Lian Ladia

Lian Ladia is a curator and organizer. She co-founded Planting Rice, a curatorial platform founded in Manila, Philippines that presents contemporary art discussions in Southeast Asia not available to mainstream publications. She completed an MA in Curatorial Studies at Bard College with an Asian Cultural Council Fellowship in New York. She was also a curatorial program participant de Appel in Amsterdam. She has curated exhibitions and organized public programs at the Jorge Vargas Museum (Manila), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), de Appel (Amsterdam), The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley),...

Minor Gestures: A Talk by Lian Ladia

  Minor artistic and curatorial gestures are minor revelatory actions exposing ruptures, which makes way for new emerging truths in exhibition making. Lian Ladia’s discussion will include case studies such as Khaled Hourani and Charles Esche’s “Picasso in Palestine”, Fred Wilson’s “Mining the Museum”, her own project with Sidd Perez, Planting Rice, a collaborative curatorial platform which started in Manila, Philippines and Carlos Villa’s “Worlds in Collisions” which will be featured in the coming Singapore Biennale in November 2019....