Platforms for Public Engagement
Platforms for Public Engagement
Chapter 5 shifts the discussion to art and its relationship to the emergence of the “platform” as a concept and place through which artists engage across the region. Focusing particularly on the role of public engagement, this chapter looks at the rise of transregional spaces in contemporary art (such as biennials) and how they participate in the making of regional ecologies of place and forms of Asia-Pacific cosmopolitanism. Tracing the rise of regional biennials and triennials, transregional projects and new forms of gallery/arts organizations, we reflect on how these have given new critical attention to the region’s art practices and politics, and how these in turn are implicated in global mediated and economic flows.
Keywords: Art as Platforms, biennials, community arts projects, transregional, Asian art, Asia-Pacific Triennials (APTs), Cosmopolitanism, post-Fukushima
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