ArtAsiaPacific

For over 20 years, ArtAsiaPacific has been at the forefront of the powerful creative forces that shape contemporary art from Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East. Covering the latest in contemporary visual culture, ArtAsiaPacific is published in Hong Kong, with over 30 editorial desks worldwide. Our annual issue, the Almanac, is an alphabetical tour d'horizon of the 67-odd countries covered in ArtAsiaPacific, spanning Afghanistan to Vietnam. The Almanac also invites influential art world figures to comment on the major cutural events that have shaped the past 12 months. Now also available on the iPhone!

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CONTRIBUTORS

Leo Valledor

Los Angeles • The Taming of the West (Coast)

Forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné on Brett Whiteley Exposes Fakes

NEWS

Blockchain: Tree of Potential • Throughout 2019, The Point explores new models for operating in the art market. For this issue, we asked the co-founders of Snark.art to discuss blockchain’s relationship to the digital art market.

Vicious Cycles

Where Art Thou?

The Next Big Thing

Balancing Act • Fairs new and old, from New York to the Asia Pacific, tried to find the right balance between introducing foreign artists to buyers and catering to their respective markets’ long-established tastes.

THERE AND BACK AGAIN

SUBVERSIVE ROLEPLAY • EXPLORING THE REGENERATIVE EFFECTS OF INHABITING ALTERNATIVE BODIES, RITUALS, HISTORIES AND PROPHECIES

1 Pony Express • NEW SOUTH WALES / TASMANIA

2 Eric Fok • MACAU

3 River Lin

THAT WAS THEN • Four Leading Figures Look Back on Chinese Art in the 1990s

DOUBLE HATTING • What Eugene Tan’s dual directorship of Singapore’s two primary art museums reveals about the country’s cultural ecology

MOHAMMED RASHID AL-THANI • The Poetry of Institution Building

LONG XINRU • Mining the Machine

SEULGI LEE • Human Craft

PATTY CHANG • Abject, Exposed and Potent Desires

Amphibian Heroes, Skins, Naive Effects

LARISSA SANSOUR

AKI SASAMOTO

LIN JINGJING

ZEYNEP KAYAN

The Essence of Our Existence

ART DIRECTORY

58th Venice Biennale: “May You Live in Interesting Times”

The National 2019 • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Carriageworks

Ha Chong-Hyun

Lee Kun-Yong Form of Now

China Landscape: Selections from the Taikang Collection 2019

Lam Tung Pang Saan Dung Gei

The Center Will Not Hold

Civil Architecture Forensic Architecture / Domestic Policy

Mike Nelson Projektor (Gurun Han)

The Otolith Group Xenogenesis

Nil Yalter Exile Is a Hard Job

Motions of This Kind: Propositions and Problems of Belatedness

Simone Fattal Works and Days

Rina Banerjee Make Me a Summary of the World

Huma Bhabha They Live

The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China

Turning Pages

THAO-NGUYEN PHAN: VOYAGES DE RHODES

HAEGUE YANG: ANTHOLOGY 2006–2018 TIGHTROPE WALKING AND ITS WORDLESS SHADOW

BURÇAK BINGÖL • Wildflowers sprout from ceramic slabs in the artist’s Istanbul studio

LAWRENCE ABU HAMDAN • The Secrets of Sound