Professor May Adadol Ingawanij, Co-director of the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), has recently been named in the ArtReview Power 100 List 2021.
ArtReview is one of the world’s leading international contemporary art magazines, dedicated to expanding contemporary art’s audience and reach, and tracing the ways it interacts with culture in general. The Power 100 List features an annual ranking of the most influential people in art, and is distributed throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific.
The list is shaped through the input of over 30 anonymous panellists and collaborators spread around the world. Each panellist uses three criteria to evaluate who is shaping the development of contemporary art in their locality; the people that have been active over the past twelve months, how the work they do is shaping the kind of art being currently produced, and whether their impact can be considered global rather than purely local.
Professor May Adadol Ingawanij was named 62nd in the ArtReview Power 100 List for providing crucial theorisation and contextualisation of Southeast Asian cinema and video art, which is often underrepresented in critical writing, via text, exhibitions and other collaborations. Her work traces the ways in which our relationship with the screen has evolved to open new potentialities for the medium.
Commenting on being named in the Power 100 List, Professor May Adadol Ingawanij said: “I am honoured by this recognition of my work on decolonial approaches to Southeast Asian cinema and artists’ moving image practices. My inclusion on this year’s list is an indication that the cinematic works of Southeast Asian contemporary artists such as Nguyen Trinh Thi, Lav Diaz, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and many others, are now commanding the global attention they so richly deserve.
“I am especially delighted by the recognition of my curatorial project Animistic Apparatus, funded by the British Academy, whose development owes much to CREAM’s pioneering tradition of practice-based research, and to the thriving culture of art and design research and teaching within the University.”
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