ArtAsiaPacific No.26, 2000

Commentary

20 IN FULL BLOOM Kusama, Araki and Dumb Type – Natalie King

23 A NEW GENERATION Young artists on show in Tokyo – Edan Corkill

25 FINDING A PLACE FOR ART Singapore report – Felicity Fenner

28 WOMANIFESTO An exhibition of women’s art in Bangkok – Varsha Nair

31 OPENING CULTURAL DOORS Exhibiting indigenous art – Courtney Kidd

34 FRESH VISIONS ‘1999 Art China’ in San Francisco – Reena Jana

36 A SENSE OF SELF Anglo-South Asian artists speak out – Kevin Braddock

38 FACE TO FACE Contemporary art from Taiwan – Wen-rwei Hsu

Essays

40 SIEVE-O-PHYSIS An interview with Anita Dube – Kamala Kapoor

46 THE CAGE OF WORDS Xu Bing – Jonathan Goodman

54 FISHES AND DRAGONS Ah Xian’s ‘China.China’ series – Claire Roberts

60 RED AND WHITE REFIGURED Indonesian activist art in progress – Astri Wright

66 PASSING THROUGH FIRE Pain and transformation in the art of Arahmaiani – Anoli Perera

72 A NEW ORDER Contemporary visual art in Sri Lanka – Anoli Perera

78 GU WENDA’s SILENT SELVES AND PSEUDO-CHARACTERS – Britta Erickson

Reviews

Steven Pettifor on Judy Freya Sibayan; Iola Lenzi on Heri Dono; Jonathan Goodman on Lim Young-Sun; Jan de Vries on Ram Rahman; Blair French on Michael Parekowhai; Iola Lenzi on ‘Re-emplace’; Andrew Frost on ‘Film – open and closed’; Mark Harrison on In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture; Bernard Smith on Modern Asian Art.