Amanda Rath, PhD 2011, co-edits special issue of SOUTHEAST OF NOW: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art
This special issue on “Experimentation and Experiment in Southeast Asian Art” (Volume 6, Number 2) guest edited by Amanda Katherine Rath and Wulan Dirgantoro seeks to address the issues and questions around experimentation and the experimental in Southeast Asian arts between the 1950s and late 1990s. Drawing from two conference panels organized by the co-editors during the ICAS (Leiden) and EuroSeas (Berlin) conferences in the summer of 2019, the issue examines the transdisciplinary nature of experimentation in the fields of visual culture, performance, music, poetry and spoken word, and sound in Southeast Asia.
With contributions from: Chloe Ho, Sarena Abdullah, Carmen Nge Siew Mun, Nur Hanim Bte Mohamed Khairuddin, Maria Madeira, Melê Yamomo, Abdul Hadi WM, Kris Ramlan, Katherine Bruhn, Nashar, Elly Kent, Eva Bentcheva, Ray Albano, Elsa Clavé, Judy Freya Sibayan and Michael Bodden.
This issue also features contributions from the recipients of Emerging Writers Fellowship (EWF): Ariana Chaivaranon, Myint Myat Thu and Chu Chu Yuan and the recipients of Emerging Translators Fellowship (ETF): Dương Mạnh Hùng and Htoo Lwin Myo.
Now available for free via Open Access on Project Muse, thanks to the generous support of the Chen Chong Swee Asian Arts Programme at Yale-NUS College and the Foundation for Arts Initiatives.
Amanda Rath is a Lecturer in the Dept. of Southeast Asian Studies and in the Institute of Art History, and the Curatorial Studies Program at the Goethe University, Frankfurt. She is also a Fellow with the Dept. of Southeast Asian Studies. Her research and teaching focus is the modern and contemporary art of Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia. Recent research topics include artist societies in pre-WWII, art collectives in revolutionary period (Indonesia) and of the 1970s.
