FUKUOKA ASIAN ART MUSEUM 7th, 8th floor River Site, Hakata Riverain, 3-1 Shimokawabata-machi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka City tel: 092-771-8600, 263-1100; fax: 263-1105 internet: faam.city.fukuoka.jp
		㩃 Tracks: Contemporary Southeast Asian Art December 18, 2003 – March 7, 2004
			Commemorating the ASEAN-Japan Exchange Year 2003, this exhibition was planned by the Singapore Art Museum to show contemporary painting, sculpture and video work by young contemporary artists from ten ASEAN member countries: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
		•Women's Hands January 2 – March 30, 2004
			Techniques that used to be regarded as women's handiworks are now recognized as folk art and sometimes derived into contemporary art. Through the sewn works of Yin Xiuzhen (China) and Pinaree Sanpitak (Thailand), the Mithila Paintings of India, and the Kantha embroidery of Bangladesh, this exhibition introduces how women's handiworks have entered the realm of visual art.
		•Chinese Prints January 15 – March 23, 2004
			This exhibition features the artist Su Xinping, whose work expresses symbolically the anxiety felt among contemporary people and depicts life in the steppes and within urbanized society. Su’s prints are presented along with about fifty other Chinese prints made from the time of the Cultural Revolution until the 1990s.
		•Contemporary Indian Video Art (tentative title) February 5 – March 21, 2004
			This exhibition is the second of the “Crossing Visions” series. Guest curated by Johan Pijnappel, a curator of the World Wide Video Festival in the Netherlands and a researcher of Asian video art, the exhibition features a set of video works from India, where paintings and solid works typically predominate. Under the theme of “self,” works by about ten Indian artists are shown.
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