Per°Form CoThink Lab Digital Lecture — From Crisis to Value* by Ho Rui An

Moderated by Noorlinah Mohamed

Synopsis

In this digital keynote From Crisis to Value*, second Per°Form CoThink Lab Fellow, artist and writer, Ho Rui An discusses his recent and ongoing bodies of work exploring the material networks and geopolitical imaginaries that have animated the regions of East and Southeast Asia. Guiding audiences through his research trajectory, Ho begins with an investigation of the so-called Asian financial crisis of the late nineties, to the political economy of post-reform China, and to the impact of the pandemic and new socio-economic realities. Spanning the mediums of performance, film, and installation, Ho’s works variously examine the relationship between race and financial capitalism, the student as a figure of capitalist modernity and radical culture, the displacement of class politics by a discourse of anti-corruption amidst the systemic crises of late capitalism, and, most recently, the textile industry and its many afterlives within the Greater China region.

From Crisis to Value* is part of Ho Rui An’s two-part programme in 2021, including this lecture, and a video installation of Asia the Unmiraculous at 72-13, Singapore.

About Ho Rui An

Artist and writer, Ho Rui An works in the intersections of contemporary art, cinema, performance, and theory. Working primarily across the mediums of lecture, essay and film, he probes the ways images are produced, circulate, and disappear within contexts of globalism and governance. He has presented projects at the Bangkok Art Biennale; Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh; Gwangju Biennale; Jakarta Biennale; Sharjah Biennale; Kochi Muziris Biennale; Kunsthalle Wien; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhiven; NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore; and Para Site, Hong Kong. In 2019, he was awarded the International Film Critics’ (FIPRESCI) Prize at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany.