The Ambition of Ambitious Alignment: A Reflection by a Mid-Career Art Historian
"Ambitious Alignment~: New Hi1:.'lories of Southeas1 Asian Art"1 h. a research programme funded through Getty Foundation's Connecting Art Hislories initiative for the period 2015-2016, and initiated by the Po\·ver Inslitute Foundation for Art & Visual Culture at the Univer...
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| Language: | English |
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Teratak Nuromar & ITBM
2015
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/30925/ http://eprints.usm.my/30925/1/sentap_AA_2015.pdf |
| Summary: | "Ambitious Alignment~: New Hi1:.'lories of Southeas1 Asian Art"1 h. a research programme
funded through Getty Foundation's Connecting Art Hislories initiative for the period
2015-2016, and initiated by the Po\·ver Inslitute Foundation for Art & Visual Culture at
the University of Sydney. The idea of the programme was initially mooted and developed
through a series of plannir.g meetings in 2012, also supported by the Connecting Art
Hislories initiative. The meeting!> involved invesligator'> from Sydney University, the
programme's c:teering committee,~ and the programme's regional partners, namely,
Tnslitut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) and National Gallery Singapore (NGS). The application
for Ambitious Alignment..' was finally approved and granted in 2014 for a period of two
yearc;. The success of this grant allowed smaller mobility grants to be awarded to fifteen
early career researchers to enable them to conduct their archival research projects based on
their proposals that had been approved. A significant portion of the grant was also used
to fund invesligators, field experts and research participants to attend series of meetings,
workshops and public events in Sydney, Bandung and Singapore in 2015 and 2016. |
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