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A Talk By Roger Nelson @ The Factory Art Center

The Gap Which Separates: Distance Cast as Difference in ‘Southeast Asian Contemporary Art’

The Factory invites you to the talk with Roger Nelson, an art historian, curator, co-founder and co-editor of Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, to search for the answers to many questions: Is thinking beyond the idea of a ‘nation’ necessary for understanding 21st century cultural life? Does discussing ourselves as a part of a ‘region’ offer an escape route from the logic of nationalism? Or are such well-intentioned ideas—increasingly prominent in contemporary artistic and curatorial practice—offer little more than wishful thinking?

This talk considers recent art projects motivated by a desire to exchange and think across a region (often called a ‘post-national’ stance).

This talk will discuss artistic and curatorial examples from the 1990s to the 2010s, including an unrealized proposal for a live video link between Phnom Penh and Fukuoka in 1999, and projects by Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho (New York/Manila/Berlin) and Sai Hua Kuan (Singapore). Why is the idea of the ‘nation’ so persistent in contemporary art? How might we think and work beyond this?

For more information about Roger Nelson and the talk, please visit:https://goo.gl/2tckPJ

 

Friday, 21 July

7:00pm - 9:00pm

The Factory Contemporary Art Centre | 15 Nguyen Uu Di, Thao Dien, D2, Ho Chi Minh City

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