Asian Contemporary Art Week 2006

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Asian Contemporary Art Week (May 22-27, 2006) is an annual, city-wide event focusing attention on the richness and diversity of Asian and Asian American contemporary art in New York through programs such as exhibitions, gallery receptions, lectures, performances and studio visits. Asian Contemporary Art Week is a collaboration of the Asian Contemporary Art Consortium and is sponsored by Art Asia Pacific, Diapason, Chambers Hotel, Sotheby's, SurroundArt, and WPS1.org Art Radio. For more information visit acaw.net.

Action Painting Battle! - listen | listen with RealPlayer
First broadcast June 12, 2006

Our Delphine Blue attended this extraordinary event where the emerging Japanese action painter Ryoga Katsuma challenged the grand-champion of Boxing Painting, Ushio Shinohara.. Mr. Shinohara, 74, was a core member of Neo Dada (initially Neo Dadaism Organizers), a radical avant-garde collective in postwar Japan. Shinohara first performed his Boxing Painting in 1959 and William Klein was among the first photographers to document it. Since 1969, Shinohara has been based in DUMBO in Brooklyn, New York. Action Painting Battle! was held on a blocked off street in lower Manhattan. The judges included Dr. Alexandra Munroe, a Senior Curator from the Guggenheim Museum, and Juan Puntes, the Founding Director of White Box. The event was presented by Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, as a part of Asian Contemporary Art Week 2006.

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Melissa Chiu, Esa Epstein, and Shumita Bose - listen | listen with RealPlayer
First broadcast May 15, 2006

In advance of the 2006 Asian Contemporary Art Week, Melissa Chiu sat down in the WPS1 Clocktower Studios with participating gallerists Esa Epstein and Shumita Bose. (29 minutes)

Melissa Chiu: Museum Director, Asia Society and the Society's Curator for Contemporary Asian and Asian American Art

Esa Epstein: Executive Director, Sepia International Inc. and The Alkazi Collection of Photography uniquely combine a commercial gallery with a privately-owned archive and research center.

Shumita Bose: co-owner Bose Pacia, established in 1994, the first gallery in the West specializing in contemporary art from South Asia; internationally regarded for promoting the South Asian avant-garde.

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Dialogues in Contemporary Asian Art: Take 4 - listen | listen with RealPlayer
First broadcast June 12, 2006

To coincide with the opening of Asian Contemporary Art Week, Melissa Chiu moderated a panel discussion with leading contemporary video artists and curators about current issues, emerging trends, and new directions in the Asian contemporary art scene. Participants included:

Melissa Chiu, Museum Director, Asia Society and the Society's Curator for Contemporary Asian and Asian American Art

Barbara London, Associate Curator of the Department of Film and Video at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Johan Pijnappel, Dutch art historian and curator living in India

Vivan Sundaram, one of India's leading artists, a conceptual artist, working with installation, photo, film and painting.

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Fast Futures: Asian Video Art at the Rubin Museum - listen | listen with RealPlayer
First broadcast June 26, 2006

After a screening a video works at the Rubin Museum on May 26, 2006 as part of ACAW, artists and visitors were welcomed into the K2 Lounge and throughout the galleries of this museum of Himalayan art to continue a dialogue. Delphine Blue caught up with artist Shin-Il Kim who spoke about his work and vision. (29 minutes)

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Jiang Hu: Contemporary Chinese Art - listen | listen with RealPlayer
First broadcast June 19, 2006

Delphine Blue live at the opening reception for the exhibition Jiang Hu at the Tilton Gallery on May 23, 2006. Curated by Huang Zhuan, an internationally recognized curator and professor of art theory at the Guangzhou Academy, the show includes works by thirty important Chinese contemporary artists including Yue Minjun, Liu Wei, Zeng Fanzhi, Ma Liuming, He Sen, Xu Tan, and others. Photographer Andrew Garn provides some thoughtful guidance.

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Patrick Todd with Keiko Uenishi and Haeyoung Kim - listen | listen with RealPlayer
First broadcast May 22, 2006

Artist and digital noisemaker Patrick Todd of the Flow Sound Collective has curated an evening of sound works at Diapason Gallery in New York as part of ACAW 2006. On this program he interviews two participants: Keiko Uenishi (aka o.blaat) and Haeyoung Kim (aka bubblyfish). Curator Leeza Ahmady, Managing Director of ACAW 2006, introduces the program.

ACAW Managing Director Leeza Ahmady presents two lectures in NYC during ACAW: Wed., May 24 at Chuk Palu on Afghan artists; and Fri., May 26 At Bose Pacia on new art in Central Asia. For details visit www.acaw.net.

Haeyoung Kim relocated to the US from Korea in 1992. With a background in classical piano, she has been focusing on experimental electronic music. Currently, under the name Bubblyfish, she creates "lo-fi", 8 bit sound works and experimental compositions. Based in NYC, Haeyoung has worked as a composer, sound designer, and audio engineer.

Keiko Uenishi is a sound artist, composer, and core member of SHARE. As o.blaat she is known for her sound works formed through experiments in restructuring and analyzing one's relationship with sounds, through kinesthetic response as well as aural cognition. Her CD Two Novels: Gaze/In the Cochlea is available from the cronica label. She performs in New York is June 7, 2006 at the Roulette Mixology Festival. (26 minutes)

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Working with the Diaspora: Asian Contemporary Art - listen | listen with RealPlayer
First broadcast June 19, 2006

A round-table discussion with three Brooklyn-based artists, Wenda Gu, Yoko Inoue, and Jean Shin, conducted by Charlotta Kotik, Curator and Chair of Contemporary Art, and Tumelo Mosaka, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Recorded at the museum on May 24, 2006. (83 minutes)

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