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Asian Contemporary Art Week connects leading New York City galleries and museums in a citywide event comprising of public programs such as exhibitions, receptions, lectures and performances. The Week focuses on the broad spectrum of artworks produced by Asian contemporary artists working in their home countries and abroad. Asian Contemporary Art Week is organized by Asian Contemporary Art Consortium and is sponsored by Art Asia Pacific, Art Radio WPS1.org, FORA.tv and Sotheby's.
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.
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.
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.
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)
As a part of Asian Contemporary Art Week 2008, artist Ranbir Kaleka spoke to Barbara London of Museum of Modern Art at Bose Pacia on March 22, 2008. This talk was part of the series entitled "Artists in Conversation."
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.
Hiroshi Sunairi and Yuken Teruya, both Japanese artists settled in New York, discuss their work in relation to three themes: My Neighbor, Your Tree, Our World. This conversation, hosted at New York University on March 21, 2008, was part of the "Artists in Conversation" series for Asian Contemporary Art Week 2008.
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)
Indian artist Viswanadhan Velu sits down to a conversation with critic Louise Nicholson to discuss his show Works 1968 - 2007. They talk of his childhood, his later residency in France, and his fascination with the color red. The talk takes place at the Marlborough Gallery on March 18, 2008, as a part of Asian Contemporary Art Week 2008.
Viswanadhan Velu was born in India but since 1968 he has divided his time between India and France. In the context of contemporary Indian art, often concerned with mediatic realism, Viswanadhan is truly unique. He draws from Plato’s philosophy as much as the Vedas, seeking the miraculous affinity between Western Abstraction and Tantric Art.
Marlborough Gallery specializes in important contemporary masters. It is located at 40 W. 57th Street.
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)
New York-based Chinese artist and photographer O Zhang discusses her early life in China and her subsequent travels and artistic journey. From formal state-sponsored art training in the PROC to academies in Europe and galleries in the USA this is an extraordinary story and remarkable body of work. The talk took place at Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art in Brooklyn on March 23, 2008, as part of the exhibition Out of the Spotlight: Contemporary Chinese Art (March 13 - April 7, 2008) which includes artists Ma Leonn, Liang Quan, Yu Xing Ze, Liu Liyun, Zhang Ping, and Yang Yan and is curated by Liu Jian. This Art Radio coverage is part of our partnership with Asian Contemporary Art Week 2008 and we thank Leeza Ahmady and Eunyoung Ju for their assistance.
