From: Rasheed Araeen / To: Kuan-Hsing Chen / 23 Sept 2013 6:57PM/ Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Greetings Dear Kuan-Hsing Many thanks for your beautiful response. By ‘Art as Method’ I actually mean ‘Creativity of People as Method.’ Once this creativity is recognised as part of people’s productivity and is then organised as a collective endeavour, it can become the basic tool of the struggle. I will come to this later when I have some time to elaborate on this point, and respond to your letter properly. Meanwhile I want to send you my book Art Beyond Art. Please send me your address. Best wishes , Rasheed
Footnote: 1 | Chen, Kuan-hsing, Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization, London & Durham: Duke University Press, 2010 2 | Black Phoenix was discontinued after three issues and was resurrected in 1987 as Third Text: Third World Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture. 3 | “World in Transition, Imagination in Flux–Asian Circle of Thought 2012 Shanghai Summit” invited six Asian thinkers from South Korea, Japanese mainland, Okinawa, Malaysia and India, to deliver speeches from Oct. 12 to Oct. 19 and engage in discussions with 40 plus intellectuals from across Asia. 4 | This is part of a larger project contributing to the (re)integration of Asia at the level of knowledge production.
Chen Kuan-Hsing -
Rasheed Araeen -
CHEN Kuan-Hsing is Professor in the Graduate Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies, and also the coordinator of Center for Asia-Pacific/ Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung University.
Rasheed Araeen is an artist, writer and the founder of both Third Text and Third Text Asia.
In May 2013, AAA's Hammad Nasar visited Rasheed Araeen with a copy of Chen Kuan-hsing's Asia as Method.
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