A native of Battambang, Reaksmey Yean is a self-proclaimed art advocate, an early-career art curator, writer and researcher; and an Alphawood scholar (SOAS, University of London for Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art – in Indian, Chinese and Southeast Asian Art). He was an exchange scholar at Institute of Southeast Asian Affairs, Chiang Mai University; and an inaugural SEAsia Award Scholar of LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, Asian Cultural Council fellow, and Dr. Karen McLeod Adair’s scholarship for MA in Asian Art Histories.

Yean was a curator for creative programs at Java Creative Café, Phnom Penh. Prior, he served several senior posts, including an Assistant to School of Performing Arts, at Phare Ponleu Selpak, a multi-disciplinary arts centre, where he received his early education. He is also a founding father of a defunct collective named Trotchaek Pneik, a cultural and artistic collective based in Battambang.

Yean is interested in multi-disciplinary practices (Film, Visual and Performing Arts). As an Art Advocate, Yean is involved in the promotion of art and culture and their histories within contemporary Cambodia via curatorial practices and art criticism. As a scholar, Yean is concerned with Buddhist Arts, Contemporary and Modern Arts, Southeast Asia, Cultural Diplomacy, and decolonial theory

More about me:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/reaksmeyyean/
https://www.facebook.com/reaksmey.yean

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I started to join the couch surfing, because of the Ms. Melina Chan, the coordinator of Kinyei Organization (located in Battambang province).

Interests

• arts
• culture
• photography
• movies
• music
• hunting
• surfing

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
- West Wing
- V for Vendetta
- Shakespeare in Love
- Sex and the City

Books:
- Who moved my Chinese
- The road to innocence (Somaly Ma'am)

Musics:

- Celine Dion
- Michael Jackson
- Frank Sinatra
- Dion Warwick
- Tina Turner
and the Latin music (buena vista social club)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I founded Trotchaek Pneik (art collective)
and also here what i've done so far: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012033055354/7-Days/7-questions-artist-and-critic-yean-reaksmey.html

Countries I’ve Visited

China, France, Laos, Malta, Netherlands, Philippines, Singapore, Slovenia, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Cambodia, Singapore, Thailand, United Kingdom