For print issue 17, Hou Hanru spoke with Marie Martraire and - TopicsExpress



          

For print issue 17, Hou Hanru spoke with Marie Martraire and Xiaoyu Weng: First, one needs to understand that Asia is not a unique regional concept, but encompasses different local socio-cultural systems. Each expresses itself through multiple and various ways of engaging with modernity, and hence generating diverse modernities, which are not solely defined by regional, racial, or ethnic considerations. For example, the rapid cultural, economic, political, and urban developments in various Asian countries have provided artists with dynamic and unique contexts for researching, experimentation, and creativity. Numerous Asian artists have investigated this notion of modernity, by re-evoking, revisiting, and reinventing traditions, while struggling against any kind of presumptions of what Asia should be in the West.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:12:22 +0000

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