More than half of the world's megacities--cities with populations of ten
million or more--are in Asia. This compact and dynamically designed book
introduces the work of several artists from the megacities of Seoul,
Beijing, Shanghai, Delhi and Mumbai who are fueling their practices with
materials found in those places and responding with large, immersive
sculptures indelibly marked by their urban contexts. Like the cities in
which they were conceived, the towering accumulations of stainless steel
vessels, plastic wares, discarded architectural elements, grocery
products and other found objects by artists Ai Weiwei, Choi Jeong Hwa,
Subodh Gupta, Han Seok Hyun, Hu Xiangcheng, Aaditi Joshi, Song Dong,
Hema Upadhyay, Asim Waqif, Yin Xiuzhen and the collective flyingCity
dazzle us with their sheer mass and strange transformative power, and
envelop us in complex global issues of migration, consumption,
sustainability and cultural heritage.