ArtAsiaPacific Magazine - May - Jun 2014

In this issue

In this issue, M+’s ink art curator Lesley Ma introduces a group of young Taiwanese writers, photographers and filmmakers who produced Theatre, the first Chinese-language magazine dedicated to experimental time-based art in the 1960s; Dubai desk editor Kevin Jones pens an absorbing rumination on the artistic contributions of Lebanese early modernist Saloua Raouda Choucair; artist Leung Chi Wo tells the story of Josh Hon, a popular but largely unknown painter and performance artist working in Hong Kong in the 1980s; and Western and Central Asia editor Sara Raza sits down with up-and-coming artists Batool al-Shomrani, Sarah Abu Abdallah, Heba Abed and Basmah Felemban to discuss their work and the burgeoning art scene in Saudi Arabia.
In our special profiles section on collectors, we chat with Jakarta’s Poppy Hadiman Setiawan, Leo Shih from Taiwan, Sydney’s Patrick Corrigan and Vietnam-based Adrian Jones about their visions of assembling collections that historically represent a country’s art scene. Managing editor John Jervis meets William Lim in Hong Kong and contributing editor Jyoti Dhar interviews Feroze Gujral in New Delhi, two patrons who are nurturing young artists and experimental practices in their respective hometowns. In our artist profiles section, Manila desk editor Marlyne Sahakian looks at the work of artist-curatorGary Ross Pastrana; assistant editor Sylvia Tsai travels to Singapore’s Institute of Critical Zoologists to meet Robert Zhao Renhui; and in Los Angeles, assistant editor Ming Lin takes us behind the scenes of Chinese-American Wu Tsang’s subversive documentaries and performances.
In The Point, artist Cheo Chai-Hiang revisits a 1989 article “Will the Gifted Blossom?” by Dr. Neville Ellis, a former education officer for Singapore’s Ministry of Education, to discuss whether the city-state’s policy on art education has borne fruit; in Where I Work,AAP goes to the Shanghai studio of Xu Zhen, the artist and CEO of MadeIn Company; and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia senior curator Rachel Kent files a Dispatch report from Sydney. Reviews include: Katherine Tong on Bharti Kher; Marybeth Stock onAngki Purbandono; plus much more.