The latest in our ongoing “Lists” series, we bring you Art Radar‘s four best articles on Cambodian performance art. Cambodia’s performance artists explore issues surrounding the body and cityscape, while also addressing sociopolitical contexts in the country.
Performance artist Tith Kanitha, one of the participants in “Roundtables: The Body, the Lens, the City” day-long seminar held in Phnom Penh, March 2014. Image courtesy SA SA BASSAC.
April 2014
A day-long seminar entitled “Roundtables: The Body, the Lens, the City”, held in Phnom Penh on 22 March 2014, discussed Cambodian performance art within the context of the cityscape as well as the experience of using the body to make art.
Click here to read more about the seminar.
Amy Lee Sanford, ‘Full Circle – Day 3′, 2012, clay, glue, fabric, string and scissors. Image courtesy the artist.
June 2013
Amy Lee Sanford, a performance and installation artist living in Phnom Penh, is a prominent voice in Cambodia’s youth-driven contemporary art scene. Art Radar spoke with the artist to learn how her work takes on the sometimes turbulent shifts happening in Cambodia today.
Click here to read the full interview.
Anida Yoeu Ali, ‘Campus Dining’, 2012, digital colour print on hard foam board. Photograph: Masahiro Sugano. Image courtesy Studio Revolt.
March 2013
With her textile installation The Buddhist Bug Project, Cambodian performance artist Anida Yoeu Ali meditates on urban displacement and spiritual turmoil. The artist speaks with Art Radar about the project, which she recently brought home to Phnom Penh, and the metamorphosis of contemporary art in Cambodia.
Click here to read more about the fascinating Buddhist Bug Project.
Anida Yoeu Ali, “Enter the Ruins #1″, 2012, digital colour print, 45 cm x 65 cm, in the exhibition “The Space Between Inside/Outside”, at JavaArts Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Image courtesy the artist.
September 2012
As part of JavaArts’s new artist residency programme, Cambodian artist Anida Yoeu Ali combined collaborative performance and installation. She used the red stool, commonly found in Phnom Penh street eateries, as a motif, thereby placing Cambodia squarely in a Western-style “white cube” setting.
Click here to read more about and see images from the project.
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