ASIA NOW 2019 | Chat Room Conversation Platform

Wednesday 16 October

3.15-4.15pm | Opening Discussion : “IRL”

X Zhu-Nowell, Assistant Curator at the Guggenheim Museum New York and guest curator of ASIA NOW 2019, with Gary Zhexi Zhang, artist and writer

4.30-5.30pm | He Xiangyu “Yellow Book” Discussion & Book Signing

with Li Zhenhua, independent curator, and He Xiangyu, artist

Followed by a book signing of the book - on sale at the ASIA NOW ticket office

5.45–6.30pm | “Spiritually Millennial: Art and Religiosity in the Mind of the Asian Millennial Artist”

with Khairuddin Hori, Curatorial Director at Chan + Hori Contemporary and former curator at the Palais de Tokyo and Singapore Art Museum.

Moderated by Sürreya Wille, former Global Strategic Partnerships lead at Artsy

Thursday 17 October

11.15am-12.15pm | “Video art's place in Asian art museums: Cernuschi Art Vidéo” (in French)

with Eric Lefebvre, Director of the Museum of the Asian arts of Paris - Musée Cernuschi, and Maël Bellec, Chief curator at Musée Cernuschi

‘Cernuschi Art Vidéo #3 : Transmissions' , a selection of seven artist video works, will be screened during the fair. Click here for more information

12.30-1.45pm | “The Evolution of the Form and Function of Private Cultural Institutions”

with Oliva Sartogo and Alina Sartogo, Co-founders of ARTinD, Nicole Ching, Co-founder of Museum 2050, and Lu Xun, collector and Founder of Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing

2-3.15pm | “Does Technology Change How We Experience Art?”

with Charleen Leo, curator/project manager of Future World at the ArtScience Museum Singapore, Sylvain Levy, Co-founder of DSLcollection, Masha Faurschou, Founder of SABSAY gallery and partner at Khora Contemporary, and Liu Wa, artist

Moderated by Benoit Baume, Founder of Fisheye Magazine.

3.30-4.30pm | “The Art of Collecting New Media” (in French)

with Karen Levy, Founder of The Art of This Century, Thibaut Wychowanok, Editor-in-chief of Numéro Art and Numero.com, and Margot Mottaz, Associate Curator at PaceX

5-6pm | “The Perspective of Mandala"

with Heri Dono, artist, and Constance de Monbrison, curator at the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac

Friday 18 October

11-12am | “The art world is changing and we are changing with it”

with fine art insurance specialists, Siaci Saint Honoré

1-2pm | Karaoke Lecture Performance: “Hong Kong Weather Modification Office (Square Cloud)”

by Wong Kit Yi, artist, followed by Q&A with X Zhu-Nowell, guest curator of ASIA NOW 2019

2.15-3.30pm | “Dreamy, Grotesque and Surreal: Into the Deep Subconscious of Min Jung-Yeon” (in French)

with Sophie Makariou, Director of the musée national des arts asiatiques - Guimet, Min Jung-Yeon, artist, and Maria Lund, gallerist. Moderated by Olivia Sand, journalist for the Asian Art Newspaper and author of the book “Contemporary Voices from the Asian and Islamic Art Worlds”

Followed by a book signing of “Contemporary Voices from the Asian and Islamic Art Worlds” - on sale at the ASIA NOW ticket office - with Olivia Sand at the entrance to the Chat Room

3.45-5pm | "Living in Interesting Times: The State of the Asian Art Market Today"

with Fang Fang, Founder of Star Gallery Beijing, Serge Tiroche, Co-founder of the Tiroche DeLeon Collection, Thomas Eller, Founder of Gallery Weekend Beijing and Artistic Director of “China Arts & Sciences” in Jingdezhen and Arianne Piper, art advisor

Moderated by Melanie Gerlis, art market columnist for the Financial Times and Editor at Large for The Art Newspaper

5.15-6pm | “Revealing The Stars”: Discussion & Book Signing

with Huang Rui, artist and Co-founder of the Stars group, and Holly Roussell, Museologist and Art Historian

Saturday 19 October

4.30-5.30pm | “China VPN: a Glimpse into Chinese Subcultures”

with Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou, a duo of independent curators, Asian Eyez (aka Lhaga Koondhor), Co-founder of the all-female music collective Nüshu and Cheng Ran, artist and Founder of Martin Goya Business

6-6.30pm | “China VPN #2: Conversation and screening of JOSS"

with Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou, a duo of independent curators, Cheng Ran, artist and Item Idem, artist

Sunday 20 October

12.30-1.30pm | “KIRTI: Expanding the Frame of Southeast Asian Art” Discussion & Publication Soft Launch

with Hunter Panther Deerfield, independent researcher and Khairuddin Hori, Curatorial Director at Chan + Hori Contemporary and former curator at the Palais de Tokyo and Singapore Art Museum

2-3pm | “Independent Publishing from Asia”

with Simon Baker, Director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie and Zhen Shi, Founder of publishing house Maison de Z and photographer

Moderated by Victoria Jonathan, Co-Director of the Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival