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TITH KANITHA, Close Friends (detail), 2011, wire installation, for the exhibition “SurVivArt - Arts for the Right to a Good Life,” at Mikael Andersen gallery, Berlin, 2012. Courtes

SURVEY: Healing the Wounds

JOSÉ ANTONIO VEGA MACOTELA, Intercambio 331 / Time Exchange 331, 2010, a collaborative project in which the artist spied on the ex-lover of an inmate, who in exchange made a boardg

CASE STUDY: Prison Breaks

SIMON and CATRIONA MORDANT at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, 2010. Photo by Amos Aikan. Courtesy and copyright NewsPix.

Simon & Catriona Mordant

SULTAN SOOUD AL-QASSEMI in front of Khaled Hafez’s Divine Exodus, 2009, during Barjeel Art Foundation’s inaugural show, “Peripheral Visions,” Sharjah, 2010. Courtesy Barjeel Art Fo

Sultan Sooud al-Qassemi

Promotional video, Tokyo, 2012. By Kihara Takeru.All images in this article, unless otherwise noted, are courtesy the artists.

Trippple Nippples: I Like I Like I Like I Like . . . To Freakout

THE THREE DISAPPEARANCES OF SOAD HOSNI, 2011, 70-minute film pieced from VHS footage of Egyptian films starring Soad Hosni. Courtesy the artist. All images in this article are stil

Rania Stephan: Life on Screen

Olympic “medals” installed at Boers-Li Gallery for “Welcome to Xijing – Xijing Olympics,” Beijing, 2008.All images in this article, unless otherwise noted, are courtesy the artists

Xijing Men: The Capital of Absurdia

SIFIR-CYPHER, 1991, welded tin cans, 209 x 209 x 16 cm. Photo by Reha Arcan.All images in this article, unless otherwise noted, are courtesy the artist and Rampa, Istanbul.

Vahap Avşar: (Re)Circulation Problems

FU BAOSHI, Heavenly Lake and Flying Waterfall, 1961, hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, 105.6 x 60 cm.All images in this article are from the collection of Nanjing Museum, and

New York: Fu Baoshi

HE XIANGYU, Skeleton, 2010, jade replica of human skeleton. Photo by Zan Wimberley. Courtesy 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, and Pearl Lam Gallery, Shanghai.

Sydney: He Xiangyu

KIM EULL, Untitled, 2009, watercolor on found paper, 27 x 38 cm. Courtesy the artist.

Seoul: Kim Eull

ATSUKO TANAKA, Gate of Hell, 1965–69, vinyl paint on canvas. Copyright Ryoji Ito. Courtesy and collection of the National Museum of Art, Osaka.

Tokyo: Atsuko Tanaka

CHIM↑POM, Super Rat (Minoringokun), 2006, taxidermy rat. Copyright Chim?Pom. Courtesy the artist and Mujin-to Production, Tokyo.

Taipei: Chim↑Pom

ROY NG, Black Cloud, 2012, stainless steel, plastic bag, motor, 164 x 62 x 45 cm. Courtesy Exit Gallery, Hong Kong.

Hong Kong: Why Do Trees Grow Till the End?