Issue

WONG HOY CHEONG, Text Tiles, 2000, 290 tiles made from

Valuing Asia: Wong Hoy Cheong’s quest for a postcolonial visual vocabulary

QIU ZHIJIE, Tattoo 1, 1992, colour photographs, 50 x 38 cm.QIU ZHIJIE, Tattoo 2,1992, colour photographs, each 50 x 38 cm

Sleight of Hand: The Use Of Text In Contemporary Chinese Art

ED PIEN, Wound, 2000 (details), ink on paper installation, dimensions variable.

Ed Pien

BUNGA JERUK, Beauty Myth, 1999 (detail), carved and painted wooden sculptures, satin cushions, metal frames.

AWAS!

ANIWAR MAMAT, Strumming My Tuttar, 1999, oil on canvas, 200 x 70 cm.

Aniwar Mamat

ZUNZI WONG, I C Therefore I C, 2000, installation with slide projectors, video, plaster and bricks, dimensions variable.

Critical response

HELEN GEIER, Shadow Fans, 1999, block print, sewn kardi, paper, silk, organza, 150 x 100 cm.

Helen Geier

Portrait of Yoshitomo Nara. Photo by Minami Tsukamoto. Courtesy Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/Tokyo.

Yoshitomo Nara

ZHANG HUAN, My America, 1999 (details), performance and video, courtesy Deitch Projects, New York. Photograph Claire Garoutte.

Zhang Huan

TADASHI KAWAMATA, Passarelle, 2000, timber installation and sketch of installation, dimensions variable.

Tadashi Kawamata

SHAHZIA SIKANDER, Elusive Realities, 2000, triptych, acrylic on canvas, each 305 x 203 cm.

Shahzia Sikander

Interior view of replica Korean house and BYRON KIM, Not Even One Spot of Shame,2000, acrylic, watercolour on Korean paper on screen.

Korean American views: On exile, travel and unbelonging

TAKASHI HOMMA, Tokyo Suburbia, 1999, photographs, installation view.

Turning to the everyday: Land/mind/body-scapes in Tokyo

YORK DER KNOEFEL, Ajax 2000,1999, video installation, Akihabara TV project, command N.

In-between discourses: Alternative art spaces in Tokyo