Conversation Platform 2023

 

Conversation platform curated by Thanks for Nothing

Thanks for Nothing organized a day of conferences. The program included 5 round tables to showcase the committed practices of the Asian art scene.

Highlighting a variety of individual and collective practices, the speakers demonstrated the artistic richness, innovative curatorial approaches and social commitment of the Asian scene.

Watch Nicolas Bourriaud on the Gwangju Biennal, 2024

With:

  • Nicolas Bourriaud, Artistic Director of the Gwangju Biennial 2024, Curator, writer, art critic and theorist

  • Marine Van Schoonbeek, General Director and co-founder of Thanks for Nothing

Watch The myth as Vector for Human Ecology

With:

Watch Building the museum of tomorrow

With:

  • Lina Jinhyung Kim, Founder and curator, K&L Museum

  • Marine Van Schoonbeek, General Director and co-founder of Thanks for Nothing

Understanding the critical zone: collective narratives

With:

  • Martin Guinard, Curator at Luma Arles, co-curator at the Taipei Biennial in 2020

  • Quỳnh Lâm, Artist 

  • Charwei Tsai, Artist, mor charpentier

Social Commitment in the Central Asian Art Scene

With:

  • Yannick Lintz, President of the Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet

  • Jamilya Nurkalieva, Director of the Tselinny Center for Contemporary Culture

  • Dilda Ramazan, Founder of Wake up, Kazakhstan!, independent curator, activist, artist and art critic

Conversation Platform curated by The Tselinny Center

Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture is a regional institution that promotes cultural exchange to assist the local general public and enhance the artistic outreach to build an intellectual community by creating a dialogue within Kazakhstan latitude and the wider regional central Asian perspective. 

Intro about the Program, Tselinny and participants

With:

  • Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture

  • Slavs & Tatars, Guest Curator of Asia NOW

“Where is Kazakhstan?”

With：

  • Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture, Member of Tselinny Center of Contemporary

  • Slavs & Tatars, Guest Curator of Asia NOW

“Decolonial thought in Kazakhstan” 

With：

  • Nariman Shelekpayev, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University

“What does it mean to be Central Asian Today?”

With:

  • Indira Dussebayeva-Ziyabek, Curator, Founder Ainalayin Space (London), Co-founder IADA (Paris)

  • Saodat Ismailova, Artist (Uzbekistan)

  • Madina Joldybek, Artist (Kazakhstan)

  • Nariman Shelekpayev, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University

  • Alima Kairat, Artistic Director, Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture Almagul Menlibayeva Artist (Kazakhstan)

  • Jamilya Nurkaliyeva, Director, Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture

“Does the Central Asian market exist?”

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Conversation Platform | Book Launch | The Poverty Line

The Poverty Line uses the universal lens of food to examine the daily choices we would face living at the poverty line. Over a period of 10 years, from 2010 to 2020, the artists travelled 200,000 kilometres to create case studies of 36 countries and territories spanning six continents. The Poverty Line art works are in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and China Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum. The Poverty Line book was a winner of the 5th edition of the LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles 2019, and was selected by The Museum of Modern Art for its list of Favourite Photobooks for 2021. 

Book Launch | The Poverty Line

With：

  • Stefen Chow, Artist

  • Huiyi Lin,Artist

  • Christoph Wiesner, Director of Rencontres d’Arles

Conversation Platform | East/West: The art of collecting

East/West: The art of collecting

With：

  • Liyu Yeo, Independent Curator, VIP Ambassador Asia NOW

  • Désiré Feuerle, Founder of The Feuerle Collection

  • Heiner Wemhöner, Entrepreneur and Art Collector

  • Anita Zabludowicz OBE, Founder of Zabludowicz Collection

Conversation Platform | Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration

“J’ai une famille”, 10 artistes de l’avant-garde chinoise installés en France

With:

  • Hou Hanry, Art critic and curator

  • Evelyne Jouanno, Art curator

  • Isabelle Renard, Directrice adjointe du Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration

Conversation Platform | ARTSY

New this year, Artsy has published an Art Industry Trend Report using insight from our global audience of collectors and galleries. In presentation or panel form, we could also look to invite a key gallerist from your exhibitors for a discussion on their personal experiences using the market findings this year.

Conversation Platform curated by ARTSY

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Conversation Platform | Asia Society | High Fashion and Asian local craftsmanship

We are increasingly witnessing a dialogue, or let's rather say a real collaboration between local traditions, craftsmanship and contemporary creation. Many exhibitions highlight these links. The dialogues between popular costumes and haute couture creations allow us to better understand how each other is perceived in society.

Ancient heritage does not only have its place in a museum. It remains a living object for the creators of tastes that will seduce our societies and generations to come. This is the role of the creator who gives old traditions a second life, while maintaining local know-how. Here is a delicate but essential game for the benefit of the safeguarding of heritages sometimes in danger, to renew ideas, approaches, styles and looks, and to integrate sustainable materials into creations, integrating into a challenge for the protection of planet.

This "New Age Silk Road which is part of an era of reinvention, like cross-pollination”. We offer a space to discuss with experts in Asian textiles, brands, and designers .

High Fashion and Asian local craftsmanship

With：

  • Sylvie Marot, designer

  • Nazzy Beglari, designer

  • Jean-Michel Dumont, co-moderators

  • Aurélie Samuel, co-moderators 

Conversation Platform | Slavs and Tatars

Slavs and Tatars is an internationally renowned art collective devoted to an area East of the former Berlin Wall and West of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia. Since its inception in 2006, the collective has shown a keen grasp of polemical issues in society, clearing new paths for contemporary discourse via a wholly idiosyncratic form of knowledge production: including popular culture, spiritual and esoteric traditions, oral histories, modern myths, as well as scholarly research.

Conversation Platform | Slavs and Tatars

With:

  • Catherine David, French Art Historian, Curator

  • Slavs and Tatars, Guest Curator of Asia NOW

Conversation Platform | Thinking outside the art fair

Thinking outside the art fair: Rising narratives on gender, site-specificity and postcoloniality in the MENA regionIndependent art critic and curator Nadine Khalil will be in conversation with Dyala Nusseibeh, Abu Dhabi Art (ADA) Director about new curatorial models and artist narratives and artist Hoda Tawakol about her work with the body in relation to the natural world and postcolonial critique.

Rising narratives in the MENA region

With:

  • Nadine Khalil, Independent Art Critic, Editor and Curator

  • Dyala Nusseibeh, Director ofAbu Dhabi Art

  • Hoda Tawakol, Artiste( based inGermany）

Conversation Platform | The Future of the Art Market in Asia and the Asian Diaspora

Conversation Platform New Frontiers and Fresh Challenges: The Future of the Art Market in Asia and the Asian Diaspora.

With:

  • Gladys Lin,Founder, Gladys Lin Projets(Taipei and NYC)

  • JaeMyung Noh, Education Entrepreneur

  • Vivienne Chow, Moderator

Conversation Platform Emerging Artistic & Discursive Practices

A View From South Asia

With:

  • Durjoy Rahman, art collector and founder of the Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation

  • Yung Ma, curator

  • Amol K Patil, artist

  • Shwetal Patel, founding team member of India's first visual arts biennial, Kochi-Muziris Biennale.

  • Skye Arundhati Thomas, moderator

 
 

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