CONTENTS
9 Foreword
National Gallery Singapore; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea; The Japan Foundation Asia Center
10 AWAKENINGS: ART IN SOCIETY IN ASIA, 1960s-1990s
24 MAP: COUNTRIES IN THE EXHIBITION
PLATES AND TEXT
25 Introduction
37 Chapter 1 Questioning Structures
38 Lee Ufan, Tang Da Wu and Montien Boonma: Investigating Material Agencies
Cheng Jia Yun
45 Body as Media
Ryu Hanseung
52 Questioning Art
56 Towards a Mystical Reality: A Documentation of Jointly Initiated Experiences
Seng Yu Jin
64 Lee Seung-taek's Concept of "Non-Sculpture"
Lee Ihnbum
76 Rematerialisation
80 Encounters with Unknown Things
Suzuki Katsuo
88 Pioneers of the Avant-Garde Art Movement: The Korean Avant-Garde
Association and Space and Time
Yon Jinsup
97 The Black December Affair and Gerakan Seni Rupa Baru
Seng Yu Jin
100 Body as Media
114 The Works of Chang Chao-Tang
Masuda Tomohiro
125 Chapter 2 Artists and the City
126 Critiques on Urbanisation and Consumer Capitalism
Bae Myungji
134 Experimenting with Multiple Layers of Contradiction: The Case of Jose Maceda
141 The City as Stage
Charmaine Toh
149 Critique of Capitalism
152 Alterity and The Artists village
Seng Yu Jin
168 The Significance of the Group Reality and Utterance
Youn Bummo
172 Agitating Urban Life
184 Zero Jigen: Nudity Arouses Japan's Unconscious
Suzuki Katsuo
190 The Rebellion and Resistance of a New Generation against the Establishment: The Exhibition of the Young Korean Artists' Union
Yoon Jinsup
198 Place for People
Suman Gopinath
204 Media as Message
211 Chapter 3 New Solidarities
212 Painting as Forum
Suzuki Katsuo
218 On the Inadequacy of Art, or Ruminations on the Year 1987
Adele Tan
224 New Solidarities: Awakenings Spaces for Collective Action
Seung Yu Jin
232 Art Activism and Social Movement
242 Reportage
Masuda Tomohiro
247 Students as Art Activists: The United Artists's Front of Thailand
Seng Yu Jin
258 Art for the People: Kaisahan
Seng Yu Jin
274 Korea's Minjung Art Movement: 1980s Art in Urban Streets and Plazas, Schools and Factories, and Rural Areas
Choi Youl
278 Cultural Interventions: SAHMAT
Suman Gopinath
282 Collectivism and Experimental Practices
286 The Vision of Matsuzawa Yutaka: A Communion between Art, Communes and Nature
Suzuki Katsuo
290 THE PLAY: An Island Excursion to Experience Time
Suzuki Katsuo
295 Frontline Warriors of Experimental Art: The Fourth Group
Yoon JInjup
297 Gender and Society
302 KASIBULAN: Holding Space for Women of the Philippines
Chen Jia Yun
313 Korea's Feminist Art Movement: The Liberation of Women and the Working Class in the 1980s
Choi Youl
315 Reinterpreting Histories and New Solidarities
324 A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
340 WRITER'S BIOGRAPHIES
344 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
346 CREDITS