“Expressing Remembrance” is an invitation for artists to commemorate events, people and progress boldly and compassionately in a challenge to the status quo. In short, it asks for an artistic proclamation of “Never again!” This is how one truly channels the spirit and essence of the International Day of Democracy.

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Publisher: ASEAN Youth Forum

Curator: Sofia Tantono (Indonesia)

Front Cover: Joyce Tan (Malaysia)

They in turn mobilise their creativity as powerful tools to demand attention and have made a significant contribution to raising awareness from mental health to social injustice. Additionally, what it means to reorient our values, priorities, and politics, urging us to recognise the ethical responsibilities we have to the contemporary society we live in. However, their messages on the subject are not final, but an invitation to discourse, critical thinking, and, most importantly, action. Action is instantaneous and transformational. 

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Publisher: ASEAN Youth Forum

Curator: Thanchanog Ho Mai Chin (Singapore-based Thai Artist)

Front Cover: Keina Leia (Indonesia)

The artists’ paintings, illustrations, photographs, poems, essays, and memes lie on a spectrum of ideas ranging from raw proposals to ripe reportage and full-scale contemplations. Their insights resonate clearly, each with their own kind of poignancy and pensiveness. A lot of the works are earnest yet vigilant, and candid yet strong. They make one realize that there truly is power in recognizing and articulating the links between the personal and the political, that one is the other, and even more to be able to do so through the catharsis of creative output. 

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Publisher: ASEAN Youth Forum

Curator: Alyana Cabral (The Philippines)

Front Cover: Ruth Beltran (The Philippines)

Commonly known as the forward-slash in text and writing, the oblique, an upward-sloping diagonal line, seems somewhat oxymoronic. The unassuming line divides yet connects and has the capacity to accommodate both analogous and antonymous ideas. One could say it resembles the proverbial fence.

Although with slightly different uses in geometry, music, and botany, the oblique nevertheless consistently points towards asymmetry, deviation, and in-betweenness. By extension and perhaps, more importantly, the oblique, both visually and conceptually, implies the impossibility of neutrality.

Oblique is an anthology of contributions from faculty, staff, and students of the NAFA Fine Art Programme as of August 2019. The entries celebrate a diverse range of practices and pursuits, and the artist’s role in negotiating historical, cultural, and material tensions in the 21st century.

In collaboration with Mental ACT, Mai Chin has created 5 series of "Frank Friday" Comics to raise awareness on various mental health topics, all of which were published on Mental ACT social media. 

_influenza is a collaborative project led by two emerging artists. Thanchanog Ho Mai Chin and Magdalene Tuh Cheng Ning. With their interest culture. they are inspired to express their views on the detrimental effects of social media, through re-creating the familiarised web-space in our daily lives.

"ALIENation" is a zine curated in response to "My Dadaist Poem" artwork consisting of supporting study, qualitative data research, processes, and references that help in realising the project.

Angkor Wat II documents the creative outcomes of students who participated in the second iteration of the academy-wide project using Angkor Wat as a creative stimulus, as well as selected works by NAFA’s young and emerging talent from the Fine Art, 3D Design, Design & Media, Dance, Music and Theatre programmes.

Published by Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in 2018