Art, Media, Exhibitions, Events, Essays
D.I.Y: Art from the Indonesian Archipelago — art by Heri Dono, Ahmad Zakii Anwar, Kow Leong Kiang, and Putu Sutawijaya
Rebordering the Archipelago — Asia Pacific Exchanges — symposium organized by Centre of Visual Art, University of Melbourne in association with the Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network (APARN)
Asia’s Platform Archipelago: Offshore Oil and Gas Rigs and the Invasive Threat of Slowly Travelling Ecosystems — talk by Stefan Huebner, Senior Research Fellow, ARI, National University of Singapore
Composing Archipelagos — art exhibition by Tasmanian artists curated by Jasmin Stephens
Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific — art exhibition organized by Dr. Steven Hooper, director and professor of visual arts, and his team at the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich, England
Fyerool Darma: Resurrecting the Archipelago — art by Fyerool Darma, an artist from and based in Singapore
Secret Archipelago — exhibition of 35 Southeast Asian artists curated by Khairuddin Hori [Images]
Performing the Archipelago — collaborative events organized by Asia Art Archive [Video]
Beacons of Archipelago: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia — exhibition of 13 Southeast Asian artists [Images]
“Drifting Realities: The Archipelago of Food Discourses” — a panel with artists and academics
“Siapa Nama Kamu? – Questions to Answer a Friend” — essay by curator Syed Muhammad Hafiz about thinking Singapore’s art archipelagically in relation to the Malay Archipelago [Interview with Syed Muhammad Hafiz]
Archipelago — art installation by Haru Ji and Graham Wakefield. [Video]
《Archipelago Michael Lin》— painting / installation by Michael Lin from Taiwan
波靖南溟 Gentle Waves Over The Archipelago — exhibition of art by Indonesian and Singaporean artists
Scholarship and Criticism
Alvin Eng Hui Lim. “Routes and Routers of Interculturalism: Islands, Theatres and Shakespeares”
Brian Bernards. Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature
Brian Russell Roberts and Michelle Ann Stephens, eds. Archipelagic American Studies
Elmo Gonzaga. “Archipelagic Intermediality”
Elmo Gonzaga. “Infrastructure as Method in Archipelagic Southeast Asia”
Emmanuel David. “Transgender Archipelagos”
Imran bin Tajudeen. “Carving an Epistemological Space for Southeast Asia: Historiographical and Critical Engagements”
Jay Batongbacal. “Defining Archipelagic Studies”
Jennifer L. Gaynor. Intertidal History in Island Southeast Asia: Submerged Genealogy and the Legacy of Coastal Capture
Marco Cuevas-Hewitt. “Sketching Towards an Archipelagic Poetics of Postcolonial Belonging”
Michelle Stephens and Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, eds. Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking: Towards New Comparative Methodologies and Disciplinary Formations
Paul Rae. “Archipelagic Performance: Scenes from Maritime Southeast Asia”
Tom Boellstorff. “From West Indies to East Indies: Archipelagic Interchanges”
Tom Boellstorff. The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia
William Peterson and Reagan Romero Maiquez. “‘Yesterday’s Dreams, Tomorrow’s Promise’: Performing a Pan-ASEAN Archipelagic Identity at Age 50.”