Street Talk: On Southeast Asian Contemporary Art, Audiences, and Agency

HAPPENING AT PAROLA 📚

All are invited to Street Talk: On Southeast Asian Contemporary Art, Audiences, and Agency, a discussion with Singapore-based art historian and curator Dr. Iola Lenzi, happening on Thursday, November 6, 4:30 PM at the Gallery Lobby of Parola.
The event is part of the Philippine leg of Lenzi’s book launch of “Power, Politics and the Street: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia after 1970.”

Iola Lenzi’s book is a single-author transnational history of Southeast Asian contemporary art that traces field emergence back to 1970s Indonesia and Philippines, connected to 21st century examples in the wider region today. By showing shared traits of art produced over five decades in eight countries, the book makes a case for a distinctive Southeast Asian contemporary art. It uncovers how and why Southeast Asian artists developed socially-engaging, conceptually-inflected idioms that today deserve their place in broader global contemporary art.

Iola Lenzi, LLB, PhD is a Singapore historian, educator, and curator of Southeast Asian contemporary art. Framing her research in Asian cultural and historical contexts, Lenzi illuminates connections between artistic innovation and social-political conditions in post-1970 Southeast Asia. She teaches Southeast Asian Contemporary Art History as well as Contemporary Curating at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and in the MA of Asian Art Histories Programme of Lasalle/University of the Arts, Singapore.

She has solo or lead-curated some 40 exhibitions in Asia and Europe, and authored-edited six multilingual anthological research publications on Southeast Asian art. She is the author of Museums of Southeast Asia (2004), and her most recent book is Power, Politics and the Street: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia after 1970 (Lund Humphries, 2024).

Presented by the UP College of Fine Arts, through the UP Fine Arts Gallery (Parola) and the Department of Theory.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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