ArtAsiaPacific Issue 29, 2001

Commentary

22 TV Buddha, Video Fish: The Works of Nam June Paik by Jonathan Goodman

24 Picnic in an Art Garden: The 2000 Kwangju Biennale by Robert J. Fouser

27 Korean American Views: On Exile, Travel, and Unbelonging by Doryun Chong

30 Turning to the Everyday: Land/mind/body-scapes in Tokyo by Edan Corkill

33 In-Between Discourses: Alternative Art Spaces in Tokyo by Larissa Hjorth

35 Shifting Perceptions: Contemporary LA Visions by Collette Chattopadhyay

38 A Complex Prism: Indigenous influences in Australian art by Ashley Carruthers

40 Text and Subtext: A Singapore exhibition of women’s art by Flaudette May V. Datuin

Essays

42 VONG PHAOPHANIT: In the Shadow of Words by Claire Oboussier

48 EATING THEIR WORDS: A Filipino Narrative by Ana P. Labrador

56 WARRIOR GIRL: Kate Beynon’s Tussle with Language by Stuart Koop

62 SUSPENDED IN AMBIVALENCE: The Installations of Seong Chun by Joan Kee

68 SUBALTERN WRITING Tsang Tsou Choi: The King of Kowloon by David Clarke

72 VALUING ASIA: Wong Hoy Cheong’s Quest for a Postcolonial Vocabulary by Sumit Mandal

78 SLEIGHT OF HAND: The Use of Text in Contemporary Chinese Art by Melissa Chiu

Reviews

88 Jen Budney on Ed Pien; D.J. Huppatz on ‘AWAS! Recent Art from Indonesia’; Bruce Doar on Aniwar Mamat; Benjamin Genocchio on ‘Critical Response’; Kanchan Chander on Helen Geier; Collette Chattopadhyay on Yoshitomo Nara; Jonathan Goodman on Zhang Huan; Stephen Horne on Tadashi Kawamata; Jonathan Goodman on Shahzia Sikander.