ArtAsiaPacific No. 64
July/August 2009

14 Editor's Letter

21 Questionnaire: Tabaimo
23 My Eight: Xu Bing
25 Keyword: Value

NEWS
33 BEIJING Ai Weiwei Pressures Chinese Government 35 NEW YORK Nam June Paik Archive Goes to DC 35 ABU DHABI Labor Abuses on UAE Museum Island 36 LOS ANGELES Collector Sues Over Murakami Prints 37 AUCKLAND Auckland Gallery Receives Major Gift 37 TOKYO Kiyoshi Awazu (1929–2009) 38 VARIOUS LOCATIONS Round Up: Deep Shift or Quick Fix?

41 Opinion: June 4, 2009
43 Auction Report
47 Art Fair Report

51 Whispering Gallery

ESSAYS
53 Perspective: Possibilities of the Unreal
55 Case Study: Model Intercourse
56 Current Affairs: YouTube and Mu

PROFILES
60 Personal History: Ellen Pau
62 Interview: Paul Pfeiffer
64 Interview: Tejal Shah
66 In Depth: Johnnie Walker

FEATURES
74 Feng Mengbo: Multiplayer Online Cultural Revolution
82 Romy Achituv: Mediating Memory
88 Raqs Media Collective: Talking Cure
94 New-Media Roundtable: Crossing Open-Source Frontiers
100 SymbioticA: The Art-Science Incubator

REVIEWS
112 SHARJAH "Sharjah Biennial"
114 SYDNEY Simryn Gill
115 TOKYO Ryoji Ikeda
116 TAIPEI Peng Hung Chih
117 BEIJING Qiu Zhijie
118 HONG KONG "Forever Until Now"
119 NEW DELHI Subba Ghosh
120 LONDON Choi Jeong Hwa
121 NEW YORK "Artists in Exile"
122 LOS ANGELES Atelier Bow-Wow

124 Book Review: New Titles on Media Art

133 Where I Work: Ayah Bdeir
135 The Last Word: Elusive Aesthetics
136 Proposal X: TV Santosh