#AsiaNow Panel
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Military or militarized occupation by states of various regions in different parts of Asia has led to violence, resistance and protracted conflicts. These conflicts raise critical issues of sovereignty, identity, ethnicity, religious beliefs and displacement that severely affect their population. This special roundtable invites four artists from Kashmir, Tibet, Timor Leste and Cambodia to discuss the role of the arts in the countries where they live or where they have been exiled from. Through the rich lenses of rap music, visual installations and paintings, the artists will, on the one hand, discuss the ways art is a potent means to help people protest and maintain their historical identity; and on the other, reflect on how art has become a privileged means to create historical records, shared memory and therapeutic methods.
Penny Edwards
University of California, Berkeley
Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo
Davidson College