Leonor Veiga is a PhD candidate at Leiden University. Her dissertation The Third Avant-Garde: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia Recalling Tradition analyses contemporary art practices from the region that reprocess elements of traditional culture. The dissertation is supervised by Prof. Kitty Zijlmans and Prof. Dr. Pieter ter Keurs. Her writing on the arts (2010-15) has mainly focused on Southeast Asian contemporary art. Essays published include “The Third Avant-garde: messages of discontent” (NUS Press, forthcoming in 2017); “Movimentu Kultura in Timor-Leste: Maria Madeira’s Agency,” in Cadernos Arte e Antropologia vol. 4 – n. 1 (2015) and “Suddenly we arrived: polarities and paradoxes of Indonesian Contemporary Art”, in Indonesian Eye: Contemporary Art from Indonesia, SKIRA Editore, (2011). Her curatorial projects (2006-11) include exhibitions in Indonesia, Mozambique, London, Macao and Lisbon. For more information visit leonorveiga.com.