Volume 13, Number 2, March/April 2014
Inside this issue
Sites of Construction: Exhibitions and the Making of Recent Art History in Asia
by Hammad Nasar
8
The Expanding Field
by Irit Rogoff
12
Asian Biennials: History, Practices, and Literature
by John Clark
20
The Symphony of Histories, the Emancipation of People
by Gao Shiming
32
The Exhibition Site: Introduction
by Iftikhar Dadi
40
Exhibition-making, Canon-building, and the Ethics of Curating in Transcultural Contexts—subTerrain. Artworks in the Cityfold and Politics of Fun
by Annette Bhagwati
42
Ghar Pe: At Home in the Margins of Contemporary Art
by Atreyee Gupta
53
Polemical Position—In Search of a Subject
by Daniel Kurjakovic
62
The Exhibition As Cartographic Articulation: Introduction
by Joan Kee
70
Metaphor as Method: Curating Regionalism in Mainland Southeast Asia
by Pamela N. Corey
72
Converging Extremes: Exhibitions and Historical Sightlines in 1990s Malaysia
by Simon Soon
85
Polemical Position—Idealized Enclosures: Three Spatial Possibilities Around the Idea of the Exhibition
by Sophie Ernst
98
The Exhibition As Historical Proposition: Introduction
by Patrick D. Flores
103
Exhibiting Modern Asian Art in Southeast Asia
by Kevin Chua
105
Exhibitions and the City: To Accelerate or Pause? Two Case Studies
by Lucy Steeds
117
Polemical Position—Art’s Great Leap in Hong Kong and its Denial of the Local
by Lau Kin Wah
127