MESA SA KWARTO: SOUTHEAST ASIAN EXHIBITION ON A ‘TINY DESK’ HELD IN A LIVE ZOOM GALLERY

Authors

  • Kristian Jeff Cortez Agustin Manchester School of Art - University, Manchester, UK

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/2175497766689

Keywords:

Asean, Exhibition, Lockdown, Zoom, Pandemic.

Abstract

In 2020, workers had been deprived of access to their desk jobs as mass lockdowns shuttered offices. Videoconferencing arguably offered makeshift, temporary solutions across industries. Curator-researcher Agustin challenged the now ubiquitous Zoom-based communication by way of producing an online exhibition from his very own lockdown workplace. Mesa Sa Kwarto, thus, expanded the now ubiquitous Zoom gallery view into a makeshift exhibition space, where the desk (mesa) in the room (kwarto) balances between the material and virtual, offline and online, work and life. The effect can be likened to a home-made rendering of augmented reality. This study offers a critical reflection on how a makeshift physical-yetonline exhibition space can be considered as a potential form of counter-visuality to the alienating and homogenising tendencies of COVID-19 lockdowns, Zoom and social media.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

Kristian Jeff Cortez Agustin, Manchester School of Art - University, Manchester, UK

Kristian investigates the relationship between photographic media and regional geopolitics in
Southeast Asia. A PhD candidate at Manchester School of Art (United Kingdom), he is originally
from Manila, Philippines, but has lived in Singapore (for a professional stint at the Asia-Europe
Foundation/ASEF), Hong Kong (for his research work at Hong Kong Baptist University School of
Communication/Academy of Film), and London (for his master’s degree in Visual Culture at the
University of Westminster). His creative practice involves visual art, digital media, and poetry.

Downloads

Published

2021-07-12

How to Cite

Agustin, K. J. C. (2021). MESA SA KWARTO: SOUTHEAST ASIAN EXHIBITION ON A ‘TINY DESK’ HELD IN A LIVE ZOOM GALLERY. Animus.Inter-American Journal of Media Communication, 20(43). https://doi.org/10.5902/2175497766689

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 43 (2021)

Section

CULTURAL & TECHNOLOGICAL IMAGES

License

Copyright (c) 2021 Animus. Revista Interamericana de Comunicação Midiática

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

The authors of texts approved by the referees of Animus - Inter-American Journal of Media Communication automatically concede, and without any charge, the right to the first publication of the submitted material.