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 Liu Xiaoyi

29 Aug 2023

On the Potential, Shortcomings, and Other Aspects of Writing with Artificial Intelligence

What are the boundaries of human and computer intelligence? What are the limits of artificial intelligence (AI) models? What are the limits of human thought? What even defines human thought? …

By Jenny Siung

14 Aug 2023

The role of cultural heritage within cities

Chester Beatty-Faiths in Focus

In 2017, the American Alliance of Museums looked into the future and projected how museums will operate in 2040 and predicted some will move from a static collection-based organisation to …

By Grey Yeoh

27 Mar 2023

Asia-Europe Cultural Festival Podcast Series: #1 Kamini Ramachandran

Asia-Europe Cultural Festival Podcast Series Cover Photo

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The Asia-Europe Cultural Festival is a public arts festival organised by ASEF since 2018 to celebrate the artistic diversity of Asia and Europe and to promote dialogue and exchange amongst …

By Preeti Gaonkar

08 Oct 2021

Southeast Asian Arts Forum 2021 – Schoolhouse Mavericks

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The Southeast Asian Arts Forum 2021 was a 3-day event organised by the Institute of Southeast Asian Arts (ISEAA) that ran from the 28th to 30th July at Nanyang Academy …

By Adriana Nordin Manan

22 Sep 2021

Cultivating Arts Writing Ecosystems: Criticality and Creativity amidst Necessity

Personal narratives on professional pathways to becoming arts writers in four Asian countries were the departure point for the rich discussion at “Critical Writing Training: Models, Methods and Pitfalls,” a …

By Gloria Tan

04 Jun 2021

culture360 interviews Dimo Milev | M1 Contact Contemporary Dance Festival, Singapore

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culture360 interviews Dimo Kirilov Milev, a dance choreographer for the M1 Contact Contemporary Dance Festival organised by The Human Expression (T.H.E) Dance Company in Singapore. Based in the Netherlands, Dimo …

Virtual Workings | Learning to Interweave New Curatorial Narratives

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Participants of the online residency Virtual Workings Tony Sugiarta (Indonesia), Masako Tanaka (Japan), Arie Syarifuddin (Indonesia) and Marinella Andrea Mina (Philippines) worked together on the topic of "Interweaving Textiles" under …

Virtual Workings | PERTIWI : Resilience in the arts

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Participants of the online residency Virtual Workings Kamiliah Bahdar from Singapore and Savitri Sastrawan from Indonesia worked together on “Pertiwi” under the mentorship of Luckana Kunavichayanont. The two curators talk …

By Kathy Rowland

05 Mar 2021

Mapping Asian Arts Media: Key Findings in Cambodia, Malaysia and Singapore

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ASEF culture360 and ArtsEquator are pleased to present the key findings of the Arts Media Ecosystem Research, a mapping of the state of the arts media in Cambodia, Malaysia and …

Virtual360 Konnect | Co-dreaming, Maintenance, and the Body: A Dialogue

This article summarises the thoughts of Virtual360 Konnect residents Charmaine and June on their collaborative work during the virtual residency

By Jeffrey Tan

03 Feb 2021

Creating Online Collaborations – the SAME-SAME experience

In this article, creative producer Jeffrey Tan shares the experience of SAME-SAME, an online inclusive collaboration between differently abled artists from Singapore and Australia, developed in time of Covid-19.

Virtual360 Konnect | Spring[s] for Democracy

Ei Arakawa & Inza Lim, The Unheroed Theater, 20142020, installation view. Courtesy of the artists and Gwangju Biennale Foundation

An article by Soo Young LEAM from Korea and Kathleen DITZIG from Singapore, participants of the Virtual360 Konnect - Emerging Arts Leaders Virtual Residency Series, on their joint project.

By Andrea Abellon

18 Oct 2020

Virtual360 Konnect | Mid-residency: What's happening so far

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The 20 residents of Virtual360 Konnect - Emerging Arts Leaders Virtual Residency Series are on full speed working together on their joint projects.

By Valentina Riccardi

17 Sep 2020

culture360 - Podcast series #2 | How are arts organisations collaborating internationally in the New Normal?

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culture360.ASEF.org is pleased to launch its second podcast, as part of its media partnership with Cross Festival 2020.