Introduction: Re-Imagining Creative Cities in Twenty-First Century Asia

Gu, Xin; Lim, Michael Kho; O’Connor, Justin

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“…The variety of both the modalities of empirical findings and the contextual narratives built from the connected practices of these creatives in two cities indicate a resonance with a few other scholarly works that explore the implications of creative city discourses and practices toward the people and the urban societies. One of these is the recent work by Gu et al (2020) who compile and edit a volume that specifically engages with various responses on creative city policies and cultural practices in Asian cities. Most of the contributions in this volume focus on the critical studies of the impacts of creative city programs in many Asian creative cities, either the impacts to the built environment, the urban policy, the social formation, and the local culture.…”

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“…Some discussions also include the ways in which different approaches are practiced in several communities around the continent in responding to the so-called neo-liberal and cultural industry strategies that in practice always in line with the aggressiveness of financial and labor capital in a market-driven determination, the high-speed production of cultural products, and the logic of mass production in creative industry. Although, the outlook of creative cities especially in Asia is not always in despair, as some evidence in the volume also show potential new approaches, different practices and lessons learnt (Gu et al, 2020).…”

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“…The top-down, dominant discourse and its practices imposed by the local and national government, or international cultural agencies, are basically not the only way of doing creativity in the city (Gauntlett, 2018;Gu et al, 2020;Löfgren, 2007). The members of these collectives experience other ways of making creative products in the city, and share these more varied experiences with other collectives in Bandung and other cities in the region of Southeast Asia.…”

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“It’s Okay to be Slow:” Witnessing the Articulation of Connected Practices by Creative Collectives in Indonesia and Malaysia

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2022

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This article focuses on the everyday responses of the local creatives in dealing with the problematic single narrative of creative cities. Aiming to understand the everyday creative and media practices of individuals in the creative collectives that are situated in emerging creative cities in Southeast Asia, the research specifically addresses key contemporary debates within the field of urban media and communication studies. The article gives priority to the voices of the city dwellers from a bottom-up approach, looking at the material and embodied practices in their everyday life. Empirically, this article seeks the alternative voices raised by the members of selected creative collectives - four collectives in Bandung, Indonesia, and four others in George Town, Malaysia - in articulating the meaning of creativity, the media practices involved within, and the organic ways of organizing urban collectives. Drawing insights from the notion of articulation and media practice, and by employing both ethnographic and visual methodology approaches, in particular the use of the photo-documentation method, there are three key thematic findings elaborated here. These themes are (1) social settings in media-related practices, (2) material objects and sensitive affection, and (3) the labor of love. The ways in which these are discussed, using a combination of ethnographic vignettes and photo collages, foreground the importance of cultural identity articulation practiced by the creative collectives in both cities. Thus, the interlinkage between mediated experiences, spatial practices, and visual contexts is also a key significant aspect in the analysis of these bottom-up, organic urban creativities.

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“It’s Okay to be Slow:” Witnessing the Articulation of Connected Practices by Creative Collectives in Indonesia and Malaysia

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2022

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“…However, current research on Asian cultural cities lacks a “civic” dimension when it emphasizes top-down policy-making (Gu et al 2020:5). In particular, the process of implementing a global development strategy in a local state is often accompanied by social contestation and policy adaptation.…”

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Cultural Policy Formation and State-Society Relations: Culture-led Urban Redevelopment of Enninglu in Guangzhou

Yang

2023

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Using the Enninglu redevelopment project as a case, this article examines how local governments in China pacify urban protests, consolidate the political legitimacy of urban agendas, and re-regulate state-society relations through cultural policy-making. The Enninglu urban renewal project has experienced three waves of social resistance since 2006. Accordingly, the government has made three rounds of urban policy changes, successively incorporating heritage preservation policies, creative economy policies, and public participation policies in response to different social demands. The case of Enninglu illustrates that cultural city-making in China is not merely “state-led,” but is assembled in a process of conflict between the state and society at the local level. This article argues for bringing the perspective of “state-society relations” to the study of Asian cultural/creative cities and further proposes a “legitimacy framework” to conceptualize the mechanisms of urban cultural policy-making in the context of social resistance.

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“…With the help of a virtual platform, the organiser was able to reach out to a more diverse and international audience and to foreground the Southeast Asian perspectives which have long been overlooked, if not marginalised (see e.g. Gu et al, 2020;Kawashima & Lee, 2018;Lim & Lee, 2019; for an overview of the existing scholarship). By incorporating an online exhibition curated by local artists into the conference and enabling the virtual lounge function between sessions to provide an egalitarian setting for friendly conversations and networking, the organiser turned the conference into a co-produced creative space.…”

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Navigating disruption in the Southeast Asian arts and cultural sectors: the ANCER Conference, 17 to 19 September 2020 (online)

Terui

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2021

Cultural Trends

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This paper reviews The ANCER Conference 2020: Disruption as Opportunity organised by Lasalle College of the Arts in Singapore. The conference focussed on how the arts and cultural sectors in Southeast Asia have been navigating the challenges caused by Covid-19. By showcasing a wide range of ongoing art projects in different parts of Southeast and East Asia, the event offered a fresh perspective on the meanings of (making) localregional-global nexuses which have been both challenged and given new impetus by the current crisis. The Southeast Asian perspectives highlighted in the conference also provided new opportunities to scrutinise the crisis not just in geographical but also in temporal terms, questioning the relationship between the past, present and future state of the arts. The presentations provided inspiring cases to examine the political relevance of artists and the potential and limitations of the emergence of cultural policy entrepreneurs in different Southeast Asian societies.

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Introduction: Re-Imagining Creative Cities in Twenty-First Century Asia

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“It’s Okay to be Slow:” Witnessing the Articulation of Connected Practices by Creative Collectives in Indonesia and Malaysia

“It’s Okay to be Slow:” Witnessing the Articulation of Connected Practices by Creative Collectives in Indonesia and Malaysia

Cultural Policy Formation and State-Society Relations: Culture-led Urban Redevelopment of Enninglu in Guangzhou

Navigating disruption in the Southeast Asian arts and cultural sectors: the ANCER Conference, 17 to 19 September 2020 (online)

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