SEARCH

Southeast Asian Art Resource Channel

SEARCH is a pilot project to create an index for resources and documentation on contemporary Southeast Asian art practice and development. It is planned as a long-term, developmental project which can provide an important and useful reference for researchers, artists, curators, collectors and the general public. We hope that it will also develop into an online forum for networking and the exchange of knowledge, and a focus for future events and presentations.

We will introduce the SEARCH project at SH Contemporary in Shanghai this September, as a curated display of the ways in which contemporary Southeast Asian art has been categorised and represented through literature, exhibitions, archival projects, the market, the media and more.

RogueArt, at the invitation of Arthub, is working with individuals and organisations from the region to present a selection of general books and monographs and periodicals, video art screenings, market surveys. A key aim of SEARCH is to introduce important knowledge projects to the regional and international audience.

With thanks to the following for supporting our presentation at SH Contemporary:

SH Contemporary
ArtHub
ruangrupa, Jakarta
Valentine Willie Fine Art Kuala Lumpur
Reading Room Bangkok
IVAA (Indonesian Visual Arts Archive), Yogyakarta
Sotheby’s Asia
Christie’s Asia
Ahmad Mashadi of NUS Museum, Singapore
Patricia Chen
Simon Soon & Eva McGovern
Steve Tirona

More details soon…