Colloquium with Patrick Flores (University of the Philippines)

Thursday, November 3, 2022
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Pacific Time)
11372 Bunche Hall
Registration Required

This talk converses around the curatorial poetics of exhibitions that speak to Southeast Asia specifically but also broadly. It reflects on a practice attentive to nations that compose a region but also to a region that continues to ramify beyond the geopolitical imagination. In the materiality of art and curatorial work, Southeast Asia is proposed and plays out, released from the identity that it should supposedly embody and the representations that it should necessarily ensure.

Patrick Flores is Professor of Art Studies at the Department of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines and Curator of the Vargas Museum in Manila. He is the Director of the Philippine Contemporary Art Network. He was one of the curators of Under Construction: New Dimensions of Asian Art in 2001-2003 and the Gwangju Biennale (Position Papers) in 2008. He was a Visiting Fellow at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1999. Among his publications are Painting History: Revisions in Philippine Colonial Art (1999); Past Peripheral: Curation in Southeast Asia (2008); Art After War: 1948-1969 (2015); and Raymundo Albano: Texts (2017). He was a Guest Scholar of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in 2014. He was the Artistic Director of Singapore Biennale 2019 and Convener of the Forums for the Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2022.

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The first five students who register will receive giveaways at the event from the Department of Asian American Studies!

Sponsor(s): Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Asian American Studies Department