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Research-Based Art Practices in Southeast Asia

The Artist as Producer of Knowledge

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Authors:
  1. Caroline Ha Thuc

    1. Department of Visual Studies, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong

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  • Analyses the issues at stake behind research-based art practices in Southeast Asia

  • Approaches these art practices critically and clarifies their innovative combination of aesthetics and cognition

  • Sheds light on the emancipatory dimension of these artistic forms of knowledge production

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Caroline Ha Thuc
    Pages 1-6

  3. Research-based Art Practices: Context and Framework

    • Caroline Ha Thuc
    Pages 7-42

  4. Birth of a New Art Language

    • Caroline Ha Thuc
    Pages 43-85

  5. The Artist-Researcher

    • Caroline Ha Thuc
    Pages 87-105

  6. The Artist as a Producer of Knowledge: Cultural Activism in Tiffany Chung’s The Vietnam Exodus Project (2009–)

    • Caroline Ha Thuc
    Pages 107-144

  7. Research as Strategy: Reactivating Mythologies in Wah Nu and Tun Win Aung’s The Name Series (2008–)

    • Caroline Ha Thuc
    Pages 145-175

  8. Beyond the Artist’s Discourse: Implicit and Sensuous Knowledge in Khvay Samnang’s Preah Kunlong (2017)

    • Caroline Ha Thuc
    Pages 177-209

  9. Emancipatory modes of knowledge production in Ho Tzu Nyen’s The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia (2003/2012–ongoing)

    • Caroline Ha Thuc
    Pages 211-246

  10. Conclusion

    • Caroline Ha Thuc
    Pages 247-256

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 257-283
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About this book

This book is the first overall study of research-based art practices in Southeast Asia. Its objective is to examine the creative and mutual entanglement of academic and artistic research; in short, the Why, When, What and How of research-based art practices in the region. In Southeast Asia, artists are increasingly engaged in research-based art practices involving academic research processes. They work as historians, archivists, archaeologists or sociologists in order to produce knowledge and/or to challenge the current established systems of knowledge production. As artists, they can freely draw on academic research methodologies and, at the same time, question or divert them for their own artistic purpose. The outcome of their research findings is exhibited as an artwork and is not published or presented in an academic format. This book seeks to demonstrate the emancipatory dimension of these practices, which contribute to opening up our conceptions of knowledge and of art, bestowing a new and promising role to the artists within the society.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Visual Studies, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong

    Caroline Ha Thuc

About the author

Caroline Ha Thuc is a part-time Lecturer at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, as well as an independent art writer, researcher and curator. She holds a Ph.D. from the School of Creative Media at City University,Hong Kong, and is currently also a part-time researcher at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China. Specializing in Asian contemporary art, Ha Thuc contributes regularly to different academic journals and magazines, focusing on the artistic production of knowledge. She has published books about the Hong Kong art scene as well as Japanese and Chinese contemporary art. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Research-Based Art Practices in Southeast Asia

  • Book Subtitle: The Artist as Producer of Knowledge

  • Authors: Caroline Ha Thuc

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09581-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09580-1Published: 06 October 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09583-2Published: 07 October 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-09581-8Published: 05 October 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 283

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Audio-Visual Culture, Arts, Asian Culture

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