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# Asia Contemporary Art Week

Asia Contemporary Art Week connects leading New York City galleries and museums in a citywide event comprising of public programs such as exhibitions, receptions, lectures and performances.

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- [Pi Artworks (Istanbul) | Love, Hate and Edit](https://acaw.info/pi-artworks-istanbul-love-hate-and-edit/) - Pi Artworks (Istanbul) June 17 – July 10, 2015 Artist: Saeed Ensafi Pi Artworks Istanbul presents Iranian artist Saeed Ensafi’s first solo show in Turkey. Ensafi, who grew up in the post-war era Tehran and experienced its aftermath and the myths and narratives that surround it, reflects on traces left behind by the people who
- [Pi Artworks (London) | An Avalanche Of Subtlety](https://acaw.info/pi-artworks-london-an-avalanche-of-subtlety/) - Pi Artworks (London) July 10 – August 8, 2015 Artists: John Henry Newton, Laura Reeves, and Himali Singh Soin Curated by Adrienne Groen An Avalanche of Subtlety presents a conversation with thirty-two boxes, each containing objects meticulously ordered by an unknown collector, that have been repossessed by the artists to create a new history. Through
- [SCREENING & TALK | NOVEMBER 5TH](https://acaw.info/screening-talk-november-5th/) - ACAW at 599 West Screening / Conversation | Thursday, November 5, 6 - 8 pm An Evening with Jawshing Arthur Liou The acclaimed Taipei and Indiana based artist will speak to ACAW Director Leeza Ahmady about his extraordinary videos and films, which he calls mindscapes, rendered in 3D using recognizable imagery to create otherworldy spiritual sanctuaries. In the context of THINKING CURRENTS, Ahmady’s latest
- [Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art | QUEENS MUSEUM](https://acaw.info/anonymous-contemporary-tibetan-art-queens-museum/) - Queens Museum September 21, 2014 - January 4, 2015 Group Show Within the new social reality as part of the People’s Republic of China, art is becoming a vital medium of self-expression for Tibetans. An increased focus on the experience of the individual has result in a cautious, 21st-century visual language steeped in irony, metaphor
- [DAY 1: MARCH 21, 2011](https://acaw.info/day-1-march-21/) - Monday, March 21 The Museum of Modern Art 7 pm: Dialogue with Artist + Screening Modern Mondays: An Evening with Mariam Ghani Brooklyn-based artist Mariam Ghani (b. 1978) examines the public and private narratives that construct and contest histories, places, and communities through projects that both deploy and question the strategies and forms of documentary,
- [DAY 1: MARCH 21, 2011](https://acaw.info/582-2/) - Monday, March 21 The Museum of Modern Art 7 pm: Dialogue with Artist + Screening Modern Mondays: An Evening with Mariam Ghani Brooklyn-based artist Mariam Ghani (b. 1978) examines the public and private narratives that construct and contest histories, places, and communities through projects that both deploy and question the strategies and forms of documentary,
- [DAY 11: MARCH 31, 2011](https://acaw.info/day11-march-31/) - Thursday, March 31 Closing Events Asia Art Archive at Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) 6:30 pm: Dialogue with Artists and Director + Screening From Jean-Paul Sartre to Teresa Teng: Contemporary Cantonese Art in the 1980s Directed by Asia Art Archive, 2010, 45 mins, Hong Kong, China. Based on primary research, rare film footage and
- [DAY 10: MARCH 30, 2011](https://acaw.info/day10-march-30/) - Wednesday, March 30 Asian Cultural Council at Location One 6:30 pm: Dialogue with Artists + Reception The Role of Artists in Local Spaces and Global Society Join us for a special discussion presented by Asian Cultural Council 2011 grantees/ contemporary artists from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, and Hong Kong. Artists Rahraw and Manizhah Omarzad (Afghanistan), Firoz
- [DAY 9: MARCH 29, 2011](https://acaw.info/day9-march-29/) - Tuesday, March 29 China Institute 6:30–8:00 pm: Dialogue with Artist Art Salon with Xiaoze Xie, interviewed by Robert Hobbs Xiaoze Xie combines his interest in Chinese history and current events with formal concerns by using materials from archives and library stacks as the subject of his paintings. His Chinese Library Series is not time-specific in
- [DAY 8: MARCH 28, 2011](https://acaw.info/day8-march-28/) - Monday, March 28 Asia Society and Museum 6:30 pm: Dialogue with Artists Ushio Shinohara and Tomokazu Matsuyama: Neo-Dada Mix / Remix Come hear a lively discussion about Japanese culture and history between New York-based artists Ushio Shinohara (b. 1932) and Tomokazu Matsuyama (b. 1976). Shinohara made his iconic status as a Neo-Dada artist in Japan
- [DAY 7: MARCH 27, 2011](https://acaw.info/day7-march-27/) - Sunday, March 27 Indo-American Arts Council 2–5 pm: Opening Reception Erasing Borders: Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora The eighth annual group exhibition organized by Indo-American Arts Council opens at the Queens Museum of Art to explore the contributions of 25 artists whose origins can be traced to the Indian subcontinent. Works in various mediums
- [DAY 6: MARCH 26, 2011](https://acaw.info/day6-march-26/) - Saturday, March 26 Bose Pacia 11 am - 6 pm: Exhibition Viewing Conundrum An exhibition featuring works in various media by some of the most active contemporary Indian artists today: Aditya Pande, Anita Dube, Arunkumar H.G., Raqs Media Collective, Mithu Sen, & Suhasini Kejriwal. Common in all works included is an aesthetic paradigm that explores
- [DAY 5: MARCH 25, 2011](https://acaw.info/day5-march-25/) - Friday, March 25 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 6:30 pm: Dialogue with Curators + Reception in Rotunda International Biennials In honor of ACAW 2011, three renowned curators will discuss artists and curatorial processes in recent international biennials. With David Elliott, Independent Curator and Artistic Director of Sydney Biennale 2010; Massimiliano Gioni, New Museum of Contemporary Art,
- [DAY 4: MARCH 24, 2011](https://acaw.info/day4-march-24/) - Thursday, March 24 Chelsea Chambers Fine Art 6–8 pm: Opening Reception Layers: Recent Works by Xiaoze Xie In a dramatic series of paintings and an installation, Xiaoze Xie depicts stacks of Chinese books and newspapers to hint at the historical dimension of their recorded events. Xiaoze Xie is the Paul L. & Phyllis Wattis Professor
- [DAY 2: MARCH 22, 2011](https://acaw.info/day2-march-22/) - Tuesday, March 22 SOTHEBY'S 6 pm: Dialogue with Artists + Book Launch + Reception Rashid Rana and Pooja Sood Sotheby’s hosts a dialogue on the contemporary art space in South Asia, with eminent artist Rashid Rana and Pooja Sood, the director of KHOJ. Honoring ACAW 2011, this discussion is held in conjunction with the New
- [DAY 3: MARCH 23, 2011](https://acaw.info/day3-march-23/) - Wednesday, March 23 Signature Event ASIA SOCIETY AND MUSEUM 6:30 pm: Dialogue with Artists Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian Join us for ACAW's signature event to hear world-renowned artists Monir Farmanfarmaian discusses her life and art work with Melissa Chiu, Asia Society Museum Director. Recipient of the 1958 Venice Biennale's Gold Medal, Farmanfarmaian has exhibited internationally
- [DAY ALL: MAR 21-31, 2011](https://acaw.info/day-all-mar-21-31/) - Monday, March 21 The Museum of Modern Art 7 pm: Dialogue with Artist + Screening Modern Mondays: An Evening with Mariam Ghani Brooklyn-based artist Mariam Ghani (b. 1978) examines the public and private narratives that construct and contest histories, places, and communities through projects that both deploy and question the strategies and forms of documentary,
- [Public Viewing - October 31st](https://acaw.info/public-viewing-october-31st/) - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Friday, October 31, 2014, 10 am - 5:45 pm Wang Jianwei: Time Temple Beijing-based artist Wang Jianwei’s first solo-show in North America featuring installation, painting, film, and a live-theater production; a multi-faceted project steeped in history and social memory. $22 for nonmembers / free for members Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum >
- [Opening Reception - October 29th](https://acaw.info/opening-reception-october-29th/) - Ventana244 Gallery Opening Reception | Wednesday, October 29, 5 - 7:30 pm Lu Yang: Arcade This presentation of select videos is accompanied by an experimental retrospective titled Lu Yang: Arcade, which transforms the storefront of Wallplay (Delancey & Orchard) into a vintage arcade featuring interactive games, video installations, and a shop of bizarre objects. Ventana244
- [Ronald Ventura: E.R. (Endless Resurrection) | Tyler Rollins Fine Art](https://acaw.info/ronald-ventura-e-r-endless-resurrection-tyler-rollins-fine-art/) - Tyler Rollins Fine Art September 4 – October 25, 2014 Artist: Ronald Ventura In his latest series of oil paintings, Ronald Ventura meditates on Filipino history through visual and performative culture, reflecting on the history of faith and its expressions in ritual, art, and in the human body itself. Tracing the evolution of iconic motifs
- [Cao Fei: LA Town | LOMBARD FREID GALLERY](https://acaw.info/cao-fei-la-town-lombard-freid-gallery/) - Lombard Freid Gallery September 10– October 25, 2014 Artist: Cao Fei Beijing-based artist Cao Fei is one of the most significant and innovative young artists to have emerged on the international scene from Mainland China. Known for her multimedia installations and videos, she mixes social commentary, popular aesthetics, references to Surrealism, and documentary conventions in
- [Francesco Clemente: Inspired By India | Rubin Museum of Art](https://acaw.info/francesco-clemente-inspired-by-india-rubin-museum-of-art/) - Rubin Museum of Art September 5, 2014 – February 2, 2015 Artists: Francesco Clemente The first-ever exhibition dedicated to the work that Clemente created while living in India— an extended period of cross-cultural exchange that has shaped the artist’s creative vocabulary over the past four decades. Since his first visits to India in the 1970s,
- [Nam June Paik: Becoming Robot | Asia Society Museum](https://acaw.info/nam-june-paik-becoming-robot-asia-society-museum/) - Asia Society Museum September 5, 2014 - January 4, 2015 Artist: Nam June Paik Becoming Robot explores the Nam June Paik’s visionary use of technologies and the lasting impact his singular contributions have had on the development and appreciation of new media art. The exhibition highlights his lifelong interest in humanizing technology and his prescient
- [Film Screening - November 1st](https://acaw.info/film-screening-november-1st/) - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Film Screening | Saturday, November 1, 2014, 5 pm The Morning Time Disappeared Inspired by Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Wang Jianwei’s film follows a young man who moves to Beijing with fantasies of the future and undergoes a series of transformations. $8 for nonmembers / $6 for members > In conjunction with
- [Panel Discussion | NOVEMBER 2ND](https://acaw.info/performance-discussion-novemver-2nd/) - Performa Hub Panel Discussion | November 2, 6:30 – 8:30 pm ACAW collaborated with Performa 15 in celebration of the Biennial’s 10th year of distinguished programming, for a special evening extension of FIELD MEETING: Thinking Performance, focused on lecture-performance as a medium. Introduced by Performa Curator-at-Large, Defne Ayas and led by ACAW Director Leeza Ahmady, the panel discussion
- [NIKHIL CHOPRA | PERFORMANCE | THE MET MUSEUM](https://acaw.info/?page_id=39349) - Lands, Waters, and Skies September 12 thru 20, 2019 If you were not among audiences seduced by Chopra’s enrapturing performance at Field Meeting in Dubai this January, where he clad in drag costume, silently made a stunning landscape drawing with 99 shades of red lipstick, than brace yourself for his new performance at the Metropolitan
- [ACAW 2017 | PRESS COVERAGE](https://acaw.info/?page_id=33326) - ACAW 2017 officially concludes with over 30 participating ACAW Consortium Partners and supporting institutions. See here for an updated list of press coverage.
- [FIELD REVIEW ISSUE 2: MIDDLE EAST](https://acaw.info/?page_id=32705) - Spotlighting Middle East and North Africa with seven essays on current manifold creative threads woven in the MENA region.
- [](https://acaw.info/notice/) - In 2019 we updated our name to better represent nearly 20 years of nonprofit service to the field. Please help us to take the next leap forward. Donate and support our cause!
- [](https://acaw.info/special-notice/) - ASIA CONTEMPORARY ART WEEK (ACAW) is taking a programmatic sabbatical in 2019 to plan our programs for 2020 and beyond. Please stay tuned.
- [](https://ocula.com/events/asia-contemporary-art-week-2018/about/) - A special collaboration between ACAW and Media Partner Ocula archiving the 13th edition via photologs, articles, discussions and more! Click here to
- [ACAW 2018 Prelude](https://acaw.info/?page_id=34101#new_tab) - A wide-ranging discussion with internationally noted, Mumbai-based artist, Jitish Kallat. Click here to
- [](https://field-meeting-thinking-projects.eventbrite.com#new_tab) - Signature Program of Asia Contemporary Art Week 2017 hosted at Asia Society Museum & SVA Theatre on October 14 & 15.
- [](https://acaw.info/?page_id=31212) - Summer exhibitions, artist workshops & talks at Consortium Partner venues: Asia Society, Ryan Lee Gallery, Klein Sun Gallery, Space Station, Queens Museum and more!
- [](https://acaw.info/dialogues-in-asian-contemporary-art-on-artonair-org/) - The seventh edition of Asian Contemporary Art Week in New York City successfully closed on March 31, 2011 after ten days of exhibitions, screenings, receptions and public programs. If you missed the events or would like to experience them again, many of the programs are recorded and archived as part of Dialogues in Asian Contemporary
- [FIELD MEETING October 26-27](https://acaw.info/?page_id=12498)
- [ACAW 2014 (Oct 22-Nov 3)](https://acaw.info/?page_id=16900)
- [](https://acaw.info/urgency-and-relevance-a-curatorial-perspective/) - Urgency and Relevance: A Curatorial Perspective Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum A Prelude to Asian Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) 2014, Oct 22 - 31! Tuesday, March 11, 2014 at 6:30 pm Presented as part of Asian Contemporary Art Week's critical "Dialogues in Contemporary Art" series, select curators give voice to diverse identities within a landscape of
- [](https://acaw.info/?page_id=18125) - Asia Contemporary Art Week's FIELD MEETING in Venice - an energizing & intimate afternoon held in the cozy Arsennale Navy Officer's Club on May 8th, 2015, with performances, talks, and discussions by a roster of renowned artists, curators, and art professionals and an equally inspiring and captivated audience. FIELD MEETING Take 2: An Afterthought was
- [](https://acaw.info/thinking-currents-at-the-inaugural-seattle-art-fair-july-30-to-august-2-2015/) - THINKING CURRENTS A signature exhibition of video, film, & sound by artists based in The Pacific Rim and beyond! Curated by Leeza Ahmady As part of Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW), Curatorial and Educational Platform July 30 – August 2, 2015 At the Inaugural Seattle Art Fair THINKING CURRENTS foregrounds the immediacy of experimentation with
- [](https://www.ibraaz.org/publications/129) - Now streaming on IBRAAZ, the leading publication on visual culture in North Africa & the Middle East - video recordings of performances, lecture performances, talks and discussions by over 30 artists/curators that presented in ACAW 2016 FIELD MEETING Take 5: Thinking Practice 2-day forum hosted at the Guggenheim Museum and Asia Society on Nov. 11
- [](https://acaw.info/?page_id=30665) - Spring exhibitions, artist talks & performances at Consortium Partner venues: Asia Society, Gallery Zilberman, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Alserkal Avenue and more!
- [Interview with Nurjahan Akhlaq](https://acaw.info/open-portfolios-online-interview-with-nurjahan-akhlaq/) - 1. How did you start making art? I’ve been around it all my life. My dad was a painter and my mother is a ceramist, so it was encouraged early on... I got interested in film and photography when I was about 15, discovered all the cool things that you could do with the camera
- [Interview with Keyang Tang](https://acaw.info/open-portfolios-online-interview-with-keyang-tang/) - 1. How did you start making art? I grew up in an intellectual’s family that never kept me distanced from, if not very close to, art scenes. Meanwhile, having lived among commoners in the age before the market boom and witnessed their desires, ambitions and personal disasters, I have had a life that is dense
- [Interview with Annu Palakunnathu-Matthew](https://acaw.info/open-portfolios-online-interview-with-annu-palakunnathu-matthew/) - 1. How did you start making art? My initial educational background was in the sciences. I was introduced to photography as an optional subject at my University in India. From what I remember, the class shared one camera and two rolls of film for the entire semester! Despite the meager resources, the class introduced me
- [Interview with Mihoko Ogaki](https://acaw.info/open-portfolios-online-interview-with-mihoko-ogaki/) - 1. How did you start making art? As a child I was suffering from asthma, so instead of playing outside with friends I would rather stay home alone and draw. And maybe I have also been influenced by my mother, who was doing oil paintings. At the age of 15, I expected to go to
- [Interview with John Jurayj](https://acaw.info/open-portfolios-online-interview-with-john-jurayj/) - 1. How did you start making art? As a child I was obsessed with construction and demolition, I could not tell them apart. I started out studying architecture; maybe it was the right thing to do, the right way to be correct and inline. But when I was 18, I met a painter in Rome,
- [Interview with Jian-Jun Zhang](https://acaw.info/open-portfolios-online-interview-with-jian-jun-zhang/) - 1. How did you start making art? Since I was in Kindergarten I naturally liked to draw. Once the teacher announced to the class that my work was wonderful, it made me feel that I was an artist. I remember that when people asked me what I wanted to be, I always answered "artist." In
- [ACAW, San Francisco 2014](https://acaw.info/acaw-san-francisco-2014-september-20-–-28-2014/) - ACAW, San Francisco 2014 September 20 – 28, 2014 Asian Contemporary Art Week 2014 (ACAW 2014) San Francisco is a weeklong series of events that aims to celebrate, promote and sustain interest in Asian contemporary arts and design in the San Francisco Bay Area. ACAW 2014 features programs from 30 local institutions, ranging from exhibitions,
- [Interview with Jung Hee Choi](https://acaw.info/open-portfolios-online-interview-with-jung-hee-choi/) - 1. How did you start making art? Art-making is a drive that the artist is compelled to fulfill and is the highest experience for the artist. It started as natural as breathing. 2. Briefly describe your art from the perspective of what it could tell us about you? Utilizing both traditional and experimental techniques, I
- ['Sonic Blossom' on ABC News](https://acaw.info/sonic-blossom-press-coverage-from-abc-news/) - View a delightful clip of ABC News coverage of Lee Mingwei's Sonic Blossom - ACAW 2015 Signature exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. October 30 - November 8, 2015 >> See the full coverage here
- [](https://acaw.info/?page_id=18412) - In connection with ACAW 2015's signature exhibition Sonic Blossom by Lee Mingwei, co-presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, FIELD MEETING Take 3: Thinking Performance will stage performances, talks and discussions with over 30 keynote figures to foreground the multiplicity and critical role of performance work coming out of the context of Asia.
- [](https://acaw.info/?page_id=23793) - Summer Exhibitions, screenings & artist talks at Consortium Member venues: Asia Society, Twelve Gates Arts, Arts Projects International, Sundaram Tagore and more!
- [](https://acaw.info/?page_id=23058) - Spring exhibitions, screenings & artist talks at Consortium Member venues: Japan Society, The Met Breuer, Aicon Gallery, Chambers Fine Art and more.
- [PRESS FOR THINKING CURRENTS](https://acaw.info/?page_id=17246) - "Thinking Currents was the most artistically significant thing that happened at Seattle Art Fair, and it was crowded all weekend."
- [Interview with Qin Feng](https://acaw.info/interview-with/) - Qin Feng grew up as a shepherd in China’s Northwestern frontier region. His strong features and curly beard coupled with his dark tan and powerful build give him the air of a Chinese cowboy. Qin (b. 1961), recalls fondly that his first canvas was based on the open prairie, where he cut hay into square
- [Interview with Raazia Chandoo](https://acaw.info/interview-with-raazia-chandoo/) - 1. How did you start making art? I grew up in an environment in which there was limited access to Fine Art materials. At that time, I applied myself to learning some domestic arts such as needlework, knitting and crochet. During my teens, I designed a stage set for a school play, made earrings from
- [DIALOGUES IN ASIAN CONTEMPORARY ART](https://acaw.info/dialogues-in-asian-contemporary-art/) - In collaboration with ARTOnAIR.org, Leeza Ahmady, independent curator and director of Asian Contemporary Art Week (ACAW), conducts interviews with artists, curators, critics, and experts working both inside and outside of Asia. The program will include Ahmady's reports from around town and will feature select recordings of conversations, talks, and panel discussions across venues in New
- [Interview with Sangbin IM](https://acaw.info/interview-with-sangbin-im/) - 1.How did you start making art? I do not remember the exact moment. My mother told me that she remembers since I was little, painting was my love and it continued every single day. As I also vaguely remember, whenever I finished the works, my mom put them up on all the walls of my
- [Interview with Schandra Singh](https://acaw.info/interview-with-schandra-singh/) - 1. How did you start making art? At the age of 15 I started to draw. The work was very private and personal, a kind of emotional diary. The drawings were technically imperfect so I kept them a secret. I didn't look at them as art but as a personal expression. My mother discovered the
- [Interview with Zheng Chongbin](https://acaw.info/zheng-chongbin/) - 1.How did you start making art? I grew up in a neighborhood in Shanghai where a few of my neighbors liked to spend their retired life painting everyday. It was always fascinating for me to watch how they used the brush. The act of painting was a kind of ritual to them, and it was
- [Interview with Cui Fei](https://acaw.info/interview-with-cui-fei/) - 1. How did you start making art? Influenced by my father, I started to draw at a very early age. My sister and I often drew together. Besides drawing for fun, we sometimes drew pictures while arguing. One of our neighbors commented to my parents: “I never saw kids arguing like this—without even exchanging a
- [Interview with Ali Van](https://acaw.info/1340/) - 1.How did you start making art? On dew-damp days, just before the rain, I would sit outside and make things. There was always a mess made, unconscious and unencumbered. The surrounding fauna and temperature of ground on which we played often inspired various woolly gestures and thought. An awareness to the onset of a foggy
- [Interview with Amina Ahmed](https://acaw.info/interview-with-amina-ahmed/) - ...In a conversation I had with my dear friend Allison. 1. How did you start making art? My art has become such an organic part of me that I don't know exactly how, when, or where it started. I do know that many people have inspired me throughout my life. The list is long, so
- [The 10th Edition of ACAW](https://acaw.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ACAW-2015_PRESS_RELEASE1.pdf) - ACAW kicks off its 10th edition on October 28, 2015 with citywide exhibitions, receptions, performances, screenings and other evening festivities, alongside two ACAW signature programs: Lee Mingwei’s Sonic Blossom at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 30 to November 8, and FIELD MEETING Take 3: Thinking Performance, October 31 and November 1.
- [Lee Mingwei: Top 10 "Best in Art"](https://acaw.info/lee-mingweis-sonic-blossom-named-among-top-10-best-in-art/) - We're thrilled to announce that Asia Contemporary Art Week - ACAW 2015's signature exhibition, 'Lee Mingwei's Sonic Blossom' at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, was named one of the Top 10 "Best in Art" and "Best in Classical Music" of 2015 by The New York Times. >> Read "The Best in Art of
- [Press Release: ACAW 2016](https://acaw.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/11th-Edition-Asia-Contemporary-Art-Week-ACAW-Sept-8-Nov-18-Press-Release.pdf) - Expanding beyond its usual format through a full season-long platform to capture the momentous energy of the field, Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) kicks off its 11th edition on September 8, 2016 with over 200 artists, cutting-edge exhibitions, performances, public programs & other evening festivities across New York City thru November 18.
- [New Curators AT Guggenheim](https://acaw.info/the-guggenheim-appoints-two-new-curators-hou-hanru-and-xiaoyu-weng/) - ACAW Consortium Member Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has appointed two new curators to focus on exhibitions that will feature the work of artists born in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau: Xiaoyu Weng, founding director of the Kadist Art Foundation’s Asia programs and Program Director of the Asian Contemporary Arts Consortium in San Francisco will serve as
- [China Institute's moved to LES](https://acaw.info/china-institute-moving-to-lower-manhattan/) - Asia Contemporary Art Consortium Member China Institute, the nation’s oldest educational institution devoted solely to Chinese culture, has moved to Lower Manhattan from the Upper East Side! Its new location at 100 Washington Street is approximately 50,000 square feet — five times its current size – and will include a 3,000-square-foot gallery, library, classrooms and offices. The
- [DIALOGUES IN ASIAN CONTEMPORARY ART](https://acaw.info/acaw-2011/dialogue-program) - ACAW 2011 launches Dialogues in Asian Contemporary Art, a series of discussions with influential international artists, curators, and scholars to examine current issues, emerging trends, and new directions in Asia’s contemporary art scene.

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- [](https://acaw.info/team/) - ACAW | ACAF TEAM Leeza Ahmady, Director Maryam Ghoreishi, Program Associate Cloris He, Program Associate Tanasia LaBrew, Website Design & Curatorial Fellow David Pae, Social Media & Curatorial Fellow Board Members Leeza AhmadyMegha RalapatiChristopher K. Ho ACAW | ACAF Team Members (2001–2026) We offer our deepest gratitude to the individuals listed below, whose powerful contributions as staff, fellows, and
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- [](https://acaw.info/consortium-members/) - Consortium Member Institutions Asia Contemporary Art Consortium (ACAC) is a diverse group of visionary figures from leading galleries, museums, and grassroots arts organizations in New York and across Asia, united in ACAW/ACAF’s mission to heighten awareness and visibility of contemporary art practices from Asia and its diasporas in the United States and beyond. Asia Society
- [](https://acaw.info/history/) - A Brief History of ACAW Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) was established in 2001 through an independent joint initiative of the Asia Society and a group of visionary individuals from leading museums and galleries in New York, known as the Asian Contemporary Art Consortium (ACAC). Its primary mission was to heighten the awareness and visibility
- [](https://acaw.info/about-acaw/) - About ACAW This web archive traces the evolution of Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW), which became Asia Contemporary Art Forum (ACAF) in 2019. Since its founding in 2001, ACAW has bridged gaps in contemporary art, promoting a deeper understanding of art and culture from Asia and its diaspora. By bringing together leading New York-based and
- [](https://acaw.info/artists-in-acaw-consortium-partner-exhibitions/) - Presented Artists & Professionals at ACAW Consortium Partner Institutions 2018 Khalid Abdalla (Cairo)Damali Abrams (New York)Angkrit Ajchariyasophon (Chiang Rai)Monira Al Qadiri (Berlin)K.H. Ara (1914–1985)Lina Attalah (Cairo)Yoon Hwan Bae (Seoul)S.K. Bakre (1920–2007)Judith Barry (New York)Susan Bee (New York)KT Pe Benito (New York)Homi K. Bhabha (Massachusetts)Huma Bhabha (New York)Xu Bing (Beijing)Katherine Bradford (New York)Haley Bueschlen (New York)Gabo
- [](https://acaw.info/presented-artists-in-acaw-curated-signature-programs/) - Presented Artists & Professionals at ACAW Curated Signature Programs Leeza Ahmady (New York) Amina Ahmed (New York & Tehran) Khadim Ali (Sydney & Kabul) Stephanie Bailey (Hong Kong) Burçak Bingöl (Istanbul) Bingyi (Beijing) Heman Chong (Singapore) Nikhil Chopra (Goa) Rana Dehghan (Tehran) Natasha Degen & Sandra Skurvida (New York) Alexis Destoop (Sydney & Brussels)
- [](https://acaw.info/field-review-3/) - FIELD REVIEW Past Editions In October 2016, ACAW launched FIELD REVIEW, a semi-annual online journal providing a platform for writers, curators, and art historians to critically engage with contemporary art discourse. As an extension of the FIELD MEETING art forum, each issue of FIELD REVIEW explores the artistic developments and pressing cultural themes within one
- [](https://acaw.info/40040-2/) - FIELD MEETING Past Editions Introduced as ACAW’s signature forum in 2014, FIELD MEETING is best understood as an exhibition in the form of a two-day forum centered around the innovative medium of lecture performance. The program invites up to 40 artists and arts professionals to develop and present newly conceived performances, lecture performances, and lively
- [](https://acaw.info/exhibitions-public-programs/) - Exhibitions | Public Programs ACAW’s Exhibitions & Public Programs encompassed a wide range of artistic initiatives, amplifying contemporary art from Asia. Spanning gallery exhibitions, artist talks, screenings, and site-specific projects, these programs engaged diverse audiences while fostering dialogue between artists, curators, and collectors. Though distinct in format and focus, each initiative contributed to a larger
- [](https://acaw.info/signature-programs/) - Signature Programs Archive With each edition of Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW), director Leeza Ahmady, in collaboration with select Consortium partners, curated special exhibitions and public programs under the banner of ACAW Signature Programs. These initiatives aimed to highlight the incredible vibrancy of emerging artists, regional art scenes, significant art-historical movements and timelines, new collectives,
- [](https://acaw.info/acaw-past-editions/) - ACAW Past Editions These archival booklets document the history of Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW), a citywide platform in New York that has operated annually and biennially to showcase contemporary art from across all regions of Asia. With thousands of images of artworks, along with curatorial essays, video links, and program details, these archival materials offer
- [](https://acaw.info/presented-artists/) - Presented Artists & Professionals 2002 – 2019 Between 2001 and 2019, Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) programs spotlighted over 3,000 artists and practitioners whose work related explicitly to or expanded on aesthetic legacies that powerfully contextualize Asia’s burgeoning contemporary art scenes and recent arts and cultural historical trajectories. Each presented artist contributed to ACAW’s impact
- [Donate Now: Help Afghan Artists Resettle](https://acaw.info/donate-now/) - You may also donate by mailing a check made out to Asia Contemporary Art Forum Inc, and send to the address below:Asia Contemporary Art Forum (ACAF)Care of Leeza Ahmady313 West 143rd Street. Sub-levelNew York, NY 10030 To get more information on the Arts for Afghanistan initiative, please see their website https://artsforafghanistan.org/ or donate directly to
- [Presented Artists in ACAW Consortium Partners’ Exhibitions & Programs](https://acaw.info/30404-2/) - ACAW 2018September 5 – November 17 David Sandlin (New York)Judith Murray (Natchez)Syrian asylum (German)Emily Jacir (Palestine)Tuan Andrew Nguyen (Sai Gon)Chow Chun Fai (Hong Kong)Takashi Kunitani (Tokyo)Park Chan-Kyong (Seoul)Manit Sriwanichpoom (Bankok)Bae Yoon Hwan (Seoul)Shang Yang (Beijing)Taeim HA (Seoul)Vandana Jain (New York)Chitra Ganesh (New York)Joan Vennum (New York)Huma Bhabha (Poughkeepsie)Shanay Jhaveri (New York)Xu Bing (Beijing)Priya Sen(New Delhi)Susan Bee (New York)Katherine Bradford (New York)JooYoung ChoiRafael FerrerRoy de ForestPaul GeorgesChris JohansonPo KimFay LansnerJudith LinharesDonna Moylan Jan MüllerArchie RandPurvis YoungDamali
- [](https://acaw.info/40563-2/) - ACAW 2019 | Press Coverage ACAW 2019 FIELD MEETING Take 6: Thinking Collections Coverage Canvas, “Living Archive”Alexandra Chaves “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.”ArtAsiaPacific,
- [](https://acaw.info/40629-2/) - ACAW 2002 – 2009 | Press Coverage Art Radar, “Four Asian Artists Nominated for NYC PULSE Awards”Art Radar, March 9, 2010“Though none of these four artists won either the PULSE award or the People’s Choice award, the fair gave them extensive exposure (they each won their own booths) and point to their status as emerging
- [](https://acaw.info/40626-2/) - ACAW 2011 | Press Coverage Wall Street Journal, “A Chance for Asian Stars to Shine” Stan Sesser, March 12, 2011 “… Asian Contemporary Art Week will feature, among other things, cutting-edge Japanese contemporary art at the Japan Society, “Bye Bye Kitty: Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art.” Art in America, “Asia Comes to
- [](https://acaw.info/40613-2/) - ACAW 2014 | Press Coverage Asian Contemporary Art Week 2014 Coverage Art Radar, “Leeza Ahmady, Director of Asian Contemporary Art Week (ACAW), and Associate Curator Xin Wang speak to Art Radar (Part 1)” Christine Lee, October 10, 2014 “… curated platforms like FIELD MEETING are so valuable, because it responds to creative urgencies a lot
- [](https://acaw.info/40610-2/) - ACAW 2015 | Press Coverage ACAW 2015 Programs & FIELD MEETING Take 3 The Stranger, “The Seattle Art Fair Was So Successful, the City Literally Applauded”Jen Graves, August 5, 2015“Thinking Currents was the most artistically significant thing that happened at Seattle Art Fair, and it was crowded all weekend.” The Stranger, “Inside Seattle Art Fair: ‘Thinking
- [](https://acaw.info/40603-2/) - ACAW 2016 | Press Coverage Asia Contemporary Art Week 2016 & FIELD MEETING Take 4: Thinking Practice Coverage Art in America, “Mariam Ghani”David Markus, November 15, 2016“Attuned, as previous works attest, to the ways in which urban and architectural space both influence and index social experience, Ghani began researching the history of St. Louis and
- [](https://acaw.info/40593-2/) - ACAW 2017 | Press Coverage ACAW 2017 FIELD MEETING forum & ACAW THINKING PROJECTS Pop-up Exhibitions Coverage OCULA, “ACAW FIELD MEETING Take 5: Thinking Projects”Tianyuan Deng, Novmber 10, 2017“While bringing Asian practitioners from the ‘periphery’ to the ‘centre’ remains a consistent feature of ACAW’s signature forum, this year’s iteration built upon its previous rejections of
- [](https://acaw.info/40570-2/) - ACAW 2018 | Press Coverage ACAW 2018 THINKING COLLECTIONS Pop-up Exhibitions Coverage The Brooklyn Rail, “Thinking Collections: Telling Tales: A Survey Exhibition of Kyzyl Tractor Art Collective”Osman Can Yerebakan, November 26, 2018“As they shift between mediums, sites, and, most importantly, audiences, Kyzyl Tractor is ultimately ‘anti-city,’ according to Sludskiy. Theirs is a language developed to
- [PAST PROGRAMS](https://acaw.info/past-programs/) - Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) Each ACAW edition brings together established and emerging artists, curators, institutions, and galleries throughout New York City and Asia for an in-depth examination of current art practices. Overall, ACAW’s Consortium Member Institutions and Galleries have participated in citywide events and hosted projects by over 3000 artists (many of whom are
- [ABOUT ACAW](https://acaw.info/about-2/) - We Have a New Name! ASIA CONTEMPORARY ART FORUM (ACAF) To better represent nearly 20 years of filling gaps in the field, we’ve updated our name to Asia Contemporary Art Forum (ACAF). Our mission as a non-profit organization is to continue educating the public in the United States and beyond about Asia contemporary art
- [Presented Artists in ACAW Curated Signature Programs](https://acaw.info/30241-2/) - Arahmaini (Yogyakarta & Tibet) Amina Ahmed (New York and Tehran) Khadim Ali (Sydney & Kabul) Stephanie Bailey (Hong Kong) Burçak Bingöl (Istanbul) Bingyi (Beijing) Heman Chong (Singapore) Nikhil Chopra (Goa) Lara Day (Hong Kong) Natasha Degen (New York) Rana Dehghan (Tehran) Alexis Destoop (Sydney & Brussels) Yuan Gao (Beijing) Nadira Husain (Berlin) Hasanul Isyraf Idris
- [ACAW's Annual Signature Program](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-the-signature-program-of-asia-contemporary-art-week/) - ABOUT FIELD MEETING Introduced as the signature program of Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) in 2014, FIELD MEETING is an exhibition in the form of a two-day forum, centered around the medium of lecture-performance. The program invites up to 40 artists and arts professionals to develop and present newly-conceived performances, lecture-performances, and lively discussions as
- [THINKING CURRENTS Participating Artist: Jun Nguyen-HATSUSHIBA](https://acaw.info/thinking-currents-participating-artist-jun-nguyen-hatsushiba/) - Jun Nguyen-HATSUSHIBA (Ho Chi Minh City) Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam: Towards the Complex—For the Courageous, the Curious, and the Cowards, 2001, single-channel video, color, sound, 13'.(upper) A woeful, beautiful poem memorializing survival in post-war Vietnam conveyed through an underwater performance by local fishermen propelling cyclos (or cycle-rikshaws) across the rock-strewn and sandy ocean floor.
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE ANTHONY LEE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-anthony-lee/) - Anthony LEE (New York) Going the Distance: Fiction Writing as Performance In Going the Distance: Fiction Writing as Performance, novelist and professor Anthony Lee discussed the mysterious and meaningful exchange in American literature in particular and how the roots of that literature's best known works can be found in great part in the anonymously authored,
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-36/) - yasmin
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-35/) - Charles Lim
- [DIALOGUE PROGRAM 2011](https://acaw.info/acaw-2011/dialogue-program/) - DIALOGUES IN ASIAN CONTEMPORARY ARTACAW 2011 launches Dialogues in Asian Contemporary Art, a series of discussions with influential international artists, curators, and scholars to examine current issues, emerging trends, and new directions in Asia’s contemporary art scene. MON. MAR 21Mariam Ghaniat The Museum of Modern Art 7pmTitus Theater 2. 11 West 53rd Street(between Fifth and Sixth
- [Ava Ansari](https://acaw.info/ava-ansari-2/) - FIELD MEETINGOctober 26th, 2014 New York CityThe constant juggling act of a young man, accompanied artist and curator Ava Ansari’s passionate and poetic monologue about the life and practice of Ardeshir Mohassess (1938–2008), satirist, illustrator, painter, cartoonist, and political scientist not known for his drawings of his cat, lack of interest in ideology, correspondences with
- [Artist in Conversation - October 29th](https://acaw.info/artist-in-conversation-october-29th/) - Residency UnlimitedArtist in Conversation | Wednesday, October 29, 7 – 8:30 pmAs the host for Lu Yang’s residency this fall, RU presents a conversation between the artist, curator Xin Wang, and other panelists to explore Yang’s fascination with subculture, death, sexuality, disease, neuroscience, and religion.> In conjunction with the exhibition, Lu Yang: Arcade.Residency Unlimited >
- [Cao Fei (in conversation with Xin Wang)](https://acaw.info/cao-fei-in-conversation-with-xin-wang/) - FIELD MEETING October 27th, 2014 New York City Beijing-based artist Cao Fei screened excerpts of her latest works Haze and Fog (2013) and LA Town (2014). In her conversation with FIELD MEETING Associate Curator Xin Wang, Cao Fei discussed her fascination with zombie films, toys, technology, and other cinematic sources as art making strategies and
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-projects-7/) - Nancy Adajania (Bombay)How not to be a footnote to western art historyIn this keynote address, Adajania provided a glimpse into the research process and methodologies in her book The Thirteenth Place: Positionality as Critique in the Art of Navjot Altaf. Trained in political science, cinema, and art history, Adajania scrutinizes all inherited knowledge to urgently address
- [MEDIA PARTNERS](https://acaw.info/acaw-2018-media-partners/) - ArtAsiaPacific magazine is the leading English-language periodical covering contemporary art and culture from the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.Published six times a year, AAP includes features, profiles, essays and reviews by experts from all over the world. AAP’s website offers up-to-the minute news reports, extracts from current and past issues of the magazine, as well
- [FIELD MEETING Take 4: Thinking Practice Registration](https://acaw.info/rsvp-confirmation-field-meeting-take-3-thinking-performance/) - Thanks for Registering To Attend FIELD MEETING Take 4:Thinking Practice ! Space is limited, so priority will be given to those committed to attending all or most of the FIELD MEETING sessions the morning and afternoon of Nov 11th & 12th, as we would like to accommodate as many colleagues as possible.&nbspIf you are NOT
- [CURRENT CONSORTIUM MEMBERS:](https://acaw.info/asian-contemporary-art-consortium-acac/) - ACAW Leeza Ahmady Asia Society Museum Boon Hui Tan & Michelle Yun ArteEast Beth Stryker Asia Art Archive in America Jane Debevoise The Metropolitan Museum of Art Ian Alteveer The Museum of Modern Art Jay Levenson Queens Museum Hitomi Iwasaki Reversible Destiny Foundation Miwako Tezuka Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Alexandra Munroe & Christina Yang SVA
- [12th Edition, New York City (October 5 - 26, 2017)](https://acaw.info/32271-2/) - As an extension to FIELD MEETING, a series of pop-up exhibitions are organized across a network of select venues in New York City to showcase long term process-oriented artistic endeavors in and out of the region today. Consortium Partner host venues for ACAW Pop-ups in New York include C24 Gallery, Chambers Fine Art, Klein
- [12th Edition, New York City (October 5 - 26, 2017)](https://acaw.info/12th-edition-of-acaw-2017-18/) - Over 30 participating museums and galleries across New York City celebrate the 12th edition of Asia Contemporary Art Week and present art from both inside and outside of Asia through cutting-edge solo and group exhibitions and public programs including screenings, performances, and symposia. A complete list of fall programs to be announced in August. Center
- [FIELD MEETING Take 5: Thinking Projects  Registration](https://acaw.info/32076-2/) - Thanks for Registering To Attend FIELD MEETING Take 5: Thinking Projects ! Space is limited, so priority will be given to those committing to attend most FIELD MEETING sessions on Oct 14th & 15th, as we would like to accommodate as many colleagues as possible. If you are NOT able to attend both morning
- [ACAW is taking a programmatic sabbatical in 2019 to plan our programs for 2020 and beyond. Stay tuned.](https://acaw.info/39363-2/)
- [ACAW 2011 (March 21 – 31)](https://acaw.info/program-2011/) - Introduction In an ongoing effort to heighten public awareness about contemporary art discourses in Asia, each ACAW edition brings together artists, curators, scholars, critics, galleries, museums, and arts organizations for an in-depth examination of current art practices. Through these collaborations and by building a diverse network of individuals and collectives engaged in the field, ACAW
- [ACAW 2015 (October 28 – November 8)](https://acaw.info/acaw-2015-programs-schedule/) - ACAW 2015 SIGNATURE PROGRAMS 10th Edition of ACAW • Schedule at a Glance WED OCT. 28 THU OCT. 29 FRI OCT. 30 SAT OCT. 31 SUN NOV. 01 MON NOV. 02 TUE NOV. 03 THU NOV. 05 FRI NOV. 06 SAT NOV. 07 SUN NOV. 08 MORE ON VIEW A PRELUDE ACAW Consortium Members: Asia
- [ACAW 2014 (October 22 - November 2)](https://acaw.info/acaw-2014-october-22-november-2/) - In its ninth edition (October 22–November 2, 2014), ACAW added several notable art spaces and galleries based in Asia to its already impressive Consortium. Capitalizing on the synergy of citywide exhibitions organized by ACAW’s Consortium member museums and galleries in New York, ACAW introduced FIELD MEETING, a two-day forum conceived as a studio visit on
- [Asia Contemporary Art Week 2017 (October 5 - 26)](https://acaw.info/asia-contemporary-art-week-2017-october-5-26/) - (Edit)
- [ACAW FALL 2013 PROGRAMS & EXHIBITIONS](https://acaw.info/acaw-fall-2013-programs-exhibitions/) - SEPTEMBER September 6th 2013- January 5, 2014 Asia Society Museum | Iran Modern . OCTOBER October 11th 2013- January 12, 2014 Japan Society | Rebirth: Recent Work by Moriko Mori October 24, 2013 - December 21, 2013 Tyler Rollins Fine Art | Tracey Moffatt: Spirit Landscapes . NOVEMBER November 2, 2013 Asia Society Museum |
- [ACAW 2016 Full Schedule (OCTOBER)](https://acaw.info/acaw-2016-full-schedule-october/) - SEPTEMBER | OCTOBER | NOVEMBER | SPECIAL EVENTS | FULL 2016 PLATFORM SATURDAY OCTOBER 1 Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 10:30AM-5PM | Exhibition Viewing "Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter" MELA Foundation 9PM | Performance "Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest X" MONDAY OCTOBER 3 Asia Society 6:30PM | Discussion "Treasures of Asian Art: New Perspectives on Traditional
- [ACAW 2016 Full Schedule (SEPTEMBER)](https://acaw.info/acaw-2016-full-schedule-september/) - SEPTEMBER | OCTOBER | NOVEMBER | SPECIAL EVENTS | FULL 2016 PLATFORM FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 2 Twelve Gates Arts (Philadelphia) 6:30-8:30PM | Opening Reception "Madad: Solo Show by Amina Ahmed " THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 8 Chambers Fine Art 6-8PM | Opening Reception "Ten Thousand Things: New Works by Wu Jian'an" Doosan Gallery 6-8PM | Opening Reception "Hyeonkyeong
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/38534-2/) - FM19LeezaOpening
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-performance-3/) - Diane Lewis (New York) Architecture/Performance: The City As Art/Work Diane Lewis enlightened us to the genealogy of the term “performance” as it emerged in architectural terms during the European enlightenment era. > Watch Diane Lewis’ Presentation >> See all presenters' profiles ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Diane Lewis lives and works in Manhattan, where she was born. Recipient of
- [ACAW 2016 FULL SCHEDULE (Special Events)](https://acaw.info/acaw-2016-full-schedule-signature-events/) - SEPTEMBER | OCTOBER | NOVEMBER | SPECIAL EVENTS | FULL 2016 PLATFORM THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 15 Tyler Rollins Fine Arts 6-8PM | Opening Reception "Arahmaiani" 7PM | Performance TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 27 Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU + ACAW A Tale of Two Islands: Beatrice Glow 6PM | Planting 6:30PM | Lecture-Performance WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 28 ACAW Mid-Season Kickoff
- [ACAW 2016 Full Schedule (NOVEMBER)](https://acaw.info/acaw-2016-full-schedule-november/) - SEPTEMBER | OCTOBER | NOVEMBER | SPECIAL EVENTS | FULL 2016 PLATFORM FRIDAY NOVEMBER 4 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 10AM-5PM | Exhibition Viewing "Tales of Our Time" 4PM | "The Second Lecture of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Lecture Series" Lisson Gallery 6-8PM | Opening Reception "Ai Weiwei: Roots and Branches" Twelve Gates
- [A Collateral Event during the 56th Venice Biennale](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-take-2-an-afterthought/) - FIELD MEETING Take 2: An Afterthought May 8, 2015 Hosted by My Art Guides Venice Meeting Point at Arsennale, Navy Officer's Club Asia Contemporary Art Week's FIELD MEETING in Venice - an energizing & intimate afternoon held in the cozy Arsennale Navy Officer's Club on May 8th, 2015, with performances, talks, and discussions by a
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-25/) - Natasha Degen & Sandra Skurvida (New York) Collection of Knowledge: Course of Study Curatorial Talk Synopsis: Degen and Skurvida elaborate on “collections” as a construction of discourses in various educational frameworks within the MENASA region and beyond. They scrutinize the activities and behaviors of various art departments, foreign university outposts, artists’ organizations, and museums. More
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/31697-2/) - Hajra Waheed
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/31701-2/) - Abdullah M.I. Syed
- [ACAW 2016 Signature Program](https://acaw.info/acaw-2016-signature-program-2/) - FM landing page
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-16/) - Shezad Dawood
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-9/) - Erin Gleeson
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-14/) - Ho Tzu Nyen
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-29/) - stephanie
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-13/) - Rashid Rana
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-17/) - Michael Joo (New York)
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections/) - Arahmaiani Feisal (Yogyakarta & Tibet) Breaking Words Performance Synopsis: A new iteration of the artist’s renowned 2006 performance for FIELD MEETING, confronts personal and cultural differences through questioning the concept of so-called “truth.” In a poetic call-and-response fashion, audience members offer key words in their lives, which are then written on plates and smashed on
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-22/) - Stephanie Bailey (Hong Kong) The Writer as a Collector Final Remarks Synopsis: “It is at once again an honour and a challenge to be invited to deliver closing remarks to the 2019 edition of FIELD MEETING, given the task at hand is to review and relay the presentations and discussions that will unfold throughout the
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-28/) - River Lin (Paris & Taipei) 20 Minutes for the 20th Century, but Asian Performance Synopsis: Based on a research on the performing archive, the form and title of this performance parodies the artist Tino Sehgal’s “20 Minutes for the 20th Century” (1999), a collage of 20 iconic choreographies from Merce Cunningham to Pina Bausch to
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-3/) - Wong Kit Yi & Ali Wong (New York & Hong Kong) Karaoke Lecture Non-Performance: Magic Wands, Batons and DNA Splicers Lecture-Performance Synopsis: Combining two of her recent projects “North Pole Futures” and “Magic Wands, Batons and DNA Splicers”, Wong Kit Yi-Ali Wong’s captivating lecture performance switched between a PowerPoint style presentation and a Karaoke music
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-bio-synopsis-3/) - Pi Li (Hong Kong) Reptile: a Metaphor about Creation and Collection Curatorial Note Synopsis: Li’s presentation tackles M+’s response to the rapid conceptual and technological standards in museums today through a case study, referencing the museum’s 2017 acquisition of Chinese avant-garde artist Huang Yong Ping’s monumental sculpture Reptile. Li outlines the importance of this work
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-2/) - Moe Satt (Yangon) Other Side of the Revolution Performance Synopsis: As an emerging millennial Satt is persistently concerned with socio-political conditions of the people of his country, Myanmar. Using the body as his foremost medium, hand gestures and symbols are essential to his practice. He uses patterns derived from religion, social history, and popular culture
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-24/) - Lara Day (Hong Kong) An Open Collection Curatorial Note Synopsis: M+ has been building a pre-eminent collection of 20th and 21st century visual culture since 2012, long before the opening of its museum building (targeted for completion in 2019) in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District. Inspired by the idea of “openness” in the context
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-18/) - Francesca Recchia (Kabul) Afghanistan Untitled Performative Talk Synopsis: Entangled in the constraints of a war economy and inescapable geopolitics, Afghan contemporary artists strive to gather and develop new meanings in relation to the Self, to their practice, to their community, to their national and ethnic belonging, and to their history and heritage. Francesca Recchia’s performative
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-bio-synopsis-10/) - Leeza Ahmady (New York) Opening Thoughts Synopsis: In her opening remarks on day 2 of FIELD MEETING forum hosted at the remarkable Concrete hall of Alserkal Avenue in Dubai, Ahmady touched on the significance of this edition’s framework “collections,” and her notion of “seeing the artist as the first collector”. Quoting from her written curatorial
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-9/) - Arahmaiani Feisal (Yogyakarta & Tibet) Manifesto of the Sceptic Performative Reading Synopsis: Conceived for FIELD MEETING, the performance incorporated Arahmaiani studiously sitting behind a desk and reciting a series of proclamations out loud from her well-known text entitled: “Manifesto of the Sceptic” (originally written in the early 2000’s). Her reading was juxtaposed against the backdrop
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-16/) - ST Luk on Arakawa & Madeline Gins (New York & Tokyo) Children Who Won’t Die Screening & Talk Synopsis: ST Luk presents a film centering on the vivid colors, undulating floor, irregular lines, and spherical rooms of the Reversible Destiny Lofts designed by Arakawa (Japanese-American) and Madeline Gins (American) in Mitaka, Japan. The film revolves
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-21/) - Chongbin Zheng (San Francisco & Shanghai) On Experiential Aesthetics Artist Talk Synopsis: A talk surrounding the artist’s recent interventions within the spaces of several historic gardens exploring both the cultural and natural modes of being in the world. Zheng will discuss the site-specific installations involving light, space, video and his interdisciplinary workshop. One is developed
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-5/) - Burçak Bingöl (Istanbul) Notes on Hatayi Performative Talk Synopsis: Throughout the 16th century, blue and white Chinese porcelain was traded via the Silk Road, and local artists in Asia Minor adopted the technique, allowing it to influence the evolution of the highly distinctive Ottoman Court style. Hatayi is Bingol’s visual and conceptual reflections on how
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-19/) - Sam Samiee (Tehran) Adab: Collecting within Chaos Lecture-Performance Synopsis: “The painter’s attention was collected in the reflection of her beauty, As he reached the hair flock, at last, he painted chaos.” – King Mohammad Dara Shokuh The artist’s research into psychoanalysis, Manichaeism, and the Persian code of conduct, Adab, collects, reconstructs, and resignifies epistemic frames
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-33/) - Moe Satt (Yangon) F n' F (Face and Fingers) Performance Synopsis: As an emerging millennial artist Moe Satt is persistently concerned with socio-political conditions of the people of his country, Myanmar. Using the body as his foremost medium, hand gestures and symbols are essential to Satt’s practice. He uses patterns derived from religion, social history,
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-31/) - Khadim Ali (Sydney & Kabul) Demonology Performative Talk Synopsis: The artist introduces his concept of demonology as a collection of policies and manipulations of “othering” through various folkloric, religious and epic tales in Central and South Asia across many centuries. In Afghanistan, as in many countries, demononizing particular groups of minorities is used as a
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-2/) - Bassem Saad & Edwin Nasr (Beirut) This Ritual I Wish You Could See (Render & File) Lecture-Performance Synopsis: A lecture-performance by the collaborating artist duo that deals with rituals of war in the rendered image. The performance focuses on various political parties in the Middle East and their uses of virtual reality and video games
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-32/) - Alexis Destoop (Sydney & Brussels) Phantom Sun Performative Reading Synopsis: Built from an extensive personal archive over multiple trips and expeditions, Destoop presents on his recent monumental video installation reconfiguring the history of the Russian-Norwegian borderland in the European High North. The work re-imagines this desolate geographic landscape through a poetic reappropriation, portraying a zone
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-29/) - Umber Majeed (New York & Lahore) Atomi Daamaki Wali Mohabbat (The Atomically Explosive Love) Lecture-Performance Synopsis: A multi-chapter animation that speaks to questions of nationalism, state propaganda and aesthetics, community, and self through speculative fiction. The narrative chronicles the history of nuclear power in Pakistan, the first ‘Muslim nuclear state’. In developing this artwork, Majeed
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-23/) - Nikhil Chopra (Goa) Rogue Performance Synopses: Often using material from daily life, the artist uses lipstick, a cosmetic associated with femininity, sensuality and sexuality, to create a large-scale landscape drawing on a wall in his 1-hour performance action. Chopra’s performances often critically examine stereotypes based on identity, nationality, gender and class, while walking a fine
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-8/) - Heman Chong (Singapore) Foreign Affairs Keynote Talk Synopsis: Taking on multiple pragmatic uses, the back entrances of embassies have not only been used for deliveries and hassle-free entry, but for secret political conversations, allowing these doors to take on a symbolic meaning representing everything in politics that is unsaid, invisible, and sinister. In his keynote
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-13/) - Ranbir Kaleka (New Delhi) Miraculous Non-Events Lecture-Performance Synopsis: Starting with the first five years of his life in a village haveli (mansion), where each family member was a unique storyteller, Kaleka’s lecture-performance revolves around snippets of stories and images of his video, painting and sculptural works. “My brother and I were the only two children
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/simon-fujiwara/) - Simon Fujiwara (Berlin) Hope House - A Guided Tour Emerging from his most ambitious installation project to date – Fujiwara’s keynote lecture performance transported the audience through the process of reproducing a full-scale replica of the Anne Frank House presented as a building within a building across four floors of a gallery in Tel Aviv.
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/taus/) - Taus Makhacheva (Makhachkala & Moscow) Microbeads A new lecture performance by Makhacheva with lively ruminations about menus derived from histories of starvation; puzzling cutlery accompanying dishes from two different sides of a war, hidden lollipops shapes in Lenin's head, and many other objects of desire. Within the vast sensual territorial boundaries of deprivation and consumption,
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-projects-3/) - Marat Raiymkulov
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-projects-11/) - Yin-Ju Chen (Taipei) Extrastellar Evaluations Chen shared an important cosmic message with FIELD MEETING attendees, which was recently passed on to her during her expedition visit alongside a small crew to California’s Mt. Shasta in search of the lost civilization “Lemuria”. In her field research, which included conversations with the locals, she and her companions discovered
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-projects-4/) - Marwa Arsanios (Beirut) Who is Afraid of Ideology Revolving around the idea of “organization,” in her lecture performance “Who is Afraid of Ideology” Arsanios considered ideological theories and practices of different domestic labor organizations, eco-feminist, and autonomous women’s movements. Through interviews, structural infographics, books and essays, Arsanios has probed the organizational structures of these movements, (i.e.
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-projects-12/) - Bruce Quek
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-projects-10/) - Tiffany Chung (Ho Chi Minh City) Remapping History: The Unwanted Population In her compelling lecture performance Chung revisited history and confronted current conflicts “through issues of migration, displacement, spatial and socio-political transformations – and the slippages between past colonial rhetoric with the present moment’s neo-liberal reforms in the traumatized continents of Asia, Africa as well
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-projects-14/) - Yuliya Sorokina (Almaty) Astral Nomads’ Way Curator Sorokina, presented on the triumphs & challenges of establishing and maintaining a digital archive named after an unfinished novel “Astral Nomads” by the Kazakhstani artist Sergey Maslov. The archive in the form of a website and a series of curatorial program activates the legacy of Maslov who passed away
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-projects-13/) - Laura Barlow
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-projects-15/) - Junod Etienne (New York) Being the Project In this participatory talk, Etienne proposed a set of questions to look at the deep value of self-observation in human activity and how it affects our energy, perception, and growth. “What happens when we turn the tables and fix our focus on the person doing the work? Who
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/kingsley-ng/) - Kingsley Ng
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/adrian-wong-field-meeting-thinking-projects/) - Adrian Wong
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-projects-2/) - Joyce Ho (Taipei) A Day at ACAW Ho’s intimate performance at FIELD MEETING was choreographed on the basis of our everyday perceptions. It “attaches to familiar experience in life: cycles, relationships, rituals, dialogues, spaces, and events.” The artist’s main premise in the performance was to regulate ‘time’ as a clue and magnifier of the subtle rituals
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-projects-8/) - Philip Tinari
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-projects-6/) - Nadiah Bamadhaj (Jogjakarta) A King in a Republic Bamadhaj’s lecture performance for FIELD MEETING used the method of divergence between “what is said and what is meant” to attempt what many in Yogyakarta, Indonesia may consider a taboo- the critique of the ruling of Sri Sultan Hamengkubawono X, who is both the 10th monarch of
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/hu-weiyi/) - Hu Weiyi (Shanghai) A Speechless Speech In his stunning performance for FIELD MEETING, Hu introduced “on-site sentence construction”, a tactic he has interpreted in his past art projects with an array of digital projections and mathematical algorithms to automatically formulate sentences. However catering exclusively to FIELD MEETING’s auditorium setting, Weiyi used a human body, restricted from
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/31718-2/) - Dai Guangyu (Beijing) The Failure of Defense—America, 2017 A new iteration of the artist’s seminal performance shifted from its original (Denmark, 2007) commentary on class and ideological divisions in China toward homologous, albeit locally and historically specific, forces that threaten the nation in the American context. As the artist painted the seemingly blank xuan paper covering
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/brian-kuan-wood/) - Brian Kuan Wood
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-projects-5/) - Meitha Al Mazrooei (Dubai & New York) Narratives and Myths By looking into the small pockets that line the spatial boundaries of the United Arab Emirates, Al Mazrooei questioned how spatial languages of design, art and development manifest in the periphery. Furthermore, she examined how the built environment is an existential reference for understanding multiple generations
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-projects-9/) - Suhanya Raffel
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-projects/) - Hera Chan (Hong Kong) Gossip is a Fearful Thing Based on the rumor of 1930’s Shanghai-based silent film actress Ruan Lingyu, who left in her suicide note these words: “Gossip is a fearful thing, gossip is a fearful thing.” Chan performed a dramatic reading of a political theatre script that drew upon traditions of pageantry
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-10/) - Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-11/) - Ho Rui An
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-8/) - T-Yong Chung
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-4/) - Amina Ahmed
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-12/) - Yasmin Jahan Nupur
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-28/) - Nora Razian
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice/) - Ye Funa (Beijing)
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-26/) - Mami Kataoka
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-21/) - Umashankar Manthravadi
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-24/) - Mithu Sen (New Delhi)
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-18/) - Anthony Lee
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-3/) - WAFAA BILAL
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-5/) - Heba Y. Amin
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-23/) - jonas
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-6/) - Xyza Cruz Bacani
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-15/) - Chia-En Jao
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-25/) - raha
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/christopher-k-ho/) - Christopher K HO (New York & Providence) St. Joseph as Model Christopher K. Ho examined the process by which artists are made and culture is packaged using instructional diagrams on “tiger” parenthood and life planning in an Asian/American context. >> Watch Christopher Ho’s Presentation Here
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/qasim-riza-shaheen/) - Qasim Riza SHAHEEN (Manchester) Undeliverable Mail Qasim Riza Shaheen’s Undeliverable Mail, an intimate letter in the form of an audio recording, contemplated a variety of subjects, such as gender and narcissism, particularly and atypically through the poetics of Sufism. >> Watch Qasim Riza Shaheen’s Presentation Here
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/h-g-masters/) - H.G. Masters (Istanbul） In Conversation with Lee Mingwei Since the mid-1990s, Taiwan-born, New York- and Paris-based Lee Mingwei has captured the public imagination with participatory installations that engage audiences in myriad, unexpected ways. This conversation between Lee Mingwei and H.G. Masters, editor-at-large of ArtAsiaPacific magazine, will explore Lee’s past and recent projects, including Sonic Blossom
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/lee-mingwei/) - Lee Mingwei (Taipei, Paris, New York) In Conversation with H.G. Masters Day 2 of FIELD MEETING began with Lee Mingwei's humble revelations about some of his most accomplished projects over the past two decades focusing on the subtleties of reciprocal exchange. This heartwarming conversation between Lee Mingwei and H.G. Masters, editor-at-large of ArtAsiaPacific magazine, explored
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/jeff-cylkowski/) - Jeff Cylkowski (New York) In Search of the Miraculous Painter Jeff Cylkowski reflected on his artistic beginnings in graffiti art and breakdancing, and how these genres continue to inform his painting practice today, in terms of both the technical process and philosophical investigations. > Watch Jeff Cylkowski’s Presentation Here >> See all presenters' profiles __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Jeff
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/yan-xing/) - Yan Xing (Beijing & Los Angeles) The History of Reception Referencing art-historical figures and events, Yan Xing narrated a high-camp, melodramatic yet sincere argument to irrefutably validate the work of a non-existent artist. > Watch Yan Xing’s Presentation Here >> See all presenters' profiles ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yan Xing is an artist known for his intricately staged, multi-layered
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/holland-cotter/) - Holland Cotter (New York) No More Triumphs Known for his scrutiny of the still-inadequate institutional representation and critical-press coverage of contemporary art from Asia in the United States, New York Times critic Holland Cotter delivered the first keynote lecture at FIELD MEETING this year. > Watch Holland Cotter’s Presentation Here
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/ming-wong/) - Ming Wong (Berlin & Singapore) Blast off into the Sinosphere Ming Wong imagined the plot for a Chinese science fiction opera and took his audience on a fantastic voyage to uncover diverse expressions of China’s past and future, underscored by the nation’s radical approach to both tradition and to redesigning the future. > Watch Ming
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/anthony-lee/) - Anthony LEE (New York) Going the Distance: Fiction Writing as Performance In Going the Distance: Fiction Writing as Performance, novelist and professor Anthony Lee discussed the mysterious and meaningful exchange in American literature in particular and how the roots of that literature's best known works can be found in great part in the anonymously authored,
- [CONTACT / TEAM](https://acaw.info/contact/) - Email acaw.contact@gmail.com Phone +1 646-416-6454 Fax +1 845-681-5058 Address Asia Contemporary Art Forum (ACAF) 313 West 143rd Street. Sub-level New York, NY 10030 ACAF Team Leeza Ahmady, Director & Curator Yam Chew Oh, Treasurer & Strategic Development Sahar Khraibani, Platform Fellow Director / Curator's Bio Born and raised in Afghanistan, Leeza Ahmady
- [ACAW 2018 Prelude](https://acaw.info/acaw-2018-prelude-2/) - As a prelude to Asia Contemporary Art Week 2018, ACAW presented a wide-ranging discussion with internationally noted, Mumbai-based artist, Jitish Kallat, on the occasion of his exhibition "Decimal Point" at Sperone Westwater, with Vice President of Global Arts & Programs and Asia Society Museum Director, Boon Hui Tan and Independent Curator / ACAW Director,
- [Opening February 23- Cambodian Rattan: The Sculptures of Sopheap Pich](https://acaw.info/opening-february-23-cambodian-rattan-the-sculptures-of-sopheap-pich/) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art February 23 – June 16, 2013 Artist: Sopheap Pich Location: Astor Forecourt, Khmer Sculpture Gallery, and Indian Exhibition Gallery, 2nd floor Galleries 209, 249, and 251 The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents ten works by the contemporary Cambodian artist Sopheap Pich. Living and working in Phnom Penh, Sopheap works principally
- [ACAW 2014 SIGNATURE PROGRAM](https://acaw.info/12498-2/) - FIELD MEETING Take 1: Critical of the Future October 26 & 27, 2014 Hosted at Asia Society Museum Organized by ACAW Curator & Director Leeza Ahmady & ACAW 2014 Associate Curator Xin Wang ACAW 2014 introduced FIELD MEETING, a two-day forum conceived as a studio visit on a communal scale, with over 35 artists,
- [Special Notice](https://acaw.info/2019-beyond/) - ASIA CONTEMPORARY ART WEEK (ACAW) is taking a programmatic sabbatical in 2019 to plan our programs for 2020 and beyond. Please stay tuned. For questions and participation, please email us at acaw.contact@gmail.com. Thank you for your support! Recent ACAW Editions ACAW 2016 • SEP 8 - NOV 18
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-bio-synopsis-5/) - Video Documentation Community As Institutions and Institutions as Community Day 2 Morning Discussion After a series of talks, a performance and walkthrough of FIELD MEETING Pop-up which was on view at warehouse 46, participants elaborated on their projects and how their works traverse, challenge, and intertwine notions of community as institution and institution as
- [Notice](https://acaw.info/notice/) - ASIA CONTEMPORARY ART WEEK (ACAW) is taking a programmatic sabbatical in 2019 to plan our programs for 2020 and beyond. Please stay tuned. For questions and participation, please email us at acaw.contact@gmail.com. Thank you for your support! Recent ACAW Editions ACAW 2018 • SEP 5 - NOV 2 ACAW 2017 • OCT
- [Iftikhar Dadi](https://acaw.info/iftikhar-dadi/) - Closing Remarks | A Look Back at ACAW FIELD MEETING October 27th, 2014 New York City In his closing remarks, artist, art historian and curator Iftikhar Dadi began by expanding on FIELD MEETING Director Leeza Ahmady’s opening remarks about the Asian continent as the most populated one on the planet, and its diversity by asking,
- [Jane DeBevoise in conversation with Kko-kka Lee, Farah Wardani and Stephen Stapleton](https://acaw.info/jane-debevoise-in-conversation-with-kko-kka-lee-farah-wardani-and-stephen-stapleton/) - A Look Back at ACAW FIELD MEETING October 27th, 2014 New York City Panel: 'The Landscape of Infrastructure-Building in Asia' Jane DeBevoise, Chair of the Board of Directors of Asia Art Archive Hong Kong and New York (Asia Art Archive in America), moderated a 30-minute conversation between Farah Wardani, Yogyakarta-based art historian and director of
- [Zheng Chongbin](https://acaw.info/zheng-chongbin/) - FIELD MEETING October 27th, 2014 New York City San Francisco-based artist Zheng Chongbin’s presentation outlined his significant life and art making experiences that continue to develop his approach to painting—a process involving study of materials and spiritual phenomena: space, light, reflection, and shadow— and how such constant re-examinations feed his ongoing practice. Chongbin’s continued choice
- [Li Shurui](https://acaw.info/li-shurui-2/) - FIELD MEETING October 27th, 2014 New York City Beijing-based Li Shurui discussed her approach to abstraction as anything but about pure, optical forms, but rather as heavily mediated by the surrounding political climate, pollution, and dynamics within the local art community in Heiqiao. > Watch Li Shurui's Presentation
- [Kris Ercums](https://acaw.info/kris-ercums/) - FIELD MEETING October 27th, 2014 New York City Kris Ercums, Curator at Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, discussed SMoA’ upcoming exhibition Temporal Turn which examines the relationship between speculative inquiry & real-world debates on nationalism, globalization & cosmopolitanism in contemporary Asia. The show includes works by artists adapting scientific methods, and historical &
- [Ceren Erdem](https://acaw.info/ceren-erdem-2/) - FIELD MEETING October 27th, 2014 New York City Starting with a focus on memory shifts, New York-based Turkish curator Ceren Erdem introduced her recent projects, which were based on the intersection of the near-past and the present; how changes in political and economic systems shaped the global and local, and how self, memory, history, and
- [Manal Al Dowayan](https://acaw.info/manal-al-dowayan/) - FIELD MEETING October 27th, 2014 New York City Manal Al Dowayan’s FIELD MEETING presentation focused on her ongoing research-based art projects exploring inclusion, memory, policy, and archives. She spoke about her recent work, Crash, which examines the deaths of Saudi Arabian female teachers over the past 25 years due to car and bus accidents on
- [Patty Chang](https://acaw.info/patty-chang/) - FIELD MEETING October 27th, 2014 New York City Patty Chang presented on The Wandering Lake: a personal, associative, narrative meditation on mourning, caregiving, geopolitics and landscape. In her lecture, Patty introduced her continued interest and exploration of cultural imaginaries. Thinking about the embodiment of site through performance, Chang uses water as a medium of politics
- [Map Office](https://acaw.info/map-office/) - FIELD MEETING October 27th, 2014 New York City Sitting seiza style on the floral rug that furnished Asia Society’s auditorium stage for FIELD MEETING, Hong Kong-based, multidisciplinary platform MAP Office, the artist and architect duo Laurent Gutierrez and Valerie Portefaix, spoke about Territorial definitions both physical and imaginary; particularly their research on Islands and other
- [Day 2 | Opening Remarks | Leeza Ahmady and Xin Wang](https://acaw.info/day-2-opening-remarks-leeza-ahmady-and-xin-wang/) - FIELD MEETING Day 2 Opening Remarks October 27th, 2014 New York City Excerpt from Ahmady's FIELD MEETING's Introductory Address: "Over the past few years more Asian artists have established presence on the rosters of blue-chip galleries and international biennials, while research and academic inquiries within Asia have also expanded considerably. The Field Meeting acknowledges the
- [Polit-Sheer-Form Office](https://acaw.info/polit-sheer-form-office/) - FIELD MEETING October 26th, 2014 New York City Shanghai-based curator Mathieu Borysevicz, briefly introduced Chinese art collective Polit-Sheer-Form Office before their performance exploring notions of collectivity, conceptualized specifically for FIELD MEETING. A young lady on stage, Ms. Zheng (named after their work "Mr. Zheng"), led the entire auditorium into a series of breathing and body
- [Lu Yang (intro by Xin Wang)](https://acaw.info/lu-yang-intro-by-xin-wang/) - FIELD MEETING October 26th, 2014 New York City FIELD MEETING Associate Curator, Xing Wang, introduced the practice of Shanghai-based multi-media artist Lu Yang, who creates fantastical, often morbid visions of death, sexuality, mental illness, and neurological constructs of both real-life forms and deities. Followed by Lu Yang's specially conceived performance for FIELD MEETING developed from
- [Reena Kallat](https://acaw.info/reena-kallat-2/) - FIELD MEETING October 26th, 2014 New York City Delhi-born, Mumbai-based artist Reena Kallat reflected on her studio practice, which involves simultaneous contemplation of multiple materials, structures, and concepts to re-code various experiences into meaningful forms, all at different stages of completion. Her projects often employ painting, photography, video, sculpture and installation for a single work.
- [Korakrit Arunanondchai](https://acaw.info/korakrit-arunanondchai/) - FIELD MEETING October 26th, 2014 New York City Korakrit Arunanondchai introduced his latest project, "Letters to Chantri #1: The lady at the door/The gift that keeps on giving" (2014), as a continuation of his ritualistic, autobiographical practices that encompass performance, installation, video, and painting with frequent references to Thai pop-culture, history, and the millennial youth
- [Aki SASAMOTO](https://acaw.info/aki-sasamoto-2-2/) - FIELD MEETING October 26th, 2014 New York City Aki Sasamoto’s performance involved the artist using red, green and black colored markers on a white board to draw diagrams, numbers, writings, and other scribbles accompanied by her continuous, sharp and humorous dialogue through which many things get broken down to their core, including the foes and
- [Jeanno Gaussi](https://acaw.info/jeanno-gaussi/) - FIELD MEETING October 26th, 2014 New York City Jeanno Gaussi’s talk shed light on folkloric and decorative traditions as viable strategies for making contemporary art, and the modes of production and collaboration in such processes. She introduced her recent works: Family Stories (2011-2012), a collaborative work exhibited at dOCUMENTA 13, that commented on memory and
- [Sun Xun](https://acaw.info/sun-xun/) - FIELD MEETING October 26th, 2014 New York City Currently back in New York for a residency and solo exhibition at Sean Kelly Gallery, Shanghai based artist Sun Xun premiered one of his captivating new 3D films: "Magician Party and Dead Crow" (2013) at FIELD MEETING. He spoke about his choice of subject matter, use of
- [Jitish Kallat (in conversation with Leeza Ahmady)](https://acaw.info/jitish-kallat-in-conversation-with-leeza-ahmady/) - FIELD MEETING October 26th, 2014 New York City Mumbai-based artist Jitish Kallat, in conversation with Leeza Ahmady, talked about his first-time role as curator, choosing to make art as a teenager, and the evolution of his practice, which has traceable links to his earlier explorations. A prominent figure in contemporary Indian art, working across a
- [Georgia Kotresos](https://acaw.info/georgia-kotresos/) - FIELD MEETING October 26th, 2014 New York City Georgia Kotretsos’s performance-talk announced a daring project by an anonymous colleague entitled Socially Engaged? Better, Socially Married! Offering to marry intelligent, creative individuals who wish to live, work and do research in Greece for a long period of time. Kotretsos playfully recited an open call for applications;
- [Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan](https://acaw.info/alfredo-isabel-aquilizan-2/) - FIELD MEETING October 26th, 2014 New York City Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan elaborated on the concluding work from their “Project Be-longing” series (1997-2007), which was exhibited in 2006 Biennale of Sydney, and their succeeding work "Address" that was created after their subsequent relocation from Philippines to Australia. The Aquilizans’ practice revolves around ideas of co-creation,
- [Heri Dono](https://acaw.info/heri-dono/) - FIELD MEETING October 26th, 2014 New York City In his lecture Yogyakarta-based Heri Dono (b.1960 in Jarkata), one of the most prominent contemporary artist and thinker working in South-East Asia tackled failures of interpreting contemporary art though East-West perspectives, and attributed such misgivings to tainted intellectual filters that lack in-depth philosophical specificities. Furthermore, Heri contextualized
- [Lamia Joreige](https://acaw.info/lamia-joreige/) - FIELD MEETING October 26th, 2014 New York City Lamia Joreige’s presentation focused on a series of works that use archival documents and fictitious elements to reflect on the relationship between individual stories and collective history. Her work explores the possibilities of representation, particularly of the Lebanese wars and their aftermath, and Beirut, a city at
- [Haig Aivazian](https://acaw.info/haig-aivazian-2/) - FIELD MEETING October 26th, 2014 New York City Haig Aivazian’s mesmerizing one hour-long keynote Performance-Lecture for FIELD MEETING, transported the audience through an array of images and sound, into the stories, dynamics, and narratives that emerged from the visualizations of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn Affair. Centered around an assault in a Sofitel suite in Manhattan, where
- [Charwei Tsai](https://acaw.info/charwei-tsai/) - FIELD MEETING October 27th, 2014 New York City Taipei, Paris, and Ho Chi Minh City based artist Charwei Tsai, presented on Lovely Daze, a curatorial journal that she has published since 2005 as a platform for artists, their writings, and artworks. Charwei gave a general introduction to her practice from which she consciously takes time
- [Craig Yee](https://acaw.info/craig-yee/) - FIELD MEETING October 27th, 2014 New York City Craig Yee’s lecture offered a new definition of ink by describing the intensive characteristics of the medium and how the ink artist subtly and directly (i.e. bodily) controls the absorption and reflection of light entirely through intensive processes and means. Yee also discussed the semiotics of ink
- [Umer Butt](https://acaw.info/umer-butt/) - FIELD MEETING October 27th, 2014 New York City Founder and director of Dubai-based gallery, GREY NOISE, Umer Butt's lecture focused on a recent exhibition he had organized in Hong Kong: The Importance of Staying Quiet, which was an attempt to look at a section of visual vocabulary being produced through a period of shifting ideologies
- [Burçak Bingöl](https://acaw.info/burcak-bingol-combined/) - FIELD MEETING October 27th, 2014 New York City Istanbul-based artist Burçak Bingöl’s talk focused on her process thinking about and producing Cruise (2014), a full frontal section of a delivery truck casted in ceramic, which explores themes of alienation, history, and craft. The work connotes both a physical and mental journey for the artist. >
- [Beatrice Glow](https://acaw.info/beatrice-glow/) - FIELD MEETING October 27th, 2014 New York City Beatrice Glow’s lecture-performance spotlighted two projects: "Taparaco Myth" (2009), a two-year auto-ethnographic performance in Peru that retraced coolie geography and the usages of the word “chino, china,” across Central and South America while exploring rural Latin Asian/Americas’ fluid diasporic role in the western hemisphere; and "Chasing Blue
- [Tintin Wulia](https://acaw.info/tintin-wulia/) - FIELD MEETING October 27th, 2014 New York City Where do you come from – no, really, where do you originally come from? In this lecture-performance Tintin Wulia attempted to answer the age-old question she has been drilled with, growing up as an unassuming minority kid (with a family secret) in Indonesia and later tramping the
- [Yu Cheng-Ta](https://acaw.info/yu-cheng-ta/) - FIELD MEETING October 26th, 2014 New York City Taipei-based Yu Cheng-Ta’s hilarious performance adapted a playful approach to language and his concept of “living theater”. Yu walked around on stage addressing and interacting with personalities on screen in his latest video, "Practicing Live." During the performance, the audience could slowly decipher that within the video:
- [Alexis Destoop](https://acaw.info/alexis-destoop/) - FIELD MEETING October 26th, 2014 New York City Destoop analyzed the making of his film project "Karios", a science fiction narrative in which time itself is a disappearing commodity against the backdrop of Australia’s Arid Zone. The film initiated—and therefore became a chapter of—his current work: "Four Directions of Heaven", a four-part exploration of extreme
- [OPENING REMARKS: Leeza Ahmady](https://acaw.info/opening-remarks-leeza-ahmady/) - FIELD MEETING October 26 2014, New York City An excerpt from Leeza Ahmady's introduction to FIELD MEETING and curatorial vision: “Visiting an artist’s studio is entering an energetic space, no matter what the physical setting, it is an intimate place that acts simultaneously as a creative incubator and exhibition space in its own right. For
- [ACAW 2015 SIGNATURE PROGRAM](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-2015/) - FIELD MEETING Take 3: Thinking Performance October 31 - November 2, 2015 Hosted at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hunter College Art Galleries, and Performa Hub Curated by ACAW Director Leeza Ahmady In connection with ACAW 2015's signature exhibition Sonic Blossom by Lee Mingwei, FIELD MEETING Take 3: Thinking Performance staged performances, talks and
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-performance-2/) - Iftikhar Dadi (Ithaca) In his closing remarks, Iftikhar Dadi discussed the term “performance” as it relates to the definitional terms “contemporary” and “Asia”. Citing the various performances and lecture-performances that took place during both days of FIELD MEETING: Thinking Performance, he acknowledged that “performance” is a “catachresis, an imperfect placeholder for expressiveness and iterations of
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/korakrit-arunanondchai-2/) - Korakrit Arunanondchai (New York & Bangkok) Where Process Ends: Objects and their Performances LEAP deputy editor Robin Peckham (Hong Kong) spearheaded a discussion with artists Nadim Abbas (Hong Kong) and Korakrit Arunanondchai (New York+Bangkok) to investigate the invisible elements that allow object-art, such as sculpture and installation, to radiate performance, and how artists encoded “live-ness”
- [FIELD MEETING: Thinking Performance](https://acaw.info/nadim-abbas/) - Nadim Abbas (Hong Kong) Where Process Ends: Objects and their Performances LEAP deputy editor Robin Peckham (Hong Kong) spearheaded a discussion with artists Nadim Abbas (Hong Kong) and Korakrit Arunanondchai (New York+Bangkok) to investigate the invisible elements that allow object-art, such as sculpture and installation, to radiate performance, and how artists encoded “live-ness” and performativity
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/robin-peckham/) - Robin Peckham (Hong Kong) Where Process Ends: Objects and their Performances LEAP deputy editor Robin Peckham (Hong Kong) spearheaded a discussion with artists Nadim Abbas (Hong Kong) and Korakrit Arunanondchai (New York+Bangkok) to investigate the invisible elements that allow object-art, such as sculpture and installation, to radiate performance, and how artists encoded “live-ness” and performativity
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/xiaoyu-weng/) - Xiaoyu Weng (New York) Along with FIELD MEETING speaker Yan Xing, Xiaoyu Weng led an engaging discussion session in the afternoon session on day 2. She began the conversation by providing a personal take on the performances by Double Fly Art Center, Liu Ding, and Tang Dixin. >> Watch Xiaoyu Weng’s Presentation Here
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/tang-dixin/) - Tang Dixin (Shanghai) Mr. Hungry In his performance Mr. Hungry, Tang Dixin used physical divergence between the act of ‘walking’ and ‘climbing’ among the audience as an imaginative interval to defy social norms; his actions suggested retreat to a subdued expression of disobedience. He demonstrated a similar performance of striking physical divergence with book throwing
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-performance-5/) - Tang Dixin (Shanghai) Untitled On Day 1, Tang Dixin used physical divergence between the act of ‘walking’ and ‘climbing’ among the audience as an imaginative interval to defy social norms; his actions suggested retreat to a subdued expression of disobedience. He demonstrated a similar performance of striking physical divergence with book throwing and balancing on
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/liu-ding/) - Liu Ding (Beijing) Messages Beijing-based artist and curator Liu Ding conceived a performance composed of his poems—a plethora of conflicting emotions reflecting the political vernacular embedded within the consciousness of China’s population today. In his performance Messages, three actors attempt to read the same poem collectively in the dark, demonstrating striking physical divergence. Top Right:
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/double-fly-art-center-curator-fu-xiaodong/) - Double Fly Art Center & Curator FU Xiaodong (Shanghai) Hundouluo Fu Xiaodong, curator and founder of Space Station, and young Beijing based art collective Double Fly Art Center presented an interactive performance using an arrangement of choreographed and spontaneously executed gestures. >> Watch Double Fly Art Center and Fu Xiaodong’s Presentation Here
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/vibha-galhotra/) - Vibha GALHOTRA (New Delhi) Manthan Vibha Galhotra took us on a visual journey of the Yamuna river in Delhi. By invoking its mythological significance, Vibha mourned the river’s current polluted state through photo/video documentation, and called upon her audience to act on issues regarding ecological catastrophe. >> Watch Vibha Galhotra’s Presentation Here
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/zeynep-kayan/) - Zeynep KAYAN (Ankara) Untitled Original: to (Re)Create “New” from the “Old” Zeynep Kayan examined the act of photographing and re-photographing– a technique that defines her work– as a process that gave way to infinite possibilities; a continuous transformation and discovery. In (re)creating “new” from “old,” she questioned notions of authenticity and time. >> Watch Zeynep
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/nora-taylor/) - Nora Taylor (Chicago) Singaporean Performance Art History As Seen Through Ray Langenbach’S Performance Art Archive Nora Taylor, Professor at the Art Institute of Chicago touched on contentious issues of authorship in performance documentation as she presented Ray Langenbach’s performance art archives and its significance in Singapore’s art history. >> Watch Nora Taylor’s Presentation Here
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/jo-anne-birnie-danzker/) - Jo-Anne BIRNIE DANZKER (Seattle) Genius / 21 Century / Seattle Contributing to the conversation of the need to break away from traditional institutional approaches, Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Director of the Frye Art Museum in Seattle discussed her current exhibition, Genius / 21 Century / Seattle, which embraces the idea of a living exhibition in constant
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/lantian-xie/) - Lantian Xie (Dubai) Turn the Cloud Weather into Sun and Fun Using delicate sensory prompts, Dubai-based artist Lantian Xie guided us through airport terminals, the high seas, hotel resorts and heritage sites, to question preconceived ideas of sounds and body types attached to certain places and expectations of how they ought to perform. > Watch
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/aman-mojadidi/) - Aman MOJADIDI (Paris & Kabul) The Uprooted & the Gift Inspired by his recent project Adrift commissioned for the 12th Havana Biennale 2015, Aman Mojadidi used visual imagery, ethnography, and spoken-word to tell a story about migration, statelessness, and the hope for a renewed humanity. > Watch Aman Mojadidi’s Presentation Here
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/arash-fayez/) - Arash Fayez (San Francisco & Tehran) I Could Smell Arak Lingering on my Breath When I Pulled the Trigger Arash Fayez’s lecture-performance examined three particular events concerning immigration and violence, interlacing them together using official documents, news reports, and personal materials to explore the displacement of a bicameral mind in-between various locations. > Watch Arash Fayez’s
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/shuddha-sengupta/) - Shuddha Sengupta (of Raqs Media Collective, New Delhi) A Never-Ending Conversation and Occasional Stories Renowned New Delhi-based artist Shuddha Sengupta reflected on what performance means to him as a medium, both historically and currently- and the imperatives of ‘kinetic contemplation’ and speculative procedure that are followed by Raqs Media Collective. > Watch Shuddha Sengupta’s Presentation
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/nezaket-ekici/) - Nezaket Ekici (Berlin; Stuttgart) 99 Commandments In Nezaket Ekici’s performance 99 Commandments, the artist invented her own cathartic ritual to declare herself free from the controlling commandments of all the world’s religions. > Watch Nezaket Ekici’s Presentation >> See all presenters' profiles _____________________________________________________________ Nezaket Ekici’s performance works invite viewers to focus on intense tasks that she
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/sislej-xhafa/) - Sislej XHAFA (New York) Mother Sislej Xhafa depicted himself as a quiet and obedient youth in his talk entitled Mother to confront rules of conduct and control mechanisms, subjects generally challenged by his conceptually vigorous works across a variety of mediums. > Watch Sislej Xhafa’s Presentation Here >> See all presenters' profiles ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sislej Xhafa is
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/bingyi-2/) - Bingyi (Beijing) Epoché Artist Bingyi perceives living as performing with unseen forces, and discussed this in the context of her large land-art performance project Epoché (2014). > Watch Bingyi’s Presentation Here >> See all presenters' profiles _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Bingyi combines her interests in ecology, science, philosophy, history, and aesthetics into a multi-faceted artistic practice that encompasses land
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/defne-ayas/) - Defne Ayas (Rotterdam & New York) Witte de With Director and curator-at-large Defne Ayas evaluated the extent to which performance has been a vital trigger for the current cultural ecology across Asia and how this factor has allowed for liberation from examining art in Asia solely through the lens of European Modernism. > Watch Defne
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/istvan-ist-huzjan/) - Ištvan Išt Huzjan (Belgium & Ljubljana) OD TU DO TU (From Here To There) Brussels and Ljubljana-based Ištvan Išt Huzjan presented a multi-layered lecture-performance stemming from his research on Korean Land Art in Changdong, Seoul and his travel-performance from Korea to Ljubljana, Slovenia over water and land using only public transport. > Watch Ištvan Išt
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-performance-4/) - Leeza Ahmady (New York) In her opening remarks, Asia Contemporary Art Week director Leeza Ahmady discussed her passion for the ACAW platform and her curatorial vision for FIELD MEETING Take 3: Thinking Performance, which she describes as "an exhibition of people, their ideas, processes and insights in the form of an energetic exchange which will
- [ACAW 2017 Signature Program](https://acaw.info/acaw-2017-signature-program/) - An annual signature program of Asia Contemporary Art Week, FIELD MEETING Take 5: Thinking Projects is a two-day exclusive forum for arts professionals dedicated to newly conceived performances, lecture-performances, and lively discussions by over 25 compelling figures, hosted at the Asia Society Museum & SVA Theatre, New York on October 14 & 15.
- [NIKHIL CHOPRA | PERFORMANCE | THE MET MUSEUM](https://acaw.info/nikhil-chopra-lands-waters-and-skies/) - Lands, Waters, and Skies September 12 thru 20, 2019 If you missed Chopra’s enrapturing performance at ACAW FIELD MEETING in Dubai this January, brace yourself for his remarkable new performance at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York this fall! Similar to a nomadic traveler, across 9 consecutive days, the Indian artist will
- [Asia Contemporary Art Consortium](https://acaw.info/acac/) - Asia Contemporary Art Consortium (ACAC) is a group of visionary individuals from leading galleries and museums, coming together with a mission to heightening awareness and visibility of contemporary art practices from Asia within the United States, Asia, and beyond through their support and collaboration with Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) platform. Image credit: Top: Left:Yeoh
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING COLLECTIONS – VIDEO DOCUMENTATION & BIOS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-take-6-artists/) - PERFORMANCES, TALKS, LECTURE-PERFORMANCES, DISCUSSIONS & POP-UPS (DAY 1 – JANUARY 25TH, 2019) Vilma Jurkute Leeza Ahmady Ranbir Kaleka Heman Chong Nikhil Chopra Joint Discussion 1 Umber Majeed Alexis Destoop Bassem Saad & Edwin Nasr Khadim Ali Moe Satt Joint Discussion 2 Sam Samiee Burçak Bingöl Chongbin Zheng ST Luk - Arakawa & Madeline Gins Arahmaiani
- [Focus Kazakhstan Artworks](https://acaw.info/36060-2/) - Artworks | Exhibition Viewing | Artist Full Images | Thumbnails ❮ ❯
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-15/) - David Libertson (New York) Pop-up Installation Synopsis: A special online selection showcasing 17th-21st century Japanese prints presented by the New-York based Ronin Gallery and exclusively organized for FIELD MEETING. The gallery highlights its role in promoting this collection through their own digital platform, exemplifying a spirit of independence by allowing collectors direct access to
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-30/) - Ali Shayesteh (Hamadan) Thousand Curses on This and on That Pop-up Installation Synopsis: In two different series, the artist uses ten years worth of compiled personal notes and pieces of rag found in his studio to create works using the hypnosis of language to manifest new realities. Despite Shayesteh initial attempts to destroy these
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-4/) - Amina Ahmed (New York & Tehran) Un- Furling Pop-up Installation Synopsis: Before Ahmed was born, her mother, Zulayka Mirashah, formed a sewing collective—a place for women to gather, share their stories, and interact. These meetings took the form of essential practice, in rhythmically nurturing companionship, shared experience, and method. This space allowed for the
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-bio-synopsis/) - Vladislav Sludskiy & Olga Veselova (Almaty) Limited Liability Pavilion 4.0 Synopsis: Sludskiy and Veselova contribute works from 17 artist’s private collections formed by donations from their friends, colleagues and partners throughout the years. In Kazakhstan, which has just recently begun to create infrastructure to aid the arts, institutions are still learning how to fundraise,
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-11/) - Nadira Husain (Berlin) Cosmic Trips Pop-up Installation Synopsis: As a French artist with Indian roots who lives and works in Berlin, Husain uses pictorial symbols and compositions of various traditions to reflect on how cultural phenomena and economic globalization shape our reactions to images. Her multi-medium installation of tapestries, drawings, paintings, wearables,ect. cite patterns
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-20/) - Zolaykha Sherzad (Kabul & New York) The Peace Coat Pop-up Installation Synopsis: Based in Kabul, the Zarif Design Center aims to preserve the traditional Afghan design by merging it with modern aesthetics to create fashion that is distinctive and timeless. Zarif currently employs and trains 52 local Afghan workers, and practices ‘slow’ production in
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-12/) - Hasanul Isyraf Idris (Penang) Higher Order of Love Pop-up Installation Synopsis: A compilation of intricate and vibrant drawings steeped in the illustration of distinct, otherworldly visual vocabulary that correlates with the artist’s personal and regional aesthetics. Idris reflects on his native Pangkor Island in Malaysia through stories he heard as a child. The work
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio/) - Haiyang Wang (Beijing) The Birth of the Word, to the Demise of the Bird Pop-up Installation Synopsis: Pastel works on loan from a private collection, and an animation video by the artist, from his 2014 series manipulates language as a device to create semiotic connections between actions, progressing the plot in a visual wordplay
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-6/) - Bingyi (Beijing) Ruins Pop-up Installation Synopsis: This installation incorporates an excerpt from the artist’s epic trilogy of films set in the inner-city hutongs, or historic alleyways of Beijing. In 2015, Bingyi began collecting thousands of Hutong Love Letters — personal stories written by ordinary people on their life-changing experiences in the hutongs, shortly before
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-17/) - Bahman Mohammadi (Tehran) Protozoan-Self Portrait Pop-up Installation Synopsis: A reflection on reality rooted in human paleoanthropology as an archive of evolutionary processes. Mohammadi studies the progression of human development by tracing the earlier stages of the “homo/I species” all the way back to the protozoans, or single-celled microbes. Through his self-portraits, he argues that
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-10/) - Yuan Gao (Beijing) Lunar Dial and Human Smoke Pop-up Installation Synopsis: A 15-minute animation realized over a period of six years consisting of a series of acrylic paintings and works on paper that were digitized onto the animation. Gao’s work is rich with symbolism, conveying the uncertainty of consciousness, while illustrating the homogeneity and
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-26/) - Rana Dehghan (Tehran) Heads Pop-up Installation Synopsis: A site-specific work weaving various mediums such as drawings, sculpture, and paintings to analyze the disturbing relationship between human consumption and the animal kingdom’s existence. The artist forefronts humanity’s continuous detrimental behavior towards animal-kind, calling attention to our complete oblivion of their suffering and destruction.The work is
- [FOCUS KAZAKHSTAN Forum](https://acaw.info/focus-kazakhstan-forum/) - As part of Thinking Collections: Telling Tales ACAW 2018 signature exhibition at Mana Contemporary November 17, 2018 12 arts professionals from institutions in New York and beyond joined for a special walkthrough and discussion surrounding the exhibition Focus Kazakhstan – Thinking Collections: Telling Tales and its presented artists, one of Central Asia’s legendary contemporary art
- [ACAW 2018 Signature Program](https://acaw.info/acaw-2018-signature-program/) - Hosted in collaboration with Alserkal Avenue Dubai, UAE | January 25 - 26, 2019 Curated by ACAW Director, Leeza Ahmady ACAW’s acclaimed annual art forum, FIELD MEETING, premiered for the first time in Dubai in collaboration with ACAW Consortium Partner, Alserkal Avenue —MENASA region’s foremost cultural destination and arts organization. Hosted at the coveted
- [ACAW 2018 Signature Exhibition](https://acaw.info/acaw-2018-signature-exhibition/) - Presented by ACAW in collaboration with the National Museum of KazakhstanHosted by Mana Contemporary Oct 14 - Nov 30, 2018 Curated by Leeza Ahmady with Assistant Curator, Vladislav Sludskiy Main Exhibition Hall 307 (3rd Floor) Tea Room & Shaman Room (1st Floor) Focus Kazakhstan--Thinking Collections: Telling Tales explores the concept of “artists as the first
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-video-documentation-bios-3/) - Video Documentation Pop-ups Walkthrough with Artists & Audiences Warehouses 47 This video documents a walkthrough tour of FIELD MEETING Pop-ups, which brought artists, galleries & arts organizations to present installations stemming from various acts of collecting. Encompassing a range of practices, these Pop-ups also foregrounded "collecting and collections" as an inherent aspect of curatorial
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-bio-synopsis-9/) - Video Documentation Pop-ups Walkthrough with Artists & Audiences Warehouses 46 This video documents a walkthrough tour of FIELD MEETING Pop-ups, which brought artists, galleries & arts organizations to present installations stemming from various acts of collecting. Encompassing a range of practices, these Pop-ups also foregrounded "collecting and collections" as an inherent aspect of curatorial
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-bio-synopsis-4/) - Video Documentation Modes of Being: Ideologies and Space as Malleable Entities Day 1 Evening Discussion Following their talks, performances and a screening, presenters in this session discussed “how creative foresight can transcend rigid ideological dictums and hegemonic codes into malleable material for consciousness, nourishment, and longevity.” The conversation was moderated by Craig Yee
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-video-documentation-bios/) - Video Documentation Inside Out: The Artist as Collector Day 1 Morning Discussion Following their talks & performances, presenters in this session discussed their works in a lively joint conversation in the context of curator Leeza Ahmady’s “unprecedented notion of seeing the artist as the primary collector”. Moderated by Nada Raza and Uns Kattan,
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-video-documentation-bios-2/) - Video Documentation Pendulum Swings & Spheres of Influence Day 1 Afternoon Discussion Following a series of lecture-performances, presenters in this session discussed their works in a lively joint conversation in the context of a compilation of “visionary ‘projects for empowerment’ that simultaneously operate as ruthless mechanisms for depletion, destruction, and antagonism.” Moderated by
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-bio-synopsis-6/) - Video Documentation A Loose Canon: Who is Collecting and Why? Day 2 Afternoon Discussion Following their curatorial talks, lectures & performances, presenters in this session of FIELD MEETING shared their thoughts on the purpose and purposes of collections... “which often delves into the depths of human nature itself to ask: What are we collecting?
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-bio-synopsis-8/) - Video Documentation Pop-ups Walkthrough with Artists & Audiences Warehouses 46 & 47 This video documents a walkthrough tour with presented artists & audiences at the end of day 1, FIELD MEETING Take 6: Thinking Collections forum. FIELD MEETING Pop-ups brought a total of 13 artists, galleries & arts organizations to present project-specific installations stemming
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-bio-synopsis-7/) - Video Documentation Breaking Bad & Good: Subaltern Narratives Day 2 Evening Discussion As curators and arts professionals, we are programmed to take as our duty the upkeep of institutional memory. We are tasked to consider how we can conserve and create access to everything that artists make, as well as to what degree an
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-bio-synopsis-2/) - Vilma Jurkute (Dubai) Welcome Remarks Synopsis: In her role as Director of Alserkal Avenue, Vilma Jurkute welcomed all to FIELD MEETING Take 6 edition in Dubai, acknowledging the importance of hosting FIELD MEETING at Alserkal Avenue. Aligning with ACAW’s mission to connect Asia with itself, she views this gathering as the enabling of Dubai
- [Asia Contemporary Art Week | 13th Edition](https://acaw.info/asia-contemporary-art-week-13th-edition/)
- [A brief history of ACAW](https://acaw.info/history-of-acaw/) - Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) started in 2001 through an independent joint initiative of Asia Society and a group of visionary individuals from leading museums and galleries in New York known as the Asian Contemporary Art Consortium (ACAC). Its goal was to heighten the awareness and visibility of contemporary art practices from Asia within
- [Kyzyl Tractor Opening Day Performance](https://acaw.info/kyzyl-tractor-opening-day-performance/) - On October 14th, the opening day of Thinking Collections: Telling Tales, Kyzyl Tractor reenacted Purification — one of the group’s legendary performances presented in Prague nearly twenty years ago. As a processional ceremony, the performance in Jersey City involved the artist rolling and sounding off one of their largest drums to date (specially built for
- [ACAW 2019 Trip with Curagenda](https://acaw.info/acaw-2019-trip-with-curagenda/) - ACAW & Curagenda Collaboration 2019 ACAW is delighted to announce that Curagenda, a leader in high-end travel experiences for the global art world, is designing a seven-day, tailor-made itinerary to explore the arts, heritage and culture in Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi. Expect to be immersed in an insightful journey of art, architecture, culture, gastronomy,
- [FIELD MEETING: Thinking Projects - Video Documentation & Bios](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-projects-participants-synopses-bios/) - Day 1 - October 14th, hosted at the Asia Society Museum Day 2 - October 15th, hosted at SVA Theatre
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING COLLECTIONS - Bio & Synopsis](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-27/) - Naiza Khan (London & Karachi) Set in a Moment Yet Still Moving Performative Talk A performance punctuating Khan’s series of field notes since 2007, that encapsulate her decade-long transversals by foot across Manora Island, the urban landscape of Karachi, and its maritime history. Exploring the material culture of the island and the city, the
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING COLLECTIONS - Bio & Synopsis](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-7/) - Ronghui Chen (Shanghai) The Freezing Land on Kuaishou Artist Talk While Chinese cities are commonly thought of in terms of growth, this talk draws attention to the country’s northeast region, bordering between Russia and North Korea. Once a prosperous hub of natural resources and industry in the 1960’s, the region has dwindled to become
- [Focus Kazakhstan Artists](https://acaw.info/focus-kazakhstan-artists/) - Said Atabekov Born in 1965 in Bes-Terek, Uzbekistan, Said Atabekov currently lives and works in Shymkent, Kazakhstan. Said Atabekov began creating art in 1993 as a member of the Kyzyl Tractor artist group. As a witness to the successive waves of social and political change in Kazakhstan, an area which saw a transition from
- [Thinking Collections | Open Studios | Artists Citywide](https://acaw.info/2018-acaw-studio-visits-artists-citywide/) - Artists CitywideArtists at EFAFull Schedule Amina Ahmed Bahar Behbahani Chen Dongfan Christopher K. Ho Cyoko Tamai Farideh Sakhaeifar Jaishri Abichandani Kakyoung Lee Qinmin Liu Ruby Chishti Satya Hinduja Seulki Ki Vikram Divecha Wei Xiaoguang Xin Liu Yoon Hwan Bae Saturday, September 8 3:30-5pm | Chambers Fine Art Qinmin LiuChinese visual artist Qinmin Liu
- [Thinking Collections | Open Studios | Artists at EFA](https://acaw.info/2018-studio-visits-efa-artists/) - Saturday October, 20th 2-6pm | The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Artists at EFAArtists CitywideFull Schedule ACAW spotlights a collection of 15+ artists with roots and practices directly or indirectly related to Asia, housed at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts as part of their annual OPEN STUDIOS--an event that invites the public to come
- [ACAW 2018 (Sept  - Nov) Schedule At a Glance](https://acaw.info/acaw-2018-sep-nov-schedule-at-a-glance/) - SEPT OCT NOV SEPTEMBER MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 3 4 5 Owen James Gallery6-8pm | Opening ReceptionDavid Sandlin: Age of EnfrightenmentWED SEPT 5Owen James Gallery6-8pm | Opening ReceptionDavid Sandlin: Age of Enfrightenment59 Wooster Street, 2nd floor (W Broadway & Wooster St.) MapAdd to CalendarGoogleDavid Sandlin’s new paintings of waterfalls, swamps, and frozen
- [Focus Kazakhstan - Exhibition Walkthrough & Open Forum](https://acaw.info/focus-kazakhstan-exhibition-walkthrough-open-forum/) - Saturday, November 17th Exhibition Walkthrough & Open ForumFocus Kazakhstan — Thinking Collections: Telling Tales2-5pm | Mana Contemporary (888 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ) Join curators Leeza Ahmady and Vlad Sludisky for a walkthrough of ACAW 2018’s survey exhibition Focus Kazakhstan – Thinking Collections: Telling Tales, which focuses on Kyzyl Tractor, one of Central Asia’s most
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING COLLECTIONS - Presenter Bio](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-collections-presenter-bio-14/) - Anthony Lee (New York) Anthony Lee is the author of the novels Martin Quinn and There in the Darkness. He holds a Ph.D. from The State University of New York at Binghamton, and teaches literature and creative writing at the College of Mount Saint Vincent. ❮ ❯
- [2018 Consortium Partner Exhibitions in Asia](https://acaw.info/2018-consortium-partner-exhibitions-in-asia/) - THU SEPT 6 Richard Koh Fine Art (Kuala Lumpur)Exhibition OpeningHaffendi Anuar & Sinta Tantra: Elysian Fields A series of paintings and sculptures at the Kuala Lumpar gallery featuring the British Balinese artist Haffendi Anuar and the Malaysian artist Sinta Tantra. While Anuar creates sculptures out of a variety of found objects connected to his Malaysian
- [ACAW 2018 Signature Program](https://acaw.info/acaw-2018-signature-program-2/) - Thinking Collections: Open Studios (Sept. 5 - Nov. 2) Viewing the city of New York as an unexplored collection that houses havens of artists, ACAW 2018 introduces a new signature program centered on expanding opportunities for networking and education through a series of especially organized Open Studios / Studio Visits. The program spotlights artists whose
- [ACAW 2018 *Consortium Partners & Participating Venues](https://acaw.info/acaw-2018-consortium-partners-participating-venues/) - Asia Society Museum *ArteEast ArtAsiaPacific *Asia Art Archive in America Bronx Museum Brooklyn Museum Hudson River Museum *Japan Society *The Metropolitan Museum of Art *The Museum of Modern Art *Queens Museum *Reversible Destiny Foundation *Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum *SVA MA Curatorial Practice *Twelve Gates Arts *Wald & Kim Foundation *+91 Foundation Alexander and Bonin
- [ACAW 2018 Kickoff Reception](https://acaw.info/acaw-2018-2/) - Kickoff Reception | 4pm Anita Dube: Laboratories of Knowledge (CANCELED) We are sad to inform you that given a close family member’s illness, Anita Dube is unable to travel to New York for her Keynote Lecture. Of course, we are still kicking off the 13th edition of ACAW alongside Christie’s South Asian Modern +
- [PRESS RELEASES](https://acaw.info/press/press-releases/)
- [Asia Contemporary Art Week 2018](https://acaw.info/acaw-2018/) - THE 13TH EDITION OF ACAW The 13th Edition of Asia Contemporary Art Week expands to a full season this fall, offering cutting-edge exhibitions, receptions, performances, studio visits, discussions & festivities at leading Consortium Partner’s museums & galleries citywide. The season will be centered around a constellation of ACAW curated programs revolving around ideas of collections and collecting
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-projects-23/) - Discussion Session 3 (Day 2) The Good, The Bad, and The Desirable: The Myth of Truth and the Auxiliary of Perspective (From left to right) Boon Hui Tan, Marat Raiymkulov, Simon Fujiwara, Taus Makhacheva, Xiaoyu Weng and Leeza Ahmady. This discussion contemplated the section of FIELD MEETING entitled "The Good, The Bad, and The Desirable:
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-projects-18/) - Discussion Session 2 (Day 1) 1984 in Disguise: The Project of Resistance (From left to right) Dai Guangyu, Craig Yee and Maya Kovskaya. This discussion contemplates the section of FIELD MEETING entitled "1984 in Disguise: The Project Resistance." Artist Dai Guangyu discusses his performance "The Failure of Defense - America 2017," which shifts from its
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-projects-17/) - Discussion Session 1 (Day1) The Culture of Status and The Status of Culture (From left to right) Ian Altveer, Brain Kuan Wood, Hera Chan, Meitha Al Mazrooei, Suhanya Raffel, David Xu Borgonjon, and Leeza Ahmady. The connection between cities, their inhabitants, culture, urban development, class, gender and education are examined in the first section of
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-projects-20/) - Discussion Session 4 (Day1) Evolution and The Foundation of Fulfillment. (From left to right) Miwako Tezuka, Kingsley Ng, Junod Etienne, Adrian Wong, Joyce Ho, Barbara London and Leeza Ahmady. This discussion contemplated the section of FIELD MEETING entitled "Evolution and The Foundation of Fulfillment." Can turning the finger inward towards our self as perceiver, creator,
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-projects-22/) - Discussion Session 2 (Day2) The Good, The Bad, and The Desirable: The Myth of Truth and the Auxiliary of Perspective. (From left to right) Marisa Mazria Katz, Yin-Ju Chen, Hajra Waheed, Marwa Arsanios, Bruce Quek and Maya Kovskaya. This discussion contemplates the section of FIELD MEETING entitled "The Good, The Bad, and The Desirable: The
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-projects-16/) - Leeza Ahmady (New York) Opening Thoughts FIELD MEETING curator and Asia Contemporary Art Week Director, Leeza Ahmady welcomed guests and shared a personal thought on the importance of this year’s forum under the current political climate. > See Leeza Ahmady's full curatorial statement > See all presenters' profiles Leeza Ahmady, Opening Thoughts, 2017. FIELD MEETING Take
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-projects-24/) - Leeza Ahmady (New York) Opening Thoughts FIELD MEETING curator and Asia Contemporary Art Week Director, Leeza Ahmady welcomed guests and shared a personal thought on the importance of this year’s forum under the current political climate. > See Leeza Ahmady's full curatorial statement > See all presenters' profiles Leeza Ahmady, Opening Thoughts, 2017. FIELD MEETING Take
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-projects-21/) - Discussion Session 1 (Day2) The Lived, Living, Speaking Story (From left to right) Mary Ann Peters, Loredana Paracciani, Laura Barlow, Nancy Adajanja, Tiffany Chung, Yuliya Sorokina and Leeza Ahmady. This discussion contemplates the section of FIELD MEETING entitled "The Lived, Living, Speaking Story." Across art historical horizons, wide-ranging multidisciplinary research is increasingly instrumental in retrieving
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-projects-25/) - Steven Madoff (New York) Welcome Remarks Steven Henry Madoff, the Chair of SVA MA Curatorial Practice, brought new perspective to the meaning of hospitality in relation to curatorial practice today. > See all presenters' profiles Steven Madoff, Welcome Remarks, 2017. FIELD MEETING Take 5: Thinking Project, November 15th at SVA Theatre.
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-projects-19/) - Discussion Session 3 (Day 1) The 1984 in Disguise: The Project of Resistance (From left to right) Bansie Vasvani, Philip Tinari, Abdullah M.I. Syed, Nadiah Bamadhaj, Hu Weiyi and Boon Hui Tan. This discussion contemplated the performances, lecture performances, and talks in the FIELD MEETING section entitled "1984 in Disguise: The Project of Resistance" which
- [FIELD MEETING: Thinking Practice - Participants' Synopses & Bios](https://acaw.info/acaw-2016-artists-profiles/) - Day 1 - November 11th, hosted at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Day 2 - November 12th, hosted at Asia Society
- [ACAW's Online Journal](https://acaw.info/acaws-online-journal/) - ABOUT In October 2016, ACAW launched a semi-annual online journal FIELD REVIEW to offer discursive opportunities for writers, curators, and art-historians as an extension of FIELD MEETING art forum. The second issue FIELD REVIEW: Middle East, in collaboration with ACAW Consortium Partner ArteEast, commissions seven case studies to consider current manifold creative threads woven in
- [FIELD REVIEW 2: MIDDLE EAST](https://acaw.info/field-review-middle-east/) - Introduction Osman Can Yerebekan ______________________________________ Shifts and Measures: A Brief Overview of Art Events in West Asia Maymanah Farhat New Media Society Yasaman Alipour İz Öztat and Fatma Belkıs: Who Carries The Water Osman Can Yerebekan KADER ATTIA AND LA COLONIE: The Art of Reappropriation Chayma Drira Palestinian Museum Ruba Katrib
- [FIELD REVIEW 1: SOUTH ASIA](https://acaw.info/field-review-south-asia/) - Introduction Meenakshi Thirukode ______________________________________ Abstraction De-Constructed through the Lens of Post-Colonialism Achia Anzi Grasping at the Untold Jyoti Dhar Kumar Vaidya: Through the Lens of Erasure and Invisibility Meenakshi Thirukode Yasmin Jahan Nupur: Dancing in the Non-Spaces of Performance Zeenat Nagree The Poetics of Absence and Presence in Parul Gupta’s Art:
- [Field Meeting: Thinking Practice](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-32/) - Ombretta Argo' Andruff (New York) Day 1 Practice Notes > See all presenters' profiles Ombretta Argo' Andruff, Initial Thoughts, 2016. Performance documentation FIELD MEETING: Thinking Practice, November 11th at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Photo: Renata Carciofolo. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Back to FIELD MEETING Speaker's Profiles
- [ACAW 2017 MEDIA PARTNERS](https://acaw.info/acaw-2016-sponsors/) - ArtAsiaPacific magazine is the leading English-language periodical covering contemporary art and culture from the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.Published six times a year, AAP includes features, profiles, essays and reviews by experts from all over the world. AAP’s website offers up-to-the minute news reports, extracts from current and past issues of the magazine, as well
- [Friday October 20](https://acaw.info/friday-october-20-asia-society/) - Asia Society
- [Sunday October 22](https://acaw.info/sunday-october-22-roya-khadjavi-projects/) - Roya Khadjavi Projects + Frontview for Art and Architecture 2:30-5:30pm | Panel Discussion + Reception Bread & Salt: Immigration policies, the ban, and their effect on artistic practice and discourse This panel discussion derives its title from an old tradition shared by Middle Eastern and Eastern European cultures, a common manner of welcoming guests
- [Tuesday October 17](https://acaw.info/china-us-cultural-forums/) - China-US Cultural & Creative Dialogue 2-5pm | Forum Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation + ACAW + artnet An insightful forum with presentations and perspectives by notable invited ACAW 2017 participating artists working in the field of contemporary art today. Presenting Artists: Song Dong, Li Jun, Yang Xin, Guo Hongwei and Christopher K. Ho Moderated by
- [ACAW 2017 (October 5 - 26) Schedule at a Glance](https://acaw.info/acaw-2017-october-5-26-schedule-at-a-glance/)
- [Thursday October 5](https://acaw.info/thursday-october-5-2/) - Wald & Kim Gallery
- [SUNDAY OCTOBER 15](https://acaw.info/sunday-october-15/) - Mana Contemporary (Jersey City) 1–6pm | Exhibition Viewing 6–8pm | Participatory Performance + Opening Reception ACAW THINKING PROJECTS x Creative China Festival: Song Dong, Li Jun Punctuating the ending of FIELD MEETING, Song Dong invites the public to feast on his world-traveled Eating the City installation built from thousands of edible biscuits, crackers, and sweets.
- [Sunday October 15](https://acaw.info/sunday-october-15-2/) - Mana Contemporary (Jersey City) 1–8pm | Open House Highlighted Exhibitions In Between (Part II): So Far Curated by: Shahram Karimi | 5th Floor In Between (Part II): So Far The exhibition recognizes six women who are working as video artists working in Iran, particularly those whose work has an artistic individuality and independent character
- [ACAW 2017 SPONSORS](https://acaw.info/acaw-2017-sponsors/) - ArtAsiaPacific magazine is the leading English-language periodical covering contemporary art and culture from the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.Published six times a year, AAP includes features, profiles, essays and reviews by experts from all over the world. AAP’s website offers up-to-the minute news reports, extracts from current and past issues of the magazine, as well as
- [Thursday October 12](https://acaw.info/thursday-october-12-sundaram-2/) - 6–8pm | Opening Reception ACAW THINKING PROJECTS: YU FAN (Creative China Festival) Known for his sleek and delicate sculptures, an intimate set of works culminating Yu’s residency-experience at School of Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts (Boston). Through November 4 Sundaram Tagore Gallery (Chelsea)> MAP 547 W 27th St, New York, NY 10001 Above: Yu
- [FIELD MEETING 2017 VOLUNTEER CALL](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-2017-volunteer-call/) - Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) is looking for enthusiastic and committed volunteers to assist with our signature program, FIELD MEETING: Thinking Projects on Saturday, October 14th & Sunday, October 15th at Asia Society & SVA Theatre. Please see below for more information about the program and tasks & qualifications: About the Program FIELD MEETING is an exclusive two-day forum for art professionals, conceived
- [Thursday October 12](https://acaw.info/thursday-october-12-klein-sun/) - Klein Sun Gallery 6–8pm | Opening Reception THINKING PROJECTS: YANG XIN As part of Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) 2017 signature program: THINKING PROJECTS— pop-up exhibition series focusing on research-based artistic endeavors curated by ACAW director Leeza Ahmady. The artist’s fascination with microbiology is interpreted in an impressive scientifically infused set of multi-media works
- [Thursday October 12](https://acaw.info/thursday-october-12/) - ACAW VIP Kick-Off Party Hosted by Chambers Fine Art By Invitation Only A special celebration honoring ACAW Consortium Partner institutions, artists, participants & collaborators. Consumable installation of delicacies, The Aerial by the experimental artist He Wei in conjunction with Yang Jiechang's exhibition The Whip. The Aerial The Aerial is an participatory installation by He
- [Wednesday October 11](https://acaw.info/tuesday-october-24/) - DAG Modern
- [Thursday October 12 Klein Sun Gallery](https://acaw.info/thursday-october-12-klein-sun-gallery/) - Klein Sun Gallery 6–8pm | Opening Reception Closer to the Beautiful World This group exhibition presents five Chinese artists- Chen Xi, Hu Yinping, Wang Jiajia, Yang Xinjia, Zhang Zhaoying- whose works revolve around thinking about the nature of our world, and questioning how one's experiences form one's perception of the "ideal world". Curated by Janet
- [Thursday October 12](https://acaw.info/thursday-october-12-ryan-lee-gallery/) - Ryan Lee Gallery 6–8pm | Special Viewing Stephanie Syjuco: Citizens Stephanie Syjuco’s second solo exhibition at RYAN LEE consists of new work that probe philosophic and historic definitions of what it means to be a "citizen" in terms of national belonging, civic engagement, and radical responsibility, including an installation of fabric banners based on iconic
- [Consortium Partner Exhibitions in Asia](https://acaw.info/consortium-partner-exhibitions-in-asia-2/) - Asia-based Venues Richard Koh Fine Art (Kuala Lumpur) Natee Utarit: Optimism Is Ridiculous, The Altarpieces Exhibition | Through October 17th at Galeri Nasional, Jakarta, Indonesia Co-presented with Galeri Nasional Indonesia, the exhibition is part of the artist’s Optimism is Ridiculous series which began in 2012 and has been featured in various exhibitions in Asia. Composed of
- [Sunday October 22](https://acaw.info/sunday-october-22/) - Ink Studio
- [Saturday October 7](https://acaw.info/saturday-october-7-3/) - Ink Studio October 7
- [Saturday October 21](https://acaw.info/saturday-october-21-2/) - Chambers Fine Art
- [Thursday October 12](https://acaw.info/thursday-october-12-c24/) - C24 Gallery 6–8pm | Opening Reception ACAW THINKING PROJECTS: irfan Önüren, Sumakshi Singh, Nadiah Bamadhaj As part of Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) 2017 signature program: THINKING PROJECTS— pop-up exhibition series focusing on research-based artistic endeavors curated by ACAW director Leeza Ahmady. Three highly accomplished artists from three different regions of Asia create new
- [Wednesday October 18](https://acaw.info/wednesday-october-18/) - China Institute
- [Friday October 20](https://acaw.info/friday-october-20-japan-society/) - Japan Society
- [Saturday October 21](https://acaw.info/saturday-october-21/) - Japan Society
- [Monday October 16](https://acaw.info/monday-october-16-reversible/) - Reversible Destiny Foundation
- [Thursday October 12 ACAW- Chelsea Night + ACAW VIP KICKOFF PARTY](https://acaw.info/thursday-october-12-acaw-chelsea-night/) - ACAW VIP KICKOFF PARTY Hosted at Chambers Fine Art By Invitation Only TYLER ROLLINS FINE ART 6-8pm | Special Viewing Tiffany Chung: The Unwanted Population KLEIN SUN GALLERY 6-8pm | Opening Reception Closer to the Beautiful
- [Wednesday October 11](https://acaw.info/wednesday-october-11-3/) - The Met Breuer
- [Sunday October 8](https://acaw.info/sunday-october-8/) - Queens Museum
- [Friday October 6](https://acaw.info/friday-october-6-12gates/) - Twelve Gates Arts
- [SUNDAY OCTOBER 15 at Mana Contemporary (Jersey City)](https://acaw.info/sunday-october-15-at-mana-contemporary-jersey-city/)
- [Friday October 27](https://acaw.info/friday-october-27/) - The Met
- [Thursday October 26](https://acaw.info/thursday-october-26/) - Tyler Rollins Fine Art
- [Wednesday October 25](https://acaw.info/wednesday-october-25/) - Taipei Cultural Center October 25
- [Thursday October 19](https://acaw.info/thursday-october-19/) - MOCA
- [Friday October 13](https://acaw.info/friday-october-13-owen-james/) - Owen James Gallery
- [Friday October 13](https://acaw.info/friday-october-13-guggenheim/) - Guggenheim Museum Screening Program
- [Thursday October 12 Sundaram](https://acaw.info/thursday-october-12-sundaram/) - Sundaram Tagore Gallery 6–8pm | Opening Reception Heads or Tails? (Or, The Other Side of the Coin): Contemporary Art from Thailand Curated by Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani, the exhibition features work by six influential Thai artists that examine divergent notions of present-day Thailand—a country experiencing tremendous social and political pressure while under strict military rule since 2014
- [Thursday October 12 Doosan](https://acaw.info/thursday-october-12-doosan/) - Doosan Gallery 6–8pm | Opening Reception JangPa Through her paintings, installations, and video work in the exhibition, the artist JangPa conveys messages about the violence and irrationality in the social systems. Her ideas about the oppressed unconscious are expressed aggressively in the paintings of vivid colors and cynically in the black and white video installations,
- [Thursday October 12 Tyler Rollins Fine Art](https://acaw.info/thursday-october-12-tyler-rollins-fine-art/) - Tyler Rollins Fine Art 6–8pm | Special Viewing Tiffany Chung: the unwanted population The solo exhibition will include new developments in two of Chung's ongoing series: The Syria Project, tracking the current crisis in Syria, a project she first developed for the 2015 Venice Biennale; and The Vietnam Exodus Project, which investigates the post-1975 dispersal
- [Thursday October 12 Chambers](https://acaw.info/thursday-october-12-chambers/) - Chambers Fine Art 6–8pm | Special Viewing Yang Jiechang: The Whip The artist’s second exhibition at Chambers Fine Art. Although Yang continues to explore a wide range of forms and media including painting, collage, installation, performance and sculpture, calligraphy has always been a primary concern. He has spoken of it as “a means to cultivate
- [Wednesday October 11](https://acaw.info/wednesday-october-11-2/) - Ronin Gallery
- [Wednesday October 11](https://acaw.info/wednesday-october-11/) - Asia Art Archive in America
- [Monday October 9](https://acaw.info/monday-october-9-tcc/) - TCC October 9
- [Saturday October 7](https://acaw.info/saturday-october-7-2/) - Owen James Gallery
- [Saturday October 7](https://acaw.info/saturday-october-7/) - Klein Sun Gallery
- [Thursday, October 6](https://acaw.info/thursday-october-6-2/) - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 10am - 5:45pm | Exhibition Viewing Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World The largest showcase of contemporary Chinese art from 1989 - 2008 in North America, surveying the development of Chinese experimental art from the end of Cold War to the age of globalization and China’s rise on
- [Thursday October 5](https://acaw.info/thursday-october-5/) - Aicon Gallery October 5th
- [Saturday October 7](https://acaw.info/saturday-october-7-4/) - Ink Studio October 7 Pop Up
- [Tuesday October 10](https://acaw.info/tuesday-october-10/) - Asia Society Film Screening
- [Thursday October 12 VIP Kickoff Party](https://acaw.info/thursday-october-12-vip-kickoff-party/) - ACAW 2017 Kickoff VIP Party 8-9pm | Opening Reception VIP Solo exhibition of new paintings by Delhi-based artist G. R. Iranna that explores themes of forcibly altered growth and development, both in nature and human thought, and how social frameworks and religious dogmas either directly or indirectly serve to suppress free-thought and organic growth.
- [Friday September 16](https://acaw.info/friday-september-9-2/) - Asia Society 2pm | Symposium What about the Art? Aesthetics and Ideas in Contemporary Art This half-day symposium, organized in collaboration with acclaimed artist Cai Guo-Qiang, considers the role of crativity and artistic process in the creation and presentation of contemporary art. The event includes a keynote presentation and two panel discussions that illuminate the
- [Summer ’17 Consortium Partner Programs](https://acaw.info/summer-17-consortium-partner-programs/) - New York City Venues ASIA SOCIETY MUSEUM Inspired by Zao Wou-Ki: Works by New York City Students Exhibition | Through August 6 Artworks created by New York City public school students based on Asia Society’s fall 2016 exhibition "No Limits: Zao Wou-Ki" are exhibited in this one of a kind exhibition.MAP Image caption: Student
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-2/) - Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme
- [Spring '17 Consortium Partners Programs](https://acaw.info/spring-17-consortium-partners-programs/) - New York City Venues JAPAN SOCIETY Girl X HANCHU-YUEI | Suguru Yamamoto Theatre / Performance | February 16 – 18 | Various times Directed by Suguru Yamamoto, an original Japanese production of the unsettling comedy that provides a glimpse into an anxiety-ridden post 3/11 Japan and a text messaging-obsessed contemporary society. Performed by Yamamoto's
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-19/) - Loo Zihan
- [Field Meeting: Thinking Practice](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-34/) - David Richeson (New York) > See all presenters' profiles David Richeson, Practice Notes. FIELD MEETING: Thinking Practice, November 12, 2016 at Asia Society. Photo: Renata Carciofolo. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Back to FIELD MEETING Speaker's Profiles
- [Field Meeting: Thinking Practice](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-33/) - Boon Hui Tan (New York) > See all presenters' profiles Boon Hui Tan, Day 2 Welcome Remarks, FIELD MEETING: Thinking Practice, November 12, 2016 at Asia Society. Photo: Renata Carciofolo. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Back to FIELD MEETING Speaker's Profiles
- [Tea Break](https://acaw.info/tea-break/) - Tea Break at Asia Society During the 2nd day of FIELD MEETING, participants, respondents and audience gathered outside the auditorium for a Tea Break, exchanging thoughts on the lecture-performance they witnessed and taking snap shots as souvenirs. > See all presenters' profiles
- [FIELD MEETING 2016 - Festivities](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-festivities/) - FIELD MEETING Reception, Thursday November 10thHosted at Cai Studio and sponsored by artnet An intimate first gathering for FIELD MEETING: Thinking Practice art forum presenters, colleagues & press members to meet, greet, and get acquainted with one another in the beautiful studio settings of the inspiring New York-based Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang. Above (from left
- [DAY 2 DISCUSSION SESSIONS](https://acaw.info/day-2-discussion-sessions/) - Session 1Discussion with Umashankar Manthravadi, Erin Gleeson, Ye Funa, David Richeson, Nora Razian, and Mami Kataoka, moderated by Boon Hui Tan Session 2 Discussion with Loo Zihan, T-yong Chung, Amina Ahmed, Mithu Sen, and Yasmin Jahan Nupur, moderated by Hitomi Iwasaki and Sadia Shirazi Session 3 Discussion with Christopher Ho, Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige, and
- [DAY 1 Discussion Sessions](https://acaw.info/day-1-discussion-sessions/) - Session 1Discussion with Ombretta Agro'Andruff, Michael Joo, Raha Raissnia, and Mary Ellen Carroll, moderated by Clare Davies and Leeza Ahmady Session 2 Discussion with Basel Abbas, Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Wafaa Bilal, Suzie Afridi, Heba Y. Amin, moderated by Fawz Kabra and Mariam Ghani Session 3 Discussion with Anthony Lee, Shezad Dawood, Ho Tzu Nyen, and Jennifer
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-20/) - Jennifer Wen Ma
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-7/) - Mary Ellen Carroll
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-31/) - Christina Yang (New York) Day 1 Welcome Remarks > See all presenters' profiles Christina Yang, Welcome Remarks. FIELD MEETING: Thinking Practice, November 11, 2016 at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Photo: Renata Carciofolo. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Back to FIELD MEETING Speaker's Profiles
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-30/) - Leeza Ahmady (New York) > Watch Leeza Ahmady’s Closing Ceremony > See all presenters' profiles Leeza Ahmady, Initial Thoughts. FIELD MEETING: Thinking Practice, November 11, 2016 at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Photo: Renata Carciofolo. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Born and raised in Afghanistan, Leeza Ahmady is a New York based independent curator noted for her foundational work concerning
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- [Presented Artists in Past ACAW Editions](https://acaw.info/past-presented-artists/) - Since 2002, Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) has presented over 2000 of the most outstanding artists and practitioners living and working in the realm of Asia- both through ACAW's own curated, signature programming and through its robust visibility campaign during each edition in New York. Presented Artists in ACAW Curated Signature Programs Artists in
- [2016 Media Sponsors](https://acaw.info/2016-media-sponsors/) - &nbsp ArtAsiaPacific magazine is the leading English-language periodical covering contemporary art and culture from the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.Published six times a year, AAP includes features, profiles, essays and reviews by experts from all over the world. AAP’s website offers up-to-the minute news reports, extracts from current and past issues of the magazine, as well
- [Now On View](https://acaw.info/now-on-view/) - January - March Richard Koh Fine Art Yeoh Choo Kuan: Live Leak January 5-21 Live Leak presents Yeoh Choo Kuan's exploration on the depiction of violence on canvas through painterly expression. The young Kuala Lumpur- based artist produces object-based paintings that display scarred tactile surfaces of peeled and coagulated paint that framed within custom-made
- [ACAW SPRING 2013 PROGRAMS & EXHIBITIONS](https://acaw.info/acaw-spring-2013/) - FEBRUARY January 25 – April 21 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | Zarina: Paper Like Skin February 15 – May 8 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | Gutai: Splendid Playground February 19 – March 27 Bose Pacia | Transparent Studio: Artcodex February 19 – March 29 Gallery Korea | Take Old Road New Way February 22 –
- [IN RESIDENCE, as part of Season of Cambodia](https://acaw.info/in-residence-the-visual-art-program-of-season-of-cambodia/) - 10 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS & 1 CURATORIAL RESIDENT, MULTIPLE EXHIBITIONS & PUBLIC PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT NEW YORK CITY April 1 - May 31, 2013 Savy Sareth, Mon Boulet. 2011. Metal 200cm sphere Co-Curated by Leeza Ahmady and Erin Gleeson IN RESIDENCE is a citywide visual art program, presented by Season of Cambodia, A Living Arts Festival,
- [ACAW 2013 Seasonal & Curated Programs](https://acaw.info/under-construction/) - In 2013, Asia Contemporary Art Week introduced its year-round, seasonal web campaign to capture and highlight the exceptional contemporary Asia-specific programs and exhibitions organized by Consortium Partners, outside of ACAW’s annual editions. ACAW Curated Visual Art Program Co-Curated by Leeza Ahmady and Erin Gleeson IN RESIDENCE is a citywide visual art program, presented
- [May 2- TRANSPARENT STUDIO: TITH KANITHA and YIM MALINE](https://acaw.info/may-2-transparent-studio-tith-kanitha-and-yim-maline-3/) - Bose Pacia Open Studio: Thursday May 2, 2013, 5:00 – 8:00 pm Open Studio: Thursday May 2, 2013, 5:00 – 8:00 pm. As part of the popular First Thursdays DUMBO Gallery Walk, IN RESIDENCE artists Tith Kanitha (b. 1987) and Yim Maline (b. 1982) open their shared studio space at Bose Pacia Transparent Studio for
- [Sunday, April 21- Symposium: CONTEMPORARY ART IN CAMBODIA: A HISTORICAL INQUIRY](https://acaw.info/sunday-april-21-symposium-contemporary-art-in-cambodia-a-historical-inquiry/) - Sunday April 21, 9:30 am – 5:00 pm Museum of Modern Art Contemporary Art in Cambodia: A Historical Inquiry This symposium is co-organized with Cornell University, and Center for Khmer Studies as part of IN RESIDENCE, the Visual Art program of Season of Cambodia, a Living Arts Festival, co-curated by Leeza Ahmady and Erin Gleeson.
- [Opening April 18- RELIEFS SOPHEAP PICH](https://acaw.info/opening-april-18-reliefs-sopheap-pich-2/) - Tyler Rollins Fine Art April 18 - June 14, 2013 Artist: Sopheap Pich Opening Reception: Thursday, April 18, 6:00 – 8:00 pm In a solo exhibition of new works, Sopheap Pich (b. 1971) presents a focused series of orthogonal wall reliefs weighted with materials native to Cambodia’s land and history. Burlap, beeswax, charcoal, and earth
- [Opening March 28- COMPOUND SOPHEAP PICH](https://acaw.info/opening-march-28-compound-sopheap-pich-2/) - Brookfield Place, Winter Garden March 28 – April 18, 2013 Artist: Sopheap Pich Compound is a large-scale installation by Sopheap Pich (b. 1971) that speaks to the recent, aggressive construction boom and the resulting depletion of natural resources in Phnom Penh. Comprising 83 voluminous bamboo and rattan grids and tubular modules, Compound’s reticulation echoes modern
- [Opening February 23- Cambodian Rattan: The Sculptures of Sopheap Pich](https://acaw.info/opening-february-23-cambodian-rattan-the-sculptures-of-sopheap-pich-2/) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art February 23 – June 16, 2013 Artist: Sopheap Pich Location: Astor Forecourt, Khmer Sculpture Gallery, and Indian Exhibition Gallery, 2nd floor Galleries 209, 249, and 251 The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents ten works by the contemporary Cambodian artist Sopheap Pich. Living and working in Phnom Penh, Sopheap works principally
- [Bomb Ponds by Vandy Rattana](https://acaw.info/bomb-ponds-by-vandy-rattana-2/) - Asia Society Museum February 26 – June 2, 2013 Artist: Vandy Rattana. Bomb Ponds is a poignant series of photographs and a one-channel video by Cambodian artist Vandy Rattana (b. 1980) exploring the U.S. bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam War. The serenity of Vandy’s images belies the violent history of the landscape, while his
- [May 2- TRANSPARENT STUDIO: TITH KANITHA and YIM MALINE](https://acaw.info/may-2-transparent-studio-tith-kanitha-and-yim-maline-2/) - Bose Pacia Open Studio: Thursday May 2, 2013, 5:00 – 8:00 pm Open Studio: Thursday May 2, 2013, 5:00 – 8:00 pm. As part of the popular First Thursdays DUMBO Gallery Walk, IN RESIDENCE artists Tith Kanitha (b. 1987) and Yim Maline (b. 1982) open their shared studio space at Bose Pacia Transparent Studio for
- [Exhibition Curator & Artist Talk: Rebirth Explored](https://acaw.info/exhibition-curator-artist-talk-rebirth-explored/) - Friday, October 11, 6:30 pm Japan Society Exhibition Curator & Artist Talk: Rebirth Explored Dr. Miwako Tezuka and artist Mariko Mori discuss the evolution of Mori’s artistic career and the themes contained in Rebirth: Recent Work by Mariko Mori, as well as her ambitious future projects. Followed by a reception with cash bar. FREE Admission.
- [Program 1: The Cow](https://acaw.info/program-1-the-cow/) - Saturday, November 2, 2013, 6:00 pm Asia Society Museum Screening Program 1: The Cow As part of Iranian New Wave 1960s-1970s (Film Series) 100 min. B/W. Mash Hasan (Ezzatolah Entezami) is the owner of the only and much treasured cow in his impoverished village. One day while he is away, his beloved cow is mysteriously
- [Program 2: The Lost Cinema](https://acaw.info/program-2-the-lost-cinema/) - Friday, November 8, 2013, 6:30 pm Asia Society Museum Screening Program 2: The Lost Cinema As part of Iranian New Wave 1960s-1970s (Film Series) Jamsheed Akrami. 2007. USA. 100 min. Color & B/W. This illuminating documentary examines the background and significance of the Iranian New Wave. An artistic and political awakening gave birth to films
- [Program 3: Dead End](https://acaw.info/program-3-dead-end/) - Saturday, November 9, 2013, 6:00 pm Asia Society Museum Screening Program 3: Dead End As part of Iranian New Wave 1960s-1970s (Film Series) 95 min. Color. A young woman (Mary Apik) lives on a dead end street with her family. A mysterious man has been following her. Who is he? Is he a secret admirer
- [Artist Talk – Tracey Moffatt: Spirit Landscapes](https://acaw.info/artist-talk-tracey-moffatt-spirit-landscapes/) - Saturday, November 9, 3:00 pm Tyler Rollins Fine Art Artist Talk - Tracey Moffatt: Spirit Landscapes
- [Program 4: Tall Shadows of the Wind](https://acaw.info/program-4-tall-shadows-of-the-wind/) - Tuesday, November 12, 2013, 6:30 pm Asia Society Museum Screening Program 4: Tall Shadows of the Wind As part of Iranian New Wave 1960s-1970s (Film Series) 109 min. Color. Based on a short story by Houshang Golshiri, who also collaborated with director Bahman Farmanara on his breakout feature Prince Ehtejab (1974), this film centers on
- [Mariko Mori Performance: Oneness](https://acaw.info/mariko-mori-performance-oneness/) - Wednesday, November 13, 7:00 pm Japan Society Mariko Mori Performance: Oneness Rebirth aims to revive the link that universally binds our consciousness regardless of language, custom, or location. This concept of oneness is reenergized through Mariko Mori’s performance, an occasion to share and cherish the presence of all of us in time and space.Running time:
- [Program 5: Downpour](https://acaw.info/program-5-downpour/) - Friday, November 15, 2013, 6:30 pm Asia Society Museum Screening Program 5: Downpour As part of Iranian New Wave 1960s-1970s (Film Series) 128 min. B/W. A teacher has been transferred to a school in a poor and conservative district. He encounters the beautiful sister of a student and develops feelings for her. Although this young
- [Lecture: Contemporary Cosmology](https://acaw.info/lecture-contemporary-cosmology/) - Friday, November 15, 6:30 pm Japan Society Lecture: Contemporary Cosmology Rebirth encourages us to look at the larger cosmic world. Theoretical astrophysicist and MacArthur fellow, Professor David N. Spergel, Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy on the Class of 1897 Foundation, Professor of Astrophysical Sciences and Chair, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, discusses issues
- [Program 6: Kamran Shirdel – Social Documentaries](https://acaw.info/program-6-kamran-shirdel-social-documentaries/) - Wednesday, November 20, 2013, 6:30 pm Asia Society Museum Screening Program 6: Kamran Shirdel - Social Documentaries As part of Iranian New Wave 1960s-1970s (Film Series) Women's Prison 1965. Iran. 11 min. B/W. In this Tehran jail, over 200 women and girls are housed, convicted of crimes such as murder and drug addiction. Beyond depiction
- [Program 7: The Traveler](https://acaw.info/program-7-the-traveler/) - Friday, November 22, 2013, 6:30 pm Asia Society Museum Screening Program 7: The Traveler As part of Iranian New Wave 1960s-1970s (Film Series) 74 min. B/W. A young boy in a provincial town is a diehard soccer fan. He steals, scams, lies, and skips school in order to gather enough money for an overnight bus
- [Curator’s Lecture: China Institute](https://acaw.info/curators-lecture-china-institute/) - Friday, December 13, 6:30 – 8:00 pm China Institute Curator's Lecture in conjunction with Inspired by Dunhuang: Re-creation in Contemporary Chinese Art Willow Weilan Hai, Director of China Institute Gallery, and Jerome Silbergeld, the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Professor of Chinese Art History, the Chair of the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton
- [Iran Modern – Through Jan. 5th](https://acaw.info/iran-modern-through-jan-5th/) - Asia Society Museum September 6 – January 5, 2014 The first major U.S. international loan exhibition on the subject, Iran Modern comprises over 100 paintings, sculpture, photography, and works on paper by the most noteworthy Iranian artists of the 1950s to 1970s, and provides a dynamic perspective on Iran’s rich culture and history for the
- [Rebirth: Recent Work by Mariko Mori, Through Jan. 12](https://acaw.info/rebirth-recent-work-by-mariko-mori-through-jan-12/) - Japan Society October 11 – January 12, 2014 Programs in conjunction with Rebirth include: • Exhibition Curator & Artist Talk: Rebirth Explored Friday, October 11, 6:30 pm • Mariko Mori Performance: Oneness Wednesday, November 13, 7:00 pm • Lecture: Contemporary Cosmology Friday, November 15, 6:30 pm An icon of 1990s Japanese pop art, the visionary
- [Tracey Moffatt: Spirit Landscapes, Through Dec. 21](https://acaw.info/tracey-moffatt-spirit-landscapes-through-dec-21/) - Tyler Rollins Fine Art October 24 – December 21, 2013 Artist: Tracey Moffatt Tracey Moffatt is one of today’s leading international visual artists working in photography, film, and video. Her photographs and short films, which she creates by experimenting with various printing processes, have achieved iconic status around the world. Moffatt is a powerful visual
- [Inspired by Dunhuang:
 Re-creation in Contemporary Chinese Art – Through June 8](https://acaw.info/inspired-by-dunhuang
-re-creation-in-contemporary-chinese-art-through-june-8/) - China Institute December 14, 2013 - June 8, 2014 Curator Talk in conjunction with this exhibition December 13, 6:30 - 8:00 pm Like the old masters before them, modern and contemporary luminaries, such as Zhang Daqian, Zhang Hongtu, Liu Jude, Liu Dan, Yu Hong, and others, have sought inspiration from Dunhuang's ancient sculptures and murals.
- [Opening January 25- Zarina: Paper Like Skin](https://acaw.info/opening-january-25-zarina-paper-like-skin/) - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum January 25–April 21, 2013 Artist: Zarina Hashmi Artist Conversation: March 1 Zarina: Paper Like Skin This retrospective of Indian-born American artist Zarina Hashmi is the first major exploration of her career, charting a developmental arc from her work in the 1960s to the present and includes many seminal works from the
- [Opening February 15- Gutai: Splendid Playground](https://acaw.info/opening-february-15-gutai-splendid-playground/) - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum February 15–May 8, 2013 Gutai: Splendid Playground Discover an extraordinary range of bold creativity and raw expression in the first North American survey of Gutai, Japan’s most important artist collective of the 1950s and ’60s. Explore the group’s radical experimentation in the name of their rallying cry, “Do what no one
- [Opening February 19- TRANSPARENT STUDIO: ARTCODEX](https://acaw.info/opening-february-19-transparent-studio-artcodex/) - Bose Pacia Residency Opening February 19 Open Studio: Thursday, March, 7 from 6 - 9 pm Residency dates: February 19 – March 27, 2013 Open Studio: Thursday, March, 7: 6-9pm. Transparent Studio at Bose Pacia is pleased to announce the current artists-in-residence, Artcodex. The collective will alter the studio to create an experimental space of
- [Opening February 20- Gallery Korea: ‘taKe Old Road nEw wAy](https://acaw.info/opening-february-20-gallery-korea-take-old-road-new-way/) - Gallery Korea (Korean Cultural Service NY) February 20 – March 29, 2013 Take Old Road New Way taKe Old Road nEw wAy (a play on the word “Korea”) is the title of Gallery Korea’s Call for Artists 2013 exhibition. The title aptly describes the exhibition, which presents the works of 7 contemporary artists and their
- [Opening February 22- No Country: Contemporary Art for South & Southeast Asia](https://acaw.info/opening-february-22-no-country-contemporary-art-for-south-southeast-asia/) - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum February 22–May 22, 2013 No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia is the inaugural exhibition of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative— a multiyear project that explores contemporary art in South and Southeast Asia; Latin America; and the Middle East and North Africa. No Country features work by
- [Bomb Ponds by Vandy Rattana](https://acaw.info/bomb-ponds-by-vandy-rattana/) - Asia Society Museum February 26 – June 2, 2013 Artist: Vandy Rattana. Bomb Ponds is a poignant series of photographs and a one-channel video by Cambodian artist Vandy Rattana (b. 1980) exploring the U.S. bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam War. The serenity of Vandy’s images belies the violent history of the landscape, while his
- [Opening February 26- Tim Lee: In Focus](https://acaw.info/opening-february-26-tim-lee-in-focus/) - Asia Society Museum Exhibition February 26 – May 12, 2013 Artist: Tim Lee. Asia Society Museum has invited the artist Tim Lee to create a new work, Blowin' in the Wind, Bob Dylan, 1963, 2013. Made specifically for the Asia Society, this interactive multimedia installation is meant to function as a karaoke pavilion in which
- [Opening February 28- Agus Suwage: CYCLE No. 2](https://acaw.info/opening-february-28-agus-suwage-cycle-no-2/) - Tyler Rollins Fine Art February 28 – April 13, 2013 Artist: Agus Suwage. Opening Reception: Thursday, February 28, from 6 pm – 8 pm. The artist will be in attendance. Public Talk with Curator Enin Supriyanto: Saturday, March 2, at 3 pm. CYCLE No. 2 marks the second stage of Agus Suwage’s major new body
- [Opening March 9- Edo Pop: The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints](https://acaw.info/opening-march-9-edo-pop-the-graphic-impact-of-japanese-prints/) - Japan Society March 9 – 31, 2013 Edo Pop playfully juxtaposes classic ukiyo-e prints from such masters as Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige with contemporary works inspired by these artists and their works. Delve into alluring worlds created by the power of Edo period and contemporary popular culture in which change is the only constant.
- [Opening March 9- Trailblazer: The Art of Shinoda Toko](https://acaw.info/opening-march-9-trailblazer-the-art-of-shinoda-toko/) - Japan Society March 9 – 31, 2013 Artist: Shinoda Toko Join Japan Society in honoring the centennial birthday of the granddame of Japanese art Shinoda Toko with a special display of her works. Hailed as a "trailblazer" by Time magazine, Shinoda broke the boundaries of old and new, word and image, and East and West.
- [Opening March 15- Danh Vo Exhibition](https://acaw.info/opening-march-15-danh-vo-exhibition/) - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum March 15–May 27, 2013 Artist: Danh Vo This exhibition is organized in honor of Danh Vo’s receipt of the Hugo Boss Prize. Vo is the ninth artist to receive the biennial award, having been selected by an international jury of curators in recognition of his significant contribution to contemporary art. Vo’s
- [Opening March 28- COMPOUND SOPHEAP PICH](https://acaw.info/opening-march-28-compound-sopheap-pich/) - Brookfield Place, Winter Garden March 28 – April 18, 2013 Artist: Sopheap Pich Compound is a large-scale installation by Sopheap Pich (b. 1971) that speaks to the recent, aggressive construction boom and the resulting depletion of natural resources in Phnom Penh. Comprising 83 voluminous bamboo and rattan grids and tubular modules, Compound’s reticulation echoes modern
- [May 2- TRANSPARENT STUDIO: TITH KANITHA and YIM MALINE](https://acaw.info/may-2-transparent-studio-tith-kanitha-and-yim-maline/) - Bose Pacia Open Studio: Thursday May 2, 2013, 5:00 – 8:00 pm Open Studio: Thursday May 2, 2013, 5:00 – 8:00 pm. As part of the popular First Thursdays DUMBO Gallery Walk, IN RESIDENCE artists Tith Kanitha (b. 1987) and Yim Maline (b. 1982) open their shared studio space at Bose Pacia Transparent Studio for
- [Opening April 10- Coloring Time—An Exhibition from the Archive of Korean-American Artists, 1955–1989: Part One](https://acaw.info/opening-april-10-coloring-time-an-exhibition-from-the-archive-of-korean-american-artists-1955-1989-part-one/) - Gallery Korea (Korean Cultural Service NY) April 10 - May 17, 2013 Group Show Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 10, 6 – 8 PM Through the partnership with the AHL Foundation’s project, “Archive of Korean-American Artists (AKAA),” the archival exhibition at Gallery Korea presents the foundation and history of nearly 30 Korean-American artists active in New
- [Opening April 18- RELIEFS SOPHEAP PICH](https://acaw.info/opening-april-18-reliefs-sopheap-pich/) - Tyler Rollins Fine Art April 18 - June 14, 2013 Artist: Sopheap Pich Opening Reception: Thursday, April 18, 6:00 – 8:00 pm In a solo exhibition of new works, Sopheap Pich (b. 1971) presents a focused series of orthogonal wall reliefs weighted with materials native to Cambodia’s land and history. Burlap, beeswax, charcoal, and earth
- [Opening May 30- Design-In](https://acaw.info/opening-may-30-design-in/) - Taipei Cultural Center of New York May 30 – June 28, 2013 Group Show Opening reception and artist's talk: Thursday, May 30, 6:30 - 8:00 pm Design is an important part of the society. It can stand alone as an individual art form; it can be a crossover art form integrated with all kinds of
- [Opening May 29- Plastic Memory 10022](https://acaw.info/opening-may-29-plastic-memory-10022/) - Gallery Korea (Korean Cultural Service NY) May 29 - July 19 Artists: Buhm Hong, Yusam Sung, Sun You, Hyungsub Shin, and Hong Seon Jang Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 29, 6 – 8 pm In collaboration with the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning and initiated by participating artist Hong Seon Jang, Gallery Korea presents works
- [DAY ALL: MAR 21-31, 2011](https://acaw.info/day-all-mar-21-31-2011/) - Monday, March 21 The Museum of Modern Art 7 pm: Dialogue with Artist + Screening Modern Mondays: An Evening with Mariam Ghani Brooklyn-based artist Mariam Ghani (b. 1978) examines the public and private narratives that construct and contest histories, places, and communities through projects that both deploy and question the strategies and forms of documentary,
- [DAY 11: MARCH 31, 2011](https://acaw.info/day-11-march-31-2011/) - Thursday, March 31 Closing Events Asia Art Archive at Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) 6:30 pm: Dialogue with Artists and Director + Screening From Jean-Paul Sartre to Teresa Teng: Contemporary Cantonese Art in the 1980s Directed by Asia Art Archive, 2010, 45 mins, Hong Kong, China. Based on primary research, rare film footage and
- [DAY 10: MARCH 30, 2011](https://acaw.info/day-10-march-30-2011/) - Wednesday, March 30 Asian Cultural Council at Location One 6:30 pm: Dialogue with Artists + Reception The Role of Artists in Local Spaces and Global Society Join us for a special discussion presented by Asian Cultural Council 2011 grantees/ contemporary artists from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, and Hong Kong. Artists Rahraw and Manizhah Omarzad (Afghanistan), Firoz
- [DAY 9: MARCH 29, 2011](https://acaw.info/day-9-march-29-2011/) - Tuesday, March 29 China Institute 6:30–8:00 pm: Dialogue with Artist Art Salon with Xiaoze Xie, interviewed by Robert Hobbs Xiaoze Xie combines his interest in Chinese history and current events with formal concerns by using materials from archives and library stacks as the subject of his paintings. His Chinese Library Series is not time-specific in
- [DAY 8: MARCH 28, 2011](https://acaw.info/day-8-march-28-2011/) - Monday, March 28 Asia Society and Museum 6:30 pm: Dialogue with Artists Ushio Shinohara and Tomokazu Matsuyama: Neo-Dada Mix / Remix Come hear a lively discussion about Japanese culture and history between New York-based artists Ushio Shinohara (b. 1932) and Tomokazu Matsuyama (b. 1976). Shinohara made his iconic status as a Neo-Dada artist in Japan
- [DAY 7: MARCH 27, 2011](https://acaw.info/day-7-march-27-2011/) - Sunday, March 27 Indo-American Arts Council 2–5 pm: Opening Reception Erasing Borders: Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora The eighth annual group exhibition organized by Indo-American Arts Council opens at the Queens Museum of Art to explore the contributions of 25 artists whose origins can be traced to the Indian subcontinent. Works in various mediums
- [DAY 6: MARCH 26, 2011](https://acaw.info/day-6-march-26-2011/) - Saturday, March 26 Bose Pacia 11 am - 6 pm: Exhibition Viewing Conundrum An exhibition featuring works in various media by some of the most active contemporary Indian artists today: Aditya Pande, Anita Dube, Arunkumar H.G., Raqs Media Collective, Mithu Sen, & Suhasini Kejriwal. Common in all works included is an aesthetic paradigm that explores
- [DAY 5: MARCH 25, 2011](https://acaw.info/day-5-march-25-2011/) - Friday, March 25 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 6:30 pm: Dialogue with Curators + Reception in Rotunda International Biennials In honor of ACAW 2011, three renowned curators will discuss artists and curatorial processes in recent international biennials. With David Elliott, Independent Curator and Artistic Director of Sydney Biennale 2010; Massimiliano Gioni, New Museum of Contemporary Art,
- [DAY 4: MARCH 24, 2011](https://acaw.info/day-4-march-24-2011/) - size: large;">Chambers Fine Art 6–8 pm: Opening Reception Layers: Recent Works by Xiaoze Xie In a dramatic series of paintings and an installation, Xiaoze Xie depicts stacks of Chinese books and newspapers to hint at the historical dimension of their recorded events. Xiaoze Xie is the Paul L. & Phyllis Wattis Professor in Art at
- [DAY 3: MARCH 23, 2011](https://acaw.info/day-3-march-23-2011/) - Wednesday, March 23 Signature Event ASIA SOCIETY AND MUSEUM 6:30 pm: Dialogue with Artists Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian Join us for ACAW's signature event to hear world-renowned artists Monir Farmanfarmaian discusses her life and art work with Melissa Chiu, Asia Society Museum Director. Recipient of the 1958 Venice Biennale's Gold Medal, Farmanfarmaian has exhibited internationally
- [DAY 2: MARCH 22, 2011](https://acaw.info/day-2-march-22-2011/) - Tuesday, March 22 SOTHEBY'S 6 pm: Dialogue with Artists + Book Launch + Reception Rashid Rana and Pooja Sood Sotheby’s hosts a dialogue on the contemporary art space in South Asia, with eminent artist Rashid Rana and Pooja Sood, the director of KHOJ. Honoring ACAW 2011, this discussion is held in conjunction with the New
- [DAY 1: MARCH 21, 2011](https://acaw.info/day-1-march-21-2011/) - Monday, March 21 The Museum of Modern Art 7 pm: Dialogue with Artist + Screening Modern Mondays: An Evening with Mariam Ghani Brooklyn-based artist Mariam Ghani (b. 1978) examines the public and private narratives that construct and contest histories, places, and communities through projects that both deploy and question the strategies and forms of documentary,
- [Panel + Reception - October 31st](https://acaw.info/panel-reception-october-31st-2/) - Artnet / LEAP Panel + Reception | Friday, October 31, 6 - 9 pm Art Publishing in Asia, as part of FIELD MEETING Robin Peckham of LEAP Magazine moderates a discussion on publishing as knowledge production vs. performance and the challenges of localizing and globalizing in running cosmopolitan publications. With artist Ian Cheng from Badlands
- [Film Screening - November 1st](https://acaw.info/film-screening-november-1st/) - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Film Screening | Saturday, November 1, 2014, 5 pm The Morning Time Disappeared Inspired by Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Wang Jianwei’s film follows a young man who moves to Beijing with fantasies of the future and undergoes a series of transformations. $8 for nonmembers / $6 for members > In conjunction with
- [Panel + Reception - October 31st](https://acaw.info/panel-reception-october-31st/) - Artnet / LEAP Panel + Reception | Friday, October 31, 6 - 9 pm Art Publishing in Asia, as part of FIELD MEETING Robin Peckham of LEAP Magazine moderates a discussion on publishing as knowledge production vs. performance and the challenges of localizing and globalizing in running cosmopolitan publications. With artist Ian Cheng from Badlands
- [Performance - November 3](https://acaw.info/performance-november-3/) - Times Square Arts / Queens Museum Performance | Monday, November 3, 2014, 11 am – 12 noon China-based art collective PSFO’s major public performance involving a group of people in repetitious cleaning efforts in Guangzhou and New York City to test the drive for collective organization as a phenomenon in different social climate. > In
- [ACAW Culmination Party - November 1st](https://acaw.info/acaw-culmination-party-november-1st/) - Queens Museum ACAW Culmination Party Saturday, November 1, 2014, 4 - 7 pm ACAW closes with the opening of three major exhibitions with artist walkthroughs. Polit-Sheer-Form Office (PSFO), a retrospective chronicling the boundary-blurring practices of the ever-elusive China-based art collective (artists Hong Hao, Xiao Yu, Song Dong, Liu Jianhua, and curator/critic Leng Lin); Out of
- [Public Viewing - October 31st](https://acaw.info/public-viewing-october-31st/) - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Friday, October 31, 2014, 10 am - 5:45 pm Wang Jianwei: Time Temple Beijing-based artist Wang Jianwei’s first solo-show in North America featuring installation, painting, film, and a live-theater production; a multi-faceted project steeped in history and social memory. $22 for nonmembers / free for members Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum >
- [In Conversation + Reception - October 30th](https://acaw.info/in-conversation-reception-october-30th/) - Japan Society In Conversation + Reception Thursday, October 30, 2014, 6:30 - 8:30 pm Future Now: Contemporary Art & Asia Gallery Director Miwako Tezuka speaks with Melissa Chiu, new Director of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, about her new role and perspective on contemporary Asian Art. $18 for nonmembers / $15 for
- [Closing Reception & Special Discussion - October 30th](https://acaw.info/closing-reception-special-discussion-october-30th/) - Shirin Gallery Conversation with the Artist and Reception Thursday, October 30, 6 - 9 pm Shirin Gallery NY will host an evening reception and conversation with their exhibiting artist, Farah Ossouli, who will be available for an informal question and answer session about her current exhibit, Wounded Virtue. Farah Ossouli was one of the first
- [Opening Reception - October 30th](https://acaw.info/opening-reception-october-30th-3/) - Tyler Rollins Fine Art Opening Reception | Thursday, October 30, 6 - 8 pm Heri Dono Internationally acclaimed Indonesian artist Heri Dono presents his contstructions of fantastic worlds, hybrid creatures, and oblique narratives through paintings, installations, sound, and performance works. Tyler Rollins Fine Art > MAP 529 W 20th Street, #10W (10th & 11th Ave.)
- [Opening Reception - October 30th](https://acaw.info/opening-reception-october-30th-2/) - Lombard Freid Gallery Opening Reception | Thursday, October 30, 6 - 8 pm Huguette Caland An exhibition of paintings by the Lebanese artist with a focus on her early works from the '70s and '80s, when erotic, abstract paintings and "body-part" landscapes were abound. Lombard Freid Gallery > MAP 518 West 19th Street (10th &
- [Artist in Conversation - October 29th](https://acaw.info/artist-in-conversation-october-29th-2/) - Rubin Museum of Art Artist in Conversation | Wednesday, October 29, 7 - 8 pm Francesco Clemente with Billie Tsien As part of Rubin Museum’s Clemente X8 Series, artist Francesco Clemente gets on stage with architect Billie Tsien and invites him to bring an object as the starting point for their freewheeling discussion. $45, for
- [Opening Reception - October 29th](https://acaw.info/opening-reception-october-29th-6/) - Ventana244 Gallery Opening Reception | Wednesday, October 29, 5 - 7:30 pm Lu Yang: Arcade This presentation of select videos is accompanied by an experimental retrospective titled Lu Yang: Arcade, which transforms the storefront of Wallplay (Delancey & Orchard) into a vintage arcade featuring interactive games, video installations, and a shop of bizarre objects. Ventana244
- [Public Viewing - October 28th](https://acaw.info/public-viewing-october-28th/) - Public Art Fund Public Viewing | All Hours Sui Jianguo The most significant outdoor presentation in the United States to date by the celebrated Chinese artist Sui Jianguo features four large-scale, cast bronze sculptures from a series beginning in 2008. Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park > MAP 233 Broadway (60th Street & 5th Ave.)
- [Announcement Reception - October 27th](https://acaw.info/announcement-reception-october-27th/) - The Armory Show Monday, October 27, 6:30 - 9 pm 2015 Focus Announcement Reception An annual reception announcing the fair’s much-anticipated 2015 Focus region and curator to select collectors, museum professionals, and press. The Sixth Edition of Armory Focus will showcase the strength, diversity and historical nature of Middle Eastern, North African and Mediterranean Art.
- [Performance - October 25th](https://acaw.info/performance-october-25th/) - Asia Society Museum Performance | Saturday, October 25, 8 - 9:30 pm Electric Imaginary Composer and artist DJ Spooky (Paul D. Miller) and guest artists pay homage to Nam June Paik with a virtual cello quartet/installation performance based on Paik’s early multimedia experiments. $25 for nonmembers / $20 for members / $22 students / seniors
- [Final Viewing - October 25th](https://acaw.info/final-viewing-october-25th-2/) - Tyler Rollins Fine Art Final Viewing | Saturday, October 25, 10 am - 6 pm E.R. (Endless Resurrection) Featuring Ronald Ventura's latest series of oil paintings that explore Filipino performative culture, the history of faith, and its manifestations in ritual, art, and the human body. > For more details on Ronald Ventura: E.R. (Endless Resurrection),
- [Final Viewing - October 25th](https://acaw.info/final-viewing-october-25th/) - Lombard Freid Gallery Final Viewing | Saturday, October 25, 10 am - 6 pm Cao Fei: La Town Featuring Beijing-based artist Cao Fei's latest stop-motion video installation- a film noir-esque reflection on the phantasmagorical realities of a fictional yet infinitely familiar locale. > For more details on Cao Fei: La Town, click here. Lombard Freid
- [Special Reception- October 24th](https://acaw.info/special-reception-october-24th/) - Asia Art Archive in America Friday, October 24, 7 - 10 pm A celebration honoring ACAW FIELD MEETING speakers, consortium members and participants. (By invitation only) Above: Haig Aivazian, To Neither Confirm Nor Deny that the Matter Neither Reflected Nor Absorbed Light, 2013. Lecture performance, approximately 60 minutes. Courtroom drawing by Elizabeth Williams, based on
- [Artist in Conversation / Film Screenings- October 24th](https://acaw.info/artist-in-conversation-film-screenings-october-24th/) - Rubin Museum of Art Friday, October 24 Artist in Conversation | 6:15 pm Film Screenings | 9:30 pm In conjunction with Francesco Clemente: Inspired by India exhibition, LA-based artist Sandeep Mukherjee discusses his works in relation to Clemente’s with curator Beth Citron, followed by a special screening of films selected by Clemente as part of
- [Garden of Unearthly Delights - Through Jan. 11th](https://acaw.info/garden-of-unearthly-delights-through-jan-11th/) - Japan Society Garden of Unearthly Delights Features the intricate allegorical paintings, installations, and digital works of three major artistic visionaries shaping Japanese art today: Manabu Ikeda, Hisashi Tenmyouya, and the art/technology collective teamLab. One-night complimentary admission. Japan Society > MAP 333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017 (1st & 2nd Aves.) Above: Manabu Ikeda,
- [V.S. Gaitonde: Painting as Process, Painting as Life - Through February 11](https://acaw.info/v-s-gaitonde-painting-as-process-painting-as-life-through-february-11/) - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Friday, October 24, 2014, 10 am - 5:45 pm V.S. Gaitonde: Painting as Process, Painting as Life A comprehensive retrospective of seminal colorist V.S. Gaitonde’s unparalleled career, offering a glimpse into Indian modern art in Bombay (now Mumbai) and New Delhi through the latter half of the 20th century. $22 for
- [Exhibition & Reception - October 23rd](https://acaw.info/exhibition-reception-october-23rd/) - ICI | Independent Curators International Thursday, October 23, 2014, 6:30 - 8 pm Project 35 Volume 2 Drawing from ICI’s international professional network, 35 curators are invited to each select one video work by an artist they consider important today. Tellingly, 13 of the artists in the exhibition are based in Asia, as are 10
- [Film Screening and Q&A - October 22nd](https://acaw.info/film-screening-and-qa-october-22nd/) - Asia Society Museum Film Screening and Q&A | Wednesday, October 22, 6:30 - 8:30 pm Nam June Paik & TV Lab: License to Create A documentary film highlighting Paik’s key role in TV Lab, a 1980s platform exploring TV as a medium. In conjunction with Becoming Robot, an exhibition exploring the artist’s visionary use of
- [Artist in Conversation - October 22nd](https://acaw.info/artist-in-conversation-october-22nd/) - Rubin Museum of Art Artist in Conversation | Wednesday, October 22, 7 - 8 pm Francesco Clemente with Eric Ripert As part of Rubin Museum’s Clemente X8 Series, artist Francesco Clemente gets on stage with visionary chef Eric Ripert and invites him to bring an object as the starting point for their freewheeling discussion. $45,
- [Opening Reception - October 22nd](https://acaw.info/opening-reception-october-22nd/) - Art Projects International Opening Reception | Wednesday, October 22, 6 - 8 pm Seokmin Ko: Strip Show South Korea-based artist Seokmin Ko’s new photography project Strip Show presents structures in various surroundings that reflect the way we occupy the physical world. Art Projects International > MAP 434 Greenwich St (Vestry & Laight St.) Above: Seokmin
- [ACAW LAUNCH PARTY - October 22nd](https://acaw.info/acaw-launch-party-october-22nd/) - Taymour Grahne Gallery / ArteEast Wednesday, October 22, 2014, 5 - 8:30 pm ACAW Launch Party Co-hosted in celebration of ACAW 2014, alongside Tarek Al-Ghoussein: K Files, the artist’s solo-debut in New York, which features self-portraits in iconic locations in his hometown Kuwait alongside a series that tracks his family history through documents circulating on
- [Opening Reception | October 29th](https://acaw.info/opening-reception-october-29th-5/) - Shirin Gallery Opening Reception | Thursday, October 29, 6 - 8 pm Bits and Pieces: Shaqayeq Arabi and Fereydoun Ave This two-person exhibition explores no- tions of transformation, intuition and the intersection of the urban and the natural. Both conceptual and beautiful, the work of these multidisciplinary artists engages with ideas of changing landscapes, often characterized sculpturally,
- [Opening Reception | October 29th](https://acaw.info/opening-reception-october-29th-4/) - Sundaram Tagore Gallery Opening Reception | Thursday, October 29, 6 - 8 pm REV | ACTION: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia This exhibition brings together work by nine of the region’s most groundbreaking artists. They use photography, video, painting, installation and textiles to articulate their experiences navigating the complex social and political climates of their communities.
- [ART TALK AND BENTO LUNCH | October 30th](https://acaw.info/art-talk-and-bento-lunch-october-30th/) - Japan Society Art Talk and Bento Lunch | Friday, October 30, 11:30am – 1:00pm In conjunction with For a New World, Curator Yasufumi Nakamori leads a special gallery conversation and tour of this exhibition featuring works by such luminaries as Miyako Ishiuchi, Daidō Moriyama, Jirō Takamatsu, and Shōmei Tomatsu,. $30 non-members/$25 members. Japan Society > MAP 333
- [Public Opening | October 30th](https://acaw.info/public-opening-october-30th/) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art Public Opening | Friday, October 30, 10 am - 9 pm Lee Mingwei: Sonic Blossom Lee Mingwei’s Sonic Blossom will transform The MET’s Contemporary Modern and Asian galleries into an intimate stage with personalized per- formances for ten days during museum hours. Lee’s concept for Sonic Blossom grew from his
- [Opening Reception | October 30th](https://acaw.info/opening-reception-october-30th/) - Owen James Gallery Opening Reception | Friday, October 30, 6 - 8 pm Dex Fernandez The Philippin-based graffiti artist Dex Fernandez combines the frenzied energy and speedy overall designs of his street murals and characters with digital photography to produce eccentrically decorated mixed media images and installations. Owen James Gallery > MAP 61 Greenpoint Ave
- [Conversation | November 6th](https://acaw.info/conversation-november-6th/) - Rubin Museum of Art Artists on Art: Beth Citron + Amanullah Mojadidi | Friday, November 6, 7:30 -8:30 pm In Conversation: Gary Indiana + Tracey Emin | Friday, November 6, 9:30 - 10:30 pm In conversation with Curator Beth Citron, known for his public art projects which explore Afghan politics and other cross-cultural identities, artist Amanullah Mojadidi will discuss his
- [Special Viewing | November 6th](https://acaw.info/special-viewing-november-6th-2/) - Asia Society Museum Special Viewing | Friday, November 6, 6 - 9 pm, Comp Admission Video Spotlight: Philippines Video Spotlight: Philippines marks the first presentation of contemporary Filipino video art. The exhibition is centered on the notion that the physical and cultural characteristics of a site are becoming less specific as our world becomes more
- [OPENING RECEPTION | NOVEMBER 7TH](https://acaw.info/opening-reception-november-7th/) - Bliss on Bliss Art Projects Opening Reception | Saturday, November 7, 1 - 5 pm Promdi Archipelago, Storm Children Curated by Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan. In celebration of Filipino American Heritage month, Promdi Archipelago is a group ex- hibition of diasporic artists’ works based in Paris, Brisbane and New York; reflecting experiences of migration and
- [FIELD MEETING – NOVEMBER 1ST](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-november-1st/) - ACAW Signature Program FIELD MEETING Take 3:Thinking Performance | Sunday, November 1, 10 am - 5 pm At Hunter College Art Galleries Conceived as a studio visit on a communal scale, this exclusive two-day forum will stage performances, talks and discussions by over 30 compelling creative minds to foreground the multiplicity and critical role of performance
- [Performance | NOVEMBER 4TH](https://acaw.info/performance-november-4th/) - ??? Performance | Wednesday, November 4 Performa Celebrating ten years since the founding of the Performa Biennial in 2005, Performa 15, will premiere new works by artists Robin Rhode (South Africa), Pauline Curnier Jardin (France/The Netherlands), Edgar Arceneaux (United States), and Erika Vogt (United States), Performa alums Jérôme Bel (France) and Jesper Just (Denmark) among
- [ACAW 2015 Kickoff Event | October 28TH](https://acaw.info/acaw-2015-kickoff-event-october-28th/) - Total Arts at Courtyard Special Reception | Wednesday, October 28, 7:30 - 9:30 pm ACAW 2015 Kickoff Event A celebration amidst an exquisite collection of art and objects in honor of ACAW FIELD MEETING speakers, consortium members, and participants. Generously sponsored by art collectors and directors of Dubai-based gallery Total Arts at Courtyard, Dariush Zandi
- [OPENING RECEPTION | October 28th](https://acaw.info/opening-reception-october-28th/) - Aicon Gallery Opening Reception | Wednesday, October 28, 6 - 8 pm Out of Place: Recent Works by Salman Tool Out of Place: Recent Works by Salman Toor Brooklyn-based Pakistani artist Toor, creates complex figurative paintings that deal with issues of identity delineated with Sufi poetry and Persio-Arabic alphabet. The dribbling gibberish texts within the
- [Reception with Artists | October 28th](https://acaw.info/reception-with-artists-october-28th/) - Art Projects International Reception with Artists | Wednesday, October 28, 6 - 8 pm Deceptively Simple: Pouran Jinchi, Il Lee, Richard Tsao Rarely seen reductive works by three renowned artists portray focused experiments with forms, symbols, and color, while simultaneously revealing elemental concerns manifested in their broader explorations of abstraction and artistic identity. Art Projects International
- [Opening Reception | OCTOBER 29TH](https://acaw.info/opening-reception-october-29th-3/) - Chambers Fine Art Opening Reception | Thursday, October 29, 6 - 8 pm GAMA: Idylls of the Kings The Berlin based Mongolia artist GAMA has a strong attachment to a broad cross-section of Western Old Master and Nineteenth century painting. The second solo exhibition within a year, the artist offers refreshing insights into the world of
- [CLOSING RECEPTION & OPEN STUDIO | OCTOBER 29TH](https://acaw.info/closing-reception-open-studio-october-29th/) - Doosan Gallery Closing Reception | Thursday, October 29th, 6 - 8 pm Na Kim Solo Exhibition Open Studio | Thursday, October 29th, 4 - 8 pm Jungki Beak, Na Kim, Hyein Lee An opportunity to interact with three Korean based artists who will open their studios to New York visitors. At the gallery, artist Na
- [OPENING RECEPTION | October 29th](https://acaw.info/opening-reception-october-29th-2/) - Tyler Rollins Fine Art Opening Reception | Thursday, October 29, 6 - 8 pm Sopheap Pich The Cambodia-based artist Sopheap Pich will debut his new series of Wall Structures, scaffolding-like grid forms that explore the rhythms of line and void, as well as works incorporating carved stone elements. These works reflects artist’s increasing interest in abstraction
- [OPENING RECEPTION | October 29th](https://acaw.info/opening-reception-october-29th/) - Ryan Lee Gallery Opening Reception | Thursday, October 29, 6 - 8 pm Kakyoung Lee：Sandy Skoglund & Alexander Ugay: Earth & Shape Selections of new video animations by the Brooklyn-based Korean artist Kakyoung Lee, built off of meticulous drypoints that explore movement and action of daily life as an artist, mother, and wife. Also on view
- [Exhibition&Performance | OCT 29](https://acaw.info/exhibitionperformance-oct-29/) - MoMA | Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Viewing & Lecture Performance | October 12, 2015 - January 31, 2016 Walid Raad Born in Lebanon and based in New York, this leading contemporary artist’s first major American survey includes 25 years of pho- tography, video & sculpture; Raad emphasiz- es the importance of performance, narrative, and
- [FIELD MEETING TAKE3 | OCT 31](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-take3-oct-31/) - ACAW Signature Program FIELD MEETING Take 3: Thinking Performance | Saturday, October 31, 10 am - 6 pm At the Metropolitan Museum of Art Conceived as a studio visit on a communal scale, this exclusive two-day fo- rum will stage performances, talks and discussions by over 30 compelling creative minds to foreground the multiplicity and
- [PANEL & RECEPTION | NOVEMBER 3RD](https://acaw.info/panel-reception-november-3rd/) - Artnet + Honolulu Biennial + ACAW Panel & Reception | Tuesday, November 3, 6 - 8:30 pm From the Pineapple to the Big Apple: Maika'i Tubbs in Conversation with Christiane Paul From the Pineapple to the Big Apple Honolulu Biennial launches its NYC Membership program, introducing the biennial’s inaugural plans, and an intriguing conversation between
- [Opening Reception | November 5th](https://acaw.info/opening-reception-november-5th/) - Ronin Gallery Opening Reception | Thursday, November 5, 6 - 8 pm Against Gravity: Cyoko Tamai The exhibition Against Gravity presents the newest work of Cyoko Tamai. As she combines unique techniques, a musical sensibility, and traditional Japanese materials, Tamai captures life in fleeting minutia. Ronin Gallery > MAP 425 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10017
- [Performance&Conversation | NOV 6](https://acaw.info/performanceconversation-nov-6/) - SCREEN + ACAW at SVA-CP Projects Space Live Performance | Friday, November 6, 7 pm Conversation | Friday, November 6, 8 pm I’m Making a Boy Band (IMMABB): Bora Kim, Karin Kuroda, Samantha Y. Shao and EXP This reverse-engineered K-Pop phenomenon will perform original singles followed by a conversation about cultural exports. A part of a series
- [Performance&Artist Talk | Nov 7](https://acaw.info/performanceartist-talk-nov-7/) - Brooklyn Museum in Collaboration with Ink Studio Performance & Artist Talk | Saturday, November 7, 7 - 9:30 pm Wang Dongling China's most renowned performance calligrapher will present a live rendition of the Heart Sutra, one of the most important texts in Buddhism, in his groundbreaking "chaos script." Followed by an artist talk in the
- [Artist Talk&Conversation | Nov 8](https://acaw.info/artist-talkconversation-nov-8/) - 456 Gallery (SCREEN + ACAW) Artist Talk & Conversation | Sunday, November 8, 6 pm / 7 pm Song Ta - So, You’re a Big Deal? Song’s work perverts administrative tactics like beauty contests, population censuses, or school tests—always twisting the official line but not overstepping it. A part of a series by SCREEN &
- [Performance&Artist Talk | Nov 8](https://acaw.info/performanceartist-talk-nov-8/) - Queens Museum Performance & Artist Talk | Sunday, November 8, 4 - 5 pm Casey Tang A dynamic multi-media presentation by the artist about his research into the historical and international spread of industrial capitalism, a conceptual basis for his latest filmic work Untitled (Rivers) (2015). With a live performance of the film’s score by composer Fernando Perez, followed
- [EXHIBITION VIEWING](https://acaw.info/exhibition-viewing-4/) - Jane Lombard Gallery Exhibition Viewing | October 22, 2015 - January 6, 2016 Squeak Carnwath Featuring works from the past 20 years, the artist’s signature style incorporates meticulously applied layers of oil paint with text, pat- terns, and images to create complex works that reveal her personal contemplations. Jane Lombard Gallery > MAP 518 West 19th
- [EXHIBITION VIEWING](https://acaw.info/exhibition-viewing-3/) - Queens Museum Exhibition Viewing | October 15, 2015 - February 28, 2016 Zhang Hongtu Spanning the late 1950s to the present, the first US survey of this China-born, Queens-based artist examines the impact of Western art and the psychologi- cal effect of Mao’s ghost on the artist. $8, $4 for students and seniors. Queens Museum >
- [EXHIBITION VIEWING](https://acaw.info/exhibition-viewing-2/) - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Exhibition Viewing | October 9, 2015 - January 6, 2016 Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting The artist’s first major retrospective in the United States explores the beauty and complexity of Burri’s process-based works. $25 General Admission, $18 students and seniors Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum > MAP 1071 5th Ave New
- [Prelude to ACAW 2015 | October 25th](https://acaw.info/prelude-to-acaw-2015-october-25th/) - Twelve Gates Arts（Philaldephia） Festival | Sunday, October 25, 5: 00pm Perform(art)ive A new performance art festival in the city of Philadelphia featuring a dynamic ensemble of artists whose work illuminate the South Asian-diasporic experience as well as the medium of performance art itself. Artists: Shazia Sikander, Monica Jahan Bose, Sumit Baudh, Qasim Riza Shaheen &
- [Performance | October 30th](https://acaw.info/performance-october-30th/) - Asia Society Performance | Friday, October 30, 8 - 9:30 pm Grace Nono and Ensemble A special concert in conjunction with the exhibition Philippine Gold: Treasures of Forgotten Kingdoms by one of the most renowned female vocalists in the Philippines, striving to champion traditional Filipino music & its presentation for a new generation. $22 members; $26
- [Panel Discussion | NOVEMBER 2ND](https://acaw.info/panel-discussion-november-2nd/) - Performa Hub Panel Discussion | November 2, 6:30 - 8:30 pm ACAW collaborated with Performa 15 in celebration of the Biennial’s 10th year of distinguished programming, for a special evening extension of FIELD MEETING: Thinking Performance, focused on lecture-performance as a medium. Introduced by Performa Curator-at-Large, Defne Ayas and led by ACAW Director Leeza Ahmady, the panel discussion
- [SCREENING & TALK | NOVEMBER 5TH](https://acaw.info/screening-talk-november-5th/) - ACAW at 599 West Screening / Conversation | Thursday, November 5, 6 - 8 pm An Evening with Jawshing Arthur Liou The acclaimed Taipei and Indiana based artist will speak to ACAW Director Leeza Ahmady about his extraordinary videos and films, which he calls mindscapes, rendered in 3D using recognizable imagery to create otherworldy spiritual sanctuaries. In the context of THINKING CURRENTS, Ahmady’s latest
- [Special Viewing | November 6th](https://acaw.info/special-viewing-november-6th/) - Japan Society Special Viewing Friday, October 30 & November 6, 6 - 9 pm, Comp Admission For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art And Photography, 1968-1979 In the wake of the social and political upheaval of the late 1960s, Japanese artists Miyako Ishiuchi, Daidō Moriyama, Jirō Takamatsu, and Shōmei Tōmatsu began crafting a new visual
- [BIENNIAL | NOVEMBER 1ST-22ND](https://acaw.info/biennial-november-1st-22nd/) - PERFORMA 15 Biennial | November 1 - 22, 2015 Encouraging new directions for live performance while paying homage to the form’s history & making way for its future, this year’s biennial artists include: Zheng Mahler, Simon Fujiwara, Juliana Huxtable, Robin Rhode, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Edgar Arceneaux, Erika Vogt, Jérôme Bel & Jesper Just, to name
- [EXHIBITION VIEWING](https://acaw.info/exhibition-viewing/) - MoMA | Museum of Modern Art Performance & Exhibition Viewing | October 12, 2015 - January 31, 2016 Walid Raad Born in Lebanon and based in New York, this leading contemporary artist’s first major American survey includes 25 years of pho- tography, video & sculpture; Raad emphasiz- es the importance of performance, narrative, and storytelling
- [SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13](https://acaw.info/shahzia-sikander-apparatus-of-power/) - Asia Society 6:30-8PM | Book Launch Shahzia Sikander: Apparatus of Power A conversation between Shahzia Sikander and curator and editor Claire Brandon, on the occasion of the launch of the exhibition catalogue, Shahzia Sikander: Apparatus of Power (Hong Kong: Asia Society, 2016), for Sikander’s 2016 solo exhibition at Asia Society's Hong Kong Center. Free admission,
- [WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 16](https://acaw.info/wednesday-november-16-2/) - Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Foundation 6:45pm | Artist Talk Hyong Nam Ahn An artist talk with Hyong Nam Ahn, who uses metal and neon light to create gestural sculptures and wall pieces vibrantly resonating with life and movement. Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Foundation > MAP 417 Lafayette St New York, NY 10003
- [FRIDAY NOVEMBER 4](https://acaw.info/friday-november-4-3/) - Twelve Gates Arts (Philadelphia) 6-8pm | Opening Reception I Bear Witness Narratives found in Matthew Hashiguchi’s documentary, Good Luck Soup, about the reintegration of Japanese Americans into US society post-incarceration, serve as palimpsest of events and fears resonant within time and space in America today, including the fears faced by immigrants, Muslim Americans, and others.
- [FIELD REVIEW : South Asia](https://acaw.info/field-review-south-asia-essay-1/) - Introduction Meenakshi Thirukode ______________________________________ Abstraction De-Constructed through the Lens of Post-Colonialism Achia Anzi Grasping at the Untold Jyoti Dhar Kumar Vaidya: Through the Lens of Erasure and Invisibility Meenakshi Thirukode Yasmin Jahan Nupur: Dancing in the Non-Spaces of Performance Zeenat Nagree The Poetics of Absence and Presence in Parul Gupta’s Art:
- [FIELD REVIEW: South Asia](https://acaw.info/field-review-south-asia-6/) - Introduction Meenakshi Thirukode ______________________________________ Abstraction De-Constructed through the Lens of Post-Colonialism Achia Anzi Grasping at the Untold Jyoti Dhar Kumar Vaidya: Through the Lens of Erasure and Invisibility Meenakshi Thirukode Yasmin Jahan Nupur: Dancing in the Non-Spaces of Performance Zeenat Nagree The Poetics of Absence and Presence in Parul Gupta’s Art:
- [FIELD REVIEW: South Asia](https://acaw.info/field-review-south-asia-4/) - Introduction Meenakshi Thirukode ______________________________________ Abstraction De-Constructed through the Lens of Post-Colonialism Achia Anzi Grasping at the Untold Jyoti Dhar Kumar Vaidya: Through the Lens of Erasure and Invisibility Meenakshi Thirukode Yasmin Jahan Nupur: Dancing in the Non-Spaces of Performance Zeenat Nagree The Poetics of Absence and Presence in Parul Gupta’s Art:
- [FIELD REVIEW: South Asia](https://acaw.info/field-review-south-asia-2/) - Introduction Meenakshi Thirukode ______________________________________ Abstraction De-Constructed through the Lens of Post-Colonialism Achia Anzi Grasping at the Untold Jyoti Dhar Kumar Vaidya: Through the Lens of Erasure and Invisibility Meenakshi Thirukode Yasmin Jahan Nupur: Dancing in the Non-Spaces of Performance Zeenat Nagree The Poetics of Absence and Presence in Parul Gupta’s Art:
- [FIELD REVIEW: South Asia](https://acaw.info/field-review-south-asia-3/) - Introduction Meenakshi Thirukode ______________________________________ Abstraction De-Constructed through the Lens of Post-Colonialism Achia Anzi Grasping at the Untold Jyoti Dhar Kumar Vaidya: Through the Lens of Erasure and Invisibility Meenakshi Thirukode Yasmin Jahan Nupur: Dancing in the Non-Spaces of Performance Zeenat Nagree The Poetics of Absence and Presence in Parul Gupta’s Art:
- [FIELD REVIEW: South Asia](https://acaw.info/field-review-south-asia-5/) - Introduction Meenakshi Thirukode ______________________________________ Abstraction De-Constructed through the Lens of Post-Colonialism Achia Anzi Grasping at the Untold Jyoti Dhar Kumar Vaidya: Through the Lens of Erasure and Invisibility Meenakshi Thirukode Yasmin Jahan Nupur: Dancing in the Non-Spaces of Performance Zeenat Nagree The Poetics of Absence and Presence in Parul Gupta’s Art:
- [FRIDAY OCTOBER 28](https://acaw.info/friday-october-28/) - Owen James Gallery 6-8pm | Opening Reception Nikki Luna: Play Ground Investigating the role of guns in violence against women, Philippines-based artist and activist Nikki Luna presents a series of cast resin lace sculptures, shaped from actual guns in past violent incidences. Their ghostly appearances act as shadows of the history, trauma, and prevailing issues
- [Wednesday November 16](https://acaw.info/wednesday-november-16/) - Asia Society 6:30-8:30PM | Discussion Remembering the Future: Reflecting on the Legacy of Asia Society Museum's Contemporary Art Exhibitions This panel celebrates Asia Society's longstanding commitment to contemporary Asian art by bringing together participants from "Contemporary Art in Asia: Traditions/Tensions" (1997) and "Inside Out: New Chinese Art" (1998) to discuss the legacy of these landmark
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-22/) - Sarah Rifky
- [MONDAY NOVEMBER 14](https://acaw.info/monday-november-14/) - SCREEN 6:30pm-9pm | Premiere & Artist Talk Zhao Zhao: Project Taklamakan In October 2015, Zhao Zhao worked on Project Taklamakan in Xinjiang for 23 days. He and a thirty-strong team traveled 4,000 kilometers with a 100-kilometer-long 4 core cable and a refrigerator from Beijing to the town of Luntai on the north end of the
- [SATURDAY OCTOBER 22](https://acaw.info/thursday-october-22/) - ArteEast + ACAW + Columbia University School of Architecture 4-6pm | Artists Talk / Conversation An Evening with Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti: Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency A conversation on the intersections of art, architecture, and pedagogy with Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti. The two will discuss their experiences working with refugees and exploring ways
- [FRIDAY OCTOBER 21](https://acaw.info/friday-october-21/) - Museum of Modern Art 4-8pm | Exhibition Viewings (Comp Friday Night Entry) Teiji Furuhashi: Lovers Reena Kallat’s Woven Chronicle, as part of Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter 7:00pm | Screening: Tomu Uchida Major installations include: Japanese artist Teiji Furuhashi's Lovers, and Reena Sainin Kallat's Woven Chronicle, as part of Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter. The
- [FRIDAY OCTOBER 14](https://acaw.info/friday-october-14/) - Japan Society 6-9 pm | Opening Reception & Artist Talk Simon Starling: At Twilight In celebration of exhibition’s opening, the Turner Prize recipient will discuss W. B. Yeats’s culturally hybrid dance play At the Hawk’s Well, and other early 20th-century artistic collaborations that inspired Starling to create his expansive Noh theater installation. Followed by an
- [FRIDAY OCTOBER 7](https://acaw.info/friday-october-7/) - Museum of Modern Art 5:30-9pm | Special Viewings (Comp Friday evening admission) Asia-related exhibitions include Japanese artist Teiji Furushashi’s immersive installation Lovers, and Moroccan-French artist Bouchra Khalili’s representation of complex networks of migration, The Mapping Journey Project, Indian artist Reena Saini Kallat’s Woven Chronicle as part of Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter plus screenings of
- [THURSDAY NOVEMBER 17](https://acaw.info/thursday-november-10/) - Sundaram Tagore Gallery 6-8pm | Opening Reception Ricardo Mazal: Violet A new series of refined color studies by Ricardo Mazal, one of Mexico’s most prominent contemporary artists. These highly distilled, abstract works build on the artist's earlier explorations of spiritual themes. Sundaram Tagore Gallery > MAP 547 W 27th Street New York, NY 10001
- [FRIDAY NOVEMBER 11](https://acaw.info/friday-november-11/) - Rubin Museum 6-10pm | Public Opening (Comp "K2 Friday Night" Admission) Sacred Spaces: Himalayan Wind An eighteen-channel audio installation by Soundwalk Collective called Himalayan Wind, transports visitors to the high Himalayas for an immersive and meditative experience. Soundscapes from the world’s highest monasteries in Mustang, Nepal are complemented by a traditional shrine and video of
- [FRIDAY NOVEMBER 4](https://acaw.info/friday-november-4/) - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 10am-5pm | Exhibition Viewing Tales of Our Time 4pm | Lecture A heterogeneous view of Chinese contemporary art, exploring tensions between individual narratives and the constructions of mainstream history. Featuring newly commissioned, large-scale works by five artists, an artists’ group, and a collaborative duo working across a variety of mediums, unified
- [SATURDAY OCTOBER 1](https://acaw.info/saturday-october-1-2/) - MELA Foundation 9pm | Performance Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest X As part of Jung Hee Choi’s mesmerizing solo exhibition, Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest X, three live performances of Tonecycle for Blues Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Ensemble Version with 4:3 and 7:6 will be performed by her Sundara All-Star Band, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Jung
- [Consortium Partner Exhibitions in Asia](https://acaw.info/consortium-partner-exhibitions-in-asia/) - Asia-based Venues AB/ANBAR (Tehran) At 11:57 am Wednesday 23 October 2013 Exhibition | Through October 7th Showcasing Reza Aramesh's explorations on the role that images of violence play, articulated from the vantage point of a single event. The result is not the work of a documentarian, but rather an intervention on the history of
- [FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18](https://acaw.info/friday-november-18/) - Asia Society 2:30-6pm | Symposium + Reception Asian Abstractions/ Global Contexts Presented in conjunction with the exhibition No Limits: Zao Wou-Ki and co-organized with Colby College Museum of Art, this symposium considers the significant contributions of Zao Wou-Ki and other diasporic East Asian artists to the international abstraction movement during the middle of the twentieth
- [WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 28](https://acaw.info/acaw-kickoff-party-tba/) - ACAW Mid-Season Kickoff Reception 6:30-9pm | Hosted by Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Foundation This reception celebrates Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW)’s 11th edition at the loft-studios of beloved late artists Po Kim (Korean-born 1917-2014) and Sylvia Wald (American-born 1915-2011) - a space that is the living legacy of their intercultural East-West dialogues spanning
- [TUESDAY OCTOBER 25](https://acaw.info/tuesday-october-25/) - Roya Khadjavi Projects 6-9pm | Opening Reception States of Being in Abstract A collection of abstract and minimalist paintings, photography and mixed media works by 3 emerging artists living in Iran and in the Iranian diaspora. Dana Nehdaran focuses on the degradation of materials with water as inspired by his exploration of New York City;
- [TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 27](https://acaw.info/tuesday-september-27/) - Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU A Tale of Two Islands: Beatrice Glow 5:45pm | Garden Blessing & Tree Planting Performance 6:30pm | Lecture-Performance Join Glow to celebrate her residency at A/P/A Institute NYU with a performative tree planting in NYU's Native Woodland Gardens and a new lecture-performance, based on her research of the social history of
- [Wednesday OCTOBER 12](https://acaw.info/26958-2/) - Reversible Destiny Foundation + ACAW 6:30-8:30PM | Panel Discussion with Reception Points of Convergence: Arakawa and the Art of 1960s–1970s Distinguished panelists Dr. Charles Haxthausen, Naoto Nakagawa, and Dr. Reiko Tomii discuss how the art and philosophy of Arakawa (who had moved to New York from Japan in 1961), along with many other Japanese artists
- [TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 20](https://acaw.info/tuesday-september-20/) - Aicon Gallery 6-8pm | Opening Reception Geometry and Symmetry | New Works by Rasheed Araeen A pioneering artist and voice for alternative and Non-Western interpretations of Minimalist and Conceptual art in the 1960s and 70s, Araeen’s work in this exhibition spans his oeuvre from his beginnings in Pakistan and London to the present day. This
- [WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 28](https://acaw.info/saturday-september-28/) - Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Foundation 6-8pm | Opening Reception Luminescence Immerse in the three-dimensional light installations and other media works by six established and emerging Korean artists, illuminating the ever-changing balance of light and energy to comment on the contrasts of the physical and spiritual, the urban and the rural, and other matters of
- [THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 15](https://acaw.info/thursday-september-15-2/) - Sundaram Tagore Gallery 6-8pm | Opening Reception Sohan Qadri A solo exhibition of works by the artist, poet and Indian-born Tantric guru, best known for his rhythmic, vibrantly-colored minimalist paintings suffused with Tantra symbolism and philosophy. Sundaram Tagore Gallery > MAP 547 W 27th St New York, NY 10001 Above: Sohan Qadri, Puskara II,
- [THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 22 & FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 23](https://acaw.info/thursday-september-22-friday-september-23/) - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Symposium Day 1 | 5pm Day 2 | 2pm (De)Coupling as Discourse on The Global South
- [THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 15](https://acaw.info/thursday-september-15/) - Tyler Rollins Fine Art 6-8pm | Opening Reception 7pm | Performance Arahmaiani: Shadow of the Past Highlighting Arahmaiani’s new projects in Indonesia, Germany, and Tibet; one of Indonesia’s most iconic contemporary artists, whose multi-faceted practice incorporates performance art and a wide variety of media to relentlessly probe socio-political issues of gender, spirituality, ecology, and more.
- [SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 18](https://acaw.info/saturday-september-18/) - Queens Museum of Art 3-6pm | Opening Reception Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art A comprehensive overview of five decades of work by New York based artist and pioneer of feminist performance art Mierle Laderman Ukeles, a figure that has transformed notions of public art on a global scale. Ukeles has created public sculptures with waste
- [WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 14](https://acaw.info/wednesday-september-14/) - DAG Modern 6-9pm | Opening Reception Memory and Identity: Indian Artists Abroad Considering Indian artists who have opted to live overseas, and how memory and identity play into their processes. The exhibition weighs the impact that cultural origins and current environments have on the selected artists works, as well as how they are perceived by
- [TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 20](https://acaw.info/tuesday-september-20-2/) - MELA Foundation 2pm-12am | Installation Viewing Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest X In a solo exhibition, Jung Hee Choi displays large-scale multimedia installations. Choi has presented series of environmental compositions with video, evolving light-point patterns, drawings, incense, performance and sound involving the concept of "Manifest, Unmanifest". Her synthesis of expression in this series collectively creates an
- [SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 24 & SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 25](https://acaw.info/saturday-september-24-sunday-september-25/) - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Performance Day 1 | 11am, 1pm & 3pm Day 2 | 11am, 1pm & 4:30pm Choreographies of Power
- [Monday September 12](https://acaw.info/tuesday-september-12/) - Asia Society 6-9pm | Exhibition Viewing Reception 6:30-7:30pm | Lecture No Limits: Zao Wou-Ki The first U.S. retrospective for the Chinese-French artist Zao Wou-Ki. Considered one of the first superstar artists of the Chinese diaspora, Zao’s paintings and works on paper combine the visual poetry of Chinese art with twentieth-century oil-painting, making him a pioneer
- [THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 22](https://acaw.info/thursday-september-22/) - Art Projects International 6-8pm | Opening Reception IL LEE: New Paintings and 40 Years in New York Celebrating his 40 years in New York City, Korean-American artist Il Lee presents his most recent ballpoint works along with a special selection from the 1970s. The exhibition contextualizes the range of gesture and movements he has developed
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- [SATURDAY OCTOBER 1](https://acaw.info/saturday-october-1/) - Museum of Modern Art 10:30am-5pm | Exhibition Viewing Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter Featuring a major installation by Mumbai-based artist Reena Saini Kallat, Woven Chronicle (2015), alongside works by many other artists, architects, and designers who respond to the complex circumstances brought about by forced displacement, this exhibition focuses on conditions that disrupt conventional images
- [TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 27](https://acaw.info/tuesday-september-27-2/) - Ronin Gallery Opening Reception OZ : Paintings from New York Ronin Globus Artist in Residence, Keisuke Yamaguchi (OZ), expresses a nuanced sensibility towards his environment in his paintings of New York—depicting a range of sites, from Central Park to Fire Island, Madison Avenue to Upstate—with improvisation and skill. Ronin Gallery > MAP 425 Madison
- [THURSDAY NOVEMBER 17](https://acaw.info/thursday-november-17/) - Doosan Gallery 6-8pm | Opening Reception Solo Exhibition of Eunsil Lee Using traditional Korean materials and compositions, Seoul-based artist, Eunsil Lee, casts delicate brush strokes on paper as a form of liberation from tabooed stories of sex and desire. Doosan Gallery > MAP 533 W 25th Street New York, NY 10001 Above:Eunsil Lee,
- [THURSDAY OCTOBER 27](https://acaw.info/thursday-october-27/) - Ronin Gallery 5:30-8pm | Opening Reception True Colors: Sebastian Masuda The ambassador of kawaii culture, Sebastian Masud, invites viewers to trade the gray scale of daily life for a vibrant spectrum of color. Through dynamic multimedia collages, the immersive exhibition extols Masuda’s message of ‘colorful rebellion’ against the disharmony of our current social environment.
- [THURSDAY OCTOBER 20](https://acaw.info/thursday-october-20/) - Aicon Gallery 6-8pm | Opening Reception Solo Exhibition by Anila Quayyum Agha In a series of new mixed-media work, Pakistani artist Anila Quayyum Agha continues to produce conceptually challenging, complicated weaves of thought, artistic action and social experience to consider global politics, mass media, and gender roles. Aicon Gallery, New York > MAP 35
- [THURSDAY OCTOBER 13](https://acaw.info/thursday-october-13/) - Sundaram Tagore Gallery 6-8pm | Opening Reception Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan The Brisbane-based, Filipino husband-and-wife duo Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan present their first solo show in New York, with large-scale installations that reflect their migratory experiences and explore themes of displacement, change, memory and community. Sundaram Tagore Gallery > MAP 547 W 27th Street
- [SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 25](https://acaw.info/sunday-september-25/) - Queens Museum of Art 1-4pm | Discussion Artist in/of the City as part of Talks at the Peace Table Moderated by Tom Finkelpearl, Commissioner of New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, with Mierle Laderman Ukeles - a roundtable discussion with activists, artists, city workers and other experts from around the country exploring artist residencies
- [SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 11](https://acaw.info/sunday-september-11/) - Sotheby's 2pm | Lecture Introduction to The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Paintings by Dr. Claudia Brown of the Phoenix Art Museum Dr. Claudia Brown of the Phoenix Art Museum will discuss The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Paintings, which features more than 120 lots and reflects over two decades of
- [FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 9](https://acaw.info/friday-september-9/) - Sotheby's Exhibitions Viewings and Auctions (September 9-17, Various Times) Important Chinese Art Chinese Art Through the Eye of Sakamoto Gorō: Early Chinese Art The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Paintings Fine Classical Chinese Paintings & Calligraphy Saturday at Sotheby’s: Asian Art Sotheby’s presents over 1,000 works of art representing over 4,000 years of
- [THURSDAY OCTOBER 6](https://acaw.info/thursday-october-6/) - Museum of Chinese in America 11am-9pm | Exhibition Viewing (Comp First Thursday Entry) Sour, Sweet, Bitter, Spicy: Stories of Chinese Food & Identity in America Set in an immersive installation, this exhibition weaves together a tapestry of tales, rich with the oral histories of home cooks’ immigrant experiences, food memories, favorite dishes and cooking inspirations
- [SATURDAY OCTOBER 8](https://acaw.info/saturday-october-8/) - Metropolitan Museum of Art 5:30-9pm | Exhibition Viewings (Extended Hours) Poetry and Devotion in Indian Painting: Two Decades of Collecting Celebrating the Arts of Japan: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the Metropolitan Collection Visit the Met for Asia-related exhibitions this October: the newly-mounted exhibition of Rajput and Pahari paintings, Poetry
- [WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 30](https://acaw.info/friday-september-30/) - Museum of Modern Art 4-8pm | Special Viewings (Complementary Friday Night Entry) Solo Exhibition | Teiji Furushashi: Lovers Solo Exhibition | Bouchra Khalili: The Mapping Journey Project 7:30 pm | Feature Film Screening | Pema Tseden’s Tharlo Asia-related exhibitions and screenings at MoMA this September include: Japanese artist Teiji Furushashi’s immersive installation Lovers; Moroccan-French artist
- [MONDAY OCTOBER 3](https://acaw.info/monday-october-3/) - Asia Society 6:30pm | Discussion Treasures of Asian Art: New Perspectives on Traditional Collections In conjunction with the museum’s revised and expanded catalogue, co-author Adriana Proser and senior curator John H. Foster discuss how Asia Society’s traditional collections have evolved since 1979, and how research has altered our understanding of the original Rockefeller collection.
- [THURSDAY OCTOBER 13](https://acaw.info/thursday-october-13-2/) - Doosan Gallery 6-8pm | Opening Reception Solo Exhibition of Jae Young Park Based on his in-depth contemplations on human cognitive systems, Jae Young Park produces narratives that lie between reality and fiction to create “fabricated evidences”. Doosan Gallery > MAP 533 W 25th Street New York, NY 10001 Above: Jae Young Park, "Bokaisen
- [THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 8](https://acaw.info/opening-reception-september-8/) - Chambers Fine Arts 6-8pm | Opening Reception Ten Thousand Things: New Works by Wu Jian'an Inspired by German art historian Lothar Ledderose’s book on the production of Chinese art throughout history, Wu’s four-piece installation brilliantly explores traditional Chinese paper cut techniques to reveal this material’s seemingly boundless creative capabilities. Chambers Fine Arts > MAP
- [SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13](https://acaw.info/sunday-november-13/) - Philadelphia Museum of Art 10am-5pm | Exhibition Viewing Jitish Kallat: Covering Letter Mumbai-based artist Jitish Kallat debuts his immersive installation of the historical correspondence written by Mahatma Gandhi to Adolf Hitler in 1939. Projected onto a curtain of traversable fog, his scrolling words retain contemporary resonance in the need for peace and tolerance. Philadelphia
- [FRIDAY NOVEMBER 4](https://acaw.info/friday-november-4-2/) - Lisson Gallery 6-8pm | Opening Reception Ai Weiwei: Roots and Branches Ai Weiwei’s felled, cast-iron tree trunks and iron root sculptures populate the gallery space, creating a forest of displaced objects. Situated among the beams of the High Line, the works reflect the artist’s interest in tradition and contemporaneity, as well as the prevalence of
- [FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 2](https://acaw.info/friday-september-2/) - Twelve Gates Arts (Philadelphia) 6:30-8:30pm | Opening Reception Madad: Amina Ahmed Madad is a prayerful invocation—a supplication made with the intention of seeking Divine grace. In her latest series of drawings, Amina Ahmed uses pattern and geometry as tools for “re-rememberance,” to find grace and hope in the midst of the many acts of inhumanity
- [FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 16](https://acaw.info/friday-september-16-2/) - Owen James Gallery 6-8pm | Opening Reception PHUNK A series of color screen-prints by PHUNK, a 4-person artist collective from Singapore, in collaboration with Tanaami, one of Japan’s most important post-war artists. The exhibition represents a merging of two distinct practices- illustrative and design principles in popular culture. Owen James Gallery > MAP 61 Greenpoint
- [SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 10](https://acaw.info/saturday-september-10/) - Ryan Lee Gallery 4-6pm | Opening Reception The City & The City Inspired by China Miéville’s sci-fi noir novel The City & The City, Mariam Ghani’s latest video depicts a city so divided it becomes two separate countries, geographically crosshatched together despite their political and economic differences. Ryan Lee Gallery > MAP 515 West
- [MONDAY OCTOBER 17](https://acaw.info/monday-october-17/) - Asia Society 6:30pm | Panel Discussion Performing Asia: Legacy of Performing Arts at the Asia Society In celebration of 60 years of performing arts and collaborations with over a thousand world-renowned Asian artists, Rachel Cooper, Director of Global Performing Arts and Cultural Initiatives, shares the Asia Society’s rich history of performances and its impact on
- [FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 16](https://acaw.info/friday-september-16-3/) - Ronin Gallery 5:30-8pm | Harvest Moon Party The 100 Views of the Moon In honor of the Harvest Moon, take a glimpse into the fantastical realms of legendary Japanese artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, whose enchanted scenes depict half-glimpsed apparitions, blurring reality with illusion. Ronin Gallery > MAP 425 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor. New York, NY 10017
- [FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 16](https://acaw.info/friday-september-16/) - Rubin Museum of Art 6-9pm | Public Opening Monumental Lhasa: Fortress, Palace, Temple Experience central Tibet’s most iconic monuments and sacred sites with over fifty rare drawings, paintings, and photographs exploring how landmarks have shaped the holy capital’s stories, memories, and identity through historical and contemporary eyes. Rubin Museum of Art > MAP 150 West
- [SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 10](https://acaw.info/saturday-september-10-2/) - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Performance Debriefing Session II by Public Movement Held at a secret location in the museum typically off-limits to the public, this performance presents research on modern art made in Palestine before 1948. Various dates and times from September 10 through October 1. Booking required at guggenheim.org/calendar. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- [THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 8](https://acaw.info/thursday-september-8/) - Doosan Gallery 6-8pm | Opening Reception Solo Exhibition of Hyeonkyeong You Through minimal outlines and forms, Seoul-based artist Hyeonkyeong You renders figures and scenes in bold brush strokes that infiltrate the inner-worlds and unspoken emotions of her subjects. Doosan Gallery > MAP 533 West 25th Street New York, NY 10011 Above: Hyeonkyeong You, "Hot",
- [Exhibitions & Programs in Asia](https://acaw.info/exhibitions-programs-in-asia-change-title/) - Asia-Based Venues ALSERKAL AVENUE (Dubai) Vikram Divecha: Warehouse Project Exhibition | Through June 11th Vikram Divecha’s “Warehouse Project” blurs the distinction between Alserkal Avenue as a cultural community and the industrial area that surrounds it, conflating art, commerce and commodities. The artist has bartered the exhibition space given to him with a general trading
- [THINKING CURRENTS Participating Artist: Monira AL QADIRI](https://acaw.info/thinking-currents-participating-artistmonira-al-qadiri/) - Monira AL QADIRI (Kuwait City & Tokyo) SOAP, 2014, single-channel video, color, sound, 8:10 min. The figure of a maid is superimposed onto scenes from Gulf-region television dramas, creating a depiction of reality generally erased from representations of popular culture and the central role that South Asian migrant workers play in maintaining daily life in
- [THINKING CURRENTS Participating Artist: Patty CHANG](https://acaw.info/thinking-currents-participating-artist-patty-chang/) - Patty CHANG (Boston) Invocation for a Wandering Lake Part 1, 2014, single-channel video, color, sound, 12'47". Using water as a medium of politics and poetics, the artist gently bathes the corpse of a beached sperm whale, and an abandoned ship, in an act of ablution and mourning; a meditation on the detrimental environmental effects and
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PRACTICE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-practice-27/) - Natasa Petresin-Bachelez
- [Summer Consortium Exhibitions & Programs](https://acaw.info/summer-consortium-exhibitions-programs/) - New York City Venues ARTEEAST Nature is Our Body Spring 2016 Issue | ARTEZINE The spring issue of ArteZine sets out to explore a series of artistic and cultural practices from Turkey and the Middle East that critically engage with the Earth’s resilience in regenerating our relationship with its vital resources, such as land,
- [11th Edition of ACAW (2016)](https://acaw.info/the-11th-edition-of-acaw-2016/) - In its 11th edition, Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) expands beyond its usual format to captivate the momentous energy of the field through a season-long platform of cutting-edge exhibitions, innovative projects and provocative dialogues at leading museums and galleries citywide, Fall 2016 (Sep 12 - Nov 18), culminating in ACAW signature program FIELD MEETING and other
- [Spring Consortium Exhibitions & Programs](https://acaw.info/consortium-member-exhibitions-programs-march-2016/) - New York City Venues ASIA SOCIETY MUSEUM In and Out of Context: Asia Society Celebrates the Collections at 60 Ongoing An exhibition that juxtaposes the museum’s historical and contemporary collections to play with the notion of context, and trigger new ways of considering artworks and the people that produce them, both past and
- [FALL 2013 • Consortium Exhibitions](https://acaw.info/2013-2014-•-exhibitions-on-view/) - FALL 2013 EXHIBITIONS______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ FALL 2013 PUBLIC PROGRAMS______________________________________________________________________________________ DECEMBER ______________________________________________________________________________________ China Institute • LectureDecember 13 ______________________________________________________________________________________ NOVEMBER ______________________________________________________________________________________ Asia Society • Film ScreeningNovember 22 Asia Society • Film ScreeningNovember 20 Japan Society • LectureNovember 15 Asia Society • Film ScreeningNovember 15 Japan Society • PerformanceNovember 13 Asia Society • Film ScreeningNovember 12 Tyler Rollins Fine
- [ACAW 2013](https://acaw.info/intro-acaw-2011/) - In 2013 ACAW extended beyond its usual format to introduce a year-round web campaign to capture the exceptional contemporary Asia-specific programs and exhibitions planned by ACAW Consortium Members on an ongoing basis. &nbsp FALL 2013 EXHIBITIONS__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ FALL 2013 PUBLIC PROGRAMS__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DECEMBER __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ China Institute • LectureDecember 13 __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ NOVEMBER __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Asia Society • Film
- [EXHIBITIONS](https://acaw.info/program-schedule/) - Exhibitions On View FEBRUARY • MARCH • APRIL • MAY MAY May 29 – July 19 Gallery Korea | Plastic Memory 10022 May 30 – June 28 Taipei Cultural Center NY | Design-In APRIL April 18 - June 14 Tyler Rollins Fine Art | Reliefs: Sopheap Pich April 10 - May 17 Gallery Korea |
- [FIELD MEETING: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-thinking-performance/) - Natasha Ginwala (Berlin & New Delhi) Bodyspaces In her talk at ACAW's extension of FIELD MEETING Take 3: Thinking Performance at Performa Hub, Natasha Ginwala shared various approaches of performance and performativity that have influenced and infused her curatorial projects. >> See all presenters' profiles Top right: My East is Your West, a Collateral Event
- [Discussion Session Day 2](https://acaw.info/discussion-session-day-2/) - Session 1 Led by Arash Fayez and Leeza Ahmady: Nora Taylor, Zeynep Kayan, Vibha Galhotra, Christopher Ho Session 2 Led by Xiaoyu Weng and Yan Xing: Tang Dixin, Liu Ding, Double Fly Art Center & Fu Xiaodong
- [Discussion Sessions Day 1 ](https://acaw.info/discussion-sessions-day-1/) - Session 1 Leeza Ahmady, Anthony Lee, Ming Wong, Holland Cotter, Defne Ayas, Ištvan Išt Huzjan Session 2 Leeza Ahmady, Bingyi, Sislej Xhafa, Yan Xing, Jeff Cylkowski, Nezaket Ekici Session 3 Leeza Ahmady, Shuddha Sengupta, Arash Fayez, Aman Mojadidi, Lantian Xie, Tang Dixin, Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker
- [Natasha GINWALA](https://acaw.info/natasha-ginwala/) - Natasha GINWALA: ACAW FIELD MEETING ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Natasha GINWALA Natasha Ginwala is an independent curator, researcher, and writer. She was the curatorial advisor and Public Programmes curator for the Gujral FoundationdationGujraMy East is Your West y East is Your Westral FoundationFoundationriter. She was the curatorial advi8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary
- [ACAW 2015-LEE MINGWEI: SONIC BLOSSOM & FIELD MEETING TAKE 3: THINKING PERFORMANCE](https://acaw.info/acaw-2015-participation-details/) - ASIA CONTEMPORARY ART WEEK (ACAW) KICKS OFF ITS 10TH EDITION ON OCTOBER 28TH 2015 With citywide exhibitions, receptions, performances, screenings, and other evening festivities, alongside two ACAW signature programs: Lee Mingwei’s Sonic Blossom at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 30th – November 8th & FIELD MEETING Take 3: Thinking Performance, October 31st and November
- [back up page-Edited 9/28](https://acaw.info/back-up-page-edited-916/) - In its 10th edition (October 28–November 8, 2014), ACAW brings together over 35 art institutions to present cutting-edge exhibitions, innovative projects and festivities citywide, in addition to organizing two signature programs: Sonic Blossom, by Lee Mingwei- a powerful 10-day performance exhibition transcending personalities, borders and time, in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and
- [THINKING CURRENTS Participating Artist: Alexander UGAY ](https://acaw.info/thinking-currents-participating-artist-alexander-ugay/) - Alexander UGAY (Almaty) Earth & Shape, 2013-2014, single-channel video, color, sound, 16'47" A video-collage combining disparate architectural landscapes from different cities (Astana, Karaganda, Almaty, Tashkent, St Petersburg, Seoul, Istanbul, Sophia) onto a single plane, disregarding notions of east-west and north-south to relate to a more-personal mental geography that resists shape. Giant, phantomlike figures appear, eerily
- [Discussion Sessions during FIELD MEETING](https://acaw.info/discussion-sessions-during-field-meeting/) - Day 1 / Session 1 / Discussion and Q& A: A Look Back at ACAW FIELD MEETING October 26th, 2014 New York City Tom Finkelpearl,New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Commissioner, and artists: Alexis Destoop, Yu Cheng-Ta, Lamia Joreige, and Heri Dono > Watch Day 1 Discussion of Session 1 at FIELD MEETING 2014 Discussion
- [Bavand BEHPOOR](https://acaw.info/bio-bavand-behpoor/) - Unfortunately, due to lengthy visa processing time, the artist was not able to travel to New York in time to participate. _______________________________________________________________ Bavand Behpoor (b. 1980 Shiraz / Munich / London) is an art theorist, artist and critic based in Munich. After completing his M.Arch degree at Shiraz University, he pursued MA in Contemporary Art Theory
- [JAPAN SOCIETY | International Art Project ](https://acaw.info/japan-society-international-art-project/) - Japan Society International Art Project by Sebastian Masuda On view through September 13, 2015 Artist: Sebastian Masuda Visitors to Midtown East may see a familiar, friendly feline on the edge of Dag Hammarskjold Plaza on the corner of 47th Street and Second Avenue. Artist Sebastian Masuda, in collaboration with Japan Society, Friends of Dag Hammarskjold Plaza,
- [THINKING CURRENTS Participating Artist:Tiffany CHUNG](https://acaw.info/thinking-currents-participating-artisttiffany-chung/) - Tiffany CHUNG (Ho Chi Minh City) The great simplicity thousands of years before and after, 2012, split-screen video, color, sound, 9 min. Two post-apocalyptic scenes imagine an allegorical fantasy, where languages (Japanese and English) are mutated and Western Enlightenment’s faith in progress, science and rational thought has come to an end. Inspired by theories on
- [THINKING CURRENTS Participating Artist: Tintin WULIA ](https://acaw.info/thinking-currents-participating-artist-tintin-wulia/) - Tintin WULIA (Melbourne) Fallen, 2011, single channel video, color, sound, 18:43 min. Examines the skepticism and unsteady faith that nation-states have in their citizens, and their constant dependence on documentation in order to trust people. Documentation is crucial to history, however. It asserts the realness of events in the past. Fallen is a part of the
- [THINKING CURRENTS Participating Artist: SUN Xun](https://acaw.info/thinking-currents-participating-artist-sun-xun/) - SUN Xun (Beijing) What Happened in the Year of the Dragon, 2015, single-channel video, color, sound, 10 min. This animation recounts key events that occurred during the year of the dragon, one of the most important years in the Chinese calendar. Emblematic of Sun Xun's oeuvre, the film acts as a theatre of memory, replete with
- [THINKING CURRENTS Participating Artist:HO Tzu-Nyen](https://acaw.info/thinking-currents-participating-artistho-tzu-nyen/) - HO Tzu-Nyen (Singapore) The Cloud of Unknowing, 2011, single-channel video, color, sound, 28'. Explores the aesthetic history and role of cloud imagery in art through eight compartmentalized vignettes, titled after a fourteenth century mystical treatise on faith, in which the cloud represents a simultaneous internal struggle and reconciliation with “the unknown” or the divine. Set
- [THINKING CURRENTS Participating Artist: QIU Shiming ](https://acaw.info/thinking-currents-participating-artist-qiu-shiming/) - QIU Shiming (Beijing) Fragments of Autumn, 2007-2008, 3-channel video, black and white, sound, 10:26 min. Made in response to the famous handscroll of Yuan-dynasty master artist Huang Gongwang, Qiu filmed a particular landscape along the Fuchun River over the course of an entire year, a site known for its dramatic scenery among poets, writers and
- [THINKING CURRENTS Participating Artist: Wael SHAWKY](https://acaw.info/thinking-currents-participating-artist-wael-shawky/) - Wael SHAWKY (Alexandria) Dictums: Manquia I, 2014, single-channel video, color, sound, 11'10". Historically, camels contributed to worldwide trade-economy, until land routes were abandoned for oceanic transportation, through The Pacific Rim. These rare and coveted dark breeds of camel, however, are perhaps en route to one of the prestigious camel parades or beauty pageants held in
- [THINKING CURRENTS Participating Artist:Tracey MOFFATT ](https://acaw.info/thinking-currents-participating-artisttracey-moffatt/) - Tracey MOFFATT (New York & Brisbane) LOVE, 2003, single-channel video, color, sound, 21'. A wealth of clips from Hollywood classics are merged to depict the stereotypical, hyperbolic trajectory of (heterosexual) love. From the subtleties of first desires to climactic scenes of impassioned dialogues, betrayal, revenge and violence repeatedly played out over the history of film,
- [THINKING CURRENTS Participating Artists: Polit-Sheer-Form Office: HONG Hao, XIAO Yu, SONG Dong, LIU Jianhua, LENG Lin](https://acaw.info/thinking-currents-participating-artists-polit-sheer-form-office-hong-hao-xiao-yu-song-dong-liu-jianhua-leng-lin/) - Polit-Sheer-Form Office - artist collective: HONG Hao, XIAO Yu, SONG Dong, LIU Jianhua, LENG Lin (Beijing) Do the Same Good Deed, 2014, single-channel video, color, sound, 8'. A public performance in Guangzhou, China in 2014, which examined notions of individualism and collectivism, concerned with the idea of ‘we’ in a ‘me’ world. The piece presents
- [THINKING CURRENTS Participating Artist: KATO Sawako](https://acaw.info/thinking-currents-participating-artist-kato-sawako/) - KATO Sawako (Tokyo) IS.LAND, sound work, 6 min. A delicate soundscape using field recordings of sounds in Yakushima, an island in the south part of Japan covered in dense forest with nearly 2,000-year-old cryptomeria trees. About the artist: Kato Sawako is a sound-sculptor and time-based artist, who understands the value of dynamics and the power of
- [THINKING CURRENTS Participating Artist: Patrick TODD ](https://acaw.info/thinking-currents-participating-artist-patrick-todd/) - Patrick TODD (New York) Micro-intergalactic communication, a compilation of sound works, 1 hour 15 min. 1. Gaining Power 7'47". 2. Dreamtime
- [THINKING CURRENTS Participating Artist: MAP Office - Laurent GUTTIEREZ, Valerie PORTEFAIX ](https://acaw.info/thinking-currents-participating-artist-map-office-laurent-guttierez-valerie-portefaix/) - MAP Office - Laurent GUTTIEREZ, Valerie PORTEFAIX (Hong Kong) Moving Lemuria from the Indian to the Pacific Ocean, 2015, Installation (seashells from Sanibel Island, plastic particles, drawings) Lemuria (Mu), variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans—a hypothetical lost continent, with its long-debated myths, legends, and histories, is re-envisioned as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch,
- [THINKING CURRENTS Participating Artist: Lee KIT](https://acaw.info/thinking-currents-participating-artist-lee-kit/) - Lee KIT (Hong Kong & Taipei) There’s a cup on the pillow, 2014, white towel; single-channel video, color, silent, 3'23". Portraying everyday objects through his usual language of visual poetry, Lee Kit offers a model of resistance and constraint. The video-installation courts both intimacy and detachment, suggesting that artistic practice and life often merge in
- [THINKING CURRENTS Participating Artist: KHVAY Samnang](https://acaw.info/thinking-currents-participating-artist-khvay-samnang/) - KHVAY Samnang (Phnom Penh) Untitled, 2011, single-channel video, color, sound, 4’22". Once vital to urban hydraulic systems and vibrant residential areas, Phnom Penh’s lakes are now privatized by the Cambodian government, filled with sand, and turned into contested eviction sites. In rebellious response and to create awareness, the artist stood in these lakes at different
- [THINKING CURRENTS Participating Artist: Jawshing Arthur LIOU ](https://acaw.info/thinking-currents-participating-artist-jawshing-arthur-liou/) - Jawshing Arthur LIOU (Indiana & Taipei) Crossing, 2009, single-channel video, color, sound, 5'. This immersive and textured landscape of turbulent waves in a storm meditates on the loss of the artist’s beloved daughter. Rendered through 3D modeling techniques to simulate realistic ocean movements, the process combines formal oil painting and animation to render what Liou
- [THINKING CURRENTS Participating Artist: Jamie ZIGELBAUM](https://acaw.info/thinking-currents-participating-artist-jamie-zigelbaum/) - Jamie ZIGELBAUM (New York) Sequence in Parallel, 2015. LCD Displays, Raspberry Pis, Software, Cables, Hardware, 32 × 68 × 20 in. (upper) We watch films over time, from start to finish, but that is not how we remember them. Details fade, leaving us with an impression of the film-object itself. Sequence in Parallel is one
- [THINKING CURRENTS Participating Artist: Charwei TSAI ](https://acaw.info/thinking-currents-participating-artist-charwei-tsai/) - Charwei TSAI (Ho Chi Minh City / Paris / Taipei) Tofu Mantra, 2005, single-channel video, color, sound, 2'. (upper) Charwei Tsai utilizes ink and a variety of media in her politically engaged, performative practice. In Tofu Mantra a Buddhist scripture about the nature of impermanence is written onto a block of tofu, which transforms through
- [THINKING CURRENTS Participating Artist: Charles LIM](https://acaw.info/thinking-currents-participating-artist-charles-lim/) - Charles LIM (Singapore) SEA STATE 6: Phase 1, 2015, single-channel video, color, sound, 7'13". A society created by maritime trade, colonial and modern, Singapore stands at the intersection of pressing global debates around resource use, environmental change and territorial sovereignty. This dramatized cinematographic video, commissioned for the Singapore Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale, documents
- [THINKING CURRENTS Participating Artist: Araya RASDJARMREARNSOOK](https://acaw.info/thinking-currents-participating-artist-araya-rasdjarmrearnsook/) - Araya RASDJARMREARNSOOK (Chiang Mai) Death Seminar B, 2005, single-channel video, color, sound, 18'. The artist is engaged in a Q&A session with lifeless bodies obtained from a morgue. Universally, death is hidden behind elaborate rituals, while science and medicine pursue its delay. Here the artist asks us to both expand our imagination and confront preconceived
- [THINKING CURRENTS Participating Artist: Alexis DESTOOP](https://acaw.info/thinking-currents-participating-artist-alexis-destoop/) - Alexis DESTOOP (Sydney & Brussels) Invocation, 2015, single-channel video, color, sound, 4'. A cyclical animation that combines photographic footage from two vastly different regions: the Arctic Ocean and the South China Sea. Man-made machinery, invoking present-day idols, subtly emerge from an enchanted Turner-esque seascape of fleeting horizons. An investigation into the cartography of globalization— and
- [THINKING CURRENTS Participating Artist: Burçak BINGÖL](https://acaw.info/thinking-currents-participating-artist-burcak-bingol/) - Burçak BINGÖL (Istanbul) Self-conscious, 2015, single-channel video, color, sound, 43". With her subtle yet destructive act, the artist interrogates notions of belonging, culture, history, and tradition, also read as homage to ceramics— a treasured Asian-continental artistic practice and symbol of wealth, widely spread through Western imperialism. About the artist: Burçak Bingöl’s works reflects her dense
- [ACAW 2014 Consortium & Participating Museums and Galleries](https://acaw.info/acaw-2014-consortium-participating-museums-and-galleries/) - NEW YORK BASED INSTITUTIONS ASIA BASED INSTITUTIONS Members of Asian Contemporary Art Consortium
- [ACAW FIELD MEETING in Venice](https://acaw.info/acaw-field-meeting-in-venice/) - FIELD MEETING Take 2: An Afterthought in Venice A Collateral Event during the Venice Biennale Hosted by My Art Guides: Venice Meeting Point, Friday May 8th 2015, 2:30 – 5:30 pm Navy Officer’s Club Arsenale, Castello, Venice A special reunion gathering for leading artists, curators, art professional, and participants of Asia Contemporary Art Week’s inaugural
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- [FIELD MEETING 2014 ∙ PRESENTERS' ABSTRACTS & BIOS](https://acaw.info/12501-2/) - &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspOpening Remarks &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspDay 1 - Leeza Ahmady Tom Finkelpearl (New York) Lamia Joreige (Beirut) Alexis Destoop (Sydney / Brussels) Heri Dono (Yogya- karta / Berlin) &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspHaig Aivazian &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp(Beirut) Ava Ansari (Tehran / New York) Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan (Brisbane) Georgia Kotretsos (Athens) Jitish Kallat (Mumbai) Sun Xun (Beijing) &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspJeanno Gaussi &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp(Berlin / Kabul) Aki Sasamoto
- [ICI Screenings at FIELD MEETING](https://acaw.info/ici-screenings-from-field-meeting/) - Project 35 Volume 2 Screenings ICI, Independent Curators International During the program breaks there were select screenings from Project 35 Volume 2, a major traveling exhibition organized by Independent Curators International (ICI) that invited 35 curators to each select one video work by an artist they consider important today. Tellingly, 13 of the artists in
- [NEW SPEAKER PROFILE PG](https://acaw.info/15334-2/) - &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspOpening Remarks &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspDay 1 - Leeza Ahmady Tom Finkelpearl (New York) Lamia Joreige (Beirut) Alexis Destoop (Sydney / Brussels) Heri Dono (Yogya- karta / Berlin) &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspHaig Aivazian &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp(Beirut) Ava Ansari (Tehran / New York) Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan (Brisbane) Georgia Kotretsos (Athens) Jitish Kallat (Mumbai) Sun Xun (Beijing) &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspJeanno Gaussi &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp(Berlin / Kabul) Aki Sasamoto
- [ Art Publishing in Asia](https://acaw.info/art-publishing-in-asia/) - FIELD MEETING October 31st, 2014 New York City Robin Peckham of LEAP moderated a discussion on publishing as knowledge production vs. performance and the challenges of localizing and globalizing in running cosmopolitan publications. Panelists included artist Ian Cheng from Badlands Unlimited, artforum.com editor Lauren O'Neill-Butler, Artnet Senior Market Reporter Eileen Kinsella, and Howie Chen of
- [Shilpa Gupta](https://acaw.info/shilpa-gupta/) - FIELD MEETING October 27th, 2014 New York City Mumbai-born artist Shilpa Gupta spoke about influences of politics and culture on the construction of identities and how her works question perception spectatorship. Through use of videos, performances, objects, photographs, installations or digital art, often interactive and concerned by what we are looking at and how, Shilpa’s
- [Tom Finkelpearl](https://acaw.info/a-look-back-at-acaw-field-meeting-keynote-address-by-tom-finkelpearl/) - Keynote Address by Tom Finkelpearl: ACAW FIELD MEETING October 26th, 2014 In the keynote address at the Asian Contemporary Art Week FIELD MEETING, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Commissioner Tom Finkelpearl discusses the idea of "Asian-ness," globalization vs. multiculturalism, and other issues he addressed in his 12-year tenure as Executive Director at the
- [Bio - ZHENG Chongbin](https://acaw.info/bio-zheng-chongbin/) - ZHENG Chongbin (San Francisco) Zheng Chongbin (b. 1961, Shanghai, China) lives and works in San Francisco and Shanghai. Zheng’s artworks bridge the modernist concerns with the spiritual in abstraction and the post-modern deconstruction of light and space perception with a Taoist phenomenology of energy, material and "resonance" or qiyun. His practice encompasses biomorphic ink painting,
- [Bio - Iftikhar DADI ](https://acaw.info/profile-iftikhar-dadi/) - Iftikhar DADI (New York) Iftikhar Dadi, Ph.D, is an associate professor in Cornell University’s Department of History of Art and Chair of its Department of Art. He has curated exhibitions such as Unpacking Europe at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2001), and is the author of books including Modernism and the Art of Muslim
- [Bio - Ava ANSARI ](https://acaw.info/bio-ava-ansari/) - Ava Ansari (Tehran & New York) Ava Ansari is an artist, educator, and curator. She is the co-founder of The Back Room, a curatorial and pedagogical project which facilitates exchanges between artists and scholars in Iran and the U.S. Recent curatorial projects include Fixed Unknowns, Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York, 2014; I am Only a
- [Bio - Manal AL DOWAYAN ](https://acaw.info/bio-manal-al-dowayan/) - Manal Al Dowayan (b. 1973, Saudi Arabia) Manal Al Dowayan is a conceptual artist whose work revolves around the ideas of active forgetting, modern archiving, and collective memory. She has worked with black and white photography, neon, large-scale installations and participatory art. Past residencies include: The Delfina Foundation in London, The Town House Gallery in
- [Bio - Haig AIVAZIAN ](https://acaw.info/bio-haig-aivazian/) - Haig Aivazian (b. 1980, Beirut, Lebanon) is an artist, curator and writer. Using performance, video, drawing, installation and sculpture, his work weaves together personal and geo-political, micro and macro narratives in its search for ideological loopholes and short circuits. Aivazian holds an MFA from Northwestern University and is a Skowhegan alumnus (2011). Refugee Olympics, part
- [FIELD MEETING - Presenters' Supporters ](https://acaw.info/field-meeting-presenters-supporters/) - Special Thanks to the following organizations and galleries for supporting select artists’ and art professionals’ travels to New York for participation in FIELD MEETING: ArteEast Manal Al Dowayan Residency Unlimited Lu Yang Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (Sydney) Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan The Back Room Bavand Behpoor Lombard Freid Gallery Cao Fei Taymour Grahne Gallery Lamia
- [Bio - Jitish KALLAT](https://acaw.info/bio-jitish-kallat/) - Jitish Kallat (Mumbai) Jitish Kallat (b. 1974, Mumbai, India) is one of the most prominent figures of Contemporary Indian Art. Working across a variety of media including painting, sculpture, photography and installation, his work reflects a deep involvement with the city of his and derives much of its visual language from his immediate urban environment.
- [ACAW 2014 ∙ Program Schedule](https://acaw.info/schedule-9-20/) - WED OCT. 22 THU OCT. 23 FRI OCT. 24 SAT OCT. 25 SUN OCT. 26 MON OCT. 27 TUE OCT. 28 WED OCT. 29 THU OCT. 30 FRI OCT. 31 SAT NOV. 01 MON NOV. 03
- [Bio - SUN Xun ](https://acaw.info/bio-sun-xun/) - SUN Xun (Beijing) Sun Xun (b.1980, Fuxin, Liaoning, China) is an artist based in Beijing. He graduated in 2005 from the Print-making Department of the China Academy of Fine Arts. In 2006 he established π Animation Studio. During 2010 he has received several notable awards including the “Chinese Contemporary Art Awards (CCAA Best Young Artist)”
- [Bio - Georgia KOTRETSOS](https://acaw.info/bio-georgia-kotretsos/) - Georgia Kotretsos (Athens) Georgia Kotretsos (b. 1978, Thessaloniki, Greece) is a visual artist based in Athens, Greece. In her early teens, she moved to South Africa during the abolition of Apartheit where she also later attained a BFA Degree from the Durban Institute of Technology, in KwaZulu Natal, (2000). In 2002 Kotretsos moved to Chicago
- [Bio - LI Shurui ](https://acaw.info/bio-li-shurui/) - Li Shurui (Beijing) Landscape is reduced to the abstract, and the abstract to sheer light. And the light is the passion of the Op-artist Li Shurui (b. 1981 in Chongqing, China). Stemming from her first a few abstract pieces that documented the mesmerizing illuminations in urban nightlife, Li Shurui’s paintings keep portraying the lights that
- [Profile: Polit-Sheer-Form Office](https://acaw.info/profile-polit-sheer-form-office/) - Polit-Sheer-Form Office (HONG Hao, XIAO Yu, SONG Dong, LIU JIANHUA, LENG Lin) & Mathieu Borysevicz (Beijing) Polit-Sheer-Form Office, or PSFO, was an art collective founded in 2005 by artists Hong Hao, Xiao Yu, Song Dong, Liu Jianhua, and Leng Lin. The group originally formed for the abstract purpose of seeking “collective form” and purifying politics,
- [Profile: LU Yang](https://acaw.info/lu-yang/) - Lu Yang (Shanghai) Lu Yang (b.1984) is a Shanghai-based multi-media artist who creates fantastical, often morbid visions of death, sexuality (or a-sexuality), mental illness, and neurological constructs of both real lifeforms and deities. Deeply immersed in the subcultures of anime, video games, and sci-fi, Lu Yang taps into the enormous influence of Japanese cultural imports
- [Bio - Kko-kka LEE](https://acaw.info/bio-kko-kka-lee/) - Kko-kka Lee (Seoul) Kko-kka Lee is the project manager and curator at Korean Artist Project, an online platform that connects artists with publications and institutions. Kko-kka Lee's participation in FIELD MEETING is supported by The Korean Art Museum Association
- [Bio - Lamia JOREIGE](https://acaw.info/bio-lamia-joreige/) - Lamia Joreige (Beirut) Born in Lebanon in 1972, Lamia Joreige is a visual artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Beirut. She earned her BFA in Painting and Filmmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, in 1995. She uses archival documents and elements of fiction to reflect on history and its possible
- [Bio - Shilpa GUPTA](https://acaw.info/bio-shilpa-gupta/) - Shilpa Gupta (Mumbai) Shilpa Gupta (b. 1976, India) lives and works in Mumbai. Gupta creates artwork using interactive video, websites, objects, photographs, sound and public performances. She had solo shows at Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, Arnofini in Bristol, Museum voo Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Lalit Kala Akademie in New Delhi and Gallerie Yvon Lambert, Paris,
- [Bio - Beatrice GLOW](https://acaw.info/bio-beatrice-glow/) - Beatrice Glow (New York) Beatrice Glow (b. 1986) merges socially-engaged art and autoethnography. She holds a Studio Art BFA from New York University. As a Fulbright Scholar to Perú (2008) researching Asian Diaspora, she published Taparaco Myth in English, Spanish and Chinese, performed at Bienal DEFORMES 2008 of Chile, and exhibited Migratory Museum in Universidad
- [Bio - Kris ERCUMS](https://acaw.info/bio-kris-ercums/) - Kris Ercums (Kansas) Kris Imants Ercums joined the Spencer Museum in 2007 as assistant curator of Asian Art. In 2010 his title and duties were expanded to include global contemporary art, in order to reflect the Spencer Museum’s growing interest in researching and introducing contemporary artistic practice taking shape outside of more well-known Euro-American paradigms.
- [Bio - Heri DONO](https://acaw.info/bio-heri-dono/) - Heri Dono (Yogyakarta / Berlin) Heri Dono (b. 1960, Indonesia) is unquestionably one of Indonesia’s best known contemporary artists. Since graduating in the late 1980s his international profile has increased through a series of exhibitions and artist in residences around the world. Heri Dono is perhaps best known through his installations which are heavily influenced
- [Bio - CAO Fei](https://acaw.info/bio-cao-fei/) - Cao Fei (Bejing) Cao Fei (b. 1978, Guangzhou) is one of the most significant and innovative young artists to have emerged on the international scene from China. Her multi-media projects explore the lost dreams of the young Chinese generation and their strategies for overcoming and escaping reality. She will premiere new work in her September
- [Bio - Umer BUTT](https://acaw.info/bio-umer-butt/) - Umer Butt (Dubai) Umer Butt received his undergraduate degree in Fine Art with honors from National College of Arts, Lahore in 2001 before pursuing his post graduate degree in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London from 2003 – 04. Upon his return to Lahore in 2005, he became adjunct faculty in
- [Bio - Burçak BINGÖL](https://acaw.info/bio-burcak-bingol/) - Burçak BINGÖL (Istanbul) Burçak Bingöl’s works reflect her dense cultural heritage and her continued fascination with patterns. Through her labor-intensive process of tracing, coping and reconstructing she adopts an analytical approach to ornamentation. Bingöl’s drawings convey an unusual sense of order, although they are largely made up of non-symmetrical lines and patterns. A “mandala” pattern
- [Profile: Boris GROYS](https://acaw.info/profile-boris-groys/) - Boris GROYS Boris Groys (born 1947) is a philosopher, art critic, and curator whose research centers on modern Russian philosophy, French poststructuralism, and contemporary media. He is the Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University, New York. In addition Groys is Professor for Philosophy and Media Theory at the Academy
- [Bio - YU Cheng-Ta ](https://acaw.info/bio-yu-cheng-ta/) - YU Cheng-Ta (Taipei) Yu Cheng-Ta (b.1983, Tainan, Taiwan) holds a B.A. and an M.F.A from the Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan. In 2008, he received the 1st place of Taipei Arts Award (TFAM, Taipei) and was awarded the Beacon Prize at Art Fair Tokyo in 2012. Yu participated in the 6th Taipei Biennial
- [Bio - Craig YEE](https://acaw.info/bio-craig-yee/) - Craig YEE (Seattle / Beijing) Craig L. Yee is a founding Director of Ink Studio, a Beijing-based gallery and experimental art space devoted to documenting and exhibiting China’s leading contemporary ink artists. Mr. Yee's writing on contemporary ink has appeared in a number of monographs including The Phenomenology of Life (2014), on the semiotics of
- [Bio - Tintin WULIA ](https://acaw.info/bio-tintin-wulia/) - Tintin WULIA (Melbourne) Tintin Wulia (b. 1972 Bali, Indonesia) received training as a composer (BMus - Film Scoring, Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA, 1997) and architect (BEng - Architecture, Universitas Katolik Parahyangan, Bandung, Indonesia, 1998) before earning her PhD in Art (practice-based research, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 2014). Tintin's work investigates the flux of
- [Bio - Farah WARDANI](https://acaw.info/bio-farah-wardani/) - Farah WARDANI (Yogyakarta) Farah Wardani (b. Jakarta, 1975), completed her MA in Art History (20th Century) from the Department of Historical & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, London, UK, in 2001. She has been active as a teacher, writer, curator and art organizer since 2001 in her home country, Indonesia. In 2007 she co-authored Indonesian Women
- [Bio - Charwei TSAI](https://acaw.info/bio-charwei-tsai/) - Charwei TSAI (Ho Chi Minh City / Paris / Taipei) Charwei Tsai was born in Taipei (1980) and currently lives and works in Paris and Taipei. Tsai graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in Industrial Design and Art & Architectural History (2002) and the postgraduate research program at L’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts
- [Bio - Aki SASAMOTO](https://acaw.info/bio-aki-sasamoto/) - Aki SASAMOTO (New York) Aki Sasamoto is a New York-based artist, who works in performance, sculpture, dance, and whatever more medium that takes to get her ideas across. In her installation/performance works, Aki moves and talks inside the careful arrangements of sculpturally altered objects, activating bizarre emotions behind daily life. Her works appear in theater
- [Bio - MAP Office](https://acaw.info/bio-map-office/) - MAP Office (Hong Kong; Laurent GUTTIEREZ, Valerie PORTEFAIX) MAP Office is a multidisciplinary platform devised by Laurent Gutierrez (born 1966, Casablanca, Morocco) and Valérie Portefaix (born 1969, Saint-Étienne, France). This duo of artists/architects has been based in Hong Kong since 1996, working on physical and imaginary territories using varied means of expression including drawing, photography,
- [Bio - Reena KALLAT](https://acaw.info/bio-reena-kallat/) - Reena Kallat (Mumbai) Reena Saini Kallat (born 1973, Delhi, India) graduated from Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art, Mumbai in 1996 with a B.F.A. in painting. Her practice – spanning painting, photography, video, sculpture and installation, often incorporates multiple mediums into a single work. She frequently works with officially recorded or registered names of people,
- [Bio - Jeanno GAUSSI](https://acaw.info/bio-jeanno-gaussi/) - Jeanno Gaussi (Berlin / Kabul) Jeanno Gaussi (b. 1973, Kabul, Afghanistan) is a Berlin based mixed media artist. She was one of the participating artists at dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel and Kabul. Gaussi started her art career as a video and film artist and her short films were internationally shown in several festivals including International
- [Bio - Tom FINKELPEARL](https://acaw.info/bio-tom-finkelpearl/) - Tom Finkelpearl (New York) Tom Finkelpearl is the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. In this role he oversees city funding for nonprofit arts organizations across the five boroughs and directs the cultural policy for the City of New York. Prior to his appointment by Mayor Bill de Blasio, Commissioner Finkelpearl
- [Bio - Ceren ERDEM](https://acaw.info/bio-ceren-erdem/) - Ceren ERDEM (New York) Ceren Erdem is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. She is the Co-founder and Co-curator of Court Square Project Space in Long Island City, is also Co-founder and Co-editor of Interventions, a web-based journal and curatorial platform. Ceren received her MA in Modern Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies from Columbia University
- [Bio - Alexis DESTOOP ](https://acaw.info/bio-alexis-destoop/) - Alexis Destoop (b. 1971, Kortrijk, Belgium) Alexis Destoop forms an ongoing investigation into the workings of the image. His multilayered constructions in photography, installation and film examine the component elements of storytelling, the experience of time and the processes of identification and memory. Appropriating visual archetypes and genre conventions, his work questions, reconfigures and short-circuits
- [Bio - Patty CHANG](https://acaw.info/bio-patty-chang/) - Patty Chang (Boston) Patty Chang works with performance, video, narrative, empathy, the unknown and the document. Her work has been exhibited at galleries and museums internationally. She is a 2014 recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and has recently exhibited her video installation Flotsam Jetsam (2007), a collaboration with David Kelley, at the Museum of Modern
- [Bio - Korakrit ARUNANONDCHAI ](https://acaw.info/bio-korakrit-arunanondchai/) - Korakrit Arunanondchai (New York & Bangkok) Bangkok-raised artist Korakrit Arunanondchai (b. 1986) engages a myriad of subjects such as history, authenticity, self-representation, and tourism through the lens of a cultural transplant. His work seeks to find a common ground in artistic experiences through a pastiche of styles and mediums. Arunanondchai earned his BFA from the
- [Bio - Alfredo & Isabel AQUILIZAN ](https://acaw.info/bio-alfredo-isabel-aquilizan/) - Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan (Brisbane) Alfredo Juan (born in Ballesteros, Cagayan Philippines in 1962) and Isabel Aquilizan y Gaudinez (born in Manila, Philippines in 1965) are currently based in Brisbane with their five children. The artist couple’s collaborative activities evolved within the spheres of family and community, including personal relationships and those they share with
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- [Participate in ACAW 2014!](https://acaw.info/participate-in-acaw-2014/) - Participation Information __________________________________________________________________________________________ ACAW is an exceptional visibility platform for your museum, gallery, or institution. Past editions of ACAW were attended by an upward of 200,000 visitors. Two participation levels! New York and Asia based institutions and galleries: • Consortium Membership (3-Year minimum) • One Year Participation (2014) The complete ACAW 2014 participation package with
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- [PUBLIC PROGRAMS](https://acaw.info/public-programs/) - Conversations • Symposiums • Artist Talks • Screenings FEBRUARY • MARCH • APRIL • MAY MAY May 8 - June 1Film Screenings Museum of Modern Art | Chinese Realities: The Evolution of a New Aesthetic May 3, 10, and 17Film Screening Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | Century of Birthing May 2 Open Studios Bose Pacia
- [ACAW 2011 SPONSORS](https://acaw.info/acaw-2011/sponsors/) - ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL 6 West 48th Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10036 T: 212-843-0386 www.asianculturalcouncil.org The Asian Cultural Council (ACC) is the only organization in the world whose sole mission is to support cultural exchange between the United States and Asia and within the countries of Asia. The ACC tailors each fellowship to support the
- [PROGRAM SCHEDULE 2011](https://acaw.info/acaw-2011/programs/) - * Please click date to see event information MON. MAR 21 The Museum of Modern 7:00 pm: Art Dialogue with Artist + Screening - TUE. MAR 22 Sotheby’s 6:00 pm: Dialogue with Artists + Book Launch + Reception - WED. MAR 23 (Signature Event) Asia Society and Museum 6:30 pm: Dialogue with Artists - THU. MAR 24 (Chelsea)
- [INTRO: ACAW 2011](https://acaw.info/acaw-2011/intro/) - On behalf of Asian Contemporary Art Consortium (ACAC), I am pleased to invite you to join us for the seventh edition of Asian Contemporary Art Week (ACAW). In an ongoing effort to heighten public awareness about contemporary art discourses in Asia, each ACAW edition brings together artists, curators, scholars, critics, galleries, museums, and arts organizations
- [ON THE SCENE: Photos from ACAW 2011](https://acaw.info/acaw-2011/event-photo/) - ASIA SOCIETY / MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN APERTURE GALLERY PRISKA C. JUSCHKA GUGGENHEIM / INTERNATIONAL BIENNIALS RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART ETHAN COHEN ZURCHER STUDIO INDO-AMERICAN ARTS COUNCIL ASIA SOCIETY / USHIO SHINOHARA AMD TOMOKAZU MATSUYAMA CHINA INSTITUTE / XIAOZE XIE GALLERY KOREA TAIPEI CULTURAL CENTER MOCA
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- [ACKNOWLEDGMENT](https://acaw.info/acaw-2011/acknowledgment/) - DIRECTOR'S ACKNOWLEDGMENT I would like to acknowledge and thank the individuals and organizations that have in various ways supported ACAW 2011 and have helped make the seventh edition a success. A very special thanks to Margaret Cogswell and the Asian Cultural Council (ACC) for the grant they provided towards ACAW 2011 highlight program. For decades
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