Art
An Artist Entangles Performance, Process, and Wire Sculpture
Tith Kanitha is known for her sculptures of steel wire that read like artifacts from some forgotten, ancient civilization, but she also stages performances and works in film.
Sa Sa Bassac
Art
The Myths and Failures of Modern Khmer Architecture
Albert Samreth examines the fading legacy of New Khmer Architecture, which wanted to represent recently independent Cambodia as authentically Khmer, but also legibly modern.
Interview
"Censorship Is Always Arbitrary": An Interview with an Art Critic in Singapore
Weng-Choy Lee, president of the Singapore section of the International Association of Art Critics, discusses the country's complexities, the evils of capitalism, and the relevance of Foucault.
Art
Everything Points Inward: Capitalism and Its Discontents at an Art Fair in Singapore
Art Stage Singapore’s tagline is “We Are Asia,” but the fair’s dream of representing all of Asia’s art is just that — a dream.
Art
The Southeast Asian Artists Who Searched for a Regional Identity After Colonialism
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — For far too long, and to this day, Southeast Asia has been aestheticized, largely by the French, as a means to advance the role of the colonizer.
Art
Young Khmer Artists Try the Tricky Business of Mapmaking
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The mapping and the drawing borders has been an especially violent and contested activity here for centuries.