Over the last months, Chaw Ei and I were able to meet students and share our work in several cities including Boston, New York, Chicago, Providence, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore. It has also been a good opportunity to catch up with old friends and to meet new ones and foremost to remind ourselves of the pleasure of learning. We even attended an evening mold making workshop in New York and in the span of an hour learned more than days scouring books. Below are some images of some of the locations and people we've engaged.

School of the Art Institute Chicago (SAIC)

Chaw Ei speaks about her work and performance art in Burma

Professor Nora Taylor of SAIC and Chaw Ei moments before her presentation

Northern Illinois University, DeKalb

Art Students from NIU DeKalb

Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston

North Hall at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Sharing work with the Studio for Interrelated Media at MassArt

New York City

Chaw Ei delivers an art presentation at the Open Society Institute in New York.

Providence, Rhode Island

Chaw Ei speaks at the International Writers Project at Brown University

Tokyo, Japan

L-R: Mitsunori Sakano (Command-N), me, Naoko Horiuchi (Arts Initiative Tokyo)

Presentation at Kandada, as a part of the Regional Code Asia program and my exhibition.

Hong Kong

I had the pleasure in April to work with a unique group of students with the Para/site curatorial program. Students enrolled in the Para/Site curators program presented and defended the concepts for their exhibitions-in-progress. A select team of international curators based in Asia shared their experience, critique and insight through a special platform utilizing Facebook.

The curatorial student team (Nana Seo, Kathy Lam Hoi Sin, Iris Lo and Evangelo Costadimas) will present their final exhibition, Feigned Innocence, at the Osage Gallery Kwun Tong in Hong Kong on May 29, 2009.

International Curators' Talk Series: Public Lecture
"Curatorial engagements in the Mekong Subregion of the Southeast Asia"