Asia Forum Fall Gathering 2021

Register interest for the 2022 Asia Forum programme in Venice: http://eepurl.com/hSt31b

About the Asia Forum fall Digital Gathering:

The second Asia Forum digital gathering took place in the fall of 2021 on 3 November. It followed on from the inaugural digital gathering which launched the forum in the Spring of the same year.

With a focus on the mainstream adoption of digital currency and the surge of non-fungible token assets, amidst ongoing climate change urgencies, the Asia Forum Fall Gathering sought to bridge global concerns of exchange and flow across questions of value, social relations and ecological anxieties. Artists Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina, Ho Rui An, and Lawrence Lek explored diverse notions of ‘liquidity’ via presentations, that were followed by moderated conversations with the council members, Annie Jael Kwan, Hammad Nasar, John Tain, and Ming Tiampo, and the public.

The Asia Forum for the Contemporary Art of Global Asias is a new itinerant platform envisioned for discourse surrounding experimental art practices and research that produce hopeful new worlds beyond the North Atlantic. The Asia Forum in 2021/22 is proudly presented by the Bagri Foundation as digital gatherings in Spring and Autumn 2021, and an inaugural, in person, one-day programme at the historic Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice, on 23 April 2022.

The still-unfolding events of the past year have resulted in a fundamental reconfiguring of timelines and work practices. These changes provide an opportunity to imagine with artists, curators, researchers, and activists, new contemporary practices and engage a public eager for debate on urgent issues of climate, democracy, anti-racism, and creative agency for addressing global anxieties through the lens and engine of ‘Asia/s’.

Conceived by Annie Jael Kwan, the Asia Forum works with a council of international curators and researchers, Hammad Nasar, John Tain, and Ming Tiampo, in a sustained dialogue with contributors to navigate the key themes that have arisen in relation to contemporary artistic practices of Global Asias.

Presented by: Bagri Foundation
Exclusive media partner: Art Review
Additional Support: Something Human