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!

Facing Reality Anew

ArtAsiaPacific

Contributors

San Francisco • Between the rise and fall

Fluid Futures

Covid-19 Crunch Mobilizes Cash and Creativity

Emergency Exits

Maria Taniguchi on Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Judy Freya Sibayan

Cancel Culture

Survival Mode • The Covid-19 pandemic forced fairs in March and beyond to shutter. The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht (March 7–11) closed four days early after an Italian gallerist tested positive for the disease; at least 25 attendees were later confirmed to have caught the virus. Melbourne Art Fair was rescheduled from June to February 4–7, 2021. Meanwhile, canceled fairs experimented with digital platforms to mixed success.

DIVISIVE DEVICES

RUTH BUCHANAN • Where does my body belong

PANSY HO • Creative Makeover

ERIC BOOTH • Committed to the New

Sawangwongse Yawnghwe: Painting the Unstable State

Carlos Villa: (not) Sorry

YHONNIE SCARCE AND EDITION OFFICE

TERRESTRIAL AFFAIR

Of Body and Land: Process and Presence in Brie Ruais’s Sculptures

Movement at the Edge of the Land

We are nets that plankton pass through

ART DIRECTORY • A GUIDE TO CONTEMPORARY ART SPACES AND GALLERIES IN ASIA, THE MIDDLE EAST, THE PACIFIC, AND AROUND THE WORLD.

Korean Video Art from 1970s to 1990s: Time Image Apparatus • National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

Cue From Life Itself: Filipino Artists Transform the Everyday • Metropolitan Museum of Manila

Liu Jianhua 1342°C • OCT Contemporary Art Terminal

The Migrant Ecologies Project Railtrack Songmaps Roosting Post 2 • Jendela

Yoshinori Niwa • Das Weisse Haus

Liu Ye Storytelling • Fondazione Prada

Hiroki Tsukuda They Live • Petzel Gallery

Tishan Hsu Liquid Circuit • Hammer Museum

Revolutions in the Margins

LU YANG • In the control room of an otherworldly universe

MAI-THU PERRET