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Topic Archives: Collaborative
Migrant Ecologies: Innovative Southeast Asian science-art collaboration
Posted on Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
Art Radar talks to Lucy Davis about Migrant Ecologies, a project that explores the relationships that exist between both science and art, and nature and humanity.
Louis Vuitton gets Yayoi Kusama’s polka-dots
Posted on Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
Marc Jacobs of Louis Vuitton continues to push fashion and art collaboration to the cutting edge as his partnership with the contemporary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama proves.
Filipino and Korean artists in rare collaboration: What was the result?
Posted on Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
“We Was There” was the product of an unusual collaboration between Korean and Filipino visual artists and sought to social stereotypes.
New project on Chinoiserie and contemporary art to launch at London's Victoria and Albert Museum
Posted on Thursday, October 7th, 2010
CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART CHINOISERIE CONFERENCE Originating in the 17th century to describe the Western fascination with Chinese art and design, the phenomenon of Chinoiserie will be the focus of a new three year project SINOPTICON: Contemporary Chinoiserie in Contemporary Art … Continue reading
Photography in contemporary Russia – Art Radar speaks with curator Olga Sviblova, AES+F and Igor Moukhin
Posted on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
MOSCOW PARIS CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION MUSEUM SHOWS With France-Russia Year 2010 in full swing, Maison Européene de la Photographie (MEP) and the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (MAMM), formerly the Moscow House of Photography, partnered for the photo exhibition “Photography in Contemporary Russia, … Continue reading
World premiere of new AES+F photo collages at Moscow's Garage Center – video
Posted on Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
RUSSIAN ARTIST COLLECTIVE PHOTOGRAPHY VIDEO Made up of artists Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovitch, Evgeny Svyatsky, and Vladmir Fridkes, internatinoally acclaimed Russian collective AES+F returns once again to Moscow’s Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in the center’s newest exhibition, “The Feast of … Continue reading
Myanmar artists access international art community, Art Radar speaks to Aye Ko about +ROAD
Posted on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
ART PROFESSIONAL INTERVIEW MYANMAR ARTIST AND ART SCENE Late last month, Art Radar spoke with Nindityo Adipurnomo, one of the executive directors of Cemeti Art House, about the recent “+ROAD” collaborative project and exhibition between five young artists from Myanmar and five … Continue reading
Nindityo Adipurnomo talks with Art Radar on "+Road" collaboration with Myanmar artists, "gambling spirit" of Indonesian collectors
Posted on Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
ART PROFESSIONAL INTERVIEW INDONESIAN ART EVENTS In an Art Radar Asia exclusive interview with Cemeti founder Nindityo Adipurnomo, we hear the fascinating story of their latest venture working collaboratively with artists from Myanmar. Read on to learn how cultural conflicts and … Continue reading
Ai Weiwei and Vito Acconci wrap up major collaboration at Hong Kong's Para/Site art space
Posted on Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
AI WEIWEI CHINESE ART HONG KONG ART SPACES ARTIST COLLABORATIONS With a new project, Chinese art all-rounder Ai Weiwei, in cooperation with American artist Vito Acconci, has brought fresh dialogues between the East and West to Hong Kong, a monumental event in Ai … Continue reading
A common man uncommonly direct – Indian contemporary sculptor Subodh Gupta in conversation in Hong Kong
Posted on Sunday, December 6th, 2009
CONVERSATION SUBODH GUPTA INDIAN CONTEMPORARY ART New Delhi-based contemporary artist Subodh Gupta is not backward in coming forward with his views. Smiling firmly, he chose not to respond to introductory remarks made by moderator William Pym, Managing Editor of Art … Continue reading
Picasso of China or voice of dissent: Who is Ai Wei Wei? Profile
Posted on Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
CHINESE ARTIST PROFILE Ai Wei Wei is vying with Cai Guo Qiang to become the most famous contemporary Chinese artist in the world claims Artinfo in its must-read quote-dense 4 page profile produced on the occasion of Ai Wei Wei’s first … Continue reading
Surprising new direction taken by cadaver artists and Saatchi stars: Sun Yuan and Peng Yu – interview
Posted on Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
HONG KONG CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHY ART Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, born in the early 1970s and both alumni of the prominent Beijing Central Academy of Art, have a long-established reputation in Asia for their controversial collaborative installations featuring animals, human tissue … Continue reading
80 per cent of Iraqi artists live elsewhere – Creativity vs Destruction review
Posted on Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
IRAQ ART REVIEW Around 80 per cent of Iraq’s artists now live elsewhere but many are still driven to explore events in their former homeland, as is shown in Creativity vs Destruction, a group exhibition of Iraqi art in Edinburgh, … Continue reading
Middle Eastern, Indian, Pakistani artists show seminal works in 3-city exhibition: Lines of Control
Posted on Monday, February 23rd, 2009
MIDDLE EAST SOUTH ASIA ART Two influential art enterprises, Green Cardamom and Middle Eastern gallery The Third Line co-present Lines of Control, a fascinating series of exhibitions in Dubai, Karachi and London comprising both seminal and new works by 18 … Continue reading
New roles for art collectors, organisations created by Cao Fei on Second Life – Uli Sigg is RMB City governor
Posted on Friday, January 30th, 2009
INTERVIEW CHINESE ARTIST CAO FEI Editor of Asia Art Archive’s Diaaalogue, Sue Acret spoke to Chinese artist Cao Fei about her Second Life project RMB City which was officially launched in January 2009. In this project which uses as a … Continue reading
Filipino artist Alwin Reamillo's Helicopter project to tour Australia in 2009
Posted on Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
FILIPINO ART Australian-based Filipino artist Alwin Reamillo’s collaborative sculpture called the Thuringowa Helicopter Project is to tour Australia’s capital cities as part of Kultour 2009. “Craft refers to a process of making a creative form of some sort, but also refers … Continue reading



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