Connection Lost! & Reconnecting

  • Oct 31, 2020
  • 2 pm - 4 pm
  • Online via Zoom
The distance between Art and Artists = 6 ft
The distance between Art and Audience = 6 ft
How far is the artists from the audience during in pandemic ?
The Covid-19 Pandemic has a considerably huge impact on all of our societies and lifestyles: making a severe restriction on economy and human communication, with a newly established social norm called “social distancing” where people are required to stay separate from each other. This unfortunately causes artists, curators and operations in art scenes “Lost in connection” as they have to leave behind their studios, galleries and theatres.
In this situation, the artists try hard to question the possibility to sustain their art practices and enable to re-connect among themselves and between art and the audiences. So, The Japan Foundation, Yangon try to create a point to reconnect not only our fellows of Creative Platform Series but also contemporary art scenes among some ASEAN Countries.
In this talk: Lost in Connection and Re-connecting, some speakers of Creative Platform series: Leonhard Bartolomeus from Indonesia, Hoo Fan Chon from Malaysia and Henry Tan from Thailand will be re-connected again and share their own ways of confronting the situation by making a new art movement.
Aung Myat Htay and Phoo Myat Thwe from Myanmar who participated in Creative Platform Series will moderate this sharing platform in reference with their own experience. The talk will be conducted in English language.
You can register here:
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Speakers
(1) Leonhard Bartolomeus

Leonhard Bartolomeus (b. 1987) is a curator at Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM], Japan. In 2012, after graduating from the Jakarta Institute of Art, Barto joining ruangrupa (and later on as Gudskul
Ekosistem). His curatorial projects in recent years started to focus on open education and collaborative projects. In 2017 alongside several curators in Jakarta, Semarang, and Surabaya, he formed a curatorial collective called KKK (Kolektif Kurator Kampung). Apart from that, he still passionately doing independent research and collaborative projects abroad. Lives and works in Yamaguchi, Japan.
(2) Hoo Fan Chon
Hoo Fan Chon was born in 1982, Selangor, and currently resides in George Town, Penang. He was the co-founder and a member of an art collective – Run Amok Gallery (2012-2017). He completed his BA in Photography at the London College of Communication in 2010. He was selected as one of the Japan Foundation Asia Center Curators’ Workshop (2015-2017) participants and took part in No Man’s Land Residency Project – Nusantara Archive in Taiwan (2017-2018). He took part in the 3rd edition of Makassar Biennale and had his solo exhibition – ‘Biro Kaji Visual George Town’ in Malaysia in 2019. Recently, he co-curated ‘Bayangnya itu Timbul Tenggelam – Photographic Cultures in Malaysia’ exhibition at the Ilham Gallery, Kuala Lumpur. His practice explores taste as a cultural and social construct and how our value systems fluctuate as we migrate from one culture to another. His works often involve investigating the process of cultural translation, in which attempts to translate or assimilate were made but at times, result in an unexpected and incoherent manner.
(3) Henry Tan
Henry Tan is an artist and educator in the arts and technology community. Based in Bangkok He is co founder of Tentacles Art Space, and member of Freaklab, Thailand and metaPhorest Japan. He is a skilled media artist and practitioner of Future-based Design, an approach to design that conceives and pursues future opportunities for our society, the world, and ourselves.
His artwork is made in a traditional manner, using handmade materials like clay, paper, and plastic. With a focus on abstraction, Tan utilizes the materiality of the subject. He uses personal experience and memories in his work, and frequently portrays themes like childhood, fantasy, and the human condition.
Moderators
(1) Aung Myat Htay
Aung Myat Htay is an artist, writer and independent curator, currently based in Yangon. He graduated from Yangon University of Arts and culture in 1998, where he worked as a lecturer until 2002. He started working as a writer/curator in Myanmar’s art community since 2005 in addition to his involvement within Myanmar. He explores the potential in freedom of expression found in contemporary art. He expresses social messages with work that combines a contemporary sense with traditional forms and visual works. He has presented his works in several regions of Asia including Thailand, India, Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines and outside of Asia including Hong Kong and US. He has participated in many art residency programs abroad. He was a curator of the public art section of the “2017 My Yangon My Home” Art and Heritage Festival. He is the founder of SOCA (School of contemporary Arts) online program. Recently, he published the DVD Magazine Vol:2 “Silence is Golden” a research-based presentation on Contemporary Myanmar Art.
(2) Phoo Myat Thwe
Phoo Myat Thwe works as Gallery Manager at Myanmar Deitta Gallery in downtown Yangon, a not-for-profit organization supporting photographers and filmmakers in Myanmar and she is also a project assistant of Myanmar Photo Archive, an archive comprised of more than 20,000 images from Myanmar. She curated Art-Spaces-Us Virtual Exhibition in April 2020 together with Myanm/art gallery, featuring some of the youngest multidisciplinary artists from Myanmar and abroad. She is interested in cultivating spaces (physically and virtually) of discussions, reflections and actions that can lead to social change. She is currently studying AR/VR technology and how it can be utilized in Arts.
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