The images in the landing page banner were sources from the following sites:
1. Thailand: Visual Art DPM General Prawit Wongsuwan’s face on alarm clock, Graffiti
Credit: https://www.vice.com/en/
2. Indonesia: Tropic Effect (Bienalle Jogja 2011)
Credit: By Khatulistiwa Art Team (found image on Pinterest)
3. Vietnam: publications, Ocean Vuong
Credit: https://tiki.vn/
4. Malaysia: Stripes and Strokes, Photo Exhibition
Credit: https://www.malaymail.com/
5. Malaysia: publications, Heartstopper 2 book
Credit: https://themalaysianreserve.
6. Indonesia: heritage, angklung instrument
https://www.bambooland.com.au/
7. The Philippines: music, Amatz (High), Song and Music Video by Shanti Dope
Credit: Universal Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?
8. Malaysia: film, Allah’ word on Sijjin Film Poster, Film Poster
Credit: https://thereporter.my/letak-
9. Cambodia: visual art, To Those Who Are No Longer Here
Credit: https://imagomundicollection.
10. Cambodia: New Cambodian Artists, Contemporary Dance Group
by New Cambodian Artists, was targeted in Cambodia in 2015
Credit: http://sea-globe.com/
11. The Philippines: film, A Tale of Filipino Violence
Credit: Plex.tv https://watch.plex.tv/movie/a-
12. Malaysia: Interactive media, Bryan Wee and Deacon Chai, Crossdressing
Credit: https://8guava.com/%E7%BD%91%
13. Thailand – heritage, Wat Phu Man Fha, Temple
https://www.nationthailand.
Kathy Rowland is the Co-Founder of and Head of Research at ArtsEquator. She has worked in the arts for over 30 years, in the areas of critical writing and arts advocacy, with a special interest in artistic freedom of expression. Through ArtsEquator, Kathy has promoted critical discourse in Southeast Asia, designing programs such as the Asian Arts Media Roundtable and Critics Live! and the ArtsEquator Writing Fellowship. She has written and presented on arts censorship and artistic freedom in Southeast Asia since the early 2000s. In 2022, she launched the Southeast Asian Artistic Freedom RADAR (Research and Documentation Resource) which researches and documents challenges to artistic freedom in Southeast Asia. In Feb 2025, Kathy was a guest speaker on the “Artistic Freedom: The Road Ahead” panel, organised by the Permanent Delegations of Norway and Sweden at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris as part of the 20th anniversary celebration of the UNESCO 2005 Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.
