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 famous
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 Japan
Dan Cameron reflects on his recent visit to Seattle’s uniquely architectural art scene Exterior view of Western Bridge. Courtesy Western Bridge, Seattle. I was not in Seattle for the purpose of looking at art, and probably no one
By Hu Fang They leave the cinema, dark and dejected. This is not the movie of their dreams. This is not that perfect, all-encompassing film unspooling in every person’s mind that can never be completed. This is not the movie
Who I am or what I do By Aveek Sen Installation view, 1st floor, of “Roni Horn: Well and Truly” at Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2010. Photo Stefan Altenburger, © Kunsthaus Bregenz, Roni Horn. On an “unspeakably quiet” summer afternoon
A speculative essay on the relations between viewers and cinema in China today. They leave the cinema, dark and dejected. This is not the movie of their dreams. This is not that perfect, all-encompassing film unspooling in every person’s mind
Pimping Rides the Bosozoku Way The Saturday night silence of a sleepy suburban neighborhood is shattered by a sudden, exploding chorus of exhaust pipes. Engines rev with a deafening vroom and horns perform an endless looping melody, in a call-and-response
INTIMATE BUT PUBLIC A letter from Hou Hanru to Hans Ulrich Obrist Sun Xun – Stills from The New China (2008), animation video, 15 min 19 sec. Courtesy the artist and ShanghArt. Dear HUO, Nice to read your
Vasif Kortun on the balance between institutional evolution and diversity In recent years I have been involved in a series of interviews with architects, curators, and brilliant, quirky unorthodox museum professionals such as Hans Ulrich Obrist, Kathy Halbreich, Marie-Claude Beaud
Shusaku Arakawa has passed away. I had the opportunity to meet the artist, who was known professionally outside of Japan by his surname, several times over the course of my career. In the 1980s while I was running the ICA
Louise Bourgeois inside Articulated Lair (Collection Museum of Modern Art, New York) in 1986. Photo Peter Bellamy, courtesy Hauser & Wirth. Louise Bourgeois has died at the age of 98. She was a rare artist who literally lived through
Photo Nobuyoshi Araki. Kazuo Ohno was a miraculous Butoh dancer and living embodiment of the idea that existence is the weakened body of non-being. A progenitor of Butoh along with Tatsumi Hijikata, Ohno lived until the age of 103