This catalogue accompanies the Mit Jai Inn exhibition: Dreamworld at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.

Dreamworld is the first major solo exhibition in Europe by artist Mit Jai Inn (b.1960, Chiang Mai). A leading figure of contemporary art in Thailand, Mit is known for his colorful artworks that merge painting and sculpture. The exhibition features recent and new works made for Ikon which embody his vision of art “as a utopian dream within everyday life.” 

This publication includes full-color documentation of the exhibition and recent work, alongside projects from the 1980s, when Mit was living in Vienna and working with Franz West. Essays by Ikon Curator Melanie Pocock, art historian Simon Soon, and critic and curator Brian Curtin, as well as an interview with the artist by Gridthiya Gaweewong, Artistic Director, The Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok.

A collection of more than 30 essays, fully illustrated with more than 640 colour images, Art & Trousers moves deftly between regional analysis, portraits of individual artists, and a metaphorical history of trousers, presenting a panoramic view of modern and contemporary Asian art, and focusing on the various impacts of invention, tradition, exchange, colonization, politics, social development, and gender.

Curator and scholar David Elliott, who was in at the birth pangs of “global contemporary art” over forty years ago, here uses his unparalleled knowledge of the field to produce a brilliantly original, provocative, and readable account. Polemically autobiographical and sanely sceptical, this is an essential read for those who want to know what the fuss is about, written with insight and humour by one of the first makers of the fuss. Craig Clunas, FBA Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University of Oxford

BY MARIAN PASTOR-ROCES

The Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) Manila of the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde announces the publication of Gathering: Political Writing on Art and Culture by Marian Pastor-Roces.

The book is the first collection of essays by Roces who has written extensively about craft, art, museology, cultural theory and politics, generating a body of work that is sustained and unrelenting in its commitment to critique.
With an Introduction by Indian dramaturg Rustom Bharucha, and Foreword by Dr. Elena Mirano the collection presents 43 essays from 1974 through to 2018.
The limited edition book is co-published with ArtAsiaPacific Foundation. It will be available in select book shops, and can be ordered directly from Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) Manila.

For inquiries and pre-orders please email: mcad@benilde.edu.ph in the Philippines or ArtAsiaPacific in Hong Kong: info@aapmag.com

BY LEUNG CHI WO and SARA WONG

This artist book by the Hong Kong duo Leung Chi Wo and Sara Wong is an exhibition on paper—an extension of the artists’ contribution to the Echigo-Tsumari Triennale 2018. Exploring alternative approaches to reading photographs, it addresses issues of memory and identity through texts and images, in a way subverting conventional historical narratives, within the social context of the little Tsunan township of Niigata. 

ArtAsiaPacific’s Almanac 2021 archives the events of 2020, and includes 15 City Reports, news, as well as highlight exhibitions, festivals, and art market activities.

This limited edition totebag is designed by Filipino artist Pio Abad, in celebration of ArtAsiaPacific’s 25th anniversary in 2018. 

For ArtAsiaPacific’s first issue of 2018 we present Almanac XIII, a compendium of the most significant art events of 2017 and a look ahead at what’s next, in 2018. In addition to spotlighting the 53 countries that constitute our active footprint, the Almanac extends to the rest of the world—wherever the artists of Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East work and are shown.

This limited edition totebag is designed by artist collective Slavs and Tatars, in celebration of ArtAsiaPacific’s 25th anniversary in 2018. 

For ArtAsiaPacific’s first issue of 2016 we present Almanac XI, a compendium of the most significant art events of 2015 and a look ahead at what’s next, in 2016. In addition to spotlighting the 53 countries that constitute our active footprint, the Almanac extends to the rest of the world—wherever the artists of Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East work and are shown.

The Part In The Story Where We Lost Count Of The Days is an artist book and monograph that reflects on the artistic practice of Singaporean artist Heman Chong. Acting as both maker of objects and facilitator of situations, Chong’s work sits at the intersection of multiple genres: visual art, performance, writing, installation and science fiction. Through commissioned texts and explanations of Chong’s selected projects, this publication seeks to engage and unravel these categories as well as to highlight their overlapping and circuitous nature. 

BY LEUNG CHI WO

What was the art world like in Hong Kong before the arrival of the art fairs and M+?

These 26 artist interviews, quietly preserved on a hard drive for twenty years, record not only the individual development of the featured artists but also the collective anxiety around the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China in 1997, thoughts on the Tiananmen Incident, migration, the overseas pursuit of art, the everyday struggle to be an artist in an extreme pragmatic society, and all sorts of dilemma that are unimaginable in the booming art scene of today.

Unpretentiously written by Hong Kong artist Leung Chi Wo in 1998, the book is also an account of a young artist searching for the meaning of being an artist, and is perhaps a prequel to Leung’s 2012 video installation Untitled (Words about Memory but Not Exactly) about fragments of local art history. 

In celebration of ArtAsiaPacific’s 25th anniversary in 2018, we invited four artists and artist collectives—Au Hoi Lam, Kunié Sugiura, Pio Abad and Slavs and Tatars—to collaborate on a series of exclusive totebags.

The Totebag Bundle is specially discounted and comes with a complimentary issue of the magazine. 

This limited edition totebag is designed by Hong Kong-based artist Au Hoi Lam, in celebration of ArtAsiaPacific’s 25th anniversary in 2018. 

For ArtAsiaPacific’s first issue of 2017 we present Almanac XII, a compendium of the most significant art events of 2016 and a look ahead at what’s next, in 2017. In addition to spotlighting the 53 countries that constitute our active footprint, the Almanac extends to the rest of the world—wherever the artists of Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East work and are shown.

Roundabout° explores the possibilities of artistic exchanges between geographically separated cultures and of different traditions and languages. This full-color catalog designed by award-winning graphic designer Paul Sahre, features the work of 108 artists from around the world, including New Zealand, Australia, Japan, South Korea, China, India, Bhutan, Tibet and Thailand.

This first major monograph on the artist examines over 25 years of Khan’s work and accompanies her first US solo exhibition at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, running from February 22-May 26, 2013.

This limited edition totebag is designed by New York-based Japanese artist Kunié Sugiura, in celebration of ArtAsiaPacific’s 25th anniversary in 2018. 

Back issues of ArtAsiaPacific, from 1993 onwards.

The first book to examine the practice of Sara Rahbar, including her early installations for the Queens Museum of Art, a photographic series made in Tehran, and the politically inspired textile-based works, all which use historically charged materials and forms.Essay by Catherine Grenier, adjunct director of Centre Pompidou, and interview with Elaine W. Ng. 

Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art reflects upon the complex relationship between ancient Tibet’s artistic tradition of anonymity and contemporary artists’ search for a voice in the present. This fully illustrated catalogue, designed by Philipp Hubert and co-published by ArtAsiaPacific and Samuel Dorksy Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, includes texts by exhibition curator Rachel Perera Weingeist, curator and writer David Elliott and Tibetan cultural activist Jamyang Norbu. Participating artists Penba Wangdu, Tenzing Rigdol and Tsherin Sherpa also contribute essays sharing personal insight into their artistic practice.

So I don’t really know sometimes if it’s because of culture began as a series of conversations between artist Leung Chi Wo and two Moroccan women living in Hong Kong. Assia, born in Morocco, was trained as an interior designer and came to Hong Kong with her husband, an investment banker; she’s now a housewife. Saloua, born in France, is an architect who was sent by her firm to start up a studio in Hong Kong. The conversations were adapted as a 4-channel video installation commissioned by the Marrakech Biennale 2012.

Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond features nine Tibetan artists—Dedron, Gonkar Gyatso, Losang Gyatso,Kesang Lamdark, Tenzin Norbu, Tenzing Rigdol, Pema Rinzin, Tsherin Sherpa and Penba Wangdu—who are trained in traditional painting and the strict interpretations prescribed by Buddhist religio-spiritual formulas and artistic norms, from which they break by experimenting with alternative media

The Art Spaces Directory is an international guide to the sites where contemporary art and artists are nurtured, interrogated and sustained. With detailed profiles of over 400 independent art spaces from 96 countries around the world, this easy-to-use volume is a useful tool for artists, curators, students and the general public.