ACAW 2019 | PRESS COVERAGE

ACAW 2019 FIELD MEETING Take 6: Thinking Collections Coverage

Canvas, “Living Archive”

“The performing artists at ACAW’s annual FIELD MEETING investigated the art forum’s theme Thinking Collections – which was taking an artist-focused approach rather than a market approach – by reflecting on the body as both inventory and archive. ” > View as a PDF

ArtAsiaPacific, “Creative Alchemy: ACAW’s FIELD MEETING Take 6”

Chloe Chu, March 1, 2019
“[Leeza Ahmady’s] approach… lends itself to upending the reductive methods that we routinely use to understand our surroundings, including logic, and makes room for encounters with universal truths.” > View as a PDF

Berlin Art Link, “‘Field Meeting: Take 6’ Brings Its Asian Contemporary Art Focus to Dubai”

Berlin Art Link Productions, February 8, 2019
“Significantly, the choice to launch the Field Meeting in Dubai… served to initiate a stronger dialogue between Asian countries and cultures, across different religions, political situations and visual identities.” Check out BerlinArtLink’s video synopsis of the forum here. > View as a PDF

OCULA, “Field Meeting Take 6: Thinking Collections”

Stephanie Bailey, February 1, 2019
“Throughout Field Meeting [Take] 6, collecting—as an artistic and curatorial practice—emerged as a form of resisting and enabling.” > View as a PDF