ASEF Culture360 | Connecting Asia and Europe through arts and culture


By David Fernández

16 Jul 2024

Discovering sā: Asia's Highest Contemporary Land Art Exhibition

In the Pink. Doyel Joshi and Neil Goshe Balser © sā Ladakh

This month, David Fernandez travels to the city of Leh, in Ladakh (India) for sā, an initiative for cultural exchange and community engagement, focusing on ecological practices and conservation efforts.

By Grey Yeoh

10 Apr 2023

Asia-Europe Cultural Festival Podcast Series: #2 Vignesh Melwani

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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 Florent Petit

10 Feb 2016

How can the culture sector better embed sustainability in its activities?

ASEF culture360 contributor Florent Petit reports on the ArtCOP21 Professional Workshop, organised last December in Paris to discuss how the cultural sector can help turn society towards more durable ways …

By Claire Wilson

01 Dec 2015

Can artists make a difference in the climate change debate?

In the lead-up to United Nations conference on climate change (COP21) in Paris, ASEF culture360 took the opportunity to talk to 3 organisations working in the intersection between art and …

By Kerrine Goh

11 Dec 2014

Green + Arts + Culture + Mobility: Towards an international equation?

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Contributed by Marie Le Sourd In one year, the 21st UN International Conference on Climate Change will take place in Paris from 30 November to 10 December 2015. Despite some …

By Judith Staines

10 Jan 2014

Asia-Europe | arts and culture agenda 2014

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culture360.org focuses on arts and culture connections across Asia and Europe - from New Zealand to Ireland, Malta to Mongolia and Laos to Latvia, there are 49 ASEM member countries …

By Valentina Riccardi

05 Dec 2012

18th ASEF University | Beware of your consumption to be sustainable

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The AU18 Documentary from @kristianjeff on Vimeo. The 18th ASEF University (AU18) showed how young people can creatively promote sustainable consumption. 42 participants from 33 Asian and European countries joined …

By Llobet & Pons

22 Aug 2012

Manifesta 9 | Reconversion

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Manifesta is the European biennial of contemporary art, with the special characteristic of being a nomadic show, organised every two years in a different European city. Taking place in 2012 …

By Valentina Riccardi

01 Aug 2012

Curating culture360.org #3 | Marie Le Sourd and Elena Di Federico, On the Move

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This month the On the Move team, Marie Le Sourd and Elena di Federico, presents a new exciting curatorial journey of culture360.org.

By Judith Staines

23 Apr 2012

Curating culture360.org #1 | Llobet and Pons

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Europe Editor Judith Staines asked the Spanish visual artist collective Llobet & Pons to start the curatorial journey with Curating culture360.org #1

By Kerrine Goh

30 Aug 2011

Creative Change | arts and culture in achieving sustainable change

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The arts have an important role to play in helping communities deal with the issues arising from environmental change and globalisation. That is the opinion of three passionate advocates for …

By Deepak Srinivasan

29 Jun 2011

Perceiving cultural rights | Politics of development and food production (Part 2)

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In the part II of the "perceiving cultural rights" series, culture36.org contributor, Deepak Srinivasan investigates cultural rights in relation to the politics of development and food production, with 2 case …

By Deepak Srinivasan

13 Jun 2011

Role of culture in society: Asian perspectives and European experiences

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culture360.org contributor Deepak Srinivasan reports on the Asian perspectives and European experiences from the Ready to Change? Conference held in Ljubljana, December 2010, with 2 video interviews and his his …

By Valentina Riccardi

14 Dec 2010

Walking for social and ecological transformation

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The first edition of the “International Summer School of Arts and Sciences for Sustainability in Social transformation” (Gabrovo, Bulgaria, August 2010) proved an insightful and challenging process for the wide …

By Judith Staines

28 Sep 2010

Sustainable Creative Cities | role of arts in globalised urban context

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Good practices from Asia and Europe, highlighting constructive initiatives with artistic rationales that address the topic of sustainable creative cities.

By Anupama Sekhar

27 Aug 2010

Interview: Sacha Kagan of the Institute of Cultural Theory, Research and the Arts

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The role of the artists and creative practitioners in the creation and sustenance of Sustainable, Creative Cities will serve as the focus of the Workshop on culture and the arts …