A week has passed since the devastating Tohoku Pacific Earthquake and Tsunami that struck northeastern Japan March 11. With the ensuing nuclear crisis at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, these events have taken a great human, economic and spiritual tollView More >
Issue 8: TEXT Perhaps the most efficient means of communication yet invented by humans, text is also inherently saddled with confusion and contradiction. When commentators wring their hands about contemporary knowlege spinning out of control with the circulation of virallyView More >
Issue 7: RETROSPECT 2010 Who knows how the year 2010 will be remembered in art history. A number of events may stand out as having been immediately significant – with its controversial use of reperformance, Marina Abramovic’s retrospective at theView More >
Issue 6: Primitive Technology If the medium through which an artwork is realized is a necessary condition of that work, what happens when technology makes new kinds of previously unimaginable artworks possible? Conversely, what happens to the temporal field ofView More >
Issue 5: LITERATURE If literature is the art of the written word, it is also the art of reading. Whatever the intentions of their authors, books ranging from novels to memoirs, critical texts, political and philosophical treatises and even religiousView More >
Issue 4: ARCHITECTURE Established in 1980, the Venice Architecture Biennale is at once among the most prestigious architecture exhibitions in the world and yet something of an afterthought compared to its more pedigreed sibling, the Venice Art Biennale. This isView More >
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 >
Issue 2: CHINA With its extraordinary transformation over the past decade, China’s contemporary art scene has become the focus of intense international scrutiny, featured in numerous publications and surveyed by a multitude of large-scale exhibitions in cities worldwide. Corresponding toView More >
Thoughts on Art HK 2010 A topic that has been on my mind recently is the concept of provinciality. Often used pejoratively to describe a state of unsophistication and limited perspective, provinciality seems increasingly relevant in the current era ofView More >
Issue 1: COMMUNICATION ART iT was founded as Japan’s only bilingual contemporary art periodical in 2003, and moved to an exclusively online platform in 2009. The past year’s experience has provided the editorial staff an opportunity to think deeply aboutView More >