The **2007 Asian Art Biennial** explored themes related to **contemporary Asian arts**, focusing on the sharing and communication of diverse ideas, beliefs, attitudes, values, life experiences, and cultural memories within the Asian community 【2】【3】.
Key themes and topics that can help connect this book to others in a library include:
* **Urban Dreamworks**: This theme suggests a focus on art that reflects or critiques urban environments and their impact on life.
* **Ways of Life are Choices**: This theme points to explorations of lifestyle, societal norms, and individual agency within different cultural contexts.
* **Contemporary Asian Art**: The biennial served as a platform for showcasing various faces of contemporary art from different regions in Asia 【2】【3】.
* **Intercultural Dialogue**: A primary mission of the biennial was to facilitate intercultural dialogues through art, promoting understanding of Asian cultural perspectives 【1】.
* **Artistic Production and Curation**: The event involved artist-curators, bringing the process of artistic production into curatorial horizons 【4】.
* **Cultural Diversity**: Discussions and symposiums held in conjunction with the biennial focused on Asia's cultural diversity 【6】.
The book published on the occasion of the 2007 Asian Art Biennial Artist Forum includes biographies of participating artists and a forum agenda 【5】. The biennial itself aimed to explore the multiplicity of perspectives informing contemporary reality in Asia 【1】.