Afro-Southeast Asia: Pragmatics and Geopoetics of Art During A Cold War is a webinar series that expands the current discourses that shape the history and legacy of Afro-Asian solidarity by prospecting connections and imagined affinities between Africa and Southeast Asia as regional frameworks that emerged out of Cold War decolonisation projects.

By examining cultural and political projects of the period alongside contemporary art practices that have sort to re-examine the micro and metahistorical trajectories from these affinities, Afro-Southeast Asia charts out the intersections of the pragmatism guiding historical solidarities and the geopoetics of their persistent aspirations.

Bringing together artists, theorists and historians, Afro-Southeast Asia is not just a Southeast Asian lens onto imaginations of transregional and global solidarities. The programme prospects new methodologies to study these lesser known histories and navigate their contemporary resonances in how we continue to imagine the world.

12th June, Saturday, 2pm – 3.30pm
‘Chicken Feet Alliances’
by Elia Nurvista

12th June, Saturday, 5pm – 6.30pm
‘Cold War Cosmopolitans: Anti-colonial solidarity and the Asian Socialist Conference’
by Dr Su LIn Lewis

More info and registration HERE

When: 12 Jun 2021, 2pm - 3.30pm

By: Grey Projects