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 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 Christos Pavlakis

14 Dec 2020

Getting creative at home: Re-storying neuro-diversity

This month, culture360 will launch a series articles on how the arts are adapting to the "New Normal. Well over 10 months into the global pandemic, this series will present …

By Valentina Riccardi

01 Dec 2020

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

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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

By Valentina Riccardi

12 Nov 2018

Buffer Fringe Festival: bridging the divide through performing arts | Cyprus

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As part of the media partnership with culture360.ASEF.org, we have interviewed Hayriye Rüzgar who is in charge of Communications at Home for Cooperation, the organisation behind the Buffer Fringe Festival. …

By Naima Morelli

13 Jun 2018

Kartika Affandi: 9 Ways of Seeing | Interview with videomaker Christopher Basile

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A new documentary film tells the story of visionary artist Kartika Affandi, daughter of Indonesia's most celebrated painter, and a groundbreaking personality in her own right.

By Chloe Chotrani

14 Feb 2018

The importance of documenting & archiving the performing arts

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Chloe Chotrani is a movement artist and writer based in Singapore. She has set up the performing arts archive, Talking Circles, a digital archive of performing artists from South, Southeast …

By Valentina Riccardi

14 Jan 2018

A look back at the Asian Intercultural Conference 2017 | Interview with T. Sasitharan

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As part of the media partnership with Intercultural Theatre Institute (ITI), culture360 has interviewed its director and co-founder T. Sasitharan on the results of the the Asian Intercultural Conference organised …

By Claire Rosslyn Wilson

08 Dec 2017

Culture and the Sustainable Development Goals: Shaping perceptions and inspiring change

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Culture is increasingly recognised as an important dimension for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, a group of 17 interrelated global goals and 169 targets that cover a range of development …

By Ha Dao

30 Nov 2017

Art, autism and love: The world of Nem

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This December, ASEF culture360 closes its collaboration with ArtsEquator.com on the topic of Art & Disabilities in Southeast Asia with an article by Ha Dao. This is the story of …

By Fatima Avila

14 Nov 2017

Cultural Mobility: A Vital Tool For Cultural Rights

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“To participate in a cultural life” is a human right. This is part of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...

By Claire Rosslyn Wilson

08 Nov 2017

Circles of telling and listening: Storytelling between cultures

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“There is no story without a teller and a listener. The storytelling cycle expands and becomes “ripples of telling and listening, and telling and listening all over again”.

By Kerrine Goh

02 Oct 2017

Art & Disabilities in Southeast Asia | Ramesh Meyyappan | Singapore

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This October, ASEF culture360 continues its collaboration with ArtsEquator.com on the topic of Art & Disabilities in Southeast Asia. Stephanie Burridge interviews performance artist Ramesh Meyyappan on the meaning of …

By Kerrine Goh

24 Jul 2017

Art & Disabilities in Southeast Asia | Art Beyond Words | Nolet Soliven

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This July, ASEF culture360 continues its collaboration with ArtsEquator.com on the topic of Art & Disabilities in Southeast Asia. Contributer Mark Louie Lugue meets with Nolet Soliven and his wife …

By Kerrine Goh

13 Jun 2017

Art & Disabilities in Southeast Asia | The story of Epic Arts | Cambodia

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This month, ASEF culture360 initiates a new collaboration with ArtsEquator.com, an online platform that brings together information, articles, events and ideas on the arts from Southeast Asia

By Valentina Riccardi

19 Oct 2016

Asiatopia Performance Conference 2016 | An open space for sharing

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From 13 to 19 October 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand, Asiatopia Performance Conference 2016 gathered over 120 among artists, curators, writers, historians and theorists to discuss and document the development of …