Symposium
L'« art » dans ma langue
Écrits en langue vernaculaire sur l'art moderne et contemporain d'Asie du Sud-Est
08 Jun 2024
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“Art” in My Language: Writings in the Vernacular on Modern & Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia & the Region aims to investigate and compare narratives of art written in vernacular languages across Southeast, East and South Asia in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Their content, ideologies, terminologies, methodologies and genres will be examined with the objective of elucidating their sources, agencies, platforms, reception and typologies within a comparative framework.
In so doing, the symposium aspires to contribute to recent and continuing efforts to widen the scope of writings on art that are known to writers and readers in English and European languages. More specifically, speakers are invited to attempt the following questions:
Beyond writings on art in English and European languages, what is the range of narratives articulated in the vernacular?
Who wrote, and who read?
What do these writings in the vernacular inform us about the ways in which once foreign constructs of “art” have been understood, engaged with and discoursed on in Southeast Asia, as well as in East and South Asia? How did they evolve over time?
How are these narratives’ methodologies and modalities analogous to, yet distinct from, writings on art in the Western world? What might be the reasons for the similarities and differences?
How might these texts in the vernacular have been shaped by local premodern thought systems as well as approaches to the activity of image-making and the function of images?
How might language have shaped the formulation of these narratives of “art”?
What are the similarities and differences between these narratives of art across these regions within Asia? What does the unevenness suggest about the practice of art and writing on art in Asia?
Programme :
9h30 – Opening
Dr Marcella Lista : Chief Curator, Musée national d’art moderne - Centre Pompidou, Paris
Floriane de Saint-Pierre : President of Les Amis du Centre Pompidou
9h45 – Introduction
Dr Roger Nelson : Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
10h – Writings on Painting in Chinese
Dr Éric Lefebvre : Director, Musée Cernuschi, Paris
10h40 – Tracing the Multiple Trajectories of Art Writing in South Asia
Dr Sneha Ragavan : Senior Researcher and Head of Asia Art Archive in India, New Delhi
11:20 – The Modern in Southeast Asian Art: A Reader
Dr Patrick Flores : Professor, University of the Philippines Diliman, Manila; Deputy Director, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
Zdenka Badovinac :Independent curator and writer
12h – Q&A
12h30 – pause déjeuner
14h – The “New”, the “Avant-garde”, and Everything in Quotes: Tiptoeing Around Words and their Potential Meanings in the Indonesia New Art Movement 1975-1989
Grace Samboh : Independent scholar; Hyphen —, Yogyakarta
14h40 – I Am An Artist, He (and She) Said: On Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook’s Writing
Dr Roger Nelson : Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
15h20 – The Writing of Angkor Wat
Dr Ashley Thompson : Professor, SOAS, University of London
16h – Q&A and Roundtable
Moderated by Shabbir Hussain Mustafa : Senior Curator and Head of Exhibitions, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
18h – Closing
Scientific committee:
Dr Yin Ker, Art Historian
Dr Roger Nelson, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dr Marcella Lista, Musée national d’art moderne - Centre Pompidou, Paris
Moderation: Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
Organisation :
Dr Nicolas Ballet, Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou, Paris
Chenxin Zhou, Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou, Paris
With the support of KD Collection and Amis du Centre Pompidou
When
9:30am - 6pm
