ASIA ASSEMBLE is a three-day gathering of artists, practitioners, academics and arts institutions from around Asia in New Delhi. Structured as a series of moderated conversations, discussions, screenings and public presentations, Asia Assemble seeks to understand the possibilities, modalities and urgencies of arts and cultural work around Asia in 2017.
In our individual, collective and organisational capacities we continue to understand and negotiate our local, national and continental conditions to respond to immediacies in a largely ambiguous Asia.
Khoj enters this conversation from the perspective that Asia has never been purely self-delimited, but rather the product of interaction with other regions. New imaginations of Asia are not an affirmation of Asiacentrism but rather an attempt to overcome a logic dominated by egocentrism, exclusivity, and expansionism.
Through conversations, Asia Assemble aims to provide a platform to share challenges, explore connections, discuss strategies and exchange ideas to collectively speculate on new frameworks for our times.
Participants include: Amar Kanwar (artist, India), Ashish Rajadhyaksha (CSCS, India), CAMP (artists, India), Cosmin Costinas (Para Site, Hong Kong), Gridthiya Gaweewong (Jim Thompson Art Center, Thailand), Ho Tzu Nyen (artist, Singapore), KUNCI Cultural Studies Centre (Indonesia), Patrick Flores (University of the Philippines), Reem Fadda (curator, Palestine), Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam (filmmakers, India), Yawnghwe Office in Exile (artist, Myanmar), Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (artists, South Korea), Zoe Butt (The Factory Contemporary Arts Center, Vietnam) amongst others.
Asia Assemble is supported by
Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation, the
Rockefeller Foundation, and
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller.
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