ANCER Lab

The ANCER Lab Series is a platform for critical conversations to take place on the development and management of arts and culture in Southeast Asia. Every year the ANCER Lab will take place in a different city. Launched in 2019, January saw us in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and in October 2019 we will head to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Each ANCER Lab comprises a series of exchanges between local scholars and artists of a city/country, with scholars and artists from other parts of the region. It may include visits to key sites and projects, public fora or closed roundtables, and fosters the development of wider and deeper participation in a sustained and analytical reflection of arts and cultural work.

The programme is initiated and devised by LASALLE College of the Arts, in partnership with a local counterpart. For more details, email sunitha.janamohanan@lasalle.edu.sg. You may also follow us on Facebook at ANCERLabSeries

ANCER Lab 05

ANCER Lab 05

Yogyakarta 24 – 27 February 2024 The ANCER Lab Yogyakarta focuses on questions of what “management” means in Yogyakarta and other cities in Southeast Asia as arts workers evolve their practice in response to a changing arts landscape shaped by the rise of the global creative economy and the demands and expectations of governments, funders,… Continue Reading

ANCER Lab 04

ANCER Lab 04

The ANCER Lab Conversations
BANGKOK 3-5 March 2023
The ANCER Lab is a platform for critical conversations to take place on the development and management of arts and culture in Southeast Asia and aims to foster the development of wider and deeper participation Continue Reading

ANCER Lab 03

ANCER Lab 03

The ANCER Lab Conversations
6-7 October 2021
Due to continued travel suspensions and uncertainties caused by the on-going Covid-19 global pandemic, ANCER Lab 03 took place entirely online as a combination of zoom meetings and public webinar Continue Reading

ANCER Lab 02

ANCER Lab 02

The ANCER Lab Conversations | Trao đổi
took place Friday 4 October, 9am-5pm, at Salon Saigon (6D Ngo Thoi Nhiem, Ward 7, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City). Continue Reading

ANCER Lab 01

ANCER Lab 01

“Arts Policy, Cultural Democracy and Artist Communities: A conversation around arts & culture, policy and civil society”
12 – 13 January 2019
Experimental Theatre, Cultural Centre, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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