Throughout the research trips to the ten ASEAN countries, some of the artistic phenomena that stood out for the SEA PROJECT team were the artist collectives amidst rapid urbanization and modernization and the performative practices that emerged from within the insufficient infrastructure for the arts.

Following the symposium held last February, the second public program of the SEA PROJECT focused on Indonesia where artist collectives are thriving in particular and international art exhibitions are held in three of its cities.

The team welcomed renowned Indonesian artist Heri Dono for an artist talk and also his performance using Wayang Kulit. After which the curators who visited Indonesia in November 2015 presented progress reports on the theme of “Now in Indonesian Contemporary Art.” Mami Kataoka spoke about the diverse ethnic, linguistic, and cultural relationships between Japan continuing from the wartime period and surveyed the artistic environments of Javaof Java. Naoki Yoneda focusedYoneda focused on artists active during the 1980s and 1990s, and Haruko Kumakura took up the relatively younger artists from the 2000s. The curators’ report about the current state of contemporary art thriving in Indonesia impressed the audience.