Continuing on from the Montenegro post, researching an artist for Botswana has proved challenging for me. Botswana artists fly under the radar of Google searches and Instagram sleuthing. It seems that Botswana art is more of a local scene, instead engaging communities through READ MORE
Marina Abramović at the Royal Academy: Performing Without the Performance Artist
The Marina Abramović retrospective, the RA's latest show, is revolutionary in its nature as the first dedicated to a female artist. Yet, unlike her renowned 2010 piece The Artist is Present, where Abramović stares back into eyes of the visitors of New York's MoMa, the artist is, READ MORE
The Lingering Memory of Post-War Space with Jalena Tomasevic
Craft is defined as the making of an object by hand, and art as the application of a creative skill. Where exactly can the line be drawn between them? Particularly during our era of contemporary art in which appearance is based primarily on the conceptual, it could be said that READ MORE
Sun Mu’s Life-Threatening Satirical Paintings
In researching the next country on my list for this project, a lot of questions were raised about what defines contemporary art, and how can a contemporary artwork represent the culture and context of a specific country in a way that applies to wider global issues? So far, my eye READ MORE
How Do We Know When a Country Begins Its Era of Contemporary Art? Notes on ‘Worldward: The Transformative Force of Art in Taiwan’s New Cultural Movement’ at Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Exhibitions discussing the origins of contemporary art in Taiwan always pinpoint its origins to the Japanese colonial era. The arrival of the Japanese in Taiwan brought with it established cultural norms. Within the field of contemporary art this meant the influence of READ MORE