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Eva Bentcheva
Artist-Curator Collectives in Southeast Asia
Eva Bentcheva analyses artist-curator collectives in Southeast Asia that reject colonial art systems by redefining collaboration through community, responsibility, and presence. Drawing on the case studies of The Artists Village in Singapore, the Chiang Mai Social Installation in Thailand, and Green Papaya in the Philippines, she shows how collectivity is harnessed to produce localized publics and pedagogies, as well as self-organized spaces that reimagine art as social infrastructure.
Keywords: Southeast Asia; modern and contemporary art; artist-curators; The Artists Village; Chiang Mai Social Installation; Green Papaya; collectivity
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Artist-Curator Collectives in Southeast Asia
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Eva Bentcheva
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Eva Bentcheva analyses artist-curator collectives in Southeast Asia that reject colonial art systems by redefining collaboration through community, responsibility, and presence. Drawing on the case studies of The Artists Village in Singapore, the Chiang Mai Social Installation in Thailand, and Green Papaya in the Philippines, she shows how collectivity is harnessed to produce localized publics and pedagogies, as well as self-organized spaces that reimagine art as social infrastructure.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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October 28, 2025
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Southeast Asia
modern and contemporary art
artist-curators
The Artists Village
Chiang Mai Social Installation
Green Papaya
collectivity
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© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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77
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88
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Thinking Collectives / Collective Thinking, ed. by Eva Bentcheva, Annie Jael Kwan, and Ming Tiampo, Worlding Public Cultures (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 77–88
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Cite as:
Eva Bentcheva, ‘Artist-Curator Collectives in Southeast Asia’, in Thinking Collectives / Collective Thinking, ed. by Eva Bentcheva, Annie Jael Kwan, and Ming Tiampo, Worlding Public Cultures (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 77-88 <https://doi.org/10.37050/wpc-co-01_06>