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Canada & World Report: Asian Academy of Arts Hosts Art and Making Forum at the British Museum
The forum examined how making influences thought and challenged art-craft hierarchies, featuring key insights on material histories and emerging global artistic practices.
- On March 4, 2026, the Asian Academy of Arts organised the forum 'Art and Making: Material Culture, Craft and Emerging Practices' at the British Museum BP Lecture Theatre & East Foyer, bringing together curators, scholars, artists and cultural researchers.
- Fang Ting Ting, Dean of the Asian Academy of Arts, said the forum aimed to create a platform for dialogue and to reconsider making as a form of knowledge in museums and scholarship.
- Speakers such as Frances Wood and Iris Yau examined digitisation, materials, and value, while Fang Ting Ting proposed three guiding questions shaping the forum discussions.
- Curators in attendance heard proposals to foreground making in research and displays, with discussions centring on material, craft and cross-cultural translation involving emerging artists and researchers investigating materials, symbols and identity.
- Speakers highlighted entrenched hierarchies shaping interpretation, while panelists noted digital platforms increase visibility but complicate assigning value and raise tensions between conservation versus access.
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