A Regional Contemporary: Art Exhibitions, Popular Culture, Asia

The first critical account of the enormous upsurge in cultural expression across Asian countries from 1979–2008, and the new possibilities it presented for the aesthetic and cultural re-imagining of a “unified” contemporary Asia.

Biennial-style art exhibitions. New discourses in modern and contemporary art. The production and circulation of increasingly debordered popular culture. A Regional Contemporary by C. J. W.-L. Wee is an investigative account of the dramatic increase in cultural expr...