ArtAsiaPacific - July - August 2021

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Whether adopting pseudonyms, exaggerating personas, or inventing alter-egos, artists have been leading imagined existences throughout time in order to examine the fine lines that divide fiction and reality. Beginning in 1967, the Los Angeles-based artist Carl Cheng began branding his creations under the name John Doe Co., a wryly generic corporate moniker for his “Nature Machines,” which deputy editor HG Masters explores in this issue’s cover Feature. Hendrik Folkerts considers Evelyn Taocheng Wang’s allusions to a host of artistic and literary figures in her paintings and videos in our second Feature. Up Close highlights new works by Jes Fan; Deniz Gül, and Zhao Zhao. For Inside Burger Collection, Kimberly Bradley traces the arc of artist Bianca Kennedy’s practice, from her films on bathing to her speculative animations.
Profiled in this issue are multimedia artist Aki Inomata and photographers Pao Houa Her Miti Ruangkritya. This issue’s Essay, by Berlin desk editor Clara Tang, is focused on the project “Owned by Others,” which sought to create conversations around the colonial histories behind the artifacts held on Berlin’s Museum Island.
In Dispatch, curator Raphael Fonseca describes the recent shifts in the arts landscape of São Paulo. For the Point, artist, curator, and incoming Asia Art Archive director Christopher K. Ho probes how transnational communities of the many Asian diasporas might find new forms of solidarity. Artist Trevor Shimizu pens the latest One on One column, paying tribute to Dan Graham.
Lastly, for Where I Work, contributor Frances Arnold visited aaajiao’s Berlin studio, where the new-media artist creates large-scale installations, websites, and interactive games reflecting on humanity’s relationship with virtual environments.