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 >
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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 >
CINEMA IS PLASTIC
Issue 3: CINEMA Cinema as activism Cinema as archive Cinema as behavior Cinema as collage Cinema as construction Cinema as duration Cinema as economy Cinema as entertainment Cinema as experience Cinema as identity Cinema as index Cinema as language CinemaView More >
Ming Wong
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 Ming Wong. Word Order Many of Ming Wong’s work titles invert aView More >
Opening/Closing this week (7.26-8.1)
Asia-Pacific area Opening this week Ian Burns 7.29 – 8.28 Anna Schwartz Gallery (Melbourne) Trenton Doyle Hancock: “A Day Ahead A Head A Day” 7.31 – 9.4 Singapore Tyler Print Institute Gallery Closing this week Through 7.31 “Reverie” Chemould PrescottView More >
Christian Boltanski
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 >
Critical Fieldwork 8
New developments in ‘double-line painting’ In the essay I wrote for the monograph nobuya HOKI drawings, published in 2004 (1), I indicated that there is a problem at once ancient and new at the root of Kyoto-based artist Nobuya Hoki’sView More >
New festival brings art, architecture to Inland Sea
Yasuhiro Suzuki – Ship of the Zipper (2010) Megijima, rendering. Courtesy the Setouchi International Art Festival. (Naoshima) On July 19, Japan’s newest art festival opened to the public. Sprawling across seven islands in the Seto Inland Sea as well asView More >
Opening/Closing this week (7.19-25)
Asia-Pacific area Opening this week “Print of the Past: Back to the Sukhothai Era” 7.20 – 8.20 DOB Hualamphong Gallery (Bangkok) “Contemporaneity: Contemporary Art in Indonesia” 7.22 – 8.19 Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Shanghai Michael Lee: “Lost City andView More >
The Backdrop of Chinese Contemporary Art
By Naohiko Hino IUHunJGsBMU Set in Beijing World Park, the plot of Jia Zhangke’s 2004 film The World follows events in the lives of several fictional employees at an actual theme park in Beijing that features miniature recreations of famousView More >
ON RECORD #2: Jun Yang
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 >
The Question of Periodization I: Japan as Galapagos?
Doryun Chong reviews Japan as seen in both national and international imaginaries This is the first in a series of essays by the author addressing questions related to historical periodization, cultural particularism and the avant-garde. During a visit to JapanView More >