By Andrew Maerkle The past year has seen incredible recognition for the Tokyo-based architectural firm SANAA, established in 1995 by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. In late 2009, Sejima was named artistic director of the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale, becomingView More >
By Andrew Maerkle Partner in the firm SANAA, which he established with Kazuyo Sejima in 1995, Ryue Nishizawa also maintains his own individual practice, Office of Ryue Nishizawa. His built projects include the Moriyama House (Tokyo), a complex of boxyView More >
By Andrew Maerkle Junya Ishigami is widely regarded as one of Japan’s most promising young architects, a status that was reinforced by the conferral upon him of the Golden Lion for Best Project at this year’s 12th Venice Architecture Biennale,View More >
Since establishing his own practice in 2004, Sou Fujimoto has become known for innovative projects like Final Wooden House, a small bungalow made of stacked beams of lumber arranged so that the building’s architecture also functions as its furniture. OtherView More >
In his videos and installations, the Berlin-based Singaporean artist Ming Wong explores the intersections of language, identity and performance. Wong’s recent works adapt landmarks of World Cinema into intentionally stripped-down video productions. Made in 2005, the multi-channel installation Four MalayView More >
II. Intermediate: Ablegen, Anlegen, Auflegen, Auslegen, Belegen, Beilegen, Darlegen, Einlegen, Erlegen Ming Wong discusses Fassbinder, Pasolini and international attitudes toward cross-dressing. Video still from Devo partire. Domani / I must go. Tomorrow (2010). ART iT: We were just talking aboutView More >
III. Advanced: Yishmór, Tishmór, Tishmór, Tishmrí, Eshmór, Yishmrú, Tishmórna, Tishmrú, Tishmórna, Nishmór Ming Wong on future developments in his work and representing his nation at Venice. Video still from Lerne Deutsch mit Petra Von Kant (2007). ART iT: We wereView More >
The Scene is Elsewhere: Tracking Ming Wong By Adele Tan Cinema billboard designed by Ming Wong, painted by Neo Chon Teck (2009), variable dimensions, acrylic emulsion on canvas. All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merelyView More >
Stranger on the Road By Hu Fang Cinema billboard designed by Ming Wong, painted by Neo Chon Teck (2009), variable dimensions, acrylic emulsion on canvas. All images: Courtesy the artist. Word Order Many of Ming Wong’s work titles invert aView More >
From the Forest to the Bangkok Streets By Gridthiya Gaweewong Still from Phantoms of Nabua (2009), from the project “Primitive.” © Chaisiri Jiwarangsan. One week after the government crackdown on the opposition UDD Red Shirt mobs at Bangkok’s Rachaprasong intersectionView More >
Memory, too, fails at such excess By Andrew Maerkle Les Archives du Coeur (2010). Photo Yasuhide Kuge, courtesy Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation. Throughout his four-decade-long career, Christian Boltanski has explored relations between objects and memory. His installations often useView More >
Defining a Proposal Through Questions: Jun Yang on the Taipei Contemporary Art Center ON RECORD is a series of dialogues with contemporary artists about the ideas and influences that inspire their works. ON RECORD #2 was conducted in Tokyo andView More >