enquiry at the link in bio. 📅23 April 📌@fondazionequerinistampalia and live-stream via @artreview_magazine 📍Booking now open at link in bio

Following his appearance at the digital gathering in the fall of last year, Asia Forum is pleased to welcome back artist and writer Ho Rui An @horuian for its first in-person gathering in Venice. In Venice he will deliver a presentation “Factories, Tables, Post Revolution” drawing upon his recent works examining the material networks and political imaginaries of Reform-era China and considering what it means to speak of "the economy" in a time when the Revolution appears to have exhausted its historical course. 📍 Asia Forum takes place on 23 April in #Venice during the #59thVeniceBiennale. Book Now: bit.ly/AsiaForumVenice Asia Forum is conceived by Annie Jael Kwan and curated alongside international curators and researchers, Hammad Nasar, John Tain and Ming Tiampo. Asia Forum is presented by the Bagri Foundation and made possible with thanks to the additional support of Something Human and is presented in partnership with ArtReview, Fondazione Querini Stampalia Venezia, IED Internacional Official Partner, Ca' Foscari Alumni, GAD - Giudecca Art District, Curatorial Studies Venice. With the patronage of the Distretto Veneziano della Ricerca e dell'Innovazione and Università Ca' Foscari Venezia. 📷 (1) Ho Rui An, Courtesy of Artist (2) Ho Rui An, Ultimate Coin Test China High-speed Rail, 2018. HD video, loop. Courtesy of artist (3) Ho Rui An, Asia The Unmiraculous, 2018. Courtesy of artist

On 23 April Hoor Al Qasimi @hooralq curator and researcher (and President and Director @Sharjahart ), Patrick Flores, curator, art historian and convenor of "Impossible Dreams" programme (Taiwan Exhibition in Venice) will be joining the Asia Forum council of curators Annie Jael Kwan, Hammad Nasar, John Tain, Ming Tiampo for the roundtable discussion "Tracing Asia Art Histories: Modernism as Crime Scene". 🧐 Through a series of incisive and engaging discussions, artists’ presentations, interactive sessions and screenings, the Asia Forum departs from the central exhibition, national pavilions, and collateral events that present the arts of ‘Asias’. 📅23 April 📍@fondazionequerinistampalia and live-stream via @artreview_magazine 🔗Discover the full programme and book via the link in bio. The @asia.forum working council is made up of an international group of curators and researchers @alikati (Founder), @hammad_nasar_8 , @mirrortravels , @ming_tiampo . @asia.forum is presented by the @bagrifoundation and made possible with thanks to the additional support of @shcuratingand is presented in partnership with @artreview_magazine , @fondazionequerinistampalia , @ied_official , @cafoscarialumni , @giudeccaartdistrict , @curatorial.school . With the patronage of the @DVRI – Distretto Veneziano della Richerca e dell'Innovazione and @cafoscari