Recent Issues

Issue 9: Special Issue on Yayoi Kusama

Issue 9: Special Issue on Yayoi Kusama

  To coincide with the opening of a major Yayoi Kusama exhibit at Tate Modern – her first retrospective in the UK – and the first translation of her autobiography, Infinity Net,  into English, this issue presents three research papers offering new perspectives on the life and practice of this internationally regarded Japanese artist. Kusama is perhaps best known for her consistent revisitation of set iconographies throughout her career: the soft phallic sculpture, the pumpkin, the polka dot.  The latter, most usually a white dot on a red ground, an inversion of the chauvanism inherent in the Japanese flag, reveals…

Issue 10: Reception: Ethnicity, the Body, the Medium

Issue 10: Reception: Ethnicity, the Body, the Medium

  This issue focuses on reception, asking how the reception of an image is determined by assumptions about the ethnic identity of the creator, the medium in which it is executed, and the involvement of the body within the work.  Each paper interrogates how images are both seen and not seen, and what types of information are revealed, concealed, or latent in the image.    We open with Linda Lau’s discussion of Ricky Yeung’s Man and Cage, a visceral bodily performance that attempted to make visible to Hong Kong’s indifferent privileged elites the problem of urban overcrowding. Susie An’s paper…

Issue 12: South and Southeast Asia: Diaspora, Travel and Social Change

Issue 12: South and Southeast Asia: Diaspora, Travel and Social Change

This issue presents a range of papers, profiles and reviews focused on Southeast Asia and India, which each explore how artistic practice is affected by social change, particularly the experience of travel and emigration. We open with Clare Veal’s analysis of avant-garde production within the context of 2010′s pro-democracy, anti-capitalist demonstrations in Thailand. Using new methods of exchange, including image and video sharing websites, these artist collectives made palpable contributions to the visual rhetoric of political protest. Simon Soon’s paper examines how, through the Tibetan experience of exile, the creation of the mandala has been appropriated by the performative, scopic…

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