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Digital Terrestrials
Contributors
Ellen Pau on Danny Yung • The Hong Kong video artist articulates her relationship to the experimental theater communities of the 1990s
New York • Fighting for diversity and visibility
Art Stage Singapore Cancelled Days Before Scheduled Opening
Advising for Longevity
Pigging Out
Where Art Thou?
New Year, Same Story
Game Faces On
There and Back Again
Drawn to Memory • Lingering traces of recollection and social preconceptions are explored in the works of four artists
When Video Promised a Sci-Fi Future • The pursuit of communication in the works of Yoshida Minoru
The Whole Spectrum
A Step Ahead
The Flow of the River
Forming Public Spaces
From Seed to Bloom
DEME K IN MEMOR IES
RADICAL IMMANENCE, INFINITE DIFFERENCE • TIMUR SI-QIN
IN DEPTH
HOW TO SEE [WHAT ISN’T THERE]
12TH SHANGHAI BIENNALE • PROREGRESS
THE 9TH ASIA PACIFIC TRIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART
XIAO LU • IMPOSSIBLE DIALOGUE
CATASTROPHE AND THE POWER OF ART
BAHC YISO • MEMOS AND MEMORIES
TAIPEI BIENNIAL • POST-NATURE: A MUSEUM AS AN ECOSYSTEM
DANCE WITH IT
ZENG FANZHI • IN THE STUDIO
DIASPORA: EXIT, EXILE, EXODUS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA
BANGKOK ART BIENNALE • BEYOND BLISS
ASTHA BUTAIL • IN THE ABSENCE OF WRITING
CRUDE
OUMAYA ALIEH SOUBRA • LE PLEIN ET LE VIDE
THE D-TALE, VIDEO ART FROM THE PEARL RIVER DELTA • EPISODE I: URBAN EXPLOSION
KORAKRIT ARUNANONDCHAI • NO HISTORY IN A ROOM FILLED WITH PEOPLE WITH FUNNY NAMES 5
YUKULTJI NAPANGATI
Forest of Lost Trees • Two monographs explore the human condition through trees
ART DIRECTORY 112 • A comprehensive guide to the contemporary arts in Asia, the Middle East, the Pacific and around the world.
Suki Seokyeong Kang • Drawing on Korean cultural traditions to assemble a mise-en-scène of today
ART | Basel Hong Kong
Shu Lea Cheang • Since the 1980s, the multimedia and new-media artist has navigated topics of ethnic stereotyping, sexual politics, and institutional oppression with her radical experimentations in digital realms