{"id":10555,"date":"2020-08-24T10:47:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T14:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=10555"},"modified":"2020-08-26T08:39:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T12:39:05","slug":"reaksmey-yean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/reaksmey-yean\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaksmey Yean"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4560\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10555-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/ReaksmeyYean.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/ReaksmeyYean.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/ReaksmeyYean.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_10587\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10587\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10587 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/26359778999_0e7e659683_w.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/26359778999_0e7e659683_w.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/26359778999_0e7e659683_w.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The portrait is R. Yean, Sea forest at Mondulkiri province, Cambodia, \u00a9Norm Phanith, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>H.R.H. (His Rebel\/Revolt Highness) The Articurizer (Art[ist] Curator, Articulator\/Writer, Researcher, and Art Advocate)<\/p>\n<p>A native of Battambang, Reaksmey Yean is a self-proclaimed art advocate, an early-career art curator, writer, and researcher. Currently, he is a program director and co-founder of Silapak Trotchaek Pneik, a contemporary art space by YK Art House. He is also a part-time lecturer at Phnom Penh International Institute of the Art (PPIIA). Reaksmey is a research affiliate at <a href=\"https:\/\/khmerstudies.org\/programs\/\">Center for Khmer Studies<\/a> and a Co-Investigator on Phase 2 Large Grant project \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk\/contemporary-arts-making-and-creative-expression-among-young-cambodians\/\">Contemporary Arts Making and Creative Expression Among Young Cambodian<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk\/contemporary-arts-making-and-creative-expression-among-young-cambodians\/\">s.<\/a>\u2019<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1598279957874_4349\">Yean is an Alphawood scholar (SOAS, the University of London for Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art \u2013 in Indian, Chinese, and Southeast Asian Art). He was an exchange scholar at the Institute of Southeast Asian Affairs, Chiang Mai University. He is an inaugural SEAsia Award Scholar (2017) of LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, an Asian Cultural Council fellow (2018), and a beneficiary of Dr. Karen Mcleod Adair grant for MA in Asian Art Histories at LASALLE College of the Arts.<\/p>\n<p>Yean was a curator for creative programs at Java Creative Caf\u00e9, Phnom Penh. Prior, he served several senior posts, including an Assistant to School of Performing Arts, at Phare Ponleu Selpak, a multi-disciplinary arts center, where he received his early education. He is also a founding father of a defunct collective named Trotchaek Pneik, a cultural and artistic collective based in Battambang.<\/p>\n<p>Yean is interested in multi-disciplinary practices (Film, Visual, and Performing Arts). As an Art Advocate, Yean is involved in the promotion of art and culture and their histories within contemporary Cambodia via curatorial practices, art criticism, and cultural pundit. As a scholar, Yean is concerned with Buddhist Arts, Contemporary and Modern Arts, Southeast Asia, Cultural Diplomacy, and Post-colonial theory.<\/p>\n<p>The books mentioned in the interview were: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/j.ctt6wr3pz\">Cambodge: The Cultivation of a Nation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Grammatology-Jacques-Derrida\/dp\/0801858305\">Of Grammatology<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com.kh\/books\/about\/The_Truth_in_Painting.html?id=lzkA6OfPCxwC&amp;redir_esc=y\">The Truth in Painting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10588\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10588\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10588 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/40859931621_e6aae789d0_c.jpg?resize=696%2C522&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/40859931621_e6aae789d0_c.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/40859931621_e6aae789d0_c.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/40859931621_e6aae789d0_c.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/40859931621_e6aae789d0_c.jpg?resize=80%2C60&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/40859931621_e6aae789d0_c.jpg?resize=265%2C198&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/40859931621_e6aae789d0_c.jpg?resize=696%2C522&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/40859931621_e6aae789d0_c.jpg?resize=560%2C420&amp;ssl=1 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dinh Q. L\u00ea, Splendor and Darkness #32, 2017, Foiling and screen-print on Stonehenge paper, cut, weaved and burned, 221 x330 cm, Courtesy of Reaksmey Yean<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/ReaksmeyYean.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listH.R.H. (His Rebel\/Revolt Highness) The Articurizer (Art[ist] Curator, Articulator\/Writer, Researcher, and Art Advocate) A native of Battambang, Reaksmey Yean is a self-proclaimed art advocate, an early-career art curator, writer, and researcher. 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