ArtAsiaPacific 66 focuses on the visceral, comical, morbid, orchestrated and transient character of performative works by a diverse range of artists. In Features, AAP surveys the remarkable career of Shanghai-based Zhang Huan, whose provocative acts include suspending himself from the ceiling and inserting a tube into his veins that allowed his blood to drip and burn on a hot-plate below. Considering the themes of solitude and familial discord, AAP examines the work of globetrotting Guy Ben-Ner, who explores the gap between live and filmed performance. The issue of exhibiting and collecting a staged piece is laid out for discussion as AAP assesses the "constructed situations" of Tino Sehgal, a Berlin-based artist who systematically rejects all documentation, including photography, video and press releases, of his work.
 
Continuing the theme of art that has abandoned the wall and the pedestal, in Profiles, AAP sits down with RoseLee Goldberg, the founding director of the New York performance-art biennial Performa, to discuss works commissioned for the event, including a theatrical video work by Seoul's Yeondoo Jung. In our new photo-essay section, On Site, we feature Beijing multimedia artist Song Dong's Waste Not installation at New York's Museum of Modern Art-an orderly yet emotionally charged display of thousands of objects collected obsessively by the artist's mother. Independent curator and scholar Reiko Tomii assesses the current international interest in Japan's Gutai Art Association, and poet Fatima Bhutto, AAP's new Contributing Editor in Karachi, examines how the art practices of three of her peers comment on the dangerous act of simply being a female artist in Pakistan today.
 
In this issue we also welcome new Managing Editor William Pym, as well as Contributing Editors Marisa Mazria-Katz and Murtaza Vali. HG Masters continues to serve as the Almanac Editor and Editor at Large from Berlin.


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