Alex Seton: Refoulement
Island dreams and hopes get shipwrecked with Seton’s new sculptures, which continue his interest in the issue of asylum seekers. Seton captures deflated hopes with his…
Re / Branding Melayu: fruit salad with piquant nationalism?
First published in documenta12 magazine project, for the invited Malaysian publication SentAP!, 2007 In The Matrix Laurence Fishbourne cynically welcomed us “to the desert of the…
Outside In / Inside Out: Observing contemporary Philippine art
First published in Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology, Sage Publishing UK in collaboration with La Trobe University Melbourne, 2012. The cultural cartography: Exiting Ninoy…
Double dip: The Asian Biennale and Art Fair
First published in TASSA Review’s 20th Anniversary Issue – 2013 (Australia). There are over 80 international biennials and triennials today, an overwhelming number of which began…
Beyogmos: Mai Nguyen-Long
LABORATORY FOR LABELS: As human beings we have an automatic compulsion to assign ‘things’ a place, compelled to tether a person and their actions to prescribed…
UnBound, Yuchengco Museum Manila
BOUNCE: UnBound (Yuchengco Museum, 24 January-20 February 2013) explored how culture can move beyond physical boundaries and the cartographic disposition of nation-based exhibitions and pre-packaged notions…
Trans/portable (Manila)
With its title Trans/portable, this exhibition at the independent MO_space Manila (4 August – 2 September 2012), explored how culture is carried beyond cartographic or physical…
Roadtrip reveals New Mexico’s heart & past
A week on the road traversing New Mexico, from its Texan border to just beyond the reaches of Colorado in the north, the flatness of this…
Miami’s Art Deco Gems
While today you see less pastel sportcoats worn with pushed up arms, donned with a mint or peach t-shirt and sockless loafers, Miami’s South Beach deco…