ArtAsiaPacific No.32, 2001

Commentary

20 A SUPER-FLAT REALITY Japanese anime and art – Doryun Chong

23 GIFTS, HOPES, ENCOUNTERS – Motoaki Hori

26 MAAP New Media for the third millennium – Linda Carroli

28 YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE Towards a new synthesis – Naoyuki Takashima

30 A DIFFERENT REALITY Taiwanese Artists – Sophie McIntyre

33 FIRST STEPS Emerging artists from Japan – Gregory Galligan

35 NEW YORK SCENE Takashi Murakami, Wang Du and Mel Chin – Rachel Kent

38 LI YUAN-CHIA An unconventional artist – Katie Hill

40 FROM INSIDE THE BODY Chinese artists in New York – Jonathan Goodman

Essays

42 EXCAVATING HISTORY Yanagi Yukinori implodes Japan – Doryun Chong

50 CROSS-CULTURAL TRANSLATIONS Hanh Ngo and ‘being Vietnamese’ – Laura Murray Cree

56 BREAKING THROUGH TWISTED LOGIC Heri Dono’s critical eye –Jim Supangkat

64 PROCESSES OF ERASURE Paul Pfeifer’s narratives of the global – Joan Kee

70 SAMOAN ART HISTORIES The art of Andy Leleisi’uao, Graham Fletcher and Nanette Lela’ulu – Sean Mallon

78 THE AESTHETIC OBSESSIONS OF TARIQ ALVI – Robert Preece

Reviews

Meg Maggio with a tribute to Susan Dewar; Mathieu Borysevicz on Qiu Zhijie; Jonathan Goodman on Pouran Jinchi; Julian Forrest on Minh Nguyen; Gordon Bull on Ruth Watson; Jonathan Goodman on Bae Bien-U; Collette Chttopadhyay on Masahiko Kuwahara.