Evelyn Char presented at AAS-in-Asia 2024


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Evelyn and members of her panel.

Thanks to the generous support of the Visual Studies Travel & Research Grant and the Arts Dean’s Fund for Excellence and Equity, Evelyn travelled to Yogyakarta, Indonesia in July 2024 for the AAS-in-Asia conference, organized by the Association for Asian Studies. As part of the panel “Images from the Past, Present Dialogues: Revisiting Photos, Films, and Archival Images from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore,” she presented a paper on Hong Kong artist’s Leung Chi-wo’s works that dealt with Hong Kong’s 1967 leftist riots. Titled “Unlikely Archive, Unruly History: Leung Chi-wo’s Montage Works about Hong Kong’s 1967 Riots,” the paper foregrounds a kinetic sculpture and a lightbox series and their material, textual, and image entwinement, arguing that they constitute a compelling and necessary alternative to historicist approaches to colonial archives that are common to works about 1967. It was a very inspiring trip, as she was also able to visit ArtJog – an impressive annual show at Jogja. Evelyn encountered a lot of ecocritical works by young Southeast Asian artists, as well as many works that tackle historical trauma in the region. 

Last modified: Oct 22, 2024