ArtAsiaPacific - November - December 2021

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ArtAsiaPacific's November/December issue looks at artists who have devoted their practices to creating space for reflection, reconnection, and healing. Our cover feature is a conversation between Tuan Andrew Nguyen and associate editor Ophelia Lai about the role of voice and song in the Ho Chi Minh City-based artist’s recent film works. For the second feature, deputy editor HG Masters spoke with pioneering modernist painter Park Seo-Bo, who looks back on his career on the eve of his 90th birthday. Closing out the Features section is Up Close, where the editors spotlight new works by Lee Kai Chung, Bani Abidi, and Yao Qingmei. In Profiles, we trace the choreographic practice of Berlin-based Choy Ka Fai, and the politically engaged art projects of Leslie de Chavez. In his essay, Hutch Wilco interviews the organizers behind some of Shanghai’s new grassroots art initiatives about their strategies and motivations. The second Essay looks at the evolution of the archival turn, with a focus on “Portals, Stories, and Other Journeys,” an exhibition rooted in the repository of materials compiled by artist Ha Bik Chuen. The issue also includes The Point by artist, curator, and educator Taeyoon Choi who probes how we might address the ways our virtual realms perpetuate violence and inequity. Filing a Dispatch from Beijing, Jaime Chu expounds on how social-media metrics and Chinese internet culture have affected what gets shown in China’s art-exhibition spaces. Meanwhile, in One on One, artist Monira Al Qadiri describes her fascination with the writing of novelist Yukio Mishima, who has long been sidelined in Japan for his homosexuality, extreme right-wing politics, and public suicide following a failed coup. Finally, for Where I Work, contributor Tiffany Leung visited the riotous London studio of Chila Kumari Singh Burman, who reminds us “that imaginative joy is entwined with subversion and resistance, and prevails through darkness into light.”