Time for Asean art to flourish

By Ooi Kok Chuen

August 2014 PENANG PALETTE
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Asean integration is the order of the day, and the decades ahead. In the arts, the potential for intraregional collaboration is enormous.Some of the participants of Silpakorn University’s 70th anniversary celebration's Asean Contemporary Painting Project at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca) in Bangkok.Stakeholders in the art world in South- East Asia are beginning to talk and work with one another again. This is a very promising development. One conversation that got going recently was the Asean Contemporary Painting Project...

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Ooi Kok Chuen

is an art-writer and journalist, and the author of MAHSURI: A Legend Reborn (Ooi Peeps Publishing), an adult contemporary fantasy “movel” (a novel conceived as a mock movie) spun from a local legend.

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