Abstract

This paper reviews The ANCER Conference 2020: Disruption as Opportunity organised by Lasalle College of the Arts in Singapore. The conference focussed on how the arts and cultural sectors in Southeast Asia have been navigating the challenges caused by Covid-19. By showcasing a wide range of ongoing art projects in different parts of Southeast and East Asia, the event offered a fresh perspective on the meanings of (making) local-regional-global nexuses which have been both challenged and given new impetus by the current crisis. The Southeast Asian perspectives highlighted in the conference also provided new opportunities to scrutinise the crisis not just in geographical but also in temporal terms, questioning the relationship between the past, present and future state of the arts. The presentations provided inspiring cases to examine the political relevance of artists and the potential and limitations of the emergence of cultural policy entrepreneurs in different Southeast Asian societies.

摘要

本文回顾了新加坡拉萨尔艺术学院组织的 2020 年 ANCER 会议：颠覆即机遇。会议的重点是东南亚的艺术和文化部门如何应对 Covid-19 带来的挑战。通过展示在东南亚和东亚不同地区正在进行的广泛的艺术项目，该活动提供了一个全新的视角来解释（建立）地方-区域-全球联系的意义，这些联系受到当前危机的挑战和新的推动. 会议中强调的东南亚观点也提供了新的机会，不仅从地理上而且从时间上审视危机，质疑过去、现在和未来艺术状态之间的关系。