作为东南亚的经济重镇,新加坡在东南亚的文化企图一直以来都很明显。已经是第四届的新加坡双年展,今年推出以研究和展示东南亚艺术为主的策展理念。主题“如果世界已改变”试图以假设的方式来描述东南亚不同地域的艺术家如何面对21世纪所发生的内部和外部世界的变化,这个颇为时髦和新鲜的主题,连同画册中的主题陈述,含糊不清。“东南亚”是一个宽泛的描述,更多时候都被视作一个含 As a major economic center in Southeast Asia, Singapore’s cultural intentions in Southeast Asia have always been obvious. It is already the 4th Singapore Biennale and this year it launched a curatorial philosophy of researching and demonstrating Southeast Asian art. The theme, “If the World Has Changed,” attempts to hypothesise how artists in different parts of Southeast Asia can face the changes in the internal and external world that took place in the 21st century, this rather chic and fresh theme, along with the themes in the catalog Statements, vague. “Southeast Asia ” is a broad description, more often regarded as a containing