ArtAsiaPacific — May-June 2017

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Contributors

JAMES T. HONG

James T. Hong is a filmmaker

and artist based in Taiwan. His

latest documentary, about

disputed territory in East Asia,

screened at the 2016 Berlin

International Film Festival and

the Guggenheim Museum in

New York. He recently presented

a new experimental work about

Nietzsche and metempsychosis,

Nietzsche Reincarnated as a

Chinese Woman, at the 2016

Taipei Biennial.

(See ONE ON ONE)

HENRY WEI LEUNG

Henry Wei Leung was born in the

Pearl River Delta and raised in

Honolulu and the San Francisco

Bay Area. He earned degrees

from Stanford and the University

of Michigan, and has been the

recipient of Kundiman and Soros

fellowships and a Fulbright

scholarship. His first book of

poems, Goddess of Democracy,

won the Omnidawn prize and is

forthcoming in fall 2017. He is

currently the managing editor of

the Hawai’i Review.

(See REVIEWS)

EVA MCGOVERN-BASA

Eva McGovern-Basa is an

independent curator and writer

based in Manila, Philippines. For

the past 15 years, she has worked

across museums and galleries on

exhibitions, public programs and

publications. She has written

extensively on contemporary

Southeast Asian art and recently

edited and co-produced, with

Valeria Cavestany, No Chaos

No Party: 28 Artists in Metro

Manila (2016), an interview-

driven publication on art and

life in the city.

(See FEATURES)

YUJIN MIN

Yujin Min is an independent

curator and writer on modern

and contemporary art, and

has previously worked for the

Seoul Museum of Art. She has

given talks and lectures at the

Tate Modern in London and at

the Korean National University

of Arts, and has written for

Contemporary Art Magazine

and LEAP.

(See FEATURES)

THOMAS MOUNA

Thomas Mouna is currently an

assistant curator and assistant

researcher at the Red Brick Art

Museum in Beijing. He is also

a freelance writer, focusing on

contemporary art and music.

He is currently curating an

exhibition about London-centric

music phenomena for a space in

Beijing, the first on this subject to

take place in China. Mouna holds

a BA and an MA in the History of

Art from the Courtauld Institute

of Art in London.

(See ESSAYS)

MANU PARK

Manu Park is a curator and art

critic currently based in Seoul. He

is founding director of Platform-L

Contemporary Art Center, an

incubator for emerging artists,

and has held curatorial positions

at the Busan Biennale and the

Gwangju Biennale. From 2011

to 2015, Park was director of the

Nam June Paik Art Center. In

2003, he was awarded the Jade

Crown for Order of Culture Merit

by the President of the Korean

Republic for his contributions to

contemporary art and culture.

(See THE POINT)

ALA YOUNIS

Ala Younis is an artist involved

in curatorial, film and publishing

projects. Her artworks include

Plan for Greater Baghdad (2015),

which premiered at the 56th

Venice Biennale; and Tin Soldiers

(2010–12), which was presented

at the 12th Istanbul Biennial and

the 9th Gwangju Biennial. She

curated Kuwait’s first national

pavilion at the 55th Venice

Biennale, is on the advisory

board of Berlinale’s Forum

Expanded and is a contributing

editor for Ibraaz.

(See DISPATCH)

DOMINIC ZINAMPAN

Dominic Zinampan is one of

the recipients of the 2016 Purita

Kalaw-Ledesma Prize for Art

Criticism, part of the annual

Ateneo Art Awards in the

Philippines. He is currently in

his senior year as an art studies

major at the University of the

Philippines Diliman.

(See FEATURES)

Contemporary Visual Culture SAMSON YOUNG, MANUEL OCAMPO, TINTIN WULIA, LEE WAN, SAHAND HESAMIYAN, VENICE BIENNALEISSUE 103 MAY/JUN 2017

Cover: SAMSON YOUNG, Landschaft (St.

Paul + Peter’s Cathedral (side courtyard) Sept

2, 2015, 10:50am), 2015, ink, pencil, watercolor

on paper, 27.5 x 18.6 cm. Courtesy the artist.

CORRECTION:

In the feature “Tranquility Amid Turmoil” by Jyoti Dhar

in issue 102, Lala Rukh was incorrectly referenced to

as Rukh. Her surname is Khan, though she goes by

the name Lala Rukh in professional contexts. It was

incorrectly stated that she trained in calligraphy; rather,

she was taught calligraphy. In the passage about her

teaching at the National College of Arts, it was the

principal who summoned her to his office, not the dean.