All posts tagged: Ho Tzu Nyen

Asia Art Archive 2025 Annual Fundraiser

Published by Artomity Magazine

aaa2025auction.com Asia Art Archive (AAA) announces the return of its Annual Fundraiser this October and November, celebrating the organisation’s 25th anniversary. This year’s fundraiser features an auction of over sixty-five works generously donated by artists, galleries, and individuals. The auction presents major pieces by prominent and emerging artists from Asia and beyond, showcasing AAA’s intergenerational and cross-regional reach. Proceeds from the auction will support AAA to continue its mission of preserving contemporary art histories in Asia and providing free public access to resources and education. In partnership with Christie’s Hong Kong, a preview of the artworks opens to the public from 7 to 11 November. The works are available for bidding online at aaa2025auction.com from 27 October, 12nn, to 14 November, 10:30pm. This year’s auction features work by artists including Au Hoi Lam, Cao Fei, Luis Chan, Huma Bhabha, Ding Yi, Nicole Eisenman, Antony Gormley, Ha Bik Chuen, Ho Tzu Nyen, Heidi Lau, Lee Kit, Hao Liang, Liu Wei, ruangrupa, Vishwa Shroff, Yee I-Lann, Stephen Wong Chun Hei, Xu Bing, Xu Zhen, Samson Young, and more. Since …

Ho Tzu Nyen

Published by Caroline Ha Thuc

R for Rhombicuboctahedron, Vol. 8 / Edouard Malingue Gallery / Hong Kong / Mar 26 – May 17, 2019 Humidity, corruption, nationalism, irrigation, rice, empire of decay. A for anarchism. Modern nepotism. K for kingship. To think through the effects of ghosts. F for fiction, fluidity, forest, friction, frontier. Across past and present. Southeast Asia is a machinery of rots. Jellyfish, Malaya, legibility, Utama, ecology, buffalo, politics, tigers, slavery. Theatrical acts of civil disobedience. V for vampires, vaginas. C for cosmology, circle, contagion. Acts of political vengeance. Becoming animal. N for nation, narration, narcosis. A triple agent from the Japanese, the French, the British. L for linguistic, legibility, Lai Teck. P for paddy, politics, plateau. Endlessly, an algorithm selects and weaves different sounds and images from the database of text, music and online images that forms Ho Tzy Nyen’s ongoing project The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia. It asks what Southeast Asia is, and how we can grasp such a concept, which is at once real and constructed. Language itself is inadequate at reflecting the region’s diverse features and unifying characteristics. …