SENI 2004 Festival of Arts

The SENI 2004 Festival of Arts, held in Singapore, is a visual arts festival of contemporary Southeast Asian and Asian art aimed at creating open channels of dialogue between Singapore and international artists.

Its symposium comprise of rousing dialogues that provides much food for thought as Singapore works towards the Singapore Biennale 2006. Some articles from the speakers at the symposium that could be downloaded at the SENI website :

Chaitanya Sambrani: Location and desire: siting the contemporary in Indian art

Desmond Hui: Defining the Contemporary: Public Art and Architecture

John Philips: The Contemporary

Jim Supangkat: Session III: Biennales, Institutions and State

Jose Tence Ruiz: Exchange, Accomodation, other Lubrications

Juliana Yasin: Conditions of Practice: Translocality and Simultaneity

Paul Rae: Deadweights of the Body Politic: Art, Space and the Contemporary

Rajeev S. Patke: Panel on ‘Looking Critically: Perspectives and Prospects’