Reading list

Essays/Texts

Womanifesto. A visual essay. Bo Choy. Afterall 2021.  

The Rise of Alternative Biennials. Ho See Wah, Art and Market, May 18, 2021. https://www.artandmarket.net/analysis/2021/5/18/the-rise-of-alternative-art-biennials 

The Art of Feminism: Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality. Edited by Helena Reckitt. Tate Publishing 2018. ISBN 9781849766494

Art on the Back Burner: Gender as the Elephant in the Room of Southeast Asian Art Histories. Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez. Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia. Volume 3, Number 1, March 2019

Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia. Volume 3, Number 1, March 2019. A collection of essays by Dr Yvonne Low, Clare Veal, Roger Nelson and Womanifesto organisers  

Taking it on Faith: Inscribing the Un(der)written in the work of Varsha Nair and Raquel de Loyola. Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez.  n.paradoxa, volume 34, 2014 vol34_npara_73-76_Eileen-Legaspi-Ramirez

Womanifesto: A Women Artists' Initiative in Thailand. Varsha Nair. C Arts: Asian Contemporary Art and Culture, Jul – Aug 2009, Vol. 9, Issue July-August 2009

Borderless Crossings. Katherine Olston. art4d, Apr 2007, Issue Number 136 (Thai translation)

Amidst Art Platforms with Dilute Foundations, Womanifesto Roots Down and Continues to Distill. Varsha Nair. Ctrl+P Journal of Contemporary Art, May 2007, Issue No. 6. special anniversary issue for documenta 12 magazine

Shudders in the cradle. Varsha Nair. Catalogue, ”Women, Art and Technology: Collected Essays. First International Women’s Art Festival Taiwan”. Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Tawian, 2005.

Procreation/Postcreation - A Womanifesto Art Project. Keiko Sei. SPAFA Journal, Sep – Dec 2003, Vol. Vol. 13, Issue No. 3, pp. 37–42

No Work is Good Work - Womanifesto Workshop 2001, Varsha Nair. art4d, Jan 2002 (Thai translation), and SPAFA Journal, volume 12 Number 1 January – April 2002

Womanifesto – Jogging ahead, Varsha Nair. n.paradoxa, UK. Volume 4, 1999; Bang, Bangkok, December 1999; Art AsiaPacific, April 2000

Critical Texts; Aesthetics and Political Sub-Texts. Katy Deepwell. Text & Subtext – Contemporary Art and Asian Women. Publication of essays by Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE-SIA, Singapore. 2001

Datuin, Flaudette May, Women Imaging Women: Feminine Spaces, Dissident Voices (Categories for a Feminist Intervention in the Art Histories of Southeast Asia), Text & Subtext, Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE-SIA, College of the Arts, Singapore, 2000

Lenzi, Iola, ‘No Hard Lines gender politics in contemporary Southeast Asian visual art: does woman’s vernacular exist’, Gaweewong, Gridthiya, ed, Temporary Insanity, The James H.W. Thompson Foundation, Bangkok, 2004

Merpeople in a Man’s land: The Comfort Zone of Awkwardness in Which we Dwell, Ctrl+P issue 6 special issue for documenta 12 magazine, May 2007 Essay 31-38

Flautdette May V. Datuin, Uncommon Sense: ‘Empty the Visual from Eyes of Flesh’ Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, an anthology, edited by Nora A. and Boreth Ly, Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University, 2012

Akojorn, Phaptawan Suwannakudt, Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, Volume 3, Number 1, March 2019, p. 181 (Article) Published by NUS Press  

Before Womanifesto, In My Recollection Phaptawan Suwannakudt, Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, Volume 3, Number 1, March 2019, pp. 175-180 (Article) Published by NUS Press  

Yvonne Low, “Phaptawan Suwannakudt’s Akojorn (1995): Connecting Women”, Iconic Works by Feminists and Gender Activists: Mistress-Pieces, ed. Brenda Schmahmann (Routledge: New York), 2021, 223-235.

Yvonne Low, Roger Nelson, Clare Veal and Marni Williams. “The Womanifesto Online Anthology”, Check-in: An art and Market Publication, (Singapore: Margins Print), 98-102.

Yvonne Low, “Women re-modelling art worlds: Exhibitions and Projects on Southeast Asian women artists (1990-2015)”, in TAASA, vol. 24, no. 4 (Dec 2015): 4-6.

Conference proceedings/ Talks

Yvonne Low and Marni Williams. “Enabling Women’s (Art) History: Womanifesto Online Anthology” in Panel: Rethinking the impact of Women’s Histories in Asian Art and Exhibitions, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference, University of Sydney, Melbourne, Dec 2021

Yvonne Low. “Expanding ‘Women's Archive’: Womanifesto, Dr Melani and a discourse of Hospitality in Southeast Asian Art History”, SSEAC Webinar Series: Heritage and the arts, University of Sydney, 9 Sep 2021 (link: https://www.sydney.edu.au/sydney-southeast-asia-centre/events/sseac-webinar-series---heritage-and-the-arts.html) 

Online articles

"Womanifesto: Crafting Communities at Asia Art Archive". ocula.com. 2020-11-25.

"Archiving Womanifesto: An International Art Exchange, 1990s – Present. Curators: Varsha Nair, Nitaya Ueareeworakul, Phaptawan Suwannakudt. 19 October to 16 November 2019 - The Cross Art Projects". www.crossart.com.au.

"Project MUSE - Before Womanifesto, In My Recollection". muse.jhu.edu.

"Womanifesto: A women artists' initiative in Thailand". www.mutualart.com. Retrieved

Nair, V. (2019). Womanifesto: A Biennial Art Exchange in Thailand. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/