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 Magali An Berthon

10 Aug 2022

Crafts in Asia: Pathways to Sustainability | Publication launched!

#ASEFCulture

culture360 is delighted to present Crafts in Asia: Pathways to Sustainability, a new Guide on sustainable textile practices in Asia addressing climate change, pollution and waste.

posted on

28 Jul 2022

Recalibrating the Compass: Culture’s Role in Addressing the Climate Crisis – Roundtable #2 - Report

In 2022, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) and following the global impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, ASEF has launched a series of online …

posted on

08 Jun 2022

Recalibrating the Compass: Empowering the Creative Ecosystem – Roundtable #1 - Report

In 2022, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) and following the global impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, ASEF has launched a series of online …

By Dwirahmi Suryandari

21 Dec 2021

Reinterpreting Museum Objects through Rituals: Stories from Yogyakarta and Surakarta

As part of ASEF’s Call for Articles: Latest Trends in the Museum Sector in Asia and Europe, Dwirahmi Suryandari's article seeks to explore the rituals and tradition around objects and …

ASEM Cultural Festival 2021 | Interview with H.E. Hab Touch, Ministry of Culture & Fine Arts of Cambodia

#ASEFCulture

Looking back at the first hybrid version of the ASEM Cultural Festival 2021, Preeti Gaonkar and Bridget Lee from the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), interviewed His Excellency Hab Touch from Ministry of Culture and Fine …

By Preeti Gaonkar

08 Oct 2021

Southeast Asian Arts Forum 2021 – Schoolhouse Mavericks

#ASEFCulture

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

01 Oct 2021

Performance Making during a Pandemic: Of Innovation, Form and Embeddedness

If arts panel discussions are meant to reflect the times, “Critical Responses to Performance-Making in A Post-Pandemic World” positioned itself well: at this stage of the pandemic, it was less …

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 Valentina Riccardi

17 Sep 2021

Virtual residencies: a new model of exchange beyond the pandemic

#ASEFCulture

As part of the Resartis General conference 2021 titled Defining the Next Decade, ASEF culture360 moderated a panel on alternative models of arts residencies that have been created since 2020, …

By Preeti Gaonkar

09 Jun 2021

What future for Asia-Europe museum cooperation?

#ASEFCulture

Key takeaways from the forum discussion on ‘State of play, perspectives and new forms of cooperation between Asian and European museums’, held at the ASEM Day Virtual Celebration organised by …

By Valentina Riccardi

05 May 2021

Virtual Crossovers: Meet our mentor | A conversation with Carla Figueira

#ASEFCulture

Carla Figueira was one of the mentors of Virtual Crossovers, an e-residency for arts journalists organised last month by culture360 in partnership with ENCACT. In this interview she shares about …

By Yasen Vasilev

25 Mar 2021

Reimagining Residencies Post-Pandemic

In this article, Yasen Vasilev rethinks how the artists residencies ecosystem could be in the future, following the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

By Carina Merin

08 Feb 2021

NEW INSIGHTS, NEW FORESIGHTS: Musings on the Performance Curators Initiatives' Virtual International Symposium 2020

Last October, the Performance Curators Initiatives (PCI), a global network of performance curators based in the Philippines, held its second international symposium entitled "Conversations on Curation and Performance in the …

By SJ Armstrong

28 Jan 2021

Invisible Borders: How transnational artist residences are adapting to travel bans

Art transcends borders. Physical borders, mental boundaries, transnational highways that bind us in place. Travel has been savaged by the ‘new normal’.

By Valentina Riccardi

01 Dec 2020

culture360 - Podcast series #3 | In conversation with Performance Curators Initiatives (PCI)

#ASEFCulture

culture360 is delighted to talk to the founders of Curators Performance Initiatives or PCI, an independent network of curators, scholars and practitioners in performance curation