Professional information

Artist website

http://www.varshanair.studio

Publications

Name	Art on the Back Burner: Gender as the Elephant in the Room of Southeast Asian Art Histories.
Note	Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez. Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia. Volume 3, Number 1, March 2019

Name	Womanifesto
Note	Bo Choy for Art and Its Worlds. Afterall publication 2021. https://www.afterall.org/book/art-and-its-worlds- exhibitions-institutions-and-art-becoming-public

Name	The Rise of Alternative Biennials
Note	by Ho See Wah, Art and Market, May 18, 2021. https://www.artandmarket.net/analysis/2021/5/18/the-rise-of-alternative-art-biennials

Name	The Art of Feminism: Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality.
Note	Edited by Helena Reckitt. Tate Publishing 2018. ISBN 9781849766494

Name	A Celebration of Freedom.
Note	Yvonne Bohwongprasert. Bangkok Post. December 5, 2018 https://www.bangkokpost.com/life/arts- and-entertainment/1587982/a-celebration-of-freedom

Name	Taking it on Faith: Inscribing the Un(der)written in the work of Varsha Nair and Raquel de Loyola.
Note	Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez. n.paradoxa, volume 34, 2014

Name	The Spaces of Possibility.
Note	Interview. Brian Curtin. Bangkok Post. 2011

Name	Performance Saga.
Note	Quinn Latimer. Frieze, May 2009. http://blog.frieze.com/performance_saga/

Name	Withdrawal Symptom in Artistic Mind - taking the case of Thailand.
Note	Keiko Sei. Springerin. Winter 2010

Name	In The New Siam, Bangkok Report.
Note	Gregory Galligan. Art In America. June/July 2010

Name	Home embedded in the in-between: Varsha Nair Marks the Present with the Past.
Note	Karen Demavivas. Published art4d magazine, April 2005

Name	Critical Texts; Aesthetics and Political Sub-Texts.
Note	Katy Deepwell. Text & Subtext – Contemporary Art and Asian Women. 2001 - screen, Liz Bradshaw, Realtime, June/July 2001

Name	Excavating Layers
Note	Naomi Urabe, catalogue essay, Bangkok 2001

Name	FILM - open and closed
Note	Ben Curnow, catalogue essay, Artspace, Sydney 2001

Name	Film - open and closed
Note	Andrew Frost, Art and AsiaPacific, April 2001

Name	<somewhere between storm and sleep>
Note	Teri Hoskin, Broadsheet, Dec 1999

Name	Point 33
Note	Catalogue essay for ‘Liminoid’ Masters exhibition, Master Kunst 2021, Art in Public Spheres, Art Teaching, Critical Image Practices. HSLU Lucerne.

Name	Womanifesto: A Biennale Art Exchange in Thailand
Note	Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, Vol.3 No.1 (March 2019)

Name	Editorials for Issue numbers 7, 14 and 16
Note	Ctrl+P Journal for Contemporary Art https://www.ctrlp-artjournal.org/

Name	No Deadlines in Live Art
Note	National Review of Live Art 30th Anniversary Publication, 2010

Name	Interpreters of Dreams
Note	Beyond Pressure 2, Catalogue text, 2009

Name	About the future - About Café/Studio
Note	Art AsiaPacific, September 2005

Name	Shudders in the cradle
Note	for ”Women, Art and Technology: Collected Essays. First International Women’s Art Festival Taiwan” by Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Tawian, 2005.

Name	Crazy Soap
Note	Liliane Zumkemi’s exhibition review, art4d, number 121, November 2005, Bangkok

Name	Portraits
Note	Richard Tsao’s exhibition review, art4d, number 105 June 2004, Bangkok

Name	Making visible: a world between the worlds
Note	Maritta Nurmi’s exhibition review, art4d, number 100, January 2004, and SPAFA Journal, volume 13 number 3, September-December 2003

Name	free parking
Note	Art Center, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, catalogue essay, 2002

Name	no work is good work
Note	Womanifesto Workshop 2001, art4d, January 2002, Bangkok and SPAFA Journal, volume 12 Number 1 January – April 2002

Name	Womanifesto – Jogging ahead
Note	n.paradoxa, UK. Volume 4, 1999; Bang, Bangkok, December 1999; Art AsiaPacific, April 2000

Name	Synchronising thoughts
Note	catalogue essay for Virginia Hilyard’s exhibition FILM-open and closed, Artspace, Sydney. 1999

Name	Artists view plastics and other waste
Note	Tiempo, Global warming and the Third World, Issue 27, March 1998

Name	Boxed in
Note	review ‘one day of my life in a box- Bangkok and Cologne’, Bangkok Post, October 22, 1997

Exhibition

Nature of relationship	Is part of
Exhibition	Womanifesto: Flowing Connections

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Exhibition	What I am Reading Now… an online project by Cooper Gallery

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Exhibition	documenta 15

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Exhibition	Guangzhou Triennial, 2021

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Exhibition	The Ignorant Art School. Sit-in #2: To Be Potential.

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Exhibition	Lokame Tharavadu

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Exhibition	Womanifesto 2020: Gatherings, Baroda

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Exhibition	Archiving Womanifesto, Sydney

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Exhibition	Shifts

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Exhibition	Shift Maps

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Exhibition	FACES: gender, art, technology

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Exhibition	STUDIOLOG

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Exhibition	365 Days: LIFE MUSE

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Exhibition	Threads of Connection

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Exhibition	Endmoräne

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Exhibition	Two Worlds

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Exhibition	Sacred: HOMELANDS

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Exhibition	Parallelspur

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Exhibition	Monday 2 Monday

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Exhibition	four houses, some buildings and other spaces

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Exhibition	Messy Sky

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Exhibition	Thai Trends

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Exhibition	Jakarta Biennale 14

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Exhibition	Buka Jalan Performance Art Festival

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Exhibition	National Review of Live Art, 2010

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Exhibition	Contested Space

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Exhibition	documenta, local/global

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Exhibition	September Quickflix

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Exhibition	Performance Saga

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Exhibition	OPEN 10

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Exhibition	Asiatopia Performance Art Festival

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Exhibition	Beyond Pressure 2 Performance Festival

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Exhibition	BEFF 5, Bangkok Experimental Film Festival 5

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Exhibition	On the Move Performance Festival

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Exhibition	Still Moving Image

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Exhibition	Art as Environment: Cultural Actions on Tropic of Cancer

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Exhibition	Exquisite Crisis & Encounters

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Exhibition	National Review of Live Art, 2006

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Exhibition	No Man's Land

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Exhibition	Sub-Contingent: The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art

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Exhibition	In-between places

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Exhibition	EMAP 5: Media in ‘f’

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Exhibition	National Review of Live Art, 2005

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Exhibition	Changing Faces

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Exhibition	National Review of Live Art, 2004

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Exhibition	Video as Urban Condition

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Exhibition	Womanifesto, Procreation/Postcreation

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Exhibition	FROM MY FINGERS – Living in the Age of Technology

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Exhibition	Body Code

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Exhibition	With(in)

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Exhibition	Swell

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Exhibition	Free Parking

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Exhibition	Womanifesto Workshop 2001

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Exhibition	Women Breaking Boundaries

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Exhibition	Text & Subtext, Singapore

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Exhibition	Text & Subtext, Sydney

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Exhibition	Text & Subtext, Stockholm

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Exhibition	Text & Subtext, Oslo

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Exhibition	Text & Subtext, Taiwan

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Exhibition	Text & Subtext, Beijiing

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Exhibition	Womanifesto II

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Exhibition	Women about Women

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Exhibition	Plastic (& Other) Waste

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Exhibition	Womanifesto I, 1997

About the contributor

First Name	Danielle
Surname	Brown
Institutional affiliation	University of Sydney

About this entry

Project	Womanifesto
Date entry created	2023-10-10
Contributor's relationship to subject	Other
Data source	Artist