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"Yuan Goang-Ming: Everyday War", installation view of Taiwan Collateral Event 2024 at the 60th Venice Biennale. Courtesy ©TFAM.

“Everyday War”: In Conversation with Yuan Goang-Ming at the 60th Venice Biennale

Joyce Ho, DOTS, 2021, installation view at "Phantasmopolis", 8th Asian Art Biennial, 2021. Image courtesy Asian Art Biennial.

The 8th Asian Art Biennial: Phantasmopolis looks “back to the future” in times of COVID

The Asian Art Biennial in Taichung turns to Asian futurism and sci-fi culture to provide different perspectives on Asia’s past and present, as well as new imaginations of what the future might look like in a post-pandemic era. We spoke to head curator Nubuo Takamori to find out more before the biennial's closing on 6 March.

"Manora Field Notes" by Naiza Khan, Pavilion of Pakistan at the 58th Venice Biennale. Installation view of Sticky Rice and Other Stories, 2019. Photo © Riccardo Tosetto Photography.

Manora Field Notes: Naiza Khan talks art, cities and migration

Naiza Khan talks about her solo presentation in the inaugural Pakistan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

Pavilion of Pakistan at the 58th Venice Biennale, 2019. Photo © Riccardo Tosetto Photography.

Curator Zahra Khan on Pakistan at the 58th Venice Biennale

Pakistan Pavilion curator provides insights into Naiza Khan's project for the Venince Biennale 2019.

Shu Lea Cheang, "3X3X6", mixed media installation. © Shu Lea Cheang. Image courtesy the artist and Taiwan in Venice 2019.

Talking sex, gender and surveillance with Shu Lea Cheang at the 58th Venice Biennale

Representing Taiwan in Venice, Shu Lea Cheang speaks about her multimedia project "3X3X6".

Playcourt, installation view of "Shirley Tse: Stakeholders", Hong Kong in Venice, 2019. Image courtesy M+ and the artist. Photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNOstudio.

Negotiating differences with Shirley Tse at the 58th Venice Biennale

Curator Christina Li talks about Hong Kong's collateral exhibition "Stakeholders" by Shirley Tse.

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ASIA | Art Spectacle International Asia is an independent online magazine covering contemporary art from Asia-Pacific to the Middle East.

Founder and Editor C. A. Xuân Mai Ardia is a Vietnamese-Italian from Padova, Italy. She currently resides near Venice, Italy, but she has lived around the world for more than 20 years. London was her home throughout university and her first forays in the art world and gallery work, until she moved to Shanghai in 2006 where she worked for Pearl Lam Galleries (then Contrasts Gallery) until 2009. She has lived between Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and Padova, Italy in 2009-2016, where she worked at Galerie Qyunh, Craig Thomas Gallery and contributed to Art Radar.

Mai holds a BA in Chinese | History of Art and Archaeology and an MA in Chinese Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK, as well as an MSc in Development Studies | Conservation of Cultural Heritage from the School of Development, Innovation and Change (SDIC), University of Bologna, Italy. She has worked in the conservation of world cultural heritage in Rome and in contemporary art galleries in London, Shanghai and Ho Chi Minh City. Her articles have been published in Art Review Asia, Art Radar, The Culture Trip and CoBo Social.

Mai joined the Art Radar team as Copy Editor in May 2013, and became Staff Writer in November of the same year. Continuing to contribute her writing to Art Radar, she took up the role of Managing Editor from November 2015 to December 2018, when Art Radar ceased publication.

To continue on and contribute to the dissemination of contemporary art ideas and practices from Asia, Mai founded ASIA in Spring 2019.