SOUTHEAST OF NOW: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia
Volume 2, Number 1 (March 2018)

A scholarly journal on art and visual culture, published online and in print twice yearly by NUS Press at the National University of Singapore. SOUTHEAST OF NOW is the only journal dedicated to the arts of Southeast Asia.

To order, or subscribe: https://nuspress.nus.edu.sg/collections/southeastofnow

Online edition: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/716


CONTENTS

Editorial: "Movement"

ARTICLES
"Itinerant Cinematic Practices in and around Thailand during the Cold War"
by May Adadol Ingawanij

"Negotiating Change in Recent Southeast Asian Art"
by John Clark

"Manchukuo, Capitalism and the East Asian Modern: Transhistorical Desire in Kishi the Vampire"
by Mi You

"Community and the Rantau: West Sumatran Artists in Indonesia's Art World"
by Katherine L. Bruhn


CURATORIAL TEXT

"Spirit of Friendship: Artist Groups in Vietnam Since 1975"
by Zoe Butt, Bill Nguyen and Le Thien Bao


ARTISTS' PROJECT

"Manananggal has appeared in Yiwu"
by Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho


ANNOUNCEMENT

Emerging Writers Fellowship


SHORT RESPONSE

"On the Heels of Forgotten Histories: Review of Kilapsaw: Everything Must Go (2016)"
by Eva Bentcheva


REVIEWS

"David Teh, Thai Art: Currencies of the Contemporary"
by Atreyee Gupta

"Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit, A History of Ayutthaya: Siam in the Early Modern World"
by John Clark

"In the Interiors of the Pavilion: Capital, Space and Anxiety in This World, Out Here"
by Lay Sheng Yap


EDITORIAL COLLECTIVE
Isabel Ching (University of Heidelberg)
Thanavi Chotpradit (Silpakorn University)
Brigitta Isabella (KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, Yogyakarta)
Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez (University of the Philippines)
Yvonne Low (University of Sydney)
Vera Mey (SOAS, University of London)
Roger Nelson (Nanyang Technological University)
Simon Soon (University of Malaya)
Vuth Lyno (Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh)

ADVISORY BOARD
John Clark (University of Sydney)
Patrick D. Flores (University of the Philippines)
Nikos Papastergiadis (University of Melbourne)
T.K. Sabapathy (National University of Singapore)
Nora A. Taylor (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Ashley Thompson (SOAS, University of London)