Hosted by

Institute of Contemporary Art & Social Thought (ICAST),School of Intermedia Art

 

Speaker

Adeena Mey

 

Moderator

Jiang Feiran

 

Introduction

Providing in-depth analysis of art and its social, political, and philosophical contexts on its various publishing and research platforms, Afterall’s trajectory since 1999 has been described as one moving from a position of ‘criticality’ to one of ‘decoloniality’. Where does the project stand now and how does it anticipate what is to come?

In this Reflects session, Adeena Mey will retrace the history of Afterall and present one of its most recent projects, namely the ongoing ‘Art Writing and Publishing in Southeast Asia Writing Workshops’ series. Conceived as ‘Sustainable Ecosystems and Infrastructures for Research and Publishing’, Mey will discuss how Afterall positions itself within the so-called ‘ecosystemic turn’ in the arts. 

Speaker

Scholar, editor and curator. Adeena’s work engages with contemporary art and the history of exhibitions, with main focus on artistic practices from the Global South, especially East and Southeast Asia, Africa, artists’ film and video, art history and theory, non-Western epistemologies, and their intersections.

Adeena has been a Research Fellow at the Afterall Research Centre (CSM, UAL) and Managing Editor of Afterall Journal since 2019, and taught at art and design universities across Europe.

Co-initiator of the workshop series “Writing and Publishing Art in Southeast Asia” (since 2021, funded by The British Academy), he has been exploring sustainable infrastructures for new modes of writing, publishing and thinking about contemporary art based on non-Western epistemologies and thoughts. 

Hosted by

Institute of Contemporary Art & Social Thought (ICAST),School of Intermedia Art

 

Speaker

Adeena Mey

 

Moderator

Jiang Feiran

 

Introduction

Providing in-depth analysis of art and its social, political, and philosophical contexts on its various publishing and research platforms, Afterall’s trajectory since 1999 has been described as one moving from a position of ‘criticality’ to one of ‘decoloniality’. Where does the project stand now and how does it anticipate what is to come?

In this Reflects session, Adeena Mey will retrace the history of Afterall and present one of its most recent projects, namely the ongoing ‘Art Writing and Publishing in Southeast Asia Writing Workshops’ series. Conceived as ‘Sustainable Ecosystems and Infrastructures for Research and Publishing’, Mey will discuss how Afterall positions itself within the so-called ‘ecosystemic turn’ in the arts. 

Speaker

Scholar, editor and curator. Adeena’s work engages with contemporary art and the history of exhibitions, with main focus on artistic practices from the Global South, especially East and Southeast Asia, Africa, artists’ film and video, art history and theory, non-Western epistemologies, and their intersections.

Adeena has been a Research Fellow at the Afterall Research Centre (CSM, UAL) and Managing Editor of Afterall Journal since 2019, and taught at art and design universities across Europe.

Co-initiator of the workshop series “Writing and Publishing Art in Southeast Asia” (since 2021, funded by The British Academy), he has been exploring sustainable infrastructures for new modes of writing, publishing and thinking about contemporary art based on non-Western epistemologies and thoughts.