Issue

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.

Ayşe Erkmen: A Reasonable Beauty

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

Sung Hwan Kim: Cold Comfort

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

Ho Tzu Nyen: Clouds of Density

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

Hany Armanious: Plundering the Uncanny Valley

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

Sharjah: Sharjah Biennial 10

VERNON AH KEE, fill me, 2009. Acrylic on linen, 180 x 240 cm. Courtesy the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane.

Brisbane: Vernon Ah Kee

TADAAKI KUWAYAMA, Project for 21st-Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Plan for Courtyard (Gold and Silver), 2011. Anodized aluminum, 24 pieces. Courtesy 21st-Century Mus

Kanazawa: Tadaaki Kuwayama

WONG HOY CHEONG, Re:Looking, 2002. Video still, video: 27 min. Courtesy Eslite Gallery, Taipei.

Taipei: Wong Hoy Cheong

WANG JIANWEI, Distance, 2009. Mixed-media installation, dimensions variable. Courtesy Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing.

Beijing: Museum on Paper

LEANG SECKON, The Shadow of the Heavy Skirt, 2011. Mixed media on canvas, 200 x 150 cm. Photo by Lim Sokchanlina. Courtesy the artist.

Phnom Penh: Leang Seckon

DURRIYA KAZI and DAVID ALESWORTH, Very Very Sweet Medina, 1999. Stainless steel, perspex, LED lights, sound system and sensor, binder, painting: 183 cm (diameter), box: 152 x 46 x

Karachi: The Rising Tide

AYMAN YOSSRI DAYDBAN, White Buffalo, From the series “Maharem”, 2010. Print on wooden tissue box, 13 x 8 x 26 cm. Courtesy Selma Feriani Gallery, London.

London: Ayman Yossri Daydban

SHIRANA SHAHBAZI, Untitled (Detail), 2011. Site-specific wallpaper installation. Photo by ArtAsiaPacific.

New York: Shirana Shahbazi

SURENDRAN NAIR, Elysium (Cuckoonebulopolis), 2010. Oil on canvas, 180.3 x 240 cm. Courtesy the artist and Frey Norris Contemporary & Modern, San Francisco.

San Francisco: Surendran Nair