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!

Bodily Material

CONTRIBUTORS

ArtAsiaPacific

Jin Meyerson on Park Seo-Bo

Zurich • Booming but unseen; dragons in the wild

NEWS ROUND UP

Organizations Wrestle with Future of David Adjaye Projects

AWARDS

OBITUARIES

Grounds for Social Criticism • The Development of Political Indonesian Contemporary Art

It’s Typhoon Season, Again

The More the Merrier?

TRACING MOVEMENTS

ALTERNATIVE WORLDS

We Are All Here JEAN SHIN

Fear of the Setting Sun JOSE TENCE RUIZ

ON PRESERVATION • Community-based art protests a plastic society

TANGLED AUTHORSHIP • Are Warhol’s portraits of Prince really “fair use”?

The Sorrow and Desire of Abysmal Life Machines • AN INTERVIEW WITH MIRE LEE

JOURNEYS ACROSS SOUND • AN INTERVIEW WITH TAREK ATOUI

CORINNE DE SAN JOSE

ELVIS YIP KIN BON

YOOYUN YANG

Screen Negatives KP BREHMER

ITINERARY

Pacita Abad • Walker Art Center

Mithu Sen mOTHERTONGUE • Australian Centre of Contemporary Art

Charles Munka Tameshigaki (lignes de vies) • INS Studio

Re: Startline 1963–1970/2023 • The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s • National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul

The Threads of Destiny: Maryn Varbanov, Works from the 1970s, with Song Huai-Kuei • BANK

Madame Song: Pioneering Art and Fashion in China • M+

See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia • National Gallery Singapore

Nontawat Numbenchapol, Kridpuj Dhansandors, Rungruang Sittirerk, and Viriya Chotpanyavisut Uncountable Time • Jim Thompson Art Center

Dui Jip Ki • Esther Schipper

Haegue Yang Several Reenactments • S.M.A.K. Ghent

Andro Wekua There • Sprüth Magers

OLD WAYS, NEW FORMS

LEE BAE • From the Fire

SIMONE FATTAL • The Poetry of Memory