ArtAsiaPacific - September - October 2021

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How can we communicate with our ancestors, and what can we learn from the way they survived, and thrived, as communities? In our cover feature, managing editor Chloe Chu speaks to artist Zadie Xa about works that stage quasi-mythical rituals and environments populated by shamans and animals. In our second feature, Cleo Roberts-Komireddi caught up with Gala Porras-Kim to learn about the Los Angeles-based artist’s engagements with cultural artifacts and the institutions in which they are kept and displayed. Up Close shines a spotlight on recent projects by Liu Yin, Shuruq Harb, and Pınar Öğrenci. Inside Burger Collection focuses on the legendary artist Lee Ufan. This issue’s Essay is penned by Susan Htoo, the winner of the 2021 Young Writers Contest, and looks at the virtual exhibitions and social-media activities of artists from Myanmar. Kang Seung Lee, Nabuqi, and experimental noise musician Xper.Xr appear in Profiles. In The Point, Yi Cao, from the Art Institute of Chicago, discusses the ways in which museums need to make themselves relevant to their communities in the wake of social-justice movements. In Dispatch, Seattle-based artist and educator Robert Rhee reflects on the Pacific northwest city’s stuttering efforts to get back to “normal.” In Fine Print, art lawyers Yayoi Shionoiri and Ryan Su discuss the practical legal issues that NFT creators face, and offer a sample contract for artists and collectors to use. Mark Salvatus, in One on One, describes how installation artists Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan inspired his future practice. Finally, for Where I Work, associate editor Ophelia Lai visited the studio of Hong Kong artist Leelee Chan, who imbues found materials with biomorphic qualities. In a world that produces more and more objects every day, Chan seeks out moments of material beauty in discarded remnants. Like Xa, Porras-Kim, and others, Chan offers a model for learning to adapt to the conditions of our new world, just as our ancestors did before us.