What Does it Mean to Imagine the Southeast? Four Questions on Southeast Asian Art, 19th Century to Present

Venue: Theatre B, Old Arts Theatre B

Presenters: Professor Patrick D. Flores

This public lecture seeks to offer a broad overview of art in Southeast Asia from the early modern period to the present. It sets the horizon for an initial understanding of an art world and its history. It begins with the formation of certain aspects of modernity in the context of an equivalent formation of art history and the region itself, after which it traces the passage of the modern into the contemporary in the seventies, a time of political tension and economic transition. It then moves into the current situation, the ecologies in place in terms of artists, institutions, markets, practices, and audiences.

Finally, it discusses the various ways in which Southeast Asian art has been recognized through representation in and engagement with different platforms within and across localities and the spheres of interaction elsewhere.

Patrick D. Flores is Professor of Art Studies at the Department of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines, Manila. He is also Curator of the Vargas Museum in Manila and Adjunct Curator of the National Gallery Singapore.

This public lecture is organised by the Asia Environments group of the Asia Institute, with support from the Asia Institute and the School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne.

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https://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/7711-what-does-it-mean-to-imagine-the-southeast-four-questions