Asia

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  Dispatch

  Rana Plaza: A Last Gesture Recorded

  May 6, 2013 - 

  On April 24, an eight-story building in a suburb of Dhaka, Bangladesh collapsed, killing hundreds of factory workers. Examining a photograph of a boy buried in the rubble, Bangladeshi writer Shameema Binte Rahman asks how his last gesture will be remembered.  More

  By Shameema Binte Rahman

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  Special to Creative Time Reports

  Out of Nowhere: Photography in Cambodia (Part One)

  April 15, 2013 - 

  As part of the Season of Cambodia arts festival in New York, curators Leeza Ahmady and Erin Gleeson present a selection of photographic portraiture documenting the rapid changes in Cambodian life today.  More

  By Leeza Ahmady and Erin Gleeson

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  Op-Ed

  Ai Weiwei: Every Day We Put the State on Trial

  April 15, 2013 - 

  World-renowned artist Ai Weiwei grapples with his 2011 arrest and continual censorship, expressing skepticism that the Chinese Communist Party will ever relax its control over civil society, and cautious hope that people are nonetheless beginning to imagine change.  More

  By Ai Weiwei

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  Interview

  Indonesia: Are Those Killers Really Real?

  February 19, 2013 - 

  In the 2012 documentary The Act of Killing, former members of a death squad proudly reenact their roles in Indonesia’s 1965-66 genocide. Artist Thierry Geoffroy asks director Joshua Oppenheimer about the stark contradictions in human behavior his film examines.  More

  By Thierry Geoffroy

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  Video

  Karachi: Cell Phone Videos Tell Stories of Migrant Life

  January 9, 2013 - 

  Roughly 2.5 million migrants live illegally in Karachi—many of whom were considered Pakistanis before partition of the Indian subcontinent. The art collective Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema gathers cell phone videos that tell the stories of the city’s migrants.  More

  By The Tentative Collective