ArtAsiaPacific Magazine - November - December 2018

In this issue

The Nov/Dec issue of ArtAsiaPacific focuses on artists who highlight the challenges women face. For our cover Feature, Beijing desk editor Tom Mouna met with Ma Qiusha, whose diverse practice revolves around personal and collective memories of growing up in China in the 1980s and ’90s. In our second Feature, contributing editor Jyoti Dhar looks at the career of Anita Dube, from her involvement in the 1980s art group known as the Radicals to her critical writing. Then and Now captures the social, political and cultural mood over the past two and half decades through the materials in our archive. In Young and Emerging, we spotlight five up-and-coming artists whose practices utilize new kinds of digital media: Hayoun Kwon, Miao Ying, Jess Johnson, Refik Anadol and Foundland Collective. For Inside Burger Collection, Katharina Amman and Christina Végh met with Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler to discuss their project on artist Flora Mayo, feminism and power relations. In Essays, critic Reena Devi considers whether Singapore’s frenzied push for art fairs will benefit the country’s arts ecology. Curator Danielle Shang scrutinizes China’s new generation of collector-owned museums. Joyce Wong, the winner of AAP’s inaugural Young Writers Contest, examines cross-cultural themes in the work of Shezad Dawood. In Profiles, reviews editor Ophelia Lai discusses the work of Cambodian multidisciplinary artist Khvay Samnang. Australia desk editor Tim Walsh sits down with Brisbane-based Dale Harding, and Ink Society director Olivia Wang talks with collector-couple Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki. For Where I Work, associate editor Chloe Chu visits the Hong Kong studio of Izumi Kato. Do Truong Linh files a Dispatch from Hanoi. In One on One, Dane Mitchell, explains his admiration for the late On Kawara. In The Point, Quandamooka artist Megan Cope elaborates on the importance of contributing to the collective discourse of Indigenous Australian artists active in the 1980s and ’90s.