Art AsiaPacific #44 Spring 2005

Editor’s Letter 8

HAPPENINGS

EVENTS
Breaking the 4th Wall: Hors Cadrage at Ise Cultural Foundation Gallery 14
Mayumi Lake: Poo-Chi at M.Y. Art Prospects 15

STATE OF THE ART
Social Studies 19

NEWS
Korea, A New Venture for the Samsung Foundation of Culture 20 Venice, Curators of the Japan, Korea and Taiwan Pavilions Announced 21 Hong Kong, Para/Site Reborn 22 China, Foreign Auction Houses Bid for a Piece of the Chinese Market 22 Hong Kong, Archival Workship at the Asia Art Archive 23 New York, An Exhibition of Atomic Effect 23 Istanbul, Pursuing the Modern 24 Selected Events 2005 24

HOT SPOT
Vietnam Diary 28

PROFILES
An-My Lê 32 Cacahuates Japoneses 38 Manabu Ikeda 48

THE BIG PICTURE
Outsource This: The Cutting Edge of Indian Art 34 Women Crossing the Borderlines 42

ONE ON ONE
Nicole Schoeni of Hong Kong’s Schoeni Art Gallery 46

FEATURES

I KNOW WHAT YOU WANT, LET ME GIVE IT TO YOU DOUBLE: SHEZAD DAWOOD by Sara Raza 54

WHAT A SWELL PARTY: JACQUELINE FRASER by Astrid Mania 62

IN CONVERSATION: PATTY CHANG by Euridice Arratia 68

REVIEWS

NEW PLYMOUTH Transindonesia__76 SYDNEY Destiny Deacon: Walk and Don’t Look Blak__76 TOKYO Psionic Distortion__77 BUSAN/GWANGJU Chasm/A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water__77 SEOUL Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries Presents Bust Down The Door__78 SEOUL You Are My Sunshine: Korean Contemporary Art 1960-2004__79 HONG KONG PROXY: Microwave International Media Art Festival, 2004__80 SINGAPORE (RA) Rated Artistic: Artists Take On Cinema__80 PHNOM PENH Sopheap Pich: Rotin/Pdow__81 NEW DELHI Middle Age Spread: Imaging India 1947-2004__81 LONDON Shirazeh Houshiary: Through Breath__82 NEW YORK Lee Kang-So__82 NEW YORK Nalini Malani__83 NEW YORK Democracy Forever__83 NEW YORK Zhang Yu__84 NEW YORK Raghubir Singh__84 NEW YORK The Secret Forest of Princess Knight: Fantastic Landscapes from Japan__85 LOS ANGELES Kamol Tassanchalee__86 LOS ANGELES O-Sang Gwon: Deoderant Type & the Flat__86 SAN FRANCISCO Tokihiro Sato__87

FILM REVIEW
Asshak: Tales from The Sahara 88

BOOK REVIEW
Beyond the Limits: Mitra Tabrizian 90

PROJECTS IN THE MAKING Toby Barnes 96