Kuvataideakatemia (Finnish Academy of Fine Arts)

Faculty Member, Post-Graduate Studies

Professor

About

PhD, joined the Department of Postgraduate Studies in August 2007 as Professor of Artistic Research, Art History and Theory. He advises students, supervises artistic research projects and delivers art theory lectures at the monthly seminars.

Langenbach’s research interests fall into the area of Socialist Realism in Southeast Asian art, performance and culture. He has written about performative propaganda, indoctrination and memetic dissemination in visual and performance art, conceptual art, mass media and new media. His particular focus on the contingent and ephemeral performance of doctrine (and indoctrination) in everyday conversation has led to a series of collaboratively organised symposia on cultural politics in Southeast Asia.

Langenbach’s PhD dissertation, Performing the Singapore State: 1988–1995, written under an International Histories and Cultures Fellowship at the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, historicises a series of important performance events in the mid-1990s in Singapore that led to arrests and criminal prosecution of artists, and the ten-year banning of Performance Art there.

Langenbach’s performances, videos and installations have been exhibited in the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York); 3rd Werkleitz Biennale; Second Asia Pacific Triennale, Brisbane; Second Gwangju Biennale; Cultural Center of the Philippines; the Singapore Art Museum; National Art Gallery Malaysia; LACE (Los Angeles); National Centre for the Arts (Bombay); Artspace (Sydney); Future of the Imagination Performance Festival (Singapore 2005-06); Asiatopia; and PSi #13 New York University.

Langenbach has served on the Editorial Advisory Boards of World Art, FOCAS (Forum on Contemporary Art & Society) and Contemporary Visual Art+Culture Broadsheet. His writings have appeared in House of Glass: Culture, Modernity and the State in Southeast Asia, ed. Yao Souchou (2000); Polypolis: Art from Asian Pacific Megacities. Freiburg (2000); ARS 01: Unfolding Perspectives, Kiasma Helsinki (2001); Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance (2003), Eye of the Beholder: Reception, Audience and Practice of Modern Asian Art, edited by John Clark, Maurizio Peleggi, and TK Sabapathy (2006), among others.

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