Issue

THE LAST WORD: Concrete Ambitions

Statutes of Liberty: How Artists Govern Themselves

KOKI TANAKA, Monster in My Hand, 2008, C-print, courtesy the artist; Aoyama Meguro, Tokyo; and Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou.

ONE ON ONE: Pak Sheung Chuen on Koki Tanaka

Uzbekistan State Museum of Arts building in Tashkent. Photo by Sara Raza for ArtAsiaPacific.

DISPATCH: Tashkent

SH RAZA, Village with Church, 1958, oil on canvas, 161 x 130 cm. Courtesy Sotheby's New York.

AUCTION REPORT: Seasonal Offerings

ALFREDO AND ISABEL AQUILIZAN, In-Habit: Project Another Country, 2011, presented by the Drawing Room Gallery at Art Stage Singapore, children's cardboard structures atop a handmade

ART FAIR REPORT: Fair Start

PIERRE HUYGHE, Two Minutes Out of Time, 2000, beta digital video, 4 min. Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris.

CASE STUDY: Escaping Ghost

ORLAN, Drape-peaux Hybridé, 2011, sequins, lights, ventilators, paint, 373 x 546 cm. Collection of the artist.

PERSPECTIVE: Paris-Delhi-Bombay

ALIA FARID, Monument to the Creative / Local / Informal Economy, 2008, site-specific installation in Villa Victoria, Boston, 2008. Courtesy the artist.

PERSPECTIVE: The Problem With Display

The building that housed Zina Swanson's and James Oram's studios after the earthquake, 2011. Courtesy Zina Swanson.

REPORT: Art in the Interim

MOUNIRA AL-SOLH, Video 2: Paris without a Sea, 2007–08, video, 13 min, from

Mounira al-Solh: The Ventriloquist’s Humor

JINNIE SEO in her studio, working on her public media art project, On the Move, for the State Tower Mansan building facade in Seoul, Korea, 2011. Courtesy the artist.

Jinnie Seo: Shaping Space With Her Hands

At his office in Singapore, MALVINDER SINGH stands in front of an untitled 2010 Anish Kapoor alabaster sculpture. Photo by Genevieve Chua for ArtAsiaPacific.

Malvinder Singh: For Generations to Share

Part three of AMAR KANWAR's 19-channel video installation The Torn First Pages, 2004–08, six projections of varying durations, at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, 2010. Courtesy t

Genealogies of Sovereignty