ArtAsiaPacific - September - October 2023

In this issue

Whether through sight, sound, or textures, humans are always receiving, and reacting to, sensory data. Exploring the abject and extreme limitations of our bodies as physical and emotional entities is artist Mire Lee, who spoke with curator Billy Tang, director of the Hong Kong nonprofit Para Site, for our cover Feature. In our second Feature, ArtAsiaPacific caught up with sound artist Tarek Atoui after his performance at the opening of the 14th Gwangju Biennale in April and ahead of his upcoming new exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, in Sydney in September. For Inside Burger Collection, curators Elisa R. Linn and Lennart Wolff reflect on the creative output of the pioneering German media artist KP Brehmer, active from the 1960s through to the 1990s. In three Up Close articles, we offer perspectives on Corinne de San Jose, Yooyun Yang, Elvis Yip Kin Bon. This issue’s two Profiles look at artists Jean Shin and Jose Tence Ruiz. In Essays, art lawyer Ryan Su examines the recent United States Supreme Court decision in favor of the photographer Lynn Goldsmith against the Andy Warhol Foundation. For One on One, painter Jin Meyerson reflects on his relationship to veteran Korean artist Park Seo-Bo. In Dispatch, curator Li Zhenhua reflects on the contemporary art world in Zurich. For The Point, we hear from pioneering Indonesian contemporary artist FX Harsono about working on sociopolitical issues in Indonesia. Our Reviews span the recent posthumous Pacita Abad exhibition in Minneapolis along with museum and gallery shows from Japan to Hong Kong and London. Finally, for Where I Work, Seoul-based curator Valentina Buzzi visited the Paris studio of leading Korean artist Lee Bae.

ArtAsiaPacific Magazine Description:

For 20 years, ArtAsiaPacific Magazine has been at the forefront of the powerful creative forces that shape contemporary art from Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East. Covering the latest in contemporary visual culture, ArtAsiaPacific is published 6 times a year in Hong Kong, with editorial desks in 25 countries around the world. Our special annual issue, the ArtAsiaPacific Almanac, published in January, covers the major art events of the past year and forecasts the key trends of the year to come.
The dominant artistic influence in the world today - and for many years to come emanates from the vast territory that lies between Turkey and the Pacific island of Tonga that we call the Asia-Pacific. This territory includes India, China, Japan, Australia, Thailand, Pakistan, New Zealand, Korea and Indonesia, whose combined populations make up an amazing half of the world's total population. Also included are Burma, Cambodia, Kiribati and Uzbekistan - places hitherto overlooked, but which like their gigantic neighbors, are producing cutting-edge art of stunning and unexpected quality.
ArtAsiaPacific is authoritative, accurate, even-handed, exact and essential. Included in each issue is an up-to-date directory of the major galleries, not-for-profit organizations and museums with a focus on contemporary art from our geographical footprint. ArtAsiaPacific offers thoughtful reportage, analysis, comment and criticism to its readers made up of collectors, gallerists, curators, artists and those who want and who need to know the latest developments in the fastest-growing and most astonishing region of the contemporary art world.