Full Description
InFlux: Contemporary Art in Asia brings together essays by leading critics and curators to examine modern and contemporary art practice and its discourses in Asia. Covering diverse regions spanning China, India, Thailand, Iran, West Asia, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Hong Kong, Tibet, and Cambodia, the book examines their multiple modernities and the arrival of many Asia's upon the contemporary art scene. Some centers have become celebrated in the international exhibition circuit and the art market, but there is also an Asia beyond their ambit, and the book throws light upon major and minor, established and emergent geographies of art.
Contents
General Introduction - Geeta Kapur
I: CONTESTED TERRAINS AND CRITICAL RE-IMAGININGS - Parul Dave Mukherji
The Illusions and Antagonisms of Civilizational Exchange: Critical Reflections on Dismantling Asian Empires - Rustom Bharucha
The Elephant and The Ant: Chinese and Thai Art in the 1980s and 1990s - John Anthony Clark
Worlding Asia: A Conceptual Framework for the First Delhi Biennale - Arshiya Lokhandwala
Cartographic Necessities: Contemporary Practices and the Making of a Brave New World - Gayatri Sinha
Curating Barbarians: Descriptions of a Visual Practice - Marian Pastor Roces
II: TROPES AND PLACES - Naman P Ahuja
Miniature, Monster, and Modernism : Curating Terror or Terror of Curating - Quddus Mirza
An Honest Engagement with the Pitfalls (and Perks) of the Ethnic (Rubric) - Negar Azimi
Retrieving the Far West: Toward a Curatorial Representation of the House of Islam - Ranjit Hoskote
Interrogating the Sacred: Storylines for the Self - Nancy Adajania
The Art of Kazakhstan as a Political Project - Valeria Ibraeva
III: INTERVENTIONS IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE - Kavita Singh
Curating Across Agnostic Worlds - Geeta Kapur
The Untold (the Rise of) Schisms - Shaheen Merali
Mapping the Trajectories of Minoritarian Aesthetics and Cultural Politics - Santhosh S
Excavating the History of the Present: Caste as Pictorial Sign in the Works of Savi Sawarkar - Y S Alone
Curatorial Work as Collective Fabrication - Oscar Ho Hing Kay
Archival Malpractice and Counter Strategies - Charles Merewether
Index
