Fast Futures: Asian Video Art

Speaker: Johan Pijnappel
In association with Asia Society India Centre, Mumbai

December 15, 2006 | 6.30 pm
Little Theatre, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai

The 12 cutting-edge single-channel video works are by young artists at the forefront of new media art in China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Iran, Afghanistan, Malaysia and Thailand. ‘Video’ seems to suit artists who are confronted with the frantic fast-changing societies in the Asian region. Created between 1999 and 2005, these works range in length from one minute to 20 minutes. This evening’s presentation draws from the videos originally selected by Asia Society Museum Director Melissa Chiu, Independent Curator Yu Yeon Kim and Museum of Modern Art Curator Barbara London for the fourth annual Asian Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) in New York earlier this year.

Johan Pijnappel, an independent art historian and curator from Holland was part of the opening programme of the ACAW. For two decades now his work has focused on art that uses modern technologies such as video, computers and the www. Johan will introduce the selection of video-works for this evening and speak on the new media art scene in Asia today.