4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
Invoking community but largely devoid of the “community-oriented” art that has lately become ubiquitous, i.e., interactive and relational art, this fourth installment of the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale instead sought to explore the notions of kyosei, coexistence/symbiosis, and saisei, revival/reconstruction—expressed in English with the telling title “Live and Let Live: Creators of Tomorrow.” Much of the work highlighted a subjective autonomy and self-expression that is often perceived as being at odds with ideas of community, perhaps closer in spirit to Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau’s