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.

Diplomacy as Theatre: Staging the Bandung Conference of 1955
by Naoko Shimazu
17 April, 4pm – 5.30pm

Craft and Potency, Place and Relations
by Patrick D. Flores
17 April, 8pm – 9.30pm

Classroom for the Silenced
Panel discussion with Dr. Syed Farid Al-atas, Aya Rodriguez-Izumi, and Angel Velasco Shaw
21 April, 7.30pm – 9.30pm

Making of a ‘Free World’ City: Urban Space and Social Order in Cold War Bangkok
by Matt Phillips
24 April,4pm – 5.30pm

Ar(t)chive: A Map of Teruya
by Ariko S. Ikehara
24 April, 8pm – 9.30pm

Unsettled Assignments
by Sidd Perez & Vuth Lyno
8 May, 4pm – 5.30pm

Feeling Emotional Ever since: From Bandung to Berlin
by Renan Laru-an
8 May, 7pm – 8.30pm

More info and registration HERE

When: 17 Apr - 8 May 2021,

Venue/Organizer: Grey Projects