Networks: Remapping the South

A detailed pencil and ballpoint pen drawing depicts a futuristic, monochromatic Bangkok cityscape. Skyscrapers and construction cranes fill the scene. Notable is a large building rendered as an anthropomorphised robot with a determined expression, positioned as if ready to fight. The BTS Skytrain winds its way through this urban commotion. Atop the Skytrain, a tuk-tuk carries two passengers.

Bangkok on the Move: Navin Rawanchaikul and Rirkrit Tiravanija's Whimsical Urban Adventure

Dive into a futuristic Bangkok adventure with ‘Cities on the Moves: Bangkok’ by Navin Rawanchaikul and Rirkrit Tiravanija, reflecting the surge of urbanisation in Asia in the 1990s.

Colour photograph of a man holding a camera attached to a wooden milk box by cord. Milk box secured to roadside tree.

Gallery on the Move: Ozawa Tsuyoshi’s ‘Nasubi Gallery’

‘Nasubi Gallery’ is possibly the smallest gallery in the world, created by Japanese artist Ozawa Tsuyoshi

Installation artwork featuring fiberglass figures hanging from the ceiling. They have insect-like wings and human-like puppet faces with Javanese-style headdresses, and two legs but no arms. In the centre of each of their chests is a small window revealing the inner mechanical workings that power the wing movements.

Global Tides, Local Currents: ‘Flying Angels’ Reflects on Indonesia at a Moment of Change

Heri Dono’s ‘Flying Angels’ (1996) brings folk traditions and technology together through an unlikely partnership: an Indonesian artist and a team of radio repairmen

A video still showing three religious statues: one representing Eastern religious practice, another depicting an angel with wings, and a third featuring a large white bird with wings held high.

In-Between Spaces and the Diasporic Condition: Fiona Tan’s ‘May You Live in Interesting Times’

Vennes Cheng unpacks Fiona Tan’s 1997 documentary, ‘May You Live in Interesting Times’, exploring cultural identity, displacement, and fractured senses of self

Video still showing a smiling woman gesturing to two artworks in a gallery space. On the floor is a short pedestal displaying an installation artwork of shiny red tin cans standing upright and intermittently stacked atop one another in various arrangements on the ground. Hanging on the wall directly behind is a vinyl painting on canvas with a border of red and white stripes. Colourful shapes, expressive lines, squiggles, and dots fill the canvas, anchored by a stack of three blue ellipses in the centre.

Inside ‘Individuals, Networks, Expressions’

Join curators Pauline J. Yao and Lesley Ma on a virtual tour of the visual art exhibition ‘Individuals, Networks, Expressions’

Oval-shaped bamboo building surrounded by two other buildings on either side. It consists of two storeys with thatched roofs and a porch that goes around the bottom floor.

Rethinking ‘Tradition’ Through Contemporary Architecture in Indonesia

Yasmin Tri Aryani, M+ / Design Trust Research Fellow, looks at how traditional Indonesian architectural elements have influenced contemporary architecture

Installation in which numerous large steel plates lie on the floor of a large room. On top of the steel plates are numerous small white bowls. A number of propane cookers, metal plates, wooden cutting boards, and cutlery are spread out amongst the bowls.

Rirkrit Tiravanija: A Condition for Experience

Rirkrit Tiravanija is discusses his practice of ‘relational aesthetics’, the tendency of participatory artmaking

Chromogenic print under Plexiglas depicting a red sky viewed from below. A black silhouetted urban landscape, featuring skyscrapers and lampposts, rises up all around the viewer to frame the sky.

Discipline and Practice

Lee Weng Choy examines the ways in which the study of visual culture has evolved since the original 1996 Visual Culture Questionnaire

Monochrome film still in which a skeleton dressed in a suit with a white bowtie, black top hat, and glasses holds up a skull mask in the Mexican Day of the Dead style with a gloved hand.

1930s Mexico, Isamu Noguchi, and Sergei Eisenstein’s Unfinished Mexican Film

In 1930, Sergei Eisenstein start a film project in Mexico—but it was never finished. Professor Natascha Drubek remembers the doomed project

A watercolour painting depicts a blue boat on the stormy sea. A group of people sit or stand on the deck, looking into distance.

Tiffany Chung: Revealing History

Artist Tiffany Chung explains the story of Vietnamese refugees in Hong Kong behind her work 'flotsam and jetsam'

A man is interviewed. Large windows are positioned behind him. Outside is a lot of greenery.

Lim Chong Keat: Building Singapore and Malaysia

Architect Lim Chong Keat talks about some of his most important projects as co-founder of Architects Team 3

Digital print depicting an extremely tall high rise building complex next to a blue body of water. The building complex is completely covered in rich, bright green vegetation. Multiple tiers in the building complex are covered in fields and forests, and multiple wind turbines can also be seen.

Exploring Hong Kong’s Links to Southeast Asia

The curators for the newest M+ exhibition discuss the potential links between Hong Kong and Southeast Asia that can be explored through the show

Colour slide depicting a large white building in a field under a blue sky. The building is narrow, long, and horizontal, shaped almost like a large cruise ship, with one tall white tower in the middle of the building.

A Deep-Dive into Architecture Archives From Southeast Asia

A closer look at the variety of archives on display in the exhibition In Search of Southeast Asia through the M+ Collections

Kiri Dalena: ‘Erased Slogans’

Artist Kiri Dalena discusses the activism behind her work 'Erased Slogans', based on digitally altered archival images of protests in 1970s Manila

A gallery room with multiple tables set up like a marketplace, laden with items like books, baskets, and balloon toys.

Cities on the Move: Twenty Years On

Artist, writer, and curator Wong Hoy Cheong reflects on the 'Cities on the Move' exhibition, twenty years on

Porcelain pot with a white background and a pattern of dots that reveals a colourful image.

Ten Works From South and Southeast Asia in the M+ Collection

An in-depth look at ten South and Southeast Asia works from the M+ collection

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