Multicomponent Title: Afterimage: Contemporary Photography in Southeast Asia
Multicomponent with contextual information – Curatorial / Other
- Submitting institution
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Edinburgh Napier University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 2655290
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
- Singapore Art Museum
- Brief description of type
- Multicomponent with contextual information – Curatorial / Other
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
- October
- Year
- 2014
- URL
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https://portfolios.napier.ac.uk/view/view.php?t=TIqM9D5iWXz2SYBNKpwt
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This multi component output is based on a archival photographic research around the exhibition entitled “Afterimage: Contemporary Photography in Southeast Asia,” which took place in Singapore Art Museum (SAM) from October 2014 to February 2015. The curatorial collaboration combined approaches of contemporary art (Sam I-Shan, in house curator) and photography history (Supartono) in conceptualising for the exhibition. The selected 13 established and emerging artist subverted photographic veracity and immediacy to introduce a multitude of subjective realities around identity, political systems and social structures, memory and history. Afterimage was also contextualised within area studies. It investigated how geographical proximity may or may not impact on contemporary photographic narratives produced in the region and traced their links to national and transnational iconographic legacies of the colonial past. Supartono’s curatorial text, Afterimage: Is There Such A Thing as Southeast Asian Photography provides historical background of colonial photography practices in the region to examine the (dis) continuation of different tradition in the postcolonial era and may well be the core of a new regional identity in the post-colonial era. Afterimage marked the museum’s first comprehensive survey on contemporary photography in Southeast Asia since its establishment in 1996. Accompanied by artist talk and extensive educational programs, the exhibition received international media reviews. The Trans Asia Photography Review journal published a review on the exhibition catalogue.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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