IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM CALENDARFEBRUARY

IN RESIDENCE is supported by:
Asian Cultural Council
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation
U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh
and generous individual support

A citywide visual arts program centered on two-month residencies
in conjunction with exhibitions, installations, screenings, open
studios, and conversations at major New York City institutions;
including an unprecedented academic symposium about
contemporary art practice and history in Cambodia.

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Khvay Samnang, Human Nature, Digital C-print, 2011

IN RESIDENCE
AN INTRODUCTION

www.seasonofcambodia.org

For decades, Cambodia has been
subject to international field research– a practice that has largely shaped
distanced, third person perspectives
around the nation’s occupied andtraumatic histories. In the last
decade, it is largely Cambodia’s local
and diaspora visual artists who, by
giving form to their experiences, areresponsible for anchoring critical firstperson perspectives.
To extend these unique views, IN
RESIDENCE engages 1 curator and 10

4 West 54th Street

New York, NY 10019

Sunday April 21, 2013,
9:30 am – 5:00 pm

Opening
Compound by Sopheap Pich
Brookfield Place
Winter Garden

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Opening
Reliefs by Sopheap Pich at
Tyler Rollins Fine Art
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Opening
Churning by Svay Sareth
Brookfield Place Plaza07

Symposium
Living, Art, City
Parsons The New School for
DesignSee page 03

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Symposium
Contemporary Art In
Cambodia
MoMA
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Open Studio & Conversation
Leang Seckon, Pete Pin
Bronx Museum of Art
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About Season of Cambodia, A Living Arts Festival
Throughout April and May 2013, New York City
hosts more than 125 artists from Cambodia for
Season of Cambodia, A Living Arts Festival. For
this major celebration of Cambodian arts, culture,and humanities, 30 of New York’s most renowned
arts and educational institutions present
distinctive works from master and emerging
artists and scholars in ritual, music, visual art,

Open StudioTith Kanitha, Yim Maline
Bose Pacia

performance, dance, shadow puppetry, film, andacademic forums.

Season of Cambodia is an initiative of Cambodian
Living Arts, a non-profit organization based in
Phnom Penh and the U.S. founded in 1998 byartist Arn Chorn-Pond.

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Conversation
Dialogues in Contemporary
Art: Take 5 with Erin
Gleeson & Leeza Ahmady,ICI (Independent Curators
International) See page 06

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Conversation
Artist Talk: Reading Khvay
Samnang
Residency Unlimited
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25, 26, 27

Open Studios
Kong Vollak, Lim Sokchanlina,
Amy Lee Sanford, Svay Sareth,
Khan Sok, Vandy Rattana, andVuth Lyno
LMCC Art Center
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Season of Cambodia is co-chaired by Anne H. Bass, John Burt, and Darren Walker.
Lead Funding for the Visual Arts program has been provided by The Pollock-Krasner Foundation,
U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh, Asian Cultural Council, The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation,
Art Asia Pacific and generous individual support. Additional institutional lead support for theFestival comes from the Ford Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, Robert Sterling Clark
Foundation, Fresh Sound Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Kaplen Foundation,
Openbox Inc., EVA Air, Bloomberg Philanthropies, , Sofitel NY and Henry Luce Foundation.

We look forward to seeing you at theevents.
Leeza Ahmady & Erin Gleeson

Leang Seckon, The Power of Men, 2012, Mixed media on canvas, 150 x 130 cm, Courtesy the artist and Rossi & Rossi

FEATURED SYMPOSIUMeFOR UPDATES TO THE SCHEDULE PLEASE VISIT: http://seasonofcambodia.org/visual-art/

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10 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS & 1 CURATORIAL RESIDENT
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While the residencies serve as abase from which artists extend theirresearch and practices in NYC, thepublic programs give an interactive
scope to the program. We partnerwith leading institutions to create
diverse platforms that contextualize
Cambodia’s artistic production both on
its own terms and as a part of a wider
global dialogue.

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APRIL 1 - MAY 30, 2013

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visual artists in 2-month residencies.
The selected artists work across a
range of practices including drawing,
sculpture, installation, photography,
video, and performance. Born between
1970 and 1987 – either during the U.S.
military bombing campaign, the Khmer
Rouge era, or Vietnamese occupation– the artists interpret their histories
from different angles while many also
respond to current urban and culturalchange.

Season of Cambodia presents

Museum of Modern
Art, Celeste Bartos
Theater, Lewis B. andDorothy Cullman
Education & Research
Building

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Svay Ken, Hotel Le Royal, 1994, oil on canvas, 71 x 129 cm,
Courtesy of KEAP

MEDIA PARTNER

Arts Brookfield / Asia Art Archive in America / Asia Society Museum/ Bose Pacia / Bronx Museum of the Arts / Brooklyn Academyof Music / Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education / Cornell
University / Creative Time / Independent Curators International(ICI) / Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) / Museumof Modern Art (MoMA) / Parsons The New School for Design /Residency Unlimited / Tyler Rollins Fine Art

Co-Curated by Leeza Ahmady and Erin Gleeson

IN RESIDENCE invites New York
City audiences to engage with newperspectives on Cambodia’s history andcontemporaneity through a citywide
visual arts program centered on twomonth residencies, complimented bya dynamic map of public programs
including solo exhibitions, screenings,
symposiums, open studios, andconversations with artists andcurators critically involved in shaping
Cambodia’s unique contemporary art
scene.

Exhibition
Bomb Ponds by Vandy
Rattana, Asia Society
MuseumCONTEMPORARY ART IN
CAMBODIA:A HISTORICAL INQUIRYContemporary Art in Cambodia: A Historical Inquiry is a oneday academic symposium with renowned scholars, curators,
and artists. Some have argued that Cambodia has emerged
from a post-conflict society into an era of social, economic,
and political transformation. This symposium will focus ona dimension of its cultural transformation as it has been
manifested in a burgeoning contemporary arts scene within
the last decade. Through inquiries into broader artistic,

cultural, and aesthetic practices, various scholars and arts practitioners will
speak to historical trajectories of contemporary art practice in Cambodia andits positioning in narratives of art history. By building a critical dialogue thatwill interrogate the way the field is being shaped, the symposium aims tostrengthen the foundation for more thorough investigations into Cambodia’s
recent art historical developments.
Speakers & Discussants include: Leeza Ahmady, Independent Curator,
Ahmady Arts and Director Asian Contemporary Art Week (ACAW), Asia
Society; Pamela Corey Doctoral Candidate, History of Art & Visual Studies,
Cornell University; Iftikhar Dadi, Department Chair, Department of Art,
Cornell University; Jane DeBevoise, Chair, Asia Art Archive in America; Erin
Gleeson, Curator, Artistic Director, SA SA BASSAC; Roger Nelson, PhD
candidate, The University of Melbourne, independent curator; Kaja McGowan,
Associate Professor, History of Art & Visual Studies, Cornell University;
Lorraine Peterson, Assistant Professor, Asian Studies, Cornell University; Nora
Taylor, Professor, Art History, Theory & Criticism, School of the Art Instituteof Chicago; Ashley Thompson, Senior Lecturer, Fine Art, History of Art &Cultural Studies, University of Leeds; Vuth Lyno, Fulbright Scholar, MA Art
History, 2013-2015; artist, curator, Director of Sa Sa Art Projects; Zhuang
Wubin, Curator & Researcher; June Yap, Guggenheim UBS Map Curator,
South & Southeast Asia, along-side participation by select IN RESIDENCE
artists.

Contemporary Art in Cambodia: A Historical Inquiry is presented by Cornell
University and Center for Khmer Studies; co-organized by doctoral candidate
Pamela Corey and IN RESIDENCE co-curators Leeza Ahmady and Erin
Gleeson.
Space is limited. RSVP required by April 15th with your name and organization
affiliation to amy_benzyk@moma.org

IN RESIDENCE ARTISTSKHVAY SAMNANG
b. 1982
Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn
Casita Maria Center for Arts andEducation, Bronx

THAN SOKb. 1984
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council,
Governors Island

LEANG SECKON
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx
April 1 – April 30, 2013

TITH KANITHA
b. 1987
Transparent Studio at Bose Pacia,
Brooklyn

LIM SOKCHANLINA
b. 1987
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council,
Governors Island

VANDY RATTANAb. 1980
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council,
Governors Island

PETE PIN
b. 1982
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx

VUTH LYNO
b. 1982
Curatorial Residency (Mobile)

AMY LEE SANFORD
b. 1972
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council,
Governors Island

YIM MALINEb. 1982
Transparent Studio at Bose Pacia,
Brooklyn

SVAY SARETH
b. 1972
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council,
Governors Island

For more information on the residents
or to request a studio visit, pleasecontact:
visualart@seasonofcambodia.org

220 Vesey Street
New York, NY 10281

RELIEFS SOPHEAP PICH

Tyler Rollins Fine Art

529 W. 20th Street, #10W
New York, NY 10011
OPENING RECEPTION
Thursday, April 18,
6:00 – 8:00 pm
ON VIEWAPRIL 18 - JUNE 14, 2013
Tuesday – Saturday,
10:00 am – 6:00 pm
And by appointment

In a solo exhibition of new works, Sopheap Pich (b. 1971) presents a focused series of orthogonal wall
reliefs weighted with materials native to Cambodia’s land and history. Burlap, beeswax, charcoal, andearth pigments combine on Pich’s rigid bamboo and rattan grids to express his increasingly conceptualand minimalistic sensibilities while retaining a corporeal quality so prominent in his earlier works. Pich
debuted the wall relief series for his installation in dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany last summer.

Than Sok, To Give Is To Receive II, Detail, 2011, Courtesy of
the Artist

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CONVERSATION

As part of the popular First Thursdays DUMBO Gallery Walk, IN RESIDENCE artists Tith Kanitha(b. 1987) and Yim Maline (b. 1982) open their shared studio space at Bose Pacia Transparent
Studio for the midpoint of their 2-month residency in New York City. Both artists will be treating
the studio as an experimental space to explore their materials and methods. Yim’s work moves
back and forth between works on paper and sculpture, using graphite, colored pencils, clay
and lace, to reflect on her childhood and legacies of civil unrest. Alternatively, Tith is driven byprocess, form and intuition while using various media including her body to explore pressing
social issues. The Open Studio is an opportunity to encounter the artist’s processes and ongoing
conversations. The public is invited to visit the studio through May 29.

Residency Unlimited
360 Court Street, Unit 4
Brooklyn, NY 11231
Tuesday May 21, 2013
6:30 pm

READING KHVAY SAMNANG

Amy Lee Sanford, Container Port, Break Pot
Peformance, 2012, Courtesy of the Artist

A lively evening of photographic and performance screenings, readings and conversation
with artist Khvay Samnang who will be joined by curators June Yap, curator No Country:
Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia, Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art
Initiative, Joshua Barndt, Teaching Fellow, Living Arts City, Parsons the New Schoolfor Design and Vuth Lyno, Artist and Curatorial Assistant, IN RESIDENCE. The event
concludes Khvay’s two-month New York residency with Residency Unlimited and in studioat Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education.

Thursday May 2, 2013
6:00 – 9:00pm

OPEN STUDIOS
TITH KANITHA and YIM MALINETRANSPARENT STUDIO AT BOSE PACIA

Khvay Samnang, Samnang Cow Taxi Moves Sand, Phnom
Penh, 2011, Courtesy of the Artist

CONVERSATION

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Yim Maline, Scurry, Graphite and colored pencil on paper,
110 x 80 cm, 2011, Courtesy of the Artist

163 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201

OPEN STUDIO

Pete Pin, Cambodian Diaspora, 2011, Courtesy of theArtistFriday April 26, 2013
6:30 - 9:00 pm

Tith Kanitha, Heavy Sand, 2012, Performance,
Courtesy of the artist

Brookfield Place
Plaza

EXHIBITION

Svay Sareth, Churning, 2013, Vinyl banner, 3 x 17 meters.
Courtesy of the Artist

EXHIBITION

April 15 - Ongoing

Creative Time Reports is devoted to publishing provocative perspectives of artists on today’s mostchallenging issues.

CHURNING SVAY SARETH

Presented by Arts Brookfield in collaboration with IN RESIDENCE.

www.creativetimereports.org

This event is open to the public, but seating is limited. Reception follows. RSVP suggested at1040 Grand Concourse
Bronx, NY 10456

Bose Pacia

Tuesday May 14, 2013
7:00 – 8:30pm

Ahmady and Gleeson’s IN RESIDENCE centers the curatorial on artistic practice itself: 10 artists and 1
curator are invited to live and work in New York City, extending their emerging practices to its publicthrough singular exhibitions and transdisciplinary programs as a way of generating and reflecting
experience and knowledge.

Bronx Museumof the Arts

A conversation with IN RESIDENCE artists Leang Seckon who is based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and
Brooklyn based Cambodian Diaspora artist Pete Pin about their backgrounds, respective art practices,and projects developed while in residence at Bronx Museum of the Arts.

401 Broadway, Suite 1620
New York, NY 10013

New York-based Leeza Ahmady and Phnom Penh-based Erin Gleeson discuss IN RESIDENCE, anintensive 18-month curatorial process fusing their respective backgrounds, programmatic expertiseand pioneering curatorial work both within and outside of Asia. Ahmady is noted for her ongoing,
innovative educational platforms AhmadyArts and Asian Contemporary Art Week, New York, which are
strategically collaborative with multiple museums, galleries, biennials and institutions to contextualize
artists, while connecting audiences to practices in New York, Asia, and elsewhere. Gleeson, who is
co-founder and the Artistic Director of SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh, is recognized for ground-breaking
work with local cultural institutions, schools, and artists in Cambodia.

Pete Pin’s (b. 1982) practice investigates themes of displacement, memory, and the complex experiencesof the Cambodian Diaspora. His projects endeavor to build meaningful dialogues within Diaspora
communities in the US, and instigate connections to their personal and collective histories.

1040 LOUNGE ARTIST SPOTLIGHT:
LEANG SECKON and PETE PINICI Curatorial Hub

DIALOGUES IN CONTEMPORARY ART
TAKE 5, WITH ERIN GLEESON AND LEEZA AHMADY

Leang Seckon’s mixed media works often layer past and present myths and histories specific to his
personal experience. In both playful and serious tones, Leang’s recent work in sculpture, installation,and collage address themes of peace, resolution and transformation.

A selection of works tracing resurgent developments in Cambodian photography, presented through aspecial online series at creativetimereports.org, a program of the trailblazing public-art organization
Creative Time. Following photography’s invention in the mid-1800s, travelers photographed anddisseminated images that portrayed Cambodia as an exotic land. It was only at the outset of
the Independence years (1953–1970) that the country began to record itself, but this practice
was sadly interrupted, and its archive mostly destroyed, by war. Today, concerned by the lack ofphysical documentation of the stories, traits, and monuments unique to their culture, Cambodian
photographers and artists devise new ways of showing and telling.

Brooklyn’s construction fences become an active space for engagement as IN RESIDENCE artist
Lim Sokchanlina (b. 1987) expands his ongoing project Wrapped Future into the ever changing
landscape of New York City. Concerned with the border-making practices of national development
schemes that promise a better “New Phnom Penh,” Lim has been photographing temporary
partitions at especially complex sites in his city since 2009. Over the course of his residency,
Lim will investigate the significance of transitory fences in the BAM Cultural District, calling into
question what they conceal, and ultimately what they will reveal.

Running along a 17 meter-long pedestrian walkway, Churning brings to life one of Phnom Penh’s
main plazas at one of New York City’s. The site-specific mural depicts a typical scene at the busy
urban square housing the Vietnamese-Cambodian Friendship Monument. In this artwork, thecontentious postwar public memorial has been replaced with a camouflage rendering of “Churning of
the Sea of Milk,” an ancient creation myth famously depicted as a bas-relief at Angkor Wat. Replacing
one monument with another draws attention to their similarities; two sides, in tension, attempting
cooperation. While Churning’s tug-of-war references Cambodia’s past and present, its coded yet
succinct critique on conflict and power struggle is universal.

ON VIEW ONLINE

Friday April 26, 2013
11:00am – 5:00pm

OUT OF NOWHERE: PHOTOGRAPHY IN CAMBODIA

WRAPPED FUTURE LIM SOKCHANLINA

Daily
8:00 am - 8:00 pm

Creative Time
Reports

Leang Seckon, The Flower of the Heavy Skirt, 2012, mixed
media, Courtesy the artist and Rossi and Rossi.

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EXHIBITION

Lim Sokchanlina, Phnom Penh. Cambodia. 2009: Former Dey
Krohom, East Wall, between Sothearos Boulevard and National
Assembly Street. Digital c-print, 70x110cm. Courtesy of theArtist02
EXHIBITION

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Presented by Arts Brookfield as part of IN RESIDENCE, in collaboration with Tyler Rollins Fine Art.

ON VIEW
April 4 – May 27, 2013

Sunday April 7, 2013
1:00 pm

1040 Grand
Concourse
Bronx, NY 10456

This day-long Open Studio marks the end of IN RESIDENCE artist Leang Seckon’s one month residency,
and the midway point for Pete Pin’s residency at Bronx Museum of the Arts. Join us for a chance toview new works with a window into their processes, plus informal one-on-one dialogue with the artists.

Rescue Archaeology: Documents of Performance Art in Phnom Penh features a selection of videos
documenting performance art works by seven Cambodian contemporary artists. The term “rescuearchaeology” is a specific practice in the anthropological field notable for its time sensitive response
strategies. While extensive resources are invested to rescue the ancient cities associated with Angkor,
it is today’s artists who urgently respond to their present capital city as it changes, “rescuing” physical,
psychological and personal memories in the process. Presented by IN RESIDENCE Co-Curators Leeza
Ahmady and Erin Gleeson as a part of Living Arts City: Art and Urbanism in Phnom Penh and New York,Act 2

Compound is a large-scale installation by Sopheap Pich (b. 1971) that speaks to the recent,aggressive construction boom and the resulting depletion of natural resources in Phnom Penh.
Comprising 83 voluminous bamboo and rattan grids and tubular modules, Compound’s reticulation
echoes modern architecture while its natural materials and transparency create a meditation on theidea of city itself.

ON VIEW
throughout May

55 West 13th Street
New York, NY 10011

RESCUE ARCHAEOLOGY: DOCUMENTS OFPERFORMANCE ART IN PHNOM PENHCOMPOUND SOPHEAP PICH

30 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217

Parsons The New
School for Design
Theresa Lang
Community andStudent Center,2nd Floor

Bronx Museumof the Arts

OPEN STUDIOS LEANG SECKON and PETE PINCONVERSATION

Daily
8:00 am - 6:00 pm

BAM Cultural
District
Peter Jay Sharp
Building

Sunday April 7, 2013
10:00 am – 6:00 pm

OPEN STUDIOON VIEW
March 28 – April 18,
2013

SCREENING

EXHIBITION

Sopheap Pich, Compound, 2011, Installation view Henry Art
Gallery, USA. Courtesy the artist and Tyler Rollins Fine Art.

Presented by Asia Society Museum, New York in collaboration with IN RESIDENCE.

Svay Sareth. Mon Boulet, 2011, Performance, documentation.

Bomb Ponds: Vandy Rattana is a poignant series of photographs and a one-channel video by
Vandy Rattana (b.1980) exploring the U.S. bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam War. The
serenity of Vandy’s images belies the violent history of the landscape, while his video highlights
the resilience of the Cambodian people. Bomb Ponds also brings attention to the lack of
documentation of these unwarranted acts of violence undertaken by U.S. government.

220 Vesey Street
New York, NY 10281

55 West 13th Street
New York, NY 10011

Conversation panels presented in collaboration with a major colloquium organized by Parsons The
New School for Design. A window into a yearlong and ongoing exchange between designers, curators,architects, planners, and social researchers from Phnom Penh and New York, this colloquium explores theinterconnectedness of creativity, urban ecology, and community in three acts.
ACT 1. Geo-body of a Living Arts City with Cambodian Living Arts Fellows & Visiting Artists
ACT 2. The Production of Space in the Living Arts City with screening Rescue Archaeology: Documents of
Performance Art in Phnom Penh and presentation Our City Festival: Cultivating Communities
ACT 3. Production of Cultural Space with artist collective Stiev Selepak

BOMB PONDS VANDY RATTANA

Brookfield Place
Winter Garden

Masaru Iwai, White Building Cleaning,
2011, single-channel video.

LIVING ARTS CITY: ART AND URBANISM IN
PHNOM PENH AND NEW YORK

Sovann Philong, The People of the Old Church Building Part2, 2009, Courtesy of Asia Motion / the artist

Tuesday - Sunday
11:00 am - 6:00 pm
with extended
evening hours Fridays
until 9:00 pm

Sopheap Pich, Installation view, Fridericianum, dOCUMENTA(13),2012. Courtesy the artist and Tyler Rollins Fine Art.

ON VIEW
February 26 June 2, 2013

Parsons The
New School for
Design, Theresa
Lang Community
and Student
Center,
2nd Floor

OPEN STUDIO

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Vandy Rattana, Kompong Thom, 2009, Digital C-Print
90 x 111cm, Courtesy of the Artist

EXHIBITION

725 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021

CONVERSATION

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Asia Society
MuseumBuilding 110: Lower
Manhattan Cultural
Council’s Arts Center
at Governors Island
ON VIEW
Saturday May 25,
Sunday May 26,
Monday May 27, 2013
12:00 – 5:00pm

OPEN STUDIOSKONG VOLLAK, LIM SOKCHANLINA, AMY LEE SANFORD,
SVAY SARETH, THAN SOK, VANDY RATTANA, VUTH LYNO
Season of Cambodia curator-in-residence Vuth Lyno (b. 1982) curates an Open Studios programat the culmination of two-month residencies for five Cambodian contemporary artists working
across a range of mediums and practices including sculpture, photography, video, installation andperformance. The three-day event, in conjunction with opening weekend at Governors Island, willfeature the works and processes of the resident artists as they have unfolded in the environment
and energy of their stay in New York City.
Focused on mark making with particular interest in line and line interactions, Kong Vollak (b.
1983, Phnom Penh) creates architectural drawings and installations of both the real/present andimagined/future of cities. Lim Sokchanlina (b. 1987) works primarily in photography. His serial
images are carefully staged, often involving himself as protagonist as a way to call attention toa variety of social, cultural, economic and environmental changes in Cambodia resulting fromglobalization. Amy Lee Sanford’s (b. 1972) two and three dimensional work and performances
explore the evolution of emotional stagnation, and the lasting psychological effects of war. Svay
Sareth’s (b.1972) artistic practice responds to themes of his life and traverses both present andhistorical moments. His work in sculpture, installation and performance questions the politics ofpower, processes of survival, or the more playful idea of adventure. Than Sok’s (b.1984) multimedia practice is rooted heavily in the investigation of religious and spiritual beliefs, materials,
and rituals. Vandy Rattana’s (b.1980) recent works in photography and film speak to theinterconnected relationship between the practice of image making and historiography.