The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Art in Global Asia

I. Contexts, Definitions, Problems

1. Introduction: Art in 'Global Asia' in a Transformed World

2. Why Asia? Map-making as the Social Construction of Place. Increasing Asian Power in the World. 

Menene Gras

3. Shifting Local Cultures through Traveling Identities in the New Silk Roads: The Temptation to Return.

Menene Gras

II. Mappings

4. Orders of Spectating: Rehearsals of Sovereignty and New Museums of Art in the Near East

Lewis Johnson

5. Pedagogy, Bureaucracy, and Fashioning a Rooted Modernism

Hammad Nasar

6. The 1990s: A New Epoch in the History of Korean Contemporary Art

Kim Hong-hee

7. Facts in the Ground: Artefacts, Fictions, and National Identities in Contemporary Palestinian Art

Gordon Hon

8. Telling Time through Nation and Narration. Towards an Understanding of ‘Asian Contemporary Art’ in Global Asia

Menene Gras

9. Palestinian Video Art and the Fluxus of Globalization. 'Palestinian' as a Contemporary National Identity

Bashir Makhoul

10. Palestinian Video Art and the Fluxus of Globalization. Palestine as an ‘Imagined Community’

Bashir Makhoul

11. Doing the Business in the Hong Kong Art World

Jonathan Harris

12. The Woman Does Not Exist: De-oedipalization of Contemporary Art

Sumi Kang

13. Metonym and Metaphor, Islands and Continents: Reflections on Curating Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia

Lee Weng-Choy

IV. Sites, Systems, and Practices

14. Palestinian International Exhibitions: From Universal Resistance to Global Nomadism – The Case of Qalandiya International. Qalandiya International: The Predicament of a Colonially Defined Locality

Rawan Sharaf

15. Palestinian International Exhibitions: From Universal Resistance to Global Nomadism – The Case of Qalandiya International. Qalandiya International: A Genealogy of Institutional Patterns, Behaviours and References

Rawan Sharaf

16. Art after the March 11 Earthquake and Tsunami: Radical Changes in Japanese Art

Kenichi Kondo

17. Biennales and Triennales in Global Asia: Art as Journey and Encounter

Caroline Turner

18. Museum Frenzy: Notes from the Field on Studying the True Colour Museum

Isaac Leung

19. The Exhibition

Amanullah Mojadidi

20. The Age of Gold and the Dust of Stars: Paradise and Fall in the Paintings of Li Xinping

David Elliott

21. The Provincial Cosmopolitan: Emily Jacir and the Mediterranean Sea

Nicos Papastergiadis

22. A New Ecology of Knowledges: Modes of Abyssal Thinking

Anna Maria Guasch

23. From Dusty Warehouses to the White Cube: BizArt and the Developing Forms of Contemporary Art Display in Shanghai

Davide Quadrio

Biography

Menene Gras has been the director of culture and exhibitions at Casa Asia (Barcelona and Madrid) since 2003 and is also the current director of the Asian Film Festival Barcelona (AFFBCN). With a PhD from the University of Barcelona, Menene Gras is an art critic, curator, lecturer, and former professor at the same university. Author of many essays, catalogues, anthologies, and four books of poetry, she was art correspondent for Art Forum for more than 12 years and has been writing in many newspapers and art magazines for many years.

Jonathan Harris has taught at several British universities, including Keele, Liverpool, Southampton, Birmingham City, and the University for the Creative Arts in Canterbury, England, where he is the director of UCA Doctoral College. Specializing in modernist and contemporary art, Harris has published 23 books and over 150 book and journal essays, including a trilogy of studies on art and globalization, and most recently he has edited Terrorism and the Arts (Routledge 2021).

Bashir Makhoul is the president and vice chancellor of the University for the Creative Arts, UK. Professor Makhoul is a writer, editor, and artist with a substantial track record of driving globalization initiatives within higher education. He is an internationally exhibited artist, his work features in major collections, and he is widely acknowledged as a global authority on Palestinian art.