ArtAsiaPacific

For over 20 years, ArtAsiaPacific has been at the forefront of the powerful creative forces that shape contemporary art from Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East. Covering the latest in contemporary visual culture, ArtAsiaPacific is published in Hong Kong, with over 30 editorial desks worldwide. Our annual issue, the Almanac, is an alphabetical tour d'horizon of the 67-odd countries covered in ArtAsiaPacific, spanning Afghanistan to Vietnam. The Almanac also invites influential art world figures to comment on the major cutural events that have shaped the past 12 months. Now also available on the iPhone!

ArtAsiaPacific

Contributors

Natural Collaborators

Han Mengyun on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Ho Chi Minh City • The Elephant in a Room Full of History

NEWS ROUND UP

Aboriginal Show Postponed Amid Authorship Disputes

AWARDS

OBITUARIES

Living the Dream

Flagging Hopes

Hype Dance

SHAPE SHIFTERS

ROLE - PLAYING

DANIEL LIE In Relation to Rot

HOLY MOTORS • The artistry and iconography of Manila’s public transport is in jeopardy

THE POSTCOLONIAL CONDITION AFTER ENWEZOR • Sharjah Art Foundation’s March Meeting Assesses a Curatorial Legacy

Animating Absurdity Wong Ping

Spectral Ecology • Truong Cong Tung

The Intersection of Video Art and Feminism in 1990s Hong Kong • In Collaboratioin with Asia Art Archive

PREFACE

VIDEO AND GENDER POLITICS

A RECORD OF TWO SCREENINGS

THE PERSON WHO FLIRTS WITH VIDEO

SIMRYN GILL

OUM JEONGSOON

LEUNG CHI WO

Surrogate Bodies EBECHO MUSLIMOVA

14th Gwangju Biennale soft and weak like water • Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall and multiple locations

A Third Language • Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art

Masahisa Fukase • Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Dew Kim I Surrender • Various Small Fires

Parched Earth, Ardent Spring • UP Vargas Museum

Sun Xun The Immeasurable Everything • ShanghArt M50

Elisa Sighicelli Petits Rats • Rossi & Rossi

Kornkrit Jianpinidnan Thru the Straits of Demos • Bangkok CityCity Gallery

Sameer Kulavoor Edifice Complex • TARQ

Indigo Waves and Other Stories • Gropius Bau, Savvy Contemporary

Kelly Akashi Infinite Body • Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

Kongkee Warring States Cyberpunk • Wrightwood 659

PAST EXPERIMENTS

ANDREW LUK • Echoes of the Past

TAREK ATOUI • Sounds Unlikely