Patrick D. Flores
is participant at
A New Geography of Art in the Making
Abstract
Field Notes on an Art World: Interest and Impasse
It first surveys the main modalities of theory on Southeast Asian modern and contemporary art and then focuses on instances in which certain forms resist integration into contemporary art. The element of the “ethnographic” is reflected on because contemporary art tends to assimilate aspects of history and everyday life in its aesthetic. I will cite examples from the Philippines, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Thailand. I will also try to think about how anthropology has been appropriated by contemporary art.
