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!
ArtAsiaPacific
Contributors
Radical Hope
Inas Halabi on Rosalind Nashashibi
Vancouver • Negotiating Space and Race
AWARDS
OBITUARIES
Beirut Explosion Devastates City and Cultural Community
Imagining the Impossible • In 2020, the Point examines how our cultural and sociopolitical systems are implicated in climate change, and what actions the arts industry can take. For this issue, we invited Lucas Ihlein and Kim Williams to reflect on the process of helping the Biennale of Sydney review its environmental practices.
Hang Ten
Gaylord Chan, 1925–2020
Bumpy Recovery • Following months of delays, Hong Kong’s first live auctions of 2020 took place in early July, days before the city tightened public-gathering restrictions amid a third wave of Covid-19 cases. With mandatory quarantines and entry bans still in effect, most lots were purchased by remote bidders. While Sotheby’s and Phillips enjoyed robust sales, results were mixed for other houses.
New Protocols • More than half a year since Covid-19 struck, galleries have become accustomed to the virtual fair format, as exemplified by robust results from Art Basel’s latest online iteration. However, the success of Unscheduled, a small, impromptu fair held in Hong Kong during a brief window of public reopenings between spikes in infections, affirmed the importance of IRL events.
SITES AND SIGHTS
GIVE IT A TWIST
WHOSE LAND? • Examining Claims to Sand and Memory
RACHEL TEO
ZHENG MAHLER
MILJOHN RUPERTO
COLLECTIVE HAJRA COSMOLOGIES WAHEED
Looking at Looking • AN INTERVIEW WITH LAM TUNG PANG
ALLISON CHHORN
DIANE SEVERIN NGUYEN
FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE
From Photo to Fine Art: Tim Gardner’s Transformative Paintings • INSIDE BURGER COLLECTION
ITINERARY
ART DIRECTORY • A GUIDE TO CONTEMPORARY ART SPACES AND GALLERIES IN ASIA, THE MIDDLE EAST, THE PACIFIC, AND AROUND THE WORLD.
22nd Biennale of Sydney: “NIRIN”
Insane Park “I have no idea, because I have no idea” and “Joy of Painting”
Unusual Tranquility
Diagonal
Lorna Simpson Special Characters
Lananh Le frozen data
Michael Rakowitz
Haider Jabbar Decapitation
Joonhong Min and Shinuk Suh Rendered Reality
Liu Xiaodong Spring in New York
Cutting to the Core
NORBERTO “PEEWEE” ROLDAN • Between History and Hope
preserving communities of the sea