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!

ArtAsiaPacific

Contributors

Transformative Powers

Rushdi Anwar on Mulla Sadra Shirazi

Shanghai • Squeezed Out

Documenta Fifteen Faces Accusations of Antisemitism

The Great Plateau

Pushing Back

Nipping at the Heels

LETTER TO YOUNG ARTISTS

EMBODIED ADVENTURES

ON ESSENCE

IMPERATIVES TO REIMAGINE • Assessing the conditions of decolonial movements across the Global South

Elevating Extremes

Poetic Power

TROUBLE IN PARADISE

METHOD AND MATERIALITY

SUGAR AND SALT OF LIFE

CHU CHUN-TENG

TAP CHAN

JENNIFER TEE

“Intimacy and denial in equal measure” • Elmgreen & Dragset discuss masculinity ideals and posthumanism

ART DIRECTORY • 129 A GUIDE TO CONTEMPORARY ART SPACES AND GALLERIES IN ASIA, THE MIDDLE EAST, THE PACIFIC, AND AROUND THE WORLD.

Kathmandu Triennale 2077

Hito Steyerl A Sea of Data

Chim↑Pom from Smappa!Group Happy Spring

emo gym

Pio Abad Fear of Freedom Makes Us See Ghosts

İpek Duben The Skin, Body, and I

Fujiko Nakaya Nebel Leben

Shuang Li nobody’s home

ITINERARY

Blast from the Past

HANNA HUR • Symbols, mirages, and the wondrousness of creative energy

THAO NGUYEN PHAN Mekong Memoir