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!

Being Within the Change

Contributors

Kacey Wong on Chen Shun-Chu • Family, memory, death and eternity

Taichung • A peaceful place?

Furor Over Gaza Protest Posters in Jerusalem

A Friend

All-Star Break

Where Art Thou?

Ups and Downs

In with the New

Around the World

Beneath the Surface • Two artists and an artist-collective chip away at the veneers of power

Healing Through Movement • Acts of reclamation resonate in the choreography of Cambodian dancer Prumsodun Ok

Makeshift Histories

Cultural Treasures

Wonder Kali

THE EDGE BECOMES THE CENTER AHMED MATER

A WORLD OF HER MAKING • PATRICIA PEREZ EUSTAQUIO

YOUNG & EMERGING • NEW BODIES AND BIOLOGIES

THEN AND NOW • A look back through our archives, from 1993 to 2017

AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE, OWNERSHIP, AND POST-TRUTH • SOME POLITICAL REFLECTIONS ON SYLVIE FLEURY

HAEGUE YANG • ETA: 1994–2018

PATRICIA PICCININI • CURIOUS AFFECTION

FONDATION CARTIER POUR L’ART CONTEMPORAIN, A BEAUTIFUL ELSEWHERE

ZHANG YUE • IF I COULD

NI YOUYU • SO NEAR YET SO FAR

REDISCOVERING FORGOTTEN THAI MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY • A PROJECT BY MANIT SRIWANICHPOOM

AHMAD FUAD OSMAN • PRIMITIVE

1918

AYDAN MURTEZAOĞLU AND BULENT ŞANGAR • CONTINUITY ERROR

MARWAN

LATIFF MOHIDIN • PAGO PAGO (1960–1969)

SEUNG-TAEK LEE

HIWA K • BLIND AS THE MOTHER TONGUE

MEL CHIN • ALL OVER THE PLACE

TANG CHANG • THE PAINTING THAT IS PAINTED WITH POETRY IS PROFOUNDLY BEAUTIFUL

IN THE FIELDS OF EMPTY DAYS • THE INTERSECTION OF PAST AND PRESENT IN IRANIAN ART

Looking Anew • Michael Findlay and Hiroshi Sugimoto invite viewers to see more clearly

ART DIRECTORY 109 • A comprehensive guide to the contemporary arts in Asia, the Middle East, the Pacific and around the world.

Emre Huner • Exploring the architectural, archaeological and science fictional

ArtAsiaPacific 25th anniversary issue! • In our next issue, we celebrate our quarter-century birthday with a series of Features, Essays and other articles looking to the next 25 years and beyond