ASEF Culture360 | Connecting Asia and Europe through arts and culture


Get in-depth perspectives through commissioned articles, interviews and reports on current topics for Asia-Europe cultural relations.


By David Fernández

16 Jul 2024

Discovering sā: Asia's Highest Contemporary Land Art Exhibition

In the Pink. Doyel Joshi and Neil Goshe Balser © sā Ladakh

This month, David Fernandez travels to the city of Leh, in Ladakh (India) for sā, an initiative for cultural exchange and community engagement, focusing on ecological practices and conservation efforts.

By Catherine Sarah Young

19 May 2020

#art&technology: How art and technology collaborations contribute to a sustainable world

#art&technology: How art and technology collaborations contribute to a sustainable world

In culture360.ASEF.org’s series of articles on #art&technology, Catherine Sarah Young highlights the hidden processes behind taxidermied animals and other preserved specimens in her multimedia artwork and examines questions and potential …

By Duna Viezzoli

26 Mar 2020

#art&technology: Enter paintings, a dream come true

#art&technology: Enter paintings, a dream come true

In culture360.ASEF.org’s series of articles on #art&technology, virtual technologies are today applied to works of art, fascinating spectators on a new dimension and creating subjective perceptions of cultural heritage: the …

By Kerrine Goh

05 Nov 2015

Curating Batik collections in Asia and Europe | Report

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Curating Batik involves the exchange of batik collections between museums in Asia and Europe towards an exhibition in 2017.

By Claire Wilson

25 Aug 2015

A foot in each place: Managing the jet set life between Asia and Europe

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ASEF culture360 contributor Claire Rosslyn WILSON talks to artists Jun YANG and Yan PRESTON about their experiences working on projects in both Asia and Europe as they share the challenges …

By Sasiwimon Wongjarin

25 Jun 2015

Curating Batik collections in Asia and Europe

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The Curating Batik event in Jakarta marks the first of several activities being organised as part of a study of Batik collections in selected museums in Asia and Europe, towards …

By Florent Petit

18 Jun 2015

A second life for industrial heritage sites in Europe

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ASEF culture360 contributor Florent Petit tells us how the re-use of industrial heritages sites for cultural activities helps reinvigorate European cities and complete urban regeneration policies. Since the beginning of …

By Kerrine Goh

12 Sep 2013

Interview with Dr. Sri Kuhnt- Saptodewo | Weltmuseum Wien

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In connection with the ongoing cooperation between the Weltmuseum Wien and the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), and on the occasion of the event series Public Lab, culture360.org interviews Dr. Sri Kuhnt-Saptodewo, …

By Valentina Riccardi

02 Aug 2013

Historical artifacts come alive with contemporary dance | Occupy the Museum | Austria

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[caption id="attachment_35278" align="aligncenter" width="372"] Dr. Sri Kuhnt- Saptodewo with Bulantrisna[/caption]   In connection with the ongoing cooperation between the Weltmuseum Wien and the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), culture360.org interviews Dr. Sri …

By Kerrine Goh

31 Jul 2013

Interview with Steven Engelsman | Weltmuseum Wien | Austria

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For more than 15 years Steven Engelsman was the Director of the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, the Netherlands. In 2013, he has been appointed Director of the Weltmuseum …

By Deepak Srinivasan

23 Jun 2011

Perceiving cultural rights | Social spaces and living spaces (Part 1)

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The Cultural Rights discourse is a new and emerging one, intrinsically tied to processes of the political. culture36.org contributor, Deepak Srinivasan looks into some of the interventions from Europe that …

By Florentina Bratfanof

14 Jun 2010

European festivals in a global era

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What do ‘festivals’ mean in a global world? How are they perceived in Europe compared with Asia? What is their dialogue, keeping in mind EU and Asian practices?

By Judith Staines

01 Jan 2010

Solutions for the mobility of visual artists in Europe

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[caption id="attachment_1023" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Image credit: Trans Europe Halles http://teh.net/"][/caption] The Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (IGBK) organised a meeting of European experts on ‘Mobility in the Visual Arts Sector …

By Jeffrey Withaya Campbell

25 Oct 2009

Asian Village: young musicians and visual artists

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Asian Village is a Follow-Up Project of I'mPULSE Clandestino, 4th Asia-Europe Music Camp (Sweden, 2007) and aims to continue the cultural exchange that the programme started.

By Kerrine Goh

28 Feb 2006

The Web As Your Permanent Screen

Interview with Tiger Award Doan Minh Phuong By Gyora Gal Glupczynski