2015 inToAsia: Time-based Art Festival
Loredana PAZZINI-PARACCIANI
Loredana PAZZINI-PARACCIANI is an independent art curator, writer and lecturer who focuses on contemporary South East Asian art. She has a master’s degree in Asian Art Histories (LASALLE-Goldsmith College of the Arts, Singapore) and is currently based in London. Loredana works extensively with commercial and public galleries and institutions in Singapore, Bangkok, London and New York, championing awareness of critical issues of contemporary Southeast Asian culture through the works of young and emerging artists from the region. By reason of her commitment to the cultural richness of the Southeast Asian region and her continuous research, Loredana has developed an academic and curatorial interest focused on contemporary art in Thailand.
During her long experience in South East Asia, Loredana collaborated with the Singapore Art Museum, the Art Incubator programme at LaSalle College of the Art, Singapore, and the 2013 & 2014 editions of Art Stage Singapore.
Prominent curated exhibitions include Southeast Asia and Diaspora : Breaking and Reconstructing the Circle at Gallery 8 , London , United Kingdom (2014) , ANTHROPOS New York: Navigating Human Depth in Thai and Singapore Contemporary at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York ( 2014) ; FAITH and FAIRY TALES: New Media Art for Thailand at the ADM Gallery - School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2014); Can Your Hear Me? at Numthong Gallery, Bangkok (2013); CUT THRU: A View on 21st Century Thai Art at ICAS - LaSalle, Institute of Contemporary Art , Singapore (2012).
Loredana’s publications cover academic journals, art magazines and symposium publications including Surfaces and Bodies-Jeremy Sharma (2014) published in the Wall Street Journal; Believing in (Positive) Change: Sa Ta Ni, a Thai collective at the Singapore Biennale (2013) published by AICA Singapore in ‘Article’ magazine; Between Industry and Experimentation: Moving Images in Thailand published by Asia Europe Foundation (2012); and Twenty First Century Thai Art Practices: Common Themes and Methodologies published by the Asian Research Institute at NUS Singapore (2012).
During her long experience in South East Asia, Loredana collaborated with the Singapore Art Museum, the Art Incubator programme at LaSalle College of the Art, Singapore, and the 2013 & 2014 editions of Art Stage Singapore.
Prominent curated exhibitions include Southeast Asia and Diaspora : Breaking and Reconstructing the Circle at Gallery 8 , London , United Kingdom (2014) , ANTHROPOS New York: Navigating Human Depth in Thai and Singapore Contemporary at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York ( 2014) ; FAITH and FAIRY TALES: New Media Art for Thailand at the ADM Gallery - School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2014); Can Your Hear Me? at Numthong Gallery, Bangkok (2013); CUT THRU: A View on 21st Century Thai Art at ICAS - LaSalle, Institute of Contemporary Art , Singapore (2012).
Loredana’s publications cover academic journals, art magazines and symposium publications including Surfaces and Bodies-Jeremy Sharma (2014) published in the Wall Street Journal; Believing in (Positive) Change: Sa Ta Ni, a Thai collective at the Singapore Biennale (2013) published by AICA Singapore in ‘Article’ magazine; Between Industry and Experimentation: Moving Images in Thailand published by Asia Europe Foundation (2012); and Twenty First Century Thai Art Practices: Common Themes and Methodologies published by the Asian Research Institute at NUS Singapore (2012).
Carol Yinghua Lu
Carol Yinghua Lu lives and works in Beijing. She is a researcher, writer and curator. She is the contributing editor for Frieze since 2007, and is on the advisory board for The Exhibitionist: A Journal on Exhibition Making. She was the China researcher for Asia Art Archive (2005-2007). She was a fellow of the ZKM Summer Seminar 2009: Contemporary Art and the Global Age led by Hans Belting. In 2013, she was invited as the first visiting fellow of the Asia-Pacific department at Tate Research Centre.
Lu was on the jury for the Golden Lion Award in 2011 Venice Biennale and the co-artistic director of 2012 Gwangju Biennale and co-curator of the 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale in 2012. She was in the Jury of the Pinchuk Foundation’s 2012 Future Generation Art Prize. She was in the jury of the first International Awards for Art Criticism organized by the Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum (M21), in partnership with the Royal College of Art, London. She acted as the international advisor for Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto–CAMK from 2009 to 2010. Lu co-directed the 5th Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course in 2014. She was the visiting professor for the 4th Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course in 2012. She is currently a co-curator of Discordant Harmony, a touring exhibition on the potential, challenges, problematics and impossibilities of imagining Asia.
Lu was on the jury for the Golden Lion Award in 2011 Venice Biennale and the co-artistic director of 2012 Gwangju Biennale and co-curator of the 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale in 2012. She was in the Jury of the Pinchuk Foundation’s 2012 Future Generation Art Prize. She was in the jury of the first International Awards for Art Criticism organized by the Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum (M21), in partnership with the Royal College of Art, London. She acted as the international advisor for Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto–CAMK from 2009 to 2010. Lu co-directed the 5th Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course in 2014. She was the visiting professor for the 4th Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course in 2012. She is currently a co-curator of Discordant Harmony, a touring exhibition on the potential, challenges, problematics and impossibilities of imagining Asia.
WANG Chun-Chi
WANG Chun-Chi is a Taiwanese curator based in Berlin. She is trained as artist at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. In 2012, she was Assistant Curator for Taipei Biennial, Modern Monsters / Death and Life of Fiction (with Anselm Franke). Her projects was presented in Berlin, Paris, New York, Taipei, and Seoul in various collaborations (2010 - ongoing). A collective and intergenerational investigation of feminism in the context of contemporary art practice that included a symposium, exhibition; and lecture. She is the founder and director of IDOLONSTUDIO (Berlin).
WANG's work develops ideas that lead into a collaborative process-based working relationship with artists to examine issues she considers crucial, such as: critically assessing contemporary culture, investigating the way meaning is constructed and endowing the world with complexity at a time when the surface is rarely scratched and time is short. Her curatorial voice endeavors to make people re-think, slow down, delve beneath the surface and to excavate rather than simply consume. It does not summarize or offer answers, rather it asks questions that lead to contemplation, discussion, and new thoughts about the world around us.
In 2002 she published Futurists Guide to the web in New York & Taipei, about a collection of websites with an overall focus on emerging art trends. She currently working on the exhibition Urban Synesthesia for the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in 2015.
WANG's work develops ideas that lead into a collaborative process-based working relationship with artists to examine issues she considers crucial, such as: critically assessing contemporary culture, investigating the way meaning is constructed and endowing the world with complexity at a time when the surface is rarely scratched and time is short. Her curatorial voice endeavors to make people re-think, slow down, delve beneath the surface and to excavate rather than simply consume. It does not summarize or offer answers, rather it asks questions that lead to contemplation, discussion, and new thoughts about the world around us.
In 2002 she published Futurists Guide to the web in New York & Taipei, about a collection of websites with an overall focus on emerging art trends. She currently working on the exhibition Urban Synesthesia for the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in 2015.