Bringing together Malaysia-based American artist Ray Lagenbach, Filipino artist and musician Kaloy Olavides and the Indonesian film historian David Hanan, this panel sought to explore the intersections between performance and time-based media which emerged during the 1970s which have largely been left outside the ambit of current art histories in Southeast Asia.

Through the diverse perspectives and experiences of the invited speakers, the panel sought to locate early collaborative and interdisciplinary instances of art-making from the 1970s to the 1990s in order to search for a more multi-modal approach to reading art in relation to the moving image in the region.

The programme opened with a screening of ‘Meta Ekologi’, an experimental film by artist-filmmaker Gotot Prakosa which captures a performance choreographed by Sardono Kusomo, and which was held at the Taman Ismail Marzuki in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1979. This programme was moderated by Clarissa Chikiamco and Cheng Jia Yu, Curators at National Gallery Singapore.

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This film screening and discussion took place at National Gallery Singapore on 16 Oct 2022, as part of October Gathering.

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