Art AsiaPacific WINTER 2005 No. 47

EDITOR’S LETTER 6

HAPPENINGS

STATE OF THE ART

OCEANS APART 13

NEWS

TOKYO AN ART FAIR FOR TOKYO 14 TAIPEI NEW DIRECTOR FOR NATIONAL TAIWAN MUSEUM 14 BERLIN WORLD CUP MASS MANIA 15 VANCOUVER CENTRE OF ATTENTION 16 BEIJING ARTISTS’ COMMUNITY FIGHT DEMOLITION 16 NEW YORK NEW WORLD RECORDS FOR INDIAN CONTEMPORARY ART 17TORONTO POWER PLANT’S GREGORY BURKE 17 MELBOURNE CHRISTIE’S ABORIGINAL AUCTION RESULTS 18 NEW PLYMOUTH MERCEDES VICENTE MOVES TO GOVETT-BREWSTER 18 WHISPERING GALLERY 19

THE POINT

(EDITION) SIZE MATTERS? 22

HOT SPOT

CAMBODIA’S FIRST VISUAL ARTS OPEN 25

FUNDING FOR INDEPENDENT ART IN SINGAPORE 26

BIGGEST ON THE BLOCK: CONTEMPORARY CHINESE OIL PAINTING AT CHINA GUARDIAN 44

ONE ON ONE

SHOCK OF THE NEW 30

PROFILE

PHILLIP GEORGE 32 CANOE CULTURE 38 FRAMING TYEB MEHTA 42

THE BIG PICTURE

CURATION ON THE MOVE 34 BRUCE MAU AND INSTITUTE WITHOUT BORDERS: DESIGN WILL SET US FREE 40

FEATURES

MORIMURA YASUMASA: OUT OF THE CORNER OF A SMALL ROOM, PAINTING DEVELOPS By Eric C. Shiner 48

RAQIB SHAW: IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN By Paul Laster 52

ARARIO GALLERY: BEIJING OR BUST By Iris Moon 58

JHEON SOOCHEON: ON BOARD THE MOVING DRAWING By Andrew Maerkle 62

JULIAN DASHPER: AT ODDS By Mark Kirby 68

REVIEWS
AUCKLAND Slow Rushes for Auckland__74 NEW PLYMOUTH Lee Bul__74 SYDNEY Kutlug Atama: Perfect Strangers__75 VICTORIA Tracey Moffatt: In Review__75 TOKYO Follow Me!__76 OSAKA Gundam: Generating Futures__76 JAKARTA OK Video Art Festival 2005: Sub/Version__77 HONG KONG Caroline Chiu: A Chinese Wunderkammer__78 BEIJING Chen Zhen: Transexperiences__78 BEIJING Cao Fei: Cosplayers__79 SHARJAH 7th Sharjah Biennial__79 COPENHAGEN Seoul: Until Now! City and Scene__80 BERLIN Yoshiaki Kaihatsu: Ceiling__80 BERLIN The artist lives and works in…Baroda/Bombay/ Calcutta/Mysore/Rotterdam/Trivandrum__81 DUISBURG Zhang Lin Hai, Wang Yidong & Cai Guo-Qiang__81 BERN Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art From The Sigg Collection__82 LONDON Makoto Aida: Donki-Hote__83 NEW YORK Sarah Sze__83 CHICAGO RongRong and inri__84 MEXICO CITY On Kawara. Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on he Hills__85 LOS ANGELES Jin Yong Lee__85

FILM REVIEW

NOT DROWNING BUT WAVING 86

BOOK REVIEW

RYOJI IKEDA: FORMULA 88

PROJECTS IN THE MAKING

YAMAGUCHI NORIKO IS UNDER OUR SKIN 95

WHERE I WORK

CAI GUO-QIANG 96

Cover image:

Raqib Shaw - Garden of Earthly Delights XIV (2005) Mixed media on board, 4’8” in diameter. Courtesy Deitch Projects and Victoria Miro Gallery.