The publication is produced on the occasion of the group exhibition of the same title held from September to October 2014 in Arko Art Center, South Korea. An international symposium is held alongside.

Arko Art Center's project, Tradition (Un)Realized focuses on modes of multidisciplinary artistic research into various kinds of tradition with performances and screenings by artists in the Asian regions, aiming at deepening the relationship between the traditional and the contemporary. The symposium looks for a new, multidimensional view of tradition today, seeing through cultural theory and critical discourse and opening up contemporary approaches to tradition in search of practical and theoretical strategies for rethinking cultural inheritance and its potential critical amplitude in the present.

Including speakers' and curators' biographies.