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CURATOR(S) Radicants

Asia NOW is a curated platform fostering rich dialogues and deeply engaged programming. It encompasses: a global selection of galleries showcasing artists from across Asia, and an ambitious platform dedicated to commissioning site-specific installations, projects, and performances. 
 
These works spark broader conversations around contemporary issues, uniting like-minded communities across the region and beyond. The tenth anniversary edition of Asia Now, under the artistic direction of curatorial cooperative Radicants founded by Nicolas Bourriaud is a sensorial showcase entitled Ceremony
 
Here, ceremony is a form of cultural practice, a celebration of ancestral wisdom and a critical tool that both reinforces and transforms social structures, traditions and hierarchies of power. The artists invited by Radicants mediate the interconnected human experience, speaking to the strength of assembly, and resonating with the communal spirit of Asia Now, a fair that has always brought together artists and galleries from the diverse global, cultural landscapes constituting the Asian continent and its diasporas.
 
Asia Now is a place of gathering, the only fair dedicated to exhibiting artists across Asia. It plays host to a multipolar world in which the Global South is redefined and celebrated as a testament to connectivity and vitality. This approach goes beyond geography to consider questions of methodology, wherein Asia becomes a spirit to be hamessed, a lens through which critical, postcolonial narratives are examined, and a region that is thought through rather than reified. Driven by a keen sense of discovery, Asia Now brings to the forefront divergent cosmologies and aesthetic traditions where universes coexist, amplifying voices from the global South.
 
COMMISSIONED INSTALLATIONS
Sumayya Vally - They who bring rain, bring life.  
Britto Art Trust - Palan & Pakghor (The Kitchen Garden and  The Social Kitchen)
 
PERFORMANCES & ACTIVATIONS
ANCIENT DESIRES - ONE TASTE by Charwei Tsai
ঋতু/REETU 2024 by Bishwati Goswami 
MAGIC MAIDS by Eisa Jocson et Venuri Perera 
IRE X FIRE - COMBUSTION by Nikhil Chopra & Uriel Barthélémi
MEHREGAN: SHADOWS OF RESISTANCE by Hamid Shams
 
VIDEO PROGRAM
For the first time, Sydney Design Week has invited the Prameya Art Foundation to curate a video screening section at  Asia Now, featuring works from the archive of the Sharjah Art Foundation. This section will be curated by Anushka Rajendran, the foundation’s head curator. 

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Curators
  • Radicants
Participants
  • Sumayya Vally
  • Charwei Tsai
  • Bishwati Goswami
  • Nikhil Chopra & Uriel Barthélémi
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