Art Dubai Digital Summit
February 29, 2024
I spoke at the 2024 Art Dubai Digital Summit on the panel "How Independent Communities are Unlocking the Future of Culture," moderated by Outland's Editor-in-Chief, Brian Droitcour. The other panelists were the Creative Director of 0xSalon, Wassim Z Alsindi, artist Ana Maria Caballero, and Carlota Dochao Naveira, Co-Founder of VIV Arts. We dissected the terms "independent" and "community," discussed differing approaches to education, and considered how scaling impacts cultural institutions.
Jitr จิตร: extended gong ensemble
September 23, 2023
I moderated a discussion following Jitr จิตร: extended gong ensemble, an audiovisual live code and collaborative sound making performance by elekhlekha with guest performers easterner, and Luisa Mei Bressan, which took place at CultureHub.
Jitr จิตร extended gong ensemble is a performance rooted in Southeast Asian Indigenous cultural practices and tuning systems with a MIDI network of gongs that connects the performers. As in traditional gong ensembles, the audience is invited to join the performance by making sounds with found objects, creating a communal, hybrid sound.
View documentation of the performance.
Photo by Dan Gorelick
Model Minority and Model Majorities
November 7, 2019
I was a participant in Asia Art Archive in America’s 2019-2020 Leadership Camp, “Model Minority and Model Majorities.” The four-part closed seminar, facilitated by Furen Dai and Christopher K Ho, addressed the complex subject of Asians in America, and the even more complex subject position of Asian-Americans, a term that encompasses diverse histories, languages, and ‘home’-country politics.
We were invited by SVA's Curatorial Practice MA program to present a series of propositions responding to the strangeness of Asian and Asian-American lived experience in relation to historical meta-narratives and notions of “home”—country politics, history, and language. The presentations and discussion took place on Thursday, November 7, at 7 pm at SVA.
Owen Duffy wrote about the experience on e-flux.
