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
Traveling Through Time
Rome • Diamond in the Rough
Post-Covid-19 Art and Urbanism • Toward Inclusive Cities
AWARDS
OBITUARIES
Covid-19 Continues to Impact Art-World Calendar
Wong Kit Yi on Michael Findlay
The Futures Market
Slow Start
Déjà Vu
THROUGH ANOTHER LENS
MATERIAL METAPHORS
LAND, LANDLESSNESS, MOBILITY • Asian and Indigenous Artists Disrupt Colonial Chronology
MIN OH
AU SOW YEE
HIWA K
MIND’S EYE
SPEAKING IN STONES
LU YANG
CIAN DAYRIT
YANG FUDONG
38 On the work of the artist Paul Hutchinson
Tinfoil Dreams
My work contains the culture I come from
ITINERARY
ART DIRECTORY • 122 A GUIDE TO CONTEMPORARY ART SPACES AND GALLERIES IN ASIA, THE MIDDLE EAST, THE PACIFIC, AND AROUND THE WORLD.
Taipei Biennial 2020: You and I Don’t Live on the Same Planet
Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art
Lindy Lee Moon in a Dew Drop
Lee Seung Taek Non-Art: The Inversive Act
Player of Beings
Familiar Hunting, Unfamiliar Gathering
Takis My Body Holds Its Shape
Mike HJ Chang Calendar of Dilation
Tarek Atoui Cycles in 11
Chen Zhen Short-circuits
Amir H. Fallah Better a Cruel Truth Than a Comfortable Delusion
Gu Xiong The Remains of a Journey
Celebrating Ingenuity
CHITRA GANESH • A Universe of One’s Own
Rotten and Thriving