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ACAW 2017 | Press Coverage

ACAW 2017 FIELD MEETING forum & ACAW THINKING PROJECTS Pop-up Exhibitions Coverage

Canvas, 'Living Archive'

OCULA, “ACAW FIELD MEETING Take 5: Thinking Projects”

Tianyuan Deng, Novmber 10, 2017

“While bringing Asian practitioners from the ‘periphery’ to the ‘centre’ remains a consistent feature of ACAW’s signature forum, this year’s iteration built upon its previous rejections of Euro-American-centric triumphalism.”

ArtAsiaPacific, “A Bite of Everywhere: Song Dong’s Eating The City”

Mimi Wong, Novmber 8, 2017

“For Song, eating signifies life itself.”

Berlin Art Link

Hyperallergic, “Mining Mineral Structures with Watercolor and Sediment”

Barbara Pollack, Novmber 6, 2017

“Mineral geometries and natural forms inspire delicate artworks with fractal patterns and meticulous details.”

ArtAsiaPacific, “Yu Fan”

Mimi Wong, 2017

“The ceramics on show were drawn from a set of 80 hand-sized sculptures, collectively known as Gifts, made during the artist’s month-long residency this year at the School of Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts in Boston.”

Canvas, 'Living Archive'

ArtAsiaPacific, “ASIA CONTEMPORARY ART WEEK FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS”

Tausif Noor, November 3, 2017

“…Asia Contemporary Art Week’s Field Meeting convened to address the bounds and possibilities of the “project,” a concept that has become increasingly popular in artistic practice.”

Arte Fuse, “Re-Thinking Home: ACAW’s THINKING PROJECTS Pop Up at C24 Gallery”

Audra Lambert, October 23, 2017

“Thinking Projects Pop Up at C24 gallery can seem at first glance to be an expedition: before you, wonders of the world are arrayed in complex congurations.”

Berlin Art Link

Art Radar, “Highlights from Asia Contemporary Art Week 2017 in New York”

Junni Chen, October 18, 2017

“Asia Contemporary Art Week pulls together some of New York’s biggest museums, galleries, and institutions to shine the spotlight on visual arts from Asia.”

BLOUIN ARTINFO, “Guo Hongwei & Judy Blum-Reddy at Chambers Fine Art, New York”

BLOUIN ARTINFO, October 13, 2017

“It is basically a pop-up exhibition series presenting research-based, ongoing artistic endeavors by nine noted artists from China, Indonesia, Turkey, India, and the Us.”

Ocula, “An Introduction to FIELD MEETING Take 5: THINKING PROJECTS, New York”

Leeza Ahmady, October 6, 2017

“…FIELD MEETING presentations traverse between disciplines of visual arts, art history, science, social history […] to relect on a variety of significant and timely topics.”

Taipei Cultural Center, “Two Taiwan Artists to Present New Projects at ACAW FIELD MEETING Oct. 14-15”

October 11, 2017

“Taipei Cultural Center is pleased to announce that two artists from Taiwan, Ms. Joyce Ho and YinJu Chen, have been invited to present their new projects at 2017 Asia Contemporary Art Week Field Meeting Oct. 14 and 15.”

NYFA, “Interview with Leeza Ahmady, Director of Asia Contemporary Art Week”

Alicia Ehni, May 1, 2017

“My personal mission as ACAW’s Director is to create visibility for significant artistic content that is generally unrepresented, or that needs specific or broader contextualization.”

ACAW 2017 Consortium Partners Exhibitions & Programs Coverage

Canvas, 'Living Archive'

The New York Times, “Southeast Asia Stakes Its Claim in the Art World”

Jason Farago, September 27, 2017

“And part of reckoning with a global art world is expanding one’s tolerance for things we don’t understand.”

Artnet, “The Guggenheim’s Alexandra Munroe on Why ‘The Theater of the World’ was Intended to be Brutal”

Andrew Goldstein, September 26, 2017

“What the artist is asking us to consider is the globe itself—“The Theater of the World”—where we’re all different species vying for dominance and it’s a contest.”

Berlin Art Link

Arte Fuse, “Alexander Calder’s Style Influences Chinese Contemporary Artists”

Alison Martin, September 27, 2017

“The exhibition entitled Referencing Alexander Calder: A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art features work by eleven Chinese artists whose work resembles or has been influenced by Calder’s style.”

The New Yorker, “Raghubir Singh: Modernism on the Ganges”

October 19, 2017

“Above all, though, Singh was a master of color, as the eighty-five small images on view make startlingly clear.”

Canvas, 'Living Archive'

Voices of NY, “Paper Sculptures: Tackling the Golden Venture through Art”

Lotus Chau, October 10, 2017

“The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) unveiled its fall exhibition “FOLD: Golden Venture Paper Sculptures” on Oct. 5. The exhibition presents the paper sculptures made by immigrants who were smuggled to the U.S. on the infamous ship the Golden Venture…”