Island is Land

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Sitting seiza style on the floral rug that furnished Asia Society’s auditorium stage for FIELD MEETING, Hong Kong-based, multidisciplinary platform MAP Office, the artist and architect duo Laurent Gutierrez and Valerie Portefaix, spoke about Territorial definitions both physical and imaginary; particularly their research on Islands and other liquid territories. They also discussed Atlas of Asia Art Archive and Performing the Archipelago as part of their research on mapping Asia’s artistic production, expressed through varied means including drawing, photography, video, installations, performance, and literary and theoretical texts.