Lectures NZ

Adam Art Gallery

Vera Mey — Sriwhana Spong: HA HA HA

Adam Art Gallery, Gate 3, Kelburn Parade, Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn, Wellington
Vera Mey (Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford)

Art historian and curator Vera Mey explores Sriwhana Spong's artistic practice and reflects on her essay 'Circumambulating Positions: Sriwhana Spong's Cultures in the Expanded Field,' published in the exhibition catalogue.

Mey is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, and a founding curator at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. Her research addresses critical regionalism, the aesthetics of liberation movements, and connections between art and anticapitalism.

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