
NEW CURRENTS
When Histories Become Form
Twelve years into the new millennium, the young artists spotlighted here are still unpacking the rich, troubling contradictions of the 20th century’s great innovations and chaotic upheavals—whether in the plight of diasporic cultures, the challenge of unsustainable urban growth or the dark legacy of modern intellectual currents.
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Alice Kok
MACAU
ALICE KOK, Karabic OK, 2006, still from single-channel video installation at Maison des Arts Malakoff, Paris, 2006.
After living in France for almost a decade, Macau-born Alice Kok produced the video Karabic OK (2006), a…