Currents
Special issue: Archipelagic Encounters (2021)
Edited by Elyssia Bugg, Jeremy Eaton and Chloe Ho


Contents:

Introduction — Elyssia Bugg, Jeremy Eaton and Chloe Ho

Shaping Perception: Negotiating media as material, the fragility of time and fleeting emotions — Zoya Chaudhary

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Sleep Cinema: Intimacy, Inattention, Surrealism — Duncan Caillard

Questioning the Mirror: Re-Imagining the Southeast Asian Female Archetype through Performative Video — Lizzie Wee

Terms and Conditions: Re-examining Singapore Art History Through the Art Making Experiences of Early Malay Women Artists — Nurdiana Rahmat

这是妈妈. 这是爸爸.: an experiment in translation — Kezia Yap

A Fugitive Subjectivity: Choi Yan Chi 蔡仞姿 and experimental art of Hong Kong, 1970-1989 — Genevieve Trail

Performing the Domestic Ritualistic Mark — Pratibha Nambiar


Currents is an interdisciplinary arts and practice-led-research journal dedicated to the flow of ideas occurring between the disciplines of visual art, film, production, architecture, design, dance and theatre; along with art, architecture, theatre and music history.

It is an open access, peer reviewed journal with all submissions falling under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). This means that all published material can be shared and adapted with appropriate attribution as long as it is not for commercial purposes.

For further information please email Jeremy Eaton (eatonunimelb.edu.au) or Kelly Fliedner (kelly.fliednerresearch.uwa.edu.au).