ART ASIA PACIFIC | Mike HJ Chang: Calendar of Dilation

Hydrographic concerns aresalient in the contemporary art of Southeast Asia, a region withdeep historical and material tiesto the water. Recent years, inparticular, have witnessed muchart-making and conceptualdiscourse that relates to seasand rivers, marine communitiesand ecologies, and boats,maps and other implements of navigation—subject matterthat is growing increasinglyshopworn. It is to the credit of Taiwanese-Americanartist Mike HJ Chang, then,that his take on the themeretained its own idiosyncraticsensibility, quietly revelingin its unorthodox methodsand vocabularies. “Calendar of Dilation,” curated by artistand researcher Alfonse Chiu at Singapore’s Yeo Workshop.