The Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network was initiated from the Centre of Visual Art, University of Melbourne and the Indonesian Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta.
APARN’s inaugural meeting was held in October 2019 in association with the International Conference on Asia Pacific Arts Studies in Yogyakarta. The APARN convenors have each hosted an edition of the annual symposium in the Asia Pacific region from their own resources.
Previous MeetingsAn additional annual meeting is held online, aligned with the Society for Artistic Research (SAR) conference and forum and focussed on sharing activities and connections broadly across the network, including with those who cannot travel to the event.
APARN at SAR Conference 2025The SIG also maintains a channel in the Journal for Artistic Research which holds contributions from the annual symposia, and in 2025 they will be piloting a “yearbook” documenting artistic research projects from across the region.
To join the Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network and connect with other members, please subscribe to the SIG Google Group below.
Join APARNCONVENED BY
Kurniawan Adi Saputro
Indonesian Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Kurniawan Adi Saputro is a lecturer in the Department of Photography at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta. He has been teaching research methods in arts and visual communication studies. His recent scholarly contributions include publications on the use of photographs for climate education targeting teenagers (2022), the socio-economic impacts of community-based festivals in Indonesia (2023), and the exploration of climate justice dimensions in the lives of women and individuals with disabilities (2024). In late 2024, he built a studio called Wana Nagara, where he created a tiny urban forest as a hub for researching a new culture for a new world facing the climate crisis.
kurniawan.as@isi.ac.id
Pornrat Damrhung
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.
Pornrat Damrhung is Professor of Dramatic Arts at Chulalongkorn University and Associate Member of the Royal Society of Thailand, specializing in contemporary dance cultures, community performance, and young people’s theater.
Pornrat.D@chula.ac.th
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Danny Butt
Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.
Danny Butt is Coordinator of Research for Design and Production at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. His book Artistic Research in the Future Academy was published by Intellect/University of Chicago Press in 2017; and he is on the Editorial Board of the Journal for Artistic Research.
butt@unimelb.edu.au
Gunalan Nadarajan
Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan.
Gunalan Nadarajan, an art theorist and curator working at the intersections of art, science and technology, is a professor at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. His many publications have been translated into 16 languages and his curatorial and artistic direction contributions include Documenta XI (Kassel, Germany, 2002) and ISEA2008 (International Symposium on Electronic Art) in Singapore.
guna@umich.edu
