A/P/A Institute at NYU
Working Session: Global Asia/Pacific Art
November 25, 2013
11am-2pm
Location:
Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU
8 Washington Square Mews
(between University Place and 5th Avenue, one block north of Washington Square Park)
Seminar Room
Contact: Alexandra Chang
The session will discuss the Global Asia/Pacific Art Exchange and its upcoming phases, including sites of interest for January 2015 in Hawai’i, Taiwan and Japan. Drawing from working session participants’ research interests and participating artists, thematics the working session will touch upon the Pacific in relation to the environment/globalization/military, and the relationships of contemporary/traditional contextualizations, aboriginal Asian artistic production and circulations, among others.
We would like to focus on inter-Asian and Asian diasporic artistic production happening in the Pacific and have invited three artists to present at the start of the working session. These artists are:
Shigeyuki Kihara, http://shigeyukikihara.com/
Maika’i Tubbs, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8suJYqda-5s
Alexander Lee, http://www.mtrx-e.com/works.html
Agenda:
11am Presentations and Q&As
12pm Working lunch — Discussion about thematics and current research and on the Global Asia/Pacific Art Exchange, including the upcoming site visit in 2015
2pm — End
Participants:
Presenters:
Shigeyuki Kihara, Artist
Alexander Lee, Artist
Maika’i Tubbs, Artist
Mario Caro, NYU Draper
Alexandra Chang, NYU A/P/A Institute, Curator of Special Projects and Director of Global Arts Programs
Beatrice Glow, NYU APA Institute, Visiting Scholar
Nina Hein, NYU, NYU Draper Program
Thomas Looser, NYU East Asian Studies Department
Margo Machida, Univesity of Connecticut at Storrs, Art History and Asian American Studies
Nicholas Mirzoeff, NYU Visual Cultures, Department of Media Culture and Communications
Dean Saranillio, NYU Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis
Rashmi Viswanathan, NYU Grey Art Gallery