Art AsiaPacific FALL 2005 No. 46

EDITOR’S LETTER 6

HAPPENINGS

NEWS

HONG KONG TSANG KIN WAH WINS SOVEREIGN AWARD 14 SEOUL ANEW NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR KOREA 14 HONG KONG CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART SETS RECORD PRICES 15 PHNOM PENH THE FIRST CAMBODIAN VISUAL ARTS OPEN 15 SINGAPORE ART SINGAPORE DREAMS LARGE 16 MINNEAPOLIS HUANG YONG PING 16 BASEL ART BASEL 17 JAKARTA RE-MAPPING GLOBALIZATION AT THE CP BIENNALE 17 PASSINGS CHEN YIFEI, 1946-2005 18 WHISPERING GALLERY 19

THE POINT

WHAT GIVES 21

HOT SPOT

WORKING OUT THE TENSION: TAIPEI BIENNIAL 2004 AND TAIWAN
PAVILION AT THE VENICE BIENNALE 2005 24
KILN ME SOFTLY: THE 3RD WORLD CERAMICS BIENNALE 26
ALL ABOUT THE FUTURE: BANGKOK’S ABOUT CAFÉ 42

ONE ON ONE

PRESENT AND FUTURE TENSE 30 BEYOND THE DELTA 44

PROFILE

VIETNAM MEMORIES 32 AT THE LIMIT: WILLIAM SEETO 34 AMY CHAM INSIDE OUT 40

THE BIG PICTURE

IMPASSIONED VOICES: ART AS SOCIAL COMMENTARY IN PAKISTAN 36

FEATURES

ROSEMARY LAING AND FIONA HALL: REMEMBERING FORWARDS By George Alexander 48
CHEO CHAI HIANG: THE TIME IS OUT OF JOINT By Ho Tzu Nyen 54
SVAY KEN: HOME AND COUNTRY By Erin Gleeson 58
WILSON SHIEH: PERHAPS, PERHAPS, PERHAPS By Bridget Goodbody 62
MEDITATION ON THE STARS By Don J. Cohn 68

REVIEWS

SEOUL The People in the Time 1945-2005: Sixty Years of Korean Photography__76 SEOUL Jackson Hong__76 TOKYO Fluxus: Art into Life__77 TOKYO The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art From East Asia__77 HONG KONG Tsang Kin Wah__78 NEW DELHI Purkayastha Prabir: Ladakh--__78 NEW DELHI K.S. Kulkarni__79 LONDON Hiroshi Sugimoto: Conceptual Forms__79 OXFORD Qu Lei Lei: Everyone’s Life is an Epic__80 MANCHESTER Re-Fashion: Maria Chen Pascual, Julian & Sophie, Justin Oh__80 NEW YORK Zheng Xuewu__81 NEW YORK Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture__81 NEW YORK Nasreen Mohamedi: Lines Among Lines__82 NEW YORK David Diao: Demolished/At Risk__83 NEW YORK Mayumi Lake: Poo-Chi__84 HOUSTON Yuken Teruya__84 SAN FRANCISCO Michael Wolf__85 SANTA MONICA Chie Fueki__85 LOS ANGELES Lawrence Yun__86 SEATTLE Lee Chul Soo: Visual Poetry—A decade of Woodcuts__86 VANCOUVER Charlie Don’t Surf: 4 Vietnamese American Artists__87

FILM REVIEW

SON ET LUMIÈRE 88

BOOK REVIEW

CAUSE FOR CONCERN: TSUNAMI 90

PROJECTS IN THE MAKING

THE EYE-CATCHER 96

COVER IMAGE

Wilson Shieh - Nanyang Club (2004) Ink, watercolor and gouache on dyed silk, 57 x 48 cm. Courtesy Grotto Fine Art.