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 Valentina Riccardi

05 Dec 2011

In conversation at the Angkor Photo Festival | Cambodia

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While attending the festival, the culture360.org coordinator Valentina Riccardi, exchanged some views with its Asia coordinator Jessica Lim on past and future directions of the Festival.

By Kerrine Goh

30 Nov 2011

An Interview with Brillante Mendoza, Part 1

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Here's Part One of an incisive interview by film scholar Elvin Amerigo Valerio on the much-awarded Pinoy indie film director Brillante Mendoza.

By Kerrine Goh

28 Nov 2011

Campaign for the Arts gathers momentum | Ireland

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The NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR THE ARTS was established in the Republic of Ireland in September 2009. The purpose of this body is to act as a lobbying group for the …

By Florentina Bratfanof

15 Nov 2011

Picnic 2011 | Building on our creativity

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PICNIC 2011 is a festival that has taken place at NDSM Wharf in Amsterdam last September. Florentina Bratfanof talks to Kitty Leering, the Program Director & interim General Manager of …

By Kerrine Goh

11 Nov 2011

French attraction: Interview with Yves Cresson of Bayoo Asia

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The number of Chinese projects filmed in France has multiplied in the recent years. What motivate Chinese crews to come and shoot in France? film.culture360.asef.org meets with Yves Cresson, the …

By Kerrine Goh

10 Nov 2011

The Missing Voice – Documentary Film in Southeast Asia | Part I

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„I have been to many international film-festivals in recent years and I have always been asking myself: Where are the Vietnamese contributions?“, says a young Vietnamese filmmaker at a recent …

By Toby To

10 Nov 2011

Festivals and Communities in Thailand | The case of Chet Samien

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Despite the lack of government support towards performing arts in Thailand, various artists and organizers are striving to create arts festivals for and with their respective communities.

Visual Perspective Series 2 | Traditional sports

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This second series of images presented by culture360.org and Angkor Photo Festival is about "traditional sports". Jill Coulon (France) takes an intimate look into the world of Sumo, Japan’s national …

By Kerrine Goh

03 Nov 2011

Measuring the impact of cultural policies

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Cultural policymakers are increasingly coveting ‘hard’ evidence, requiring cultural organisations to report against performance indicators and asking grant recipients to demonstrate their projects’ impacts.

By Llobet & Pons

30 Oct 2011

Outside the mainstream | independent project spaces and artist-run initiatives in Japan

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Artists Jasmina Llobet and Luis Fernández Pons look at how independent art spaces and artist-run initiatives in Japan function and their place within the contemporary arts scene.

By Kerrine Goh

18 Oct 2011

16th BIFF Reportage, Part I: The Numbers Game

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Part One of an in-depth look at the 16th BIFF (Busan International Film Festival).

By Valentina Riccardi

18 Oct 2011

culture360.org "maps" the impressions of the World Summit

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culture360.org "maps" the creative intersections at the 5th World Summit on arts and culture that took place in Melbourne, Australia on 3-6 October 2011.

By Llobet & Pons

17 Oct 2011

Exchanging artistic ideals and values | residency programmes in Japan

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Artists Jasmina Llobet and Luis Fernández Pons visited a number of artist-in-residency programmes in Japan and offer their impressions and advice to artists considering applying.

By Bharti Lalwani

17 Oct 2011

In conversation with Charles Merewether

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The Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (ICAS) is the curatorial division of LASALLE College of the Arts. Bharti Lalwani speaks with the Director of ICA, Charles Merewether to find out …

By Kerrine Goh

17 Oct 2011

Festivals and Communities in Thailand | The Pahtum Thani Festival

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Two cases of Thailand in the context of the festivals and their communities will be shared in this two-parts article. This first part outlines the case of Pahtum Thani International …