United Kingdom
Rachel Seah is a PhD Candidate researching and developing hermeneutics in the dynamic fields of Chinese contemporary private photography at the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts, Birmingham City University.
Her research is located at the intersection of contemporary art and visual activism with an interest in contemporary photography and media, feminism, care ethics and alternative histories.
The social transformation of the reform era saw healthy economic development alongside the rise of consumerism and increased levels of corruption and unemployment. The effects of this rapid transformation greatly influenced the growing new generation who were readily exposed to the commodity economy and consumerist ideology.
A review of Archipelago: Paradise Revisit, photography show at Three Shadows Photography Art Centre (Xiamen).
In this special issue, Seah reviewed Kent Chan’s installation at the Liverpool Biennale detailing Chan’s exploration on the future tropics and climate colonisation.
One cannot talk about performance art in Southeast Asia without mentioning Melati Suryodarmo. As one of the most celebrated contemporary artists in the region, Suryodarmo's works are characterised by their profound physicality, emotional depth and durational nature. Having pushed the limits of the mind and body, her performances and installations...
This article explores the hidden power of archives at this year’s Photo Oxford 2023 with select pop-up ‘Women and the Photobook’ and works by Anne Howeson, Ania Ready, Kaz Hakimi and artists from Magdalen Road Studios. Their myriad use and activation of archives charge us to reinvent the future as ethically and considerably as possible hope we can find it in ourselves to exact sensitivity, hope, gratitude and importantly, the community spirit in the latent archives around us.
Check out the Practise till we meet exhibition at the esea contemporary that explores highly complex issues & challenges faced by diaspora communities.
This thesis begins with an exploration of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) to cyborg phenomenon across pop culture, contemporary art and governance.
A curatorial proposal on Post-Museum's Bukit Brown Index #132: Triptych of the Unseen (2018), Wayang stage, chairs, cardboard virtual reality (VR) goggles and archival materials in joss paper construction 550 x 400 x 244 cm; duration 8:27 mins (‘Ghost’), 6:51 mins (‘Bureaucrat’), 9:43 mins (‘Activist’).
This article looks at the shift of curatorial practice in literary exhibitions by example of Wonderland travelling exhibition developed by the Australian Centre of Moving Images (ACMI) held at ArtScience Museum, Singapore from April to September 2019.
With Asia forecasted to lead in augmented and virtual reality by 2020, Southeast Asia included in the mix is also pushing boundaries to make the cut. Artists within the region are employing Augmented Reality as a post-convergence medium to bring the physical and digital world in unity.