Join art historian and curator Vera Mey as she shares insights into the practice of Sriwhana Spong and reflections on her essay ‘Circumambulating Positions: Sriwhana Spong’s Cultures in the Expanded Field,’ published in the catalogue accompanying Sriwhana Spong: HA HA HA. 

Vera Mey is an art historian and curator, and Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford. She received her PhD from SOAS in 2024 with a thesis on critical regionalism in Southeast Asian art during and beyond the Bandung Spirit of the 1955 Asia-Africa Conference. Her recent research addresses the aesthetics of mid-twentieth-century liberation movements, critical regionalism, and the relationship between art and anticapitalism. She is co-editing, with Sarah E. James, “Against Imperialism: On the Threshold of a Post-Capitalist World” (Sternberg/MIT, forthcoming 2027). A founding curator at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, she was Co-Artistic Director, with Philippe Pirotte, of the 2024 Busan Biennale, “Seeing in the Dark”, and co-curated “SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s - Now” (2017) at the Mori Art Museum and National Art Centre Tokyo. Current projects include exhibitions with de Appel and Framer Framed in Amsterdam and Raven Row in London.