Overview

52 ARTISTS 52 ACTIONS surveys Artspace’s ambitious, year-long online project running from January 2018 – January 2019 highlighting artistic practice across Asia. The project commissioned 52 artists and collectives to stage actions in unique locations throughout the region and share them with global audiences online. The exhibition brings this rich collection into the Artspace galleries to address the social, cultural and political implications of working in the region and consider how art as action has the power to invoke change. Key to the project is an engagement with Asia and its diaspora as an endlessly evolving region with sub-cultures and subjectivities that defy traditional or rigid narratives.

With 52 artists and collectives from 31 countries. ​

Artists 

Richard Bell (Australia), Hera Büyüktaşçıyan (Turkey), YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES (The Republic Of Korea), Hasan Hujairi (Bahrain), Kyungah Ham (South Korea), Tromarama (Indonesia), Pio Abad (Philippines), Hit Man Gurung (Nepal), Deborah Kelly (Australia), Heman Chong (Singapore), Chim↑Pom (Japan), Yuk King Tan (Hong Kong), Shivanjani Lal (Fiji), Reetu Sattar (Bangladesh), Nasim Nasr (Iran/Australia), Sawangwongse Yawnghwe (Burma/Myanmar), Rasel Chowdhury (Bangladesh), Bhenji Ra (Australia/Philippines), Rushdi Anwar (Kurdistan), Enkhjargal Ganbat (Mongolia), The Mulka Project (YIRRKALA, NORTH-EAST ARNHEM LAND, AUSTRALIA), Charles Lim (Singapore), Echo Morgan (Xie Rong) (China), Amin Taasha (Afghanistan), Shiraz Bayjoo (Mauritius), Anida Yoeu Ali (Cambodia), Tita Salina & Irwin Ahmett (Indonesia), Fazal Rizvi (Pakistan), Ritu Sarin & Tenzing Sonam (India/Tibet), Ashmina Ranjit (Nepal), FAFSWAG (Aotearoa New Zealand), Pvi Collective (Australia), Refugee Art Project (Australia), Abdul Halik Azeez (Sri Lanka), Jason Wee (Singapore), Vernon Ah Kee (Australia), Art Labor Collective (Vietnam), Arahmaiani (Indonesia), Zhao Zhao (China), Rosanna Raymond (Aotearoa New Zealand), Mike Parr (Australia), Nicolas Molé (New Caledonia), Rabbya Naseer (Pakistan), Venuri Perera (Sri Lanka), Taloi Havini (Autonomous Region of Bougainville), Wang Rou (Malaysia), Tintin Wulia (Indonesia), Kuang-Yu Tsui (Taiwan), Samson Young (Hong Kong), Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn, (Vietnam), Chia-En Jao (Taiwan), James Tylor (Australia/Kuarna Yarta)