IMoCA Myanmar

Initial Museum of

Contemporary Art Myanmar (IMoCA)

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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

A VIRTUAL LAB PROJECT (SOCA. GA. TUA)

Call for Applications to all SOCA Alumni/Members

To create a new chapters for the Pseudo-museum “IMoCA (Initial Museum of Contemporary Art-Myanmar)”, this upcoming project “CAN BE A MUSEUM VIRTUAL?” is now applications open for the "Seminar of Curatorial Studies (Virtual Museum Project)”. Within two-month postgraduate practical research program focusing conceptual arguments on "museum", "collection" and "contemporary art". Co-organized by the School of Contemporary Art Project Myanmar (SOCA) and the Sumitomo Lab, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts by the supervision of Professor Fumihiko Sumitomo. It facilitates collaborative discussion between international postgraduate students from Mexico, Bulgaria, China, Japan and Myanmar. This call is open to university graduates who have previously completed a SOCA program and designed for those interested in exploring artistic creation, critical analysis, and curating contemporary exhibitions and museums system. The certificate will provided and all results will be featuring on IMoCA virtual museum and Global Arts department at the Tokyo University of Arts.

Program Detail

Type: Free of charge for only educational purposes and flexible schedule.

Program period: Between End of November 2026 to January 2027.

Schedule: Two or Three Online Seminar, and Operating through E-mail and virtual communications.

Applications: Open to university graduates who have been completed in a SOCA program.

Application: CV(including portrait photo), SOCA Certificate, BA subject, Cover letter (a page, around 300 word),

email to : info.imocam@gmail.com

Deadline to apply: 1st November 2026 (9:00 pm MST)

Result: We will contact to selected participants in early November 2026.

More info: https://www.sumitomo.geidai.ac.jp/,

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OUR PROGRAMS

Morphology of the Cloud

Artistic Responses of the Invisibility Myanmar, 2023-2024

Volume-5, of the Documentation Series Project of Myanmar Contemporary Art, 2025, by the School of Contemporary Art Project Myanmar-SOCA.

Dear Son

A Contemporary Theatre Performance

Photo: Dear Son, a contemporary theatre performance directed and performed by Kelvin Shine Ko in collaboration with Monthatip Suksopha, Music-Anna Maria Olsson, video- Cozomia, performing Arts Archive, 2024. From the Documentation Series Project by SOCA 2025.

Open Call for Art Writers

IMoCA-Writer 2025

The first kind of open call program by IMoCA for supporting critical writing, Essay and Exhibition reviews in local art community. Project organized by the School of Contemporary Art Project Myanmar-SOCA, with supported by the Aura Contemporary Art Foundation, and collaboration with Association for Myanmar Contemporary Art (AMCA).

PREVIOUS PROGRAMS

Event

AMCA 23, A Set of Curated exhibitions for the successful implementation of Artist Fund Circle-3, 2022

Documentation

SILENCE IS GOLDEN: Contemporary Myanmar Art After Political Changes 2015-2019

Publication

MOMENTS: A Collaboration of UK-Myanmar Contemporary Art Workshop 2023

EXHIBITIONS

When Spirits Flow Backwards

Organized by: Myanmar Photo Archive and Goethe Institute Myanmar

ECHOES: Art x Tech, Experimentation

An Experimentation, and Collaboration of Multidisciplinary & Media Art. Exhibition at the Goethe Institute Myanmar, Yangon

CURIOSITY: SOCA Program#6

CURIOSITY: What is Contemporary Art, Result Presentation Online Education Program. Exhibition on the event page with VR exhibition room

ECHOES, Art x Technologies Experimentation

ECHOES catalog final 28Aug2022.pdf A Collaboration of Multidisciplinary & Media Art. ECHOES, Art x Technologies Experimentation: A Collaboration of Multidisciplinary & Media Art

Consciousness of Realities

MYANM/ART Gallery Space, Yangon, Solo Exhibition by Aung Myat Htay

Sounds of Summer: The Topographical Map of 50,Sounds of Summer 000 Scars

Research Book LaunchSounds of Summer and Exhibition by Aung Myat Htay. The Japan Foundation Yangon. July 20, 2025

The Documentation of Myanmar Contemporary Art

(Former named DVD Magazine)

Volume 1, 2013

A Printed book, 108 Pages, Burma Myanmar, Curating contemporary art

Myanmar/Burma’s first DVD Magazine on contemporary art focuses on selected local artists who working in current trends of arts to exploring essential questions and concerns of present time. The works presented, with statements from the artists themselves or others active in the arts, reflects of society, while at the same time reveal- ing the characteristic features and discourses of the art system in field of local arts. The DVD not only presents works of art, but also statements by their involving and understanding on the world of arts and culture. As the statement, contemporary art mirrors contemporary culture and society, offering art students and general people to consider current ideas and re-link to the world. Most of contemporary artists’ works is a new combination of methods, materials, subject and their concepts that in varied presentation. Artists give challenges to traditional boundaries with changing cultural identity, values and new aesthetic of arts. All of 20 participant artists in this program DVD Magazine will be interpreting their works of arts with open-ended methodology and inquiry based approach on the various subject. That may provoke strong responses, or even contradict personal belief or social values. All outcome of dialogue are important things for engaging with the works of today contemporary art.

Program created by

AUNG MYAT HTAY Artist/ Independent Curator

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