Gao Yi Yuan. What is this?
Tony Godfrey. It is a website of interviews with artists in the Philippines – and beyond.
Over the past few years, and especially when researching my most recent book The Story of Contemporary Art (published 2020 Thames and Hudson/MIT) which was an attempt at a global perspective, I had become aware of how few interviews there are on the web with Asian artists, whereas there are so many for artists in the West. Google, for example, Kiki Smith or Sophie Calle and you can find several interviews with each. But do the same for their equivalents in South-east Asia and you are unlikely to find anything. Artists from this region are strangely voiceless. I want to do something about...
Published weekly 2014 – 2020 and monthly 2022 onwards, Tuesday in the Tropics are short illustrated reports on what Tony Godfrey saw in South-east Asia and its art world. All, or nearly all, Tuesday in the Tropics will eventually be placed on this website – with an index. See No. 1 for why I write them.
