Chris Hudson
Associate Professor
 Media and Communication
RMIT University
Australia
Biography
Chris Hudson is Associate Professor of Asian Media and Culture in the School of Media and Communication.Performative interventions in Asia can generate a re-imagining of local publics, both spatially grounded and mediatised, and help to renegotiate the connection between the local and the global. Performance is an important paradigm for understanding the emergence of Asian modernities in which the convergence and dialectical interplay between the global and the national is a key feature. The aim of this project – arising from these concepts – is to investigate the role of the imaginative and aesthetic dimension in the diffusion of global modernity through performative practices. It is to the agency of the performative in the work of the imagination that we turn to seek answers to our questions about the global imaginary: our intention is to conceptualize specific performances as moments of articulation of evolving global identities.
Research Interest
Southeast Asian nationalism
Publications
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. Islam's got talent: Television, performance and the Islamic public sphere in Malaysia
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 On non-places: Localizing the global at Changi Airport's Terminal 3, Singapore
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 The urban wilds: Ecoculture, consumption, and effect in Singapore
