The Editors

LIEKO SHIGA, Portrait of Land Reclamation – Expanding Bloodlines, 2009. From the photographic series “The Annals of Kitakama Village.” Courtesy the artist.

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NEW CURRENTS: Roots that Run Deep

The Editors

SAM VAN AKEN, New Edens: Trees of 40 Fruit, 2011 (Detail). Photo by Bill Orcutt. Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.

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CASE STUDY: The Un-Edenic State of Copyright

Chin-Chin Yap

ADEL ABIDIN, Jihad, 2006, video still, video: 3 min 27 sec. Courtesy Location One, New York.

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CLOSE READ: A Protest Song

William Pym

AKSHAY RATHORE, Murmur, 2009, installation with earthen pots, rope, audio speakers and sound, dimensions variable. Installation view at the Sculpture Park at the India Art Summit,

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: The Economy of Ideas

Jyoti Dhar

The late Egyptian artist AHMED BASIONY protesting at Cairo’s Tahrir Square, where he was shot by police snipers on January 28, 2011. Courtesy the estate of Ahmed Basiony.

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PERSPECTIVE: Revolution of the Mind

Mohamed Abdelkarim

NYOMAN MASRIADI sketching at his studio in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2008. Courtesy Gajah Gallery, Singapore.

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INTERVIEW: Nyoman Masriadi

Hanae Ko

GALIM MADANOV AND ZAURESH TEREKBAY, Transgression (Detail), 2010–11. Installation of a series of acrylic on canvas and cardboard, 280 x 320 cm overall. Courtesy Central Asian Pavil

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INTERVIEW: Georgy Mamedov

Irina Makarova

A RINGING GLASS (RILKE), 2009. Site-specific installation, dimensions variable. Installation view at the Turbine Hall on Cockatoo Island, Sydney, 2009. Photo by Paul Green.

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PERSONAL HISTORY: Ken Unsworth

Michael Young

THREE FACES (Detail), 2000. Mechanical sculpture made from metal, wood and composite materials.

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INTERVIEW: Tamara Kvesitadze

Sara Raza

9’45”, 1999, room installation with motorized walls, 340 x 290 x 700 cm. All images in this article, unless otherwise noted, are courtesy the artist and Rampa, Istanbul.

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Ayşe Erkmen: A Reasonable Beauty

HG Masters

WASHING BRAIN AND CORN, 2010. Still from video installation, in which a girl narrates a story about North Korean spies mutilating a South Korean boy. In this scene she is uttering

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Sung Hwan Kim: Cold Comfort

Ashley Rawlings

ZARATHUSTRA – A FILM FOR EVERYONE AND NO ONE, 2009, film still, film: 24 min.

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Ho Tzu Nyen: Clouds of Density

Darryl Wee

SELFLOK, 1994–2001, hot-melt, mixed media, dimensions variable. Collection of Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth.

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Hany Armanious: Plundering the Uncanny Valley

Oliver Krischer

SLAVS AND TATARS, Friendship of Nations, 2011. Mixed-media installation, dimensions variable, Courtesy Sharjah Art Foundation.

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Sharjah: Sharjah Biennial 10

Isabella E. Hughes

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