Longform explorations of recent art in Asia, archives, art histories, urgent preoccupations, and other areas of interest
Essays
Past and Present Alternatives: Artist-Run Spaces in the Philippines
Ringo Bunoan reflects on the development of artist-run spaces in the Philippines, from the 1990s and beyond
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Public Appearance as Art as Protest as Event: Yoko Ono’s Events with John Lennon
SooJin Lee uses a Fluxus lens to consider Ono and Lennon's playful use of the public gaze
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You Are Here
Jennifer Deger on the limits of modernist cartographies, and how art and anthropology might speak to the environmental crises of our time
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The Thoughtful Dissemination and Archiving of Japanese Moving Image Works
Ann Adachi-Tasch reflects on her engagement with Japanese experimental moving image works of the 1950s to 1980s
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Hong Kong: A Curatorial Journey for an Identity
Oscar Ho narrates his shift from seeking a distinctive cultural identity for Hong Kong, to working to dismantle this very concept
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The International Student as a Term of Art
David Xu Borgonjon discusses the racial politics of art school recruitment, and its structural effects on contemporary art
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The Aesthetic Project of Remaking “Yellow” Identity
Mimi Wong explores the slippery notion of an "Asian aesthetic," and the many ways it can manifest in East Asian and diasporic art
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From Within the Fog
Trisha Low’s lyric ruminations on art writing, gestures of refusal, and the unresolvable desire for shared utopia amidst crisis and collapse
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Yellow Skin, White Gold
Anne Anlin Cheng reconsiders Asiatic femininity, racialised embodiment, and the confusion between persons and things
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Is It Socially Engaged Art?: The Debate over “Art Projects” in Japan
Yeung Tin Shui traces alternatives to Eurocentric conceptions of art projects in Japan
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Women, Handicrafts, and Entrepreneurship in the Postcolonial World
Annemari de Silva addresses the gendered and postcolonial valuations of "art" and "craft" in Sri Lanka
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Setting the Stage: Korean Women Artists on Performance and Beauty
So-Rim Lee examines how two emerging feminist artists stage and politicise a hair salon and a cosmetics store
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Line Form Colour Action
Chuong-Dai Vo uses Lee Wen’s notebooks to explore his work as performance and process
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Tomorrow Girls Troop: A Fourth-Wave Feminist Art Collective
Reflections on activism, gender equality, and visual representation in Japan from an emerging feminist art collective
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Ren Hang in the Global City
Nicholas Gamso considers Ren Hang’s engagement with urban space and queer body politics
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Motherhood, Motherland: Photography, Representation, and Agency of the Filipina Overseas Worker
Alice Sarmiento asks whether exhibitions and artist-led initiatives can change how we connect space, citizenship, and acts of caregiving
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Gendering Her Art: The Category of “Woman” in the Art History of Hong Kong
Christina Yuen Zi Chung looks at gender-themed art exhibitions and their relation to feminist discourse in Hong Kong
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On Ha Bik Chuen: Collection and Collage
Leo Li Chen explores how Ha Bik Chuen’s collection opens up new ways to understand Hong Kong art history
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Notes on the "Vernacular" Milieus of Art Writing
Sneha Ragavan questions the dominance of English in India’s art historiography and criticism
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Practicing Friendship: Respecting Time as a Curator
Zoe Butt considers the significance of friendships for artistic languages and forms
