ArtAsiaPacific No.25, 2000

Commentary

22 A QUESTION OF PLACE Japan and Korea at the 48th Venice Biennale – Toshio Shimizu

24 OPEN AND EVERYWHERE Chinese artists at the Venice Biennale – Francesca Dal Lago

27 DIFFERENT TOTEMS David Neel on the Grand Canal – Paula Gustafson

28 GAP VIET NAM A Vietnamese encounter in Berlin - Birgit Hussfeld

31 OUT OF ORDER Art in unusual spaces in Manila – Ana P. Labrador

34 KNALPOT The sound of Indonesian voices – M. Dwi Marianto

36 UNVEILED REALITY An exhibition of Chinese photography – Paula Gustafson

38 THE FIRST STEPS Emerging Japanese artists in New York – Jonathan Goodman

Essays

40 THE CITY, ART AND THE GARDEN Possibilities for Japanese art – Fumihiro Nonomura

46 CITY OF MAKE BELIEVE Post-handover monuments in Hong Kong – Oscar Ho Hing-kay

50 STAGING CONTROLLED CHAOS An interview with Tomoko Takahashi – Robert Preece

56 REPRESENTATION AS DETOUR Three anecdotes about Singapore art – Lee Weng Choy

62 OF COMMODITIES AND KINGS Tang Da Wu’s play with psycho-geography and public memory – Lucy Davis

Reviews

Collette Chattopadhyay on Katsuya Komogata; Victoria Hynes on Mathias Kauage; Jonathan Goodman on Fang Lijun; Collette Chattopadhyay on Soonja Oh Kim; Karin Miller-Lewis on Vinod Dave; M.A. Greenstein on Anju Dodiya; Julian Scarff on ‘The Corruptionists’; Mathieu Borysevicz on Zhang Peili; Courtney Kidd on ‘Outside the Real: A New Form of Video Art in China’; A Response from Singapore Art Museum.