Jay Koh’s selected CV,
education details
November 2018
Born and grow up in Singapore till
early adulthood, German citizenship since 1999, identifies himself as a
Southeast Asian.
Personal details:
Email contact: kohjay@gmail.com FB: ifimajae Web: www.ifima.net
Language Proficiency: English
(spoken and written), German (spoken and written), Mandarin (spoken), Cantonese
(spoken), Bahasa Melayu, Burmese and Thai (spoken, basic)
Key achievements:
International recognised artist-curator and researcher with a
specialised praxis in socially engaged, public participatory and community art.
This includes working across disciplines and sectors, research, evaluation and mentoring activities in the field of
communication, mediation and cross-cultural environment.
Maryam
Rashidi, Interdisciplinary &
Cross-Cultural Studies, Research School of Humanities & the Arts,
Australian National University, Melbourne,
Wong Laing
Ming, Arthur, Division of Cultural Studies, Department of Cultural and
Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong and
Charlotte
Andrew, Elam School of Art, Auckland University, New Zealand.
These
include other MA theses in courses e.g. Copenhagen Business School’s Business
Creative Processes and Contemporary Art, Art Theory
in Asia, School of Oriental and African Studies, London and Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung University,
Taiwan.
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My art research
and activities are referenced in numerous teaching materials such as of Prof. Grant Kester, University
California San Diego, Prof. Suzanne Lacy, Otis
College of Art and Design, California and recently over 30 mentioned references
according to Academia.edu.
Largest personal curated show Auszeit
der Demokratie (Timeout of Democracy), 50,000 cu.metre, Halle Kalk and in
various public spaces in Cologne, 1993. Other curated projects, conferences
& shows in cities of China, Finalnd, Germany, Ireland, Mongolia, Myanamr,
Scotland, Thailand & The Phillippines
Ability to work individually and collaborate with others or team
across diverse cultural and political belief systems.
Managed and directed international art spaces, arting in Cologne (1992 – 99), NICA in Yangon ( 2003 – 07) and the
platform iFIMA (international Forum for InterMedia Art) since 1995. During
these activities, i have as an artist-curator curated large project such as
Genopoly (90-93) in Bonn, Cologne and Dueran. These activities include ET in
ChiangMai, Thailand (95-96), The Other Xchange, Beijing-Cologne (1999-2000)
Implemented capacity and capabilities building, art resource
developmental and educational programme, OPEN Academy, in Hanoi, Hue, Yangon
and Ulaanbaatar. (2003 – 11)
Book publication on cross-disciplinary artistic praxis, Art-led
Participative Processes: Dialogue and Subjectivity within Performance in the
Everyday University of the Arts Helsinki, 2015, 2nd
edition by SIRD/Gerakbudaya, Kuala Lumpur 2016, presently writing to meet essay/chapter
assignments for various book/journal and on his forthcomng book, Performing Politics: Arts & Society, Myanmar
Participation in Inbetween, the Turkish contribution in
the 45th Venice Biennial (1993) and in Bali Kino in Documenta X (1997)
Education:
Doctoral of Fine Art studies, cross-disciplinary artistic research and
praxis, thesis titled: Art Led Participatory Processes: Subject to Subject
Communication within Performances in the Everyday at the University
of Arts Helsinki (aka. Academy of Fine Arts), Finland, as the first foreign candidate in the doctoral studies programme. Academic
board confirmation in Dec. 2013
Main supervisor: Prof. Grant Kester, Art History, University of
California San Diego, USA
Internal examiners: Academic Examination Board of University of Arts Helsinki,
Finland
External examiners: Dr.
Gillian Whiteley, Loughborough University, UK & Prof. Bruce Barber, NSCAD
University, Canada
Accreditated and Informal Teaching
activities
Zurich
University of the Arts, Master of Advanced Studies, Art & Society,
(part-time) Module Supervisor
and facilitator for modules on Art_Led Participative Processes, Contexts and
the Everyday.
Chiangmai
University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Media Arts & Design, Visiting
Prof., teaching artistic research, workshops on deliberative, participative and
people-centred processes and public participative projects.
Informal
art education and development program for MOI land, Dalat, Vietnam (2019 –
ongoing)
Created
and conducted the informal education program, Open Academy, in Hanoi & Hue
(2008), Yangon(2003-7) & Ulaanbaator (2009-11), Funded by FORD Fdn.; Prince
Claus Fund, NL; Japan Fdn.; LEE Fdn, Singapore
Research & Projects, selected:
Artist-Curator
of Flowing on the Verge of Margins, the public
participative art of a cross/inter-diciplinary project a
pilot project funded
by The British Academy, initiated
by the University of West of England, Bristol (Centre for sustainability
and environment) in collaboration with
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok (Water resources and managment) and international Forum for InterMedia Art.
Pilot Phase Jan. - Dec. 2018
Research
Fellow of Shifting Dialogues: Research project on Asian performance and fine arts, 2011 – 14, Academy of Finland. Project in Myanmar, Delicate Conversation
Research on Mentoring for Artists working
across disciplines, 2008 – 2011, CREATE-Ireland, Arts Council Ireland
Short-term
visiting artist/lecturer, giving talks and workshops in selected
Tertiary/Cultural Institutions since 1999:
Central
School for Speech and Drama, University of London; Department for Environmental Art, University Turku and Tempere
Polytechnic Art Academy, Tempere, Finland; Fine Art Dept., University of
California San Diego; NCAD, Dublin, MAVIS/IADT, Dublin and GMIT, Galway
in Ireland; Cittadella, UNIDEE, Brella, Italy; Nanyang Academy of Fine Art and Singapore Art
Museum, Singapore; Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Sunway University College and Monash
University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Tokyo University of the Arts (Gedei); School of Communication Arts, Bangkok
University; Faculty of Arts & Architecture, King Mongut University of
Technology Thonburi, Bangkok; School for
Arts Management and Cultural Policy, LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore;
School of the Arts, Universiti Sain Malaysia, Penang; LASA Cuba, Havana, Cuba; Zurich University of the Arts and Lucerne
University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland; Post-doctoral research cluster, Center of Comparative Studies, University
of Lisbon, Lisbon; Sculpture Studio, Glasgow, Scotland; Media Arts & Design, Chiangmai
University, Thailand; Heritage Space, Hanoi.
Evaluation activities:
External
evaluation on Mediation of Public Art in Dunghaire-Rathdown County, Ireland,
2009
Evaluation
of art resource development in South Dublin City County, Dublin, Ireland, 2009
Evaluation
of rural community and social art project, X-PO in County Clare, West Ireland,
2007- 8
Evaluation
of cultural Heritage in Burma/Myanmar after Cyclon Nargis for Prince Claus
Fund, The Netherland, 2008
Peer Reviewer for manuscripts
for Cultural Geographies, Journal,
SAGE, UK and
Kemanusiaan: The Asian Journal of Humanities, Universiti
Sains Malaysia
Provide consultation in Tokyo
to ’dislocate’, a cross discipinary project to
work with lawyers, social scienctists, artists and residents to create
alternative processes in respond to the values of the dominant sturcture.
Commissioned
mentor services in socially engaged and public participatory art prctice from
2007 - 2010 for artists and communities, Common Ground, Dublin, Ireland &
MA, Art in Public, University of Ulster, UK.
Commissioned
research on best practice for mentorship for artists, cultural workers and
communities with CREATE-Ireland & Common Ground, from 2009-2010.
Publication of mentorship documentations & DVD
Consultation
to education programme for Montesorri based school of Dignity for Children
Foundation, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2015 – ongoing.
Continually
research on ecological validation of socially engaged, public participatory &
community art practice.
Present
Positions and Responsibilities:
Founder
and Director of iFIMA - international Forum for InterMedia Art
Consultant
and Mentor to 3C project in Bangkok to setup up the Arts, Research
& Collaboration station.
Consultant and Mentor to MOI Land, Dalat, Vietnam to setup public participative
art projects
Selected Past Positions and Responsibilities:
Curator and
cultural diversity Fellowship with Peacock Visul Arts, Aberdeen and Deveron
Arts, Huntly, NE Scotland (2010-2011) funded by CREATIVE Scotland.
Researcher of the
Asian Art and Performance Consortium ( 2011-2013)
Advisor
to ArtHub, an
Asian art regranting foundation in Hong Kong (2007 – 2012)
Advisor
to 1948 art space, Seri Kembangan (Kuala Lumpur), Malaysia (2008 – 2010)
Curator
of the curated section of the Textile Biennale 2009, Kuanas, Lithuania (in 2007)
Advisor
to FreeDIMENSIONAL network, for
social justice (2006-8)
Advisor
to Irish Chinese Culture and Sports Association, Ireland (2007 – 2010)
Advisor
to Blue Sun, Independent Art Centre in
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (2007 – 2009)
Advisor
to Creative World, First Contemporary Art Magazine in Mongolia (2007 –
2009)
Founding
Director of NICA, Rangoon - Networking &
Initiatives for Culture and the Arts (2002 – 2007)
Advisor to The Ayeyarwaddy Artists Assembly, Rangoon,
Burma (2001 -2002)
Advisor to The League of Khmer Artists, Phnom Penh,
Cambodia (2000-2001)
Advisor
to Organisation + Imagination ( Artist Placement
Group), London, UK (1999-2005)
Founding
Director and manager of arting,
Cologne, Germany (1992 – 1999)
Specialist Critic for Genetic and Reproduction Technology with the Der Gesundheitsladen Koeln, Cologne,
Germany (1986 – 1990)
Conducting one-off workshops,
consultations and part-time teaching
2019 Teaching MAS modules in Hong Kong, Zurich University of the Arts, Master
of Advanced Studies in Art & Society.
Educational projects in Yersin
University, Dalat, Vietnam.
2018 International MA thesis committee panel, Inter-Asia Cultural
Studies, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Invited
Expert to teach in Month of Art Practice, Heritage Space, Hanoi
Convenor of the 3rd
international conference & workshop on People-centred
Processes: Learning from Conflicts & Failure 3rd
Bangmod Creative Community Festival, Thung Khru, Bangkok
2017 Workshop in Zurich University of the
Arts, Master of Arts in Fine Arts.
Lecture
in Lucerne University of the Arts. Interdicipinary Studies in Design & Arts
Lecture
and events with postdocs reserach clusters of the Centre for Comparative
studies, University of Lisbon
Lecture
and workshop for the MA Arts Management, LaSalle College for the Arts,
Singapore
Lecture for the MA School of
Architecture & Arts, King Mongut University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok
Respondent
to event on Cultural Policies on Community Arts in Singapore, Institute of
Policy Studies, LKY School of Policy Studies.
Convenor of the 2nd
international conference & workshop on People-centred
Processes: From Participation to Collaboration
2nd Bangmod Creative
Community Festival, Thung Khru, Bangkok
2016 Convenor of the 1st international
conference & workshop on People-centred
Processes: Arts, Education & Cross-sector Collaboration, Asia Centre,
Bangkok, Phayathai.
Class & workshop in the
School of Architecture & Arts, King Mongut University of Technology
Thonburi and in School of Communication Arts, Bangkok University, Thailand
Practical
Workshop on People-centred processes on
the ground for Buku Jalanan Chow Kit in Onn Jaafar Institute, Kuala Lumpur.
2015 Workshops on Public Participative and
Socially Engaged Art for Transactions in
the Field, organised by Lost Generatio Space, Goethe Institute, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia
Consultation for Community-Engaged Arts: Regional Exchange
Meeting & Roundtables, Penang, Malaysia
Consultation and
teaching courses on relational and participative processes for the School for
Urban-poor, Dignity for Children Foundation, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2014 Consultation and resource building for dislocate, a cultural activist &
artist group in Tokyo, Nishi-Ogikubo
2012 Consultant and
curator to setup art education, community and public engaged art programme for
LokaAhlinn, NGO in Yangon, Myanmar (conducted workshops and research)
2011 - Art & Research project SCORE in Myanmar (part of the Asian Art
and Performance Consortium funded by Academy of Finland)
- Curator
and teacher for the Open Academy
Ulaanbaatar, 2nd phase, funded by Prince Claus Fund, The
Netherland
2009 2 days workshop and mentoring
activities for participants of the summer semester on collaborative art for
Cittadellarte, UNIDEE- University of Idea, Bielle, Italy
- Workshop
as part of the international colloquium for The Festival of Emergent Art on Practice-as-Research for
the Central School for Speech and Drama, University of London
- Curating and teaching 2nd year,1st
phase programme of Open Academy Ulaanbaatar with the Fine Arts Institute,
Mongolian University for Culture and the Arts and Blue Sun artists group in
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia funded by Prince Claus Fund.
2008 Conducting open learning and resource
development seminars and workshops for the art communities as part of the Open
Academy programme in Hanoi and Hue, Vietnam organised by Dongson Today
Foundation, funded by FORD Foundation, Asia.
- Curating and teaching of the 1st
year of the 1st phase programme of Open Academy Ulaanbaatar with the Fine Arts
Institute, Mongolian University for Culture and the Arts and Blue Sun artists
community in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia funded by Prince Claus Fund.
2006 As one of 3
lead curators chosen by Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) to collaborate with the
other 2 chosen to represent Geothe Institute and Indonesia. Assist organizers
(ASEF and Goethe Institute) in the selection of participants and creating the
programmes for the workshops of The Multi Faceted Curator in Jakarta and Bandung, Indonesia.
Participants are 22 young curators selected from 37 countries from Asean+3 and
the European Union. www.goethe.de/curator
- Conducting the workshop Articulating the Art Encounter: Art
Criticism and Writing Workshop in the Singapore Art Museum.
2005 Conducting a workshop on Dialogue in art practices within the
frame work of Dialogical and Engaged Art, Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden
- Art
and Knowledge, Helsinki Art Museum and Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
Conducting community
and photography based public art workshops, publications and reviews.
2011 Fisher, Tony 2011, Radical Democracy
Theater, Performance Research, 16:4, 15-26, referencing my
photo series Signal from Burma 2007-8
- Workshops in Open Academy, 2nd phase in
Ulaanbaator
2009/10
Cross cultural public art project, Reading the Self and Reading the Others,
Dublin
2009 Articles on reading and
interpretation of photos written for the Irish Chinese Culture and Sport
Association, published in the Sun Emerald Chinese weekly newspaper in Ireland as part of the
photography based public participatory art workshop for the cross cultural
project Reading the Self, Reading the
Others. Published in Chinese + English.
November 2009, The Secret Life of Images, pdf
435 KB
December 2009, Relationship of Everyday Life,
pdf 250 KB
December 2009, The Visual Culture of Chinatowns, pdf 192 KB
2007 Wilson, Mick,
Autonomy, Agonism an Activist Art: An Interview with Grant Kester, Art Journal, Vol.66, no.3, Fall 2007,
USA
taide
2 / 07, Finnish art magazine, Jay Koh ja kuuntelemisen taide, Helsinki,
2007
2005 Public Art project "Portraying Ourselves"
commissioned by Loennstroem Art Museum, Raumar/ Finland
Selected Bibliography and Reviews
2018 Douglas, A. (2018) ‘Redistributing Power?: A
Poetics of Participation in Contemporary Arts’ in Facer, K. and Dunleavy, K.
Connected Communities Foundation Series. Bristol: University of Bristol/AHRC
Connected Communities Programme.
2015 Reviews in Chinese, English & Malay
languages of Art-led Participative Processes: Dialogue and Subjectivity within
Performance in the Everyday,
University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland.
Chu
Yuan, Threading Voices through Drawings
& Conversations: Voices Pieces, Yangon 2013, sentAp!-A Decade, Ipoh,
Malaysia, 2015 pp 29-39
2014 Fiona Whelan, TEN; Territory, Encounter & Negotiation, A critical memoir of a
socially engaged artist, Dublin, Ireland
http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/e-misferica-91/cole
http://distributedcreativity.typepad.com/reading_group/2006/03/elli_on_kesters.html
2013 Chu Chu Yuan, Negotiation-as-Active-Knowing:
an Approach Evolved from Relational Art Practice, PhD thesis, Gray’s School of
Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland.
2012 Nora A. Taylor and Boreth Ly, editors, Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art:
An Anthology, Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University SEAP Press, 2012
- Federation of
Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia, Factsheet
on Collaborative Art – Avenues for Expression for Young People in Multicultural
Settings
2011 Grant
Kester, The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context (Duke University
Press), 2011
Fisher, Tony 2011, Radical Democracy
Theater, Performance Research, 16:4, 15-26, referencing my
photo series Signal from Burma 2007-8
2009 Malcolm Miles, Aesthetics in a Time of Emergency, Third Text, 23: 4, 421 – 433
2007 Wilson, Mick,
Autonomy, Agonism an Activist Art: An Interview with Grant Kester, Art Journal, Vol.66, no.3, Fall 2007,
USA
taide
2 / 07, Finnish art magazine, Jay Koh ja kuuntelemisen taide, Helsinki,
2007
2006 PhD’s thesis of
Heather Delday, On the Edge research
programme, Gray’s School of Art, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen,
Scotland.
- Public Moment, publication of Artist
Forum International, Seoul 2006
2004 Grant
H. Kester,
Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art,
University of California Press, 2004, USA Translated
in Chinese and published by Wu Ma Li, Taiwan.
2003 Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985,
edited by Zoya Kocur and Simon Leung, Blackwell Publishing 2003, New York/ USA,
REPRINT 2012
2001 histories identities technologies spaces
– Singapore Art Today, Nokia Singapore Art.
2000 KunstForum Band
149, Kunst und Kapital:
metaphorische Symbiose und politische Kritik, Juergen Raap,
Cologne, Germany
1999 Grant Kester,
The Art of Listening (and of Being
Heard): Jay Koh's Discursive Networks, Third Text, Vol. 13, Issue 47, pp 19 – 26, Special Sum. Edition 1999, ed. Sean Cubitt,
UK
1998 Kalligram, 3/98,
Budapest, Hungary
1997 Arte (Europe art TV channel), a film from Astrid
Heinrich "Dies ist keine Banane” 26' 29''
1993 In Between, publication to Turkey’s
inargural contribution to 45th Venice Bienniale.
- November TV
"Art Cologne”, Cologne / Germany and Bijutso Techno, Japan
Selected paper presentations and panel
discussions
2016 Book’s talk, LaSalle College of the
Arts, Faculty of the Creative Inductries, Singapore
2015 Panel speaker for Spaced 2 symposium,
Western Australia Art Museum, Perth
Presentation to Dialogue & Empathy, VPA, UNESCO-National
Institute of Education, Singapore
Presentation on Activism and
Communities, Field Trip Project Asia, NIE & National Library
2014 Speaker, sympsoium dislocate, Ogikubo,
Zempukuji, Tokyo
2013 Presentation of Cervantes Public Art, Spaced, Perth.
2012 Experts
meeting - Revisiting Cultural Diversity
and the Art Education System, Creating 010, Hogeschool Rotterdam, Rotterdam
- Speaker in OpenHere, Science Gallery, Trinity
College, Dublin
- Speaker at
the ResArtis 13th General Meeting 2012, TOKYO, U
THANT conference hall, United Nation University and Tokyo Women Plaza
- Researcher
and evaluator to events of Microresidence Program, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo
2009 Speaker in the symposium on Public Art, GradCAM (PhD
programme of National College for Art and Design, Dublin Institute of
Technology, Ulster University and Institute for Art Design and Technology) and
visiting lecturer with MAVIS/IADT in Dublin
2008 Present
the paper, Divides, Narratives and
Relational Processes in Moldova in Two Scenarios organised by Center for Contemporary Art,
Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
2007 Speaker in the
specialist panel on Working in Public
in the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. Organised by Gray’s School of Art,
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
- Symposium and Retreat of
FreeDimensional in Breuninger Stiftung, Wasan Island, Toronto, Canada
- Lecture
in Barcelona, Pati Manning, Barcelona Provincial Council, Mediating across Divides and in between
Layers at the “Culture and Conflict Prevention” seminar commissioned
by ARCADE (Awareness Raising on Culture and Development in Europe) and ACTED (Agency for Technical
Cooperation and Development)
-
Performances
in Everyday Public: Engaged Art Practice commissioned by
CADRE (Centre for Art, Design, Research and Experimentation), School of Art
& Design, University of Wolverhampton, UK
2006 Research trip and
the Visiting Artist/Cutrator/Lecturer programme of University of California San
Diego, meetings with artist groups in Los Angeles and Tijuana.
- Art
activities in Asia at the Mexico: Gateway to the Americas, Mexico City organized by
the National Council for Culture and the Arts of Mexico and ResArtis
- Research and presentation in
Arts Council of Mongolia to set up a resource development programme for art and
culture in Ulaanbaatar
- Presentation and documentation
show Public Moment in Artist Forum
International, 2006 in Seoul, and symposium for "Artist Mobility" in
Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju.
2005 Research, seminars in CityArts, Dublin,
Ireland for a public art project and an intercultural project.
- Panel speaker in Symposium
"Art and Social
Intervention: the Incidental Person" in Tate Britain, London
- Setting up
an Uncomfortable Site within the panel on Intervention in Performance
Studies international #11, Providence, Brown University, Rhodes Island, USA
- Presentation in Res Artist#10, Sharing Cultures and Social Changes,
panel "Curating
Differences", House of the Cultures of the World and Ufa
Fabrik Berlin International Cultural Centre, Berlin, Germany
- Presentation in Living Art
Museum, Reykjavik and research on Icelandic art scene hosted by CIA.is(Center
for Icelandic Art), Iceland
Presentation Art and Knowledge-Encounter in
Intercultural art projects, Helsinki Art Museum and Academy of Fine
Arts, Helsinki/ Finland
Presentation about
IFIMA, ARTCONCEPT,
St. Petersburg, Russia
Presentation in Asian Artists' Mobility,
Taiwan artist village assoc. Tainan and Taipei, Taiwan
Selected Publication List
2019 - Forthcoming chapter
in Third Text special issue: The
(Post)Colony and the Common: Collective Creativity, Agency and Emancipation in
a Global Context. Editor Carlos Garrido Castellano, PhD, Centro de Estudos
Comparatistas, Universidade de Lisboa
- Forthcoming book, as Chief
Editor, Reader on Praxis/es; Public,
Socially Engaged and Community in Southeast Asia.
2016
- essay reprint of Encounters in engagement: Investigating public engaged art in
Singapore in the book Documents
of Contemporary Art in Singapore: Histories, Practices, Interventions, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore,
co-authorship with Chu ChuYuan
-
Working ’with’- not ’for’ or ’about’ - Others
, an essay for UNSEEN-Constellation, BRACK, Singapore
- 2nd edition: Art-led Participative Processes: Dialogue and Subjectivity within
Performance in the Everyday, SRID/Gerakbudaya, Kuala Lumpur
2015 Book publication: Art-led Participative Processes: Dialogue and Subjectivity within
Performance in the Everyday, University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland
2010 Artist's Research Text on Methodology (academic essay) in the book:
Kantonen, Lea (ed.),
Ankaraa ja my�t�tuntoista kuuntelua. Keskustelevaa
kirjoitusta paikkasidonnaisesta
taiteesta. Kuvataideakatemia, 2010, Helsinki. (The Finnish Academy of Fine
Arts, Helsinki)
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A Virtuoso with Multiple Faces co-author with Chu Yuan. Published in Asia Art Archive Newsletter May 2010
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Intro to Dialogical Practice is the full version of the essay Are u
a SPY?
Published in Visual Artists Ireland
newsletter May/June 2010
2007 Across Divides and
Beliefs, An essay as one of
the 3 lead curators in the Multifaceted Curator Symposium in Bandung and
Jakarta organised by Goethe Institute and Asia-Europe Foundation, March 2006
published as a CD in 2007
2006 Locating the
Mobile Artist: from Cultural Diversities to Local Specificities in Residencies:
Spaces + Artists + Managers + Communities, Berlin, UFA Fabrik,, RES
ARTIS and Asia Europe Foundation. Pg.18-26, co-authorship with Chu ChuYuan
2005 Politics
of the Self in the Negotiation of Soilidarities
in Locus: Interventions in Art Practice,
Manila, a PROJECT OF Lopez Memorial Museum and Pananaw ng Sinnig Bayan Inc,
National Commission for Culture and the Arts
- City Transformers 2002
Gdansk, Danzig, Poland, Laznia Centre for
Contemporary Art, Gdansk. Pg.15-19, co-author: CHU, Chu Yuan, Published in
English and Polish
2004 Potholes
and Corners: Intentions, Desires and Constraints of Cross and Intercultural
Activities in Links, Platform and
Networks, Publications of Asia Art Archive (AAA), Hong Kong and International Association of
Art Critics Hong Kong (AIAC/HK), Hong Kong, Published in Chinese, English, 2007
in Vietnamese in the The National Culture and Arts Magazine ( Tạp chí Văn
hóa Nghệ thuật), Hanoi, 2007, NR.5
- Restricted
Contemporaries :Art Practices in present Myanmar, Published under the pseudonym of Jaera
Han in The Art Magazine, Singapore, May 2004
- Encounters in Engagement:
Investigating Public Engaged Art in Singapore,
Section One-Public Engaged Art, focas #4 journal, (forum on contemporary art
& society) Singapore, Pg. 38 – 52, co-author: Chu Chu Yuan. Editorial for
Section One, Pg 24 – 221
2002 Vasan Sitthiket, son activisme et le groupe Ukabat, Inter 81, art actuel, Quebec, Canada 2002. Published in French
- Art Activism and Cross-cultural Projects in Thailand and Myanmar: The
Need to Open up Structures for Engagement., focas (forum on contemporary art and society) #2 journal,
The Necessary Stage, Singapore, Pg.115 – 130, Published in English, 2007 in
Vietnamese, online version Part 1 and Part 2
2001 Engaged
Art in Public Spaces / Sztuka
zaangazowana w przestreniach publicznych. This seminar was given in 2001 in
Gdansk and a year later "City Transformer" took place. It is
published in English and Polish in the City Transformer's catalog.
- M-spaces, histories identities technologies spaces, Singapore Art Today, Nokia Singapore Art.
2000 "58", commissioned essay for catalogue of Station to Station: Images of the
World, Danish Center for Culture and Development (DCCD), 2000
Denmark, Copenhagen, The printed versions are in Danish and English. 58 referred to
the 58 Chinese persons from Southern China found dead in a refrigeration truck
entering Dover from Oostende on 18th June 2000
1999 Critical
Art Practice, U-Kabat Magazine, Bangkok presented in the Foreign
Correspondence Club Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand
1998 Viewpoint-Art
and Social Context, Art journal, Dhaka, Bangladesh
1995 Publication of project A Summer Fairy Tale, Cologne
1993 Publication of project Auszeit der Demokratie, Cologne