Issue

NORTSE, Zen Meditation, 2012, installation of six monk’s robes, Chinese currency, scriptures, butter lamps, sand, metal frames, 100 x 100 x 80 cm. Courtesy Rossi & Rossi, London.

ONE ON ONE: Tenzing Rigdol on Nortse

Illustration by Kang Joon Mo.

THE POINT: A Third Way

SHINGO HONDA, No. 42, 1970, split log and hawser, 122 x 122 x 244 cm, installed at Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, 1970. Photograph by Shigeo Anzaï. Courtesy the artist and the Museum of Co

REFLECTION: What Isn’t Mono-ha?

CASE STUDY: Objectification

Exhibition view during the 28th São Paulo Biennial, in a section of the Oscar Niemeyer-designed Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, the main exhibition venue, controversially left entirel

PERSPECTIVE: Biennials and Infrastructural Shift—Part II

DUCK HYUN CHO, The Nora Collection, 2008/2012, installation of canvas drawings replicating portraits and episodes from the life of Korean fashion designer Nora Noh. Courtesy the ar

RECAP: Looking Back to Look Forward

TAREK ATOUI setting up four microphones in the desert of Ash Shigaya, north of Kuwait, to record the sound piece Unplified, 2012. Courtesy MinRASY Projects, London.

Tarek Atoui

AAKASH NIHALANI, Through, self-portrait from the “Public” series, 2007–08. Copyright the artist.

Aakash Nihalani

NEAMA A. ALSUDAIRY, Self Portrait, 2012, pencil and charcoal drawing, 20.3 x 25.4 cm. Courtesy the artist.

Neama A. Alsudairy

SHI QING, All That Is Solid Melts into Air, 2012, mixed-media installation at Shanghart’s H-Space, Shanghai, 2012. Photo by and courtesy the artist.

Shi Qing

Backfade_5 (Dancing Queen), 2011, mixed-media installation at Lisson Gallery, London, 2011.All images in this article are courtesy the artist.

Haroon Mirza: A Heightened Degree of Control

Salt Transfer Cycle, 1993–95, still from eight-minute video. Photo by and courtesy the artist.

Michael Joo: Devolution

The Letter Writing Project, 1998, interior view of one of three writing stations, 289 x 170 x 231 cm. Collections of Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Yageo Foundation, Tai

Lee Mingwei: Threads of Connection

“I Am Turkish, I Am Honest, I Am Diligent,” 1998–2006, detail of installation at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, 2005. Photo by the artist.All images in this article,

Esra Ersen: Empathy Machine