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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.

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 Di Liu

21 Jan 2021

"How are the arts adapting to the New Normal"? | A Reading Room in Guangzhou

A library, a study room, and a hangout spot, Reading Room is a public space where friends gather to read, discuss, meditate and imagine. Launched by HB Station in Guangzhou, …

By Veeranganakumari Solanki

14 Jan 2021

Funding the Arts in the time of pandemic

This article by Veerangana Solanki looks at various art funding models that emerged in three South Asian ASEM countries – Bangladesh, India, Pakistan – to support artists and art practices …

By Eva Pedersen

04 Jan 2021

Investing in Lasting Values

Last December, culture360 launched 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 experiences …

By James Luigi Tana

04 Jan 2021

Art and Artists’ (Im)Mobility

Last December, culture360 launched 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 experiences …

Virtual360 Konnect | Dissecting Boundaries

Leenalchi's performance for ONSTAGE, uploaded on the 온스테이지ONSTAGE Youtube Channel. Image courtesy of NAVER ONSTAGE(네이버 온스테이지)

An article by Mi Seok Huh from Korea and Robby Ocktavian from Indonesia, participants of the Virtual360 Konnect - Emerging Arts Leaders Virtual Residency Series, on their joint project.

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 …

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 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

Virtual360 Konnect | Artists in Panic! - Chasing a better normal

An article by Sarah Koo from Korea and Mac Andre Arboleda from the Philippines, participants of the Virtual360 Konnect - Emerging Arts Leaders Virtual Residency Series, on their joint residency.

Virtual360 Konnect | Bounded Women

An article by Soe Yu NWE from Myanmar and Nayoung JEONG from Korea, participants of the Virtual360 Konnect - Emerging Arts Leaders Virtual Residency Series, on their joint project.

By Valentina Riccardi

18 Nov 2020

Culture at Crossroads: What Collaboration Do We Want in Eastern Europe? | Interview with Tereza Stejskalová

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As part of culture360 media partnership with the East European Biennale Alliance (EEBA), we have interviewed  Tereza Stejskalová, the curator and host of the Symposium Culture at Crossroads: What Collaboration Do We Want …

Virtual360 Konnect | Together, Wired

Virtual360 Konnect - Chloe Choi and Faiq Airudin

An article by Chloe Choi and Faiq Airudin, 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.