Set on the heels of one of the most discordant, highly manipulative, and alarming United States presidential elections, FIELD MEETING: Thinking Practice must also address the multiple strategies applied by artists to maintain sovereignty over their own voices as world citizens and commentators, amidst the pervasively hostile political climate and stifling forces of conservatism, socio- economic constraints, neoliberalism, immigration crisis, nationalism, and border policing. Beyond resisting such socio-political mediations and enclosures, how do artists and arts professionals working within the sphere of Asia also contend with art world prescriptions and specificities including institutional representation, established academic trajectories, aesthetic and cultural impositions, and shifting market demands?

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