- Vietnam, Vietnamese History, Vietnamese Contemporary Art, Southeast Asian Studies, Art and Politics, Vietnamese studies, and 6 moreSoutheast Asia Contemporary Art, Vietnamese Art, History of Vietnamese Culture and Art, Global/local, Modern and Contemporary Art History and Theory, Contemporary Asian Art, Art and Globalization, Post-Colonialism, and Southeast Asian Art Historyedit
- Iola Lenzi is a Singapore art historian and curator of modern and contemporary Southeast Asian art. Holding an LLB an... moreIola Lenzi is a Singapore art historian and curator of modern and contemporary Southeast Asian art. Holding an LLB and a PhD in modern Asian art history, with interdisciplinary methods she studies visual art grappling critically with history and society, analysed comparatively within Asian cultural frameworks. Her recent research focuses on the emergence of contemporary art in Vietnam, spearheaded by pioneer Hanoi contemporary artists Vu Dan Tan, Nguyen Van Cuong, and Truong Tan, among others. She has curated numerous exhibitions of Southeast Asian art in Asia and Europe, and commissioned–edited–authored multilingual research anthologies on Southeast Asian modern and contemporary art and its discourses. Lenzi teaches undergraduate and graduate modern Asian art history in Singapore, and is the author of 'Museums of Southeast Asia' (2004).edit
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Analysis of conceptual methodologies of key works by Mella Jaarsma, examined within the Indonesian and Southeast Asian contemporary art frame. English & Bahasa Indonesia.
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Builds on author's publications (2011; 2014; 2016) arguing conceptual, 'code-forming' roles of materials and traditional tropes in socially-slanted Southeast Asian contemporary art.
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Analysis and contextualisation of Thai photographer Manit Sriwanichpoom's "Horror in Pink", 2001 within Thai and Southeast Asian contemporary art. Manit's series is argued as transcending time and place through aesthetic, technical, and... more
Analysis and contextualisation of Thai photographer Manit Sriwanichpoom's "Horror in Pink", 2001 within Thai and Southeast Asian contemporary art. Manit's series is argued as transcending time and place through aesthetic, technical, and conceptual artistic handling.
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On Southeast Asian art's modern-to-contemporary shift: argues a distinctive Southeast Asian contemporary art methodology whereby public space and intangibles (money, national anthems, history, so on) are co-opted to engage audiences on... more
On Southeast Asian art's modern-to-contemporary shift: argues a distinctive Southeast Asian contemporary art methodology whereby public space and intangibles (money, national anthems, history, so on) are co-opted to engage audiences on social issues. Analysing seminal Southeast art from the 1970s onwards, author shows how these strategies emerged and persisted from contextual necessity, and are fundamental to Southeast Asian art's transition to contemporary modes.
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Comparative study of early contemporary art in Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia showing countering assumptions of mandatory foreign models for innovation. The paper argues the importance of tense local conditions in the wake of... more
Comparative study of early contemporary art in Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia showing countering assumptions of mandatory foreign models for innovation. The paper argues the importance of tense local conditions in the wake of globalisation for the development of Southeast Asian contemporary art.
Research Interests: Southeast Asian Studies, Globalization, Globalisation and cultural change, Southeast Asia, Globalization And Postcolonial Studies, and 12 moreSoutheast Asian Politics, Art and Activism, Southeast Asian Art, Vietnamese Contemporary Art, Cultural Globalization, Vietnamese studies, FX Harsono, Southeast Asian Art History, vasan sitthiket, Vu Dan Tan, nguyen van cuong, and loal/global
The author pursues her 2011 proposition that media and materials are conceptual cues of Southeast Asian contemporary art serving socially-loaded critical conversations. This paper argues the watercolour medium's critical co-opting in... more
The author pursues her 2011 proposition that media and materials are conceptual cues of Southeast Asian contemporary art serving socially-loaded critical conversations. This paper argues the watercolour medium's critical co-opting in Tawan's practice.
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Apart from nation-acclaiming images produced by regime-friendly artists, and war drawings produced by soldier-artists on the front, few Vietnamese artists have dared the American War’s critical assessment from inside the country. This... more
Apart from nation-acclaiming images produced by regime-friendly artists, and war drawings produced by soldier-artists on the front, few Vietnamese artists have dared the American War’s critical assessment from inside the country.
This essay analyses a recent participative installation by Bui Cong Khanh, as well as earlier pieces by Vu Dan Tan and Dinh Q Le, to explore how visual art can tackle the complex private-public question of war, history and memory in Vietnam and beyond.
This essay analyses a recent participative installation by Bui Cong Khanh, as well as earlier pieces by Vu Dan Tan and Dinh Q Le, to explore how visual art can tackle the complex private-public question of war, history and memory in Vietnam and beyond.
Research Interests: Southeast Asian Studies, Cold War and Culture, Vietnamese History, Performance and performativity, Vietnam War, and 15 moreArt and Aesthetics of the Cold War, Southeast Asian history, Modern and Contemporary Art, Art and Politics, Vietnamese Contemporary Art, Performance Art and Public Spaces, Art and War, Southeast Asian Art History, Curating contemporary art, Socially Engaged Art, Art and the City, Dinh Q Lê, Vu Dan Tan, bui cong khanh, and tran trung tin
In English and Vietnamese. Study of the use of sound and music in the conceptually-underpinned visual practice of Hanoi contemporary artist Vu Dan Tan. The essay argues the key role of cross-disciplinarity in Vu Dan Tan's development of... more
In English and Vietnamese. Study of the use of sound and music in the conceptually-underpinned visual practice of Hanoi contemporary artist Vu Dan Tan. The essay argues the key role of cross-disciplinarity in Vu Dan Tan's development of innovating methodologies driving the contemporary turn in Vietnamese modern art.
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In French.
National Gallery Singapore's ambitious project to represent complex regional art histories. Lettre de l'Afrase No. 81-82, Hiver 2012-Printemps 2013, Association Française pour la recherche sur l'Asie du Sud-Est.
National Gallery Singapore's ambitious project to represent complex regional art histories. Lettre de l'Afrase No. 81-82, Hiver 2012-Printemps 2013, Association Française pour la recherche sur l'Asie du Sud-Est.
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Southeast Asian artists, from the 1970s onwards, developed conceptual strategies that, combined with siting and physical involvement, engaged viewers in critical conversations about society and politics. Installations and performances,... more
Southeast Asian artists, from the 1970s onwards, developed conceptual strategies that, combined with siting and physical involvement, engaged viewers in critical conversations about society and politics. Installations and performances, designed for collective zones, were often structured in a way reminiscent of games. This paper argues the linkage between methodologies of play, critical interrogations, and conceptual strategies as characterising trait of Southeast Asian contemporary art.
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Art historical framing of newly commissioned works by Jakkai Siributr in a wider Southeast Asian art historical discourse of socially-engaged practices employing conceptual tactics and aesthetics to draw audiences.
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2006. Critical essay on Indonesian artist Arahmaiani's multiple-perspective practice. Also author's interview with Arahmaiani and six further essays commissioned and edited by the author on the topic of syncretic Islam in Southeast Asia.... more
2006. Critical essay on Indonesian artist Arahmaiani's multiple-perspective practice. Also author's interview with Arahmaiani and six further essays commissioned and edited by the author on the topic of syncretic Islam in Southeast Asia. Analysis of the art of Arahmaiani as a means of exploring syncretic Islam in Indonesia and Thailand.
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2015. Australian National University, 'Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific', Issue 38, August 2015 Contextualisation and analysis of practices of Truong Tan, Dinh Q. Le, Bui Cong Khanh of Vietnam, of Michael... more
2015. Australian National University, 'Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific', Issue 38, August 2015
Contextualisation and analysis of practices of Truong Tan, Dinh Q. Le, Bui Cong Khanh of Vietnam, of Michael Shaowanasai, Jakkai Siributr, Maitree Siriboon of Thailand, arguing artists have broad critical interests beyond a queer agenda.
Contextualisation and analysis of practices of Truong Tan, Dinh Q. Le, Bui Cong Khanh of Vietnam, of Michael Shaowanasai, Jakkai Siributr, Maitree Siriboon of Thailand, arguing artists have broad critical interests beyond a queer agenda.
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On the practices of Vasan Sitthiket, Sutee Kunavichayanont, Manit Sriwanichpoom, Ing K.
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2005. In English and Thai.
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2003.
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2003.
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2014. In English and Thai.
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Transregional comparative analysis arguing the conceptual and contextually-determined nature of material and iconographic choices in practices of Vu Dan Tan, Nguyen Van Cuong, Nguyen Minh Thanh, Bui Cong Khanh (Vietnam), Vasan Sitthiket,... more
Transregional comparative analysis arguing the conceptual and contextually-determined nature of material and iconographic choices in practices of Vu Dan Tan, Nguyen Van Cuong, Nguyen Minh Thanh, Bui Cong Khanh (Vietnam), Vasan Sitthiket, Sutee Kunavichayanont, Manit Sriwanichpoom (Thailand), Heri Dono, Mella Jaarsma, FX Harsono, Nindityo Adipurnomo, (Indonesia), Redza Piyadasa (Malaysia), among others.
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2013. In English and Thai.
Research Interests: Southeast Asian Studies, Conceptual Art, Vietnamese Art, Contemporary Asian art, Southeast Asian Art, and 6 moreVietnamese Contemporary Art, Chinese and Southeast Asian Art History and Archaeology, Indonesian contemporary art, CONTEMPORARY SOUTHEAST ASIAN ART, Thai Modern and Contemporary Art, and Southeast Asia Contemporary Art
2014. In English and Turkish.
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This essay examines the formal, thematic, and conceptual characteristics of Southeast Asian contemporary art, and their relationship to social-political contexts over two decades.
Research Interests: Southeast Asian Studies, Southeast Asian Art, Vietnamese Contemporary Art, Indonesian contemporary art, Southeast Asian Art History, and 5 moreCONTEMPORARY SOUTHEAST ASIAN ART, Critical and Politically-engaged Arts Practice, Thai Modern and Contemporary Art, Political Art and Activist Art, and Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary Art
2002. ARTAsiaPacific vol. 35. On Hanoi's early contemporary artists Truong Tan and Nguyen Quang Huy and how their practices differ and are comparable in relation to their staying in or leaving Vietnam.
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Edited 2001 essay; republished 2010, analysing Vu Dan Tan's 1990s contemporary art breakthroughs. English & Vietnamese.
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Analyses the aesthetic-conceptual, socially-critical innovation of Vu Dan Tan's 1990s 'Money' series, embodying early contemporary Vietnameses art. English & Vietnamese.
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2012, second slightly modified edition, 2013. In English and Vietnamese. On sexuality and the place of the erotic in the 1990s and turn of the century practices of Hanoi's early contemporary artists Vu Dan Tan, Nguyen Van Cuong, Nguyen... more
2012, second slightly modified edition, 2013. In English and Vietnamese. On sexuality and the place of the erotic in the 1990s and turn of the century practices of Hanoi's early contemporary artists Vu Dan Tan, Nguyen Van Cuong, Nguyen Quang Huy, Truong tan, Nguyen Minh Thanh.
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From the 1990s onwards, the impact of globalisation has been especially marked in Southeast Asian art, which in response has altered its themes, methodologies, and function. In this paper the authors argue the relationship between... more
From the 1990s onwards, the impact of globalisation has been especially marked in Southeast Asian art, which in response has altered its themes, methodologies, and function. In this paper the authors argue the relationship between globalisation and key shifts of contemporary art practices in Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia at the turn of the millennium. Initially characterising historical episodes of globalisation as a framework, the authors show how art from countries with different political systems, languages and religions nonetheless exhibits comparable traits. In conclusion, this analysis demonstrates globalisation as a pivotal driver of new critical methodologies in Southeast Asian visual art.
Research Interests: Southeast Asian Studies, Contemporary Art, Southeast Asia, Modern and Contemporary Art History and Theory, Contemporary Asian Art, Art and Globalization, Post-Colonialism, Art and Politics, and 6 moreVietnamese Contemporary Art, Vietnamese studies, Art and Globalization, Globalization and Contemporary Art, CONTEMPORARY SOUTHEAST ASIAN ART, and Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary Art
Social impacts of Vietnam's 1986 Đổi Mới economic reform are argued as spurs of vanguard, early Vietnamese contemporary art in 1990s-Hanoi. Artwork analysis and cross-disciplinary literature support this paper's discussion of material and... more
Social impacts of Vietnam's 1986 Đổi Mới economic reform are argued as spurs of vanguard, early Vietnamese contemporary art in 1990s-Hanoi. Artwork analysis and cross-disciplinary literature support this paper's discussion of material and social landscapes impact on art. The paper uncovers parallels with Southeast Asian contemporary art, concluding that Hanoi vanguard practices constituted pioneer Vietnamese contemporary art expanded regional 20th century art history without obligatory recourse to outside models. English & Russian.
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1. Contemporary art in Southeast Asian has recently begun to come into focus as a field of scholarship, with discourse derived from criticism and curated exhibitions, amongst other sources, that explore the art of recent decades on its... more
1. Contemporary art in Southeast Asian has recently begun to come into focus as a field of scholarship, with discourse derived from criticism and curated exhibitions, amongst other sources, that explore the art of recent decades on its own contextual terrain.[1] Emerging from the study of art from the 1970s is an understanding of an oeuvre informed by and centring on social conditions, even as the notion of regional art has expanded in terms of geography. Politics, history, individualversus-state relationships, and the tense interplay of personal, group and national identities are examined critically by artists throughout the region. Indeed, visual practice and identity have been closely associated in Southeast Asia’s nation-building strategies as art is engaged as a driver of individual empowerment and social change in order to oppose authoritarian states that see social pluralism as threatening.[2] But in Southeast Asia, unlike European and American contexts, civil society is imma...
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A sociological and architectural history of museums in Southeast Asia and their collections that provides a unique reference for deepening understanding of Southeast Asia's complex and ancient cultural arena. By highlighting regional... more
A sociological and architectural history of museums in Southeast Asia and their collections that provides a unique reference for deepening understanding of Southeast Asia's complex and ancient cultural arena.
By highlighting regional museums' architecture, the often Byzantine history of their collections, and discussing their works of art in depth, art historian and curator Iola Lenzi offers practical guidance and conveys the museum's character, providing the reader with tools necessary for an informed itinerary selection, from state galleries to alternative, underground art spaces.
Museums of Southeast Asia is an invaluable resource for discovering the region's vast but dispersed institutional wealth.
By highlighting regional museums' architecture, the often Byzantine history of their collections, and discussing their works of art in depth, art historian and curator Iola Lenzi offers practical guidance and conveys the museum's character, providing the reader with tools necessary for an informed itinerary selection, from state galleries to alternative, underground art spaces.
Museums of Southeast Asia is an invaluable resource for discovering the region's vast but dispersed institutional wealth.
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Traces The National Museum of Singapore collections and genealogy, with special focus on the institution's role and history in Singapore, along with its architecture and perspective on city-state cultural and social landscapes.