ArtAsiaPacific NO. 54 JUL/AUG 2007

EDITOR’S LETTER 8

HAPPENINGS
STATE OF THE ART
LINES OF CONTROL 42

NEWS
VANCOUVER ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUPS BUG OUT OVER ARTTIST’S INSTALLATION 45 SYNDEY SWISS ARTIST TRANSFORMS COCKATOO ISLAND 45 KARLSRUHE GERMAN MUSEUM CELEBRATES TENTH YEAR WITH MAMMOTH SURVEY 46 BARODA BARODA AUTHORITIES JAIL ART STUDENT 47 TAIPEI TAIPEI ART COMMUNITY RESISTS GOVERNEMENT’S HEAVEY HAND 47 SEATTLE SAM EXPANSION UNVEILS ART STARS 48 ISLAMABAD PAKISTAN’S NATIONAL ART GALLERY NAMING CONTROVERSY 48 VARIOUS LOCATIONS UNSTOPPABLE MARKET FAN FAIR 49 VARIOUS LOCATIONS ROUND UP: CV SEASON 50 PASSINGS MAI GHOUSSOUB, 1952-2007 50 WHISPERING GALLERY 51

THE POINT
HONG KONG: TEN YEARS ON 53

PROFILE
JUNEBUM PARK: MASTER ILLUSIONIST 57 CHIEN-CHI CHANG: NO FLASH NEEDED 64

HOT SPOT
SHEZAD DAWOOD: POSH STUDIO 58 END OF EMPIRE 68

THE BIG PICTURE
PETER HILL AND GAIL HASTINGS: CUE THE SUN 62

ONE ON ONE
PI LI: GOING PUBLIC 66

FEATURES
ZARINA: EDGES OF HER WORLD By Samir S. Petal 72
GIMHONGSOK: WILD KOREA By Shinyoung Chung 78
XU ZHEN: SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE By Rebecca Catching 86
THE IRON MAN: NATARAJA SHARMA By Andrew Maerkle 92
ALL THAT REMAINS: EMILY JACIR By Murtaza Vali 98

REVIEWS
BRISBANE Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan: Another Country_106 TOKYO Tsuyoshi Ozawa: Honey, the Far East, and Art, curated by Nanataro Okamaoto_106 SHANGHAI Gus Dexin: 2007.4.14_107 BEIJING Yuan Shun: Soft Landing_108 HONG KONG Adrian Wong: A Fear Is This_108 BANGKOK Kamin Lertchaiprasert: Sitting (Money) 2004-2006_109 NEW DELHI A. Balasubramaniam: (In)Visible_110 MUMBAI Anju Dodiya: Throne of Frost_110 HELSINKI Wind from the East_111 LONDON Anup Mathew Thomas: Metropolitan­_111 NEW YORK Wang Jin_112 NEW YORK Bhupen Khakhar_112 NEW YORK Tala Madani: Smoke and Mirrors__113 LOS ANGELES Eternal Flame: Imagining a Future at the End of the World_114

FILM REVIEW
PROVOKED 116

BOOK REVIEW
ASCENDING CHAOS: THE ART OF MASAMI TERAOKA 1966-2006 118

PROJECTS IN THE MAKING
KAMROOZ ARAM: TRIAL BY FIRE 127

WHERE I WORK
SUDHIR PATWARDHAN 128