As the planet gets smaller so the world of East, West, South and North contracts, cross-fertilises and hybridises. Fourth Door Review has featured the near, far, South, North and East as part of its whole planet reach ever since its early editions.
East/West features focus on contemporary and traditional cultures of the East, Eastern cultures hybridising and crossing over with the East and many points between.
North/South does the same around the fertile cultural connections, collaborations, and calibrations between the Global North and South.
Artscapes II – El Anatsui, October Gallery, and its pioneering Global Africa artist agenda
DOCUMENT TWO - A special FDR Book within a Book
El Anatsui - In-depth interview feature – by Neil Thomson
October Gallery and its Artists of Global Africa – by Chris Spring
The Benchmarks prints – El Anatsui’s hi tech and hands-on new works - by Oliver Lowenstein
El’ Anatsui’s early wood sculptures - by Yukiya Kawaguchi
October Gallery and the Africa connection –- by Elisabeth Lalouschek
Transvangarde – How October redefined the avant-garde future – by Oliver Lowenstein
Earth & Utopia: Hassan Fathy - Earth builder
Building with Fire – ceramicist Ray Meeker’s fired buildings
Re-read: Tanazaki’s In Praise of Shadows
DOCUMENT TWO - A special FDR Book within a Book
East/West - Japanese architecture, craft & design – A mini-themed section.
The Fine art of Japanese Fibre Art by Tochimichi Kuwayama
Japan-ness in Wales - Ruthin Craft Centre's Sustaining Design exhibition by Michael Nixon
Shigeru Ban - Renegade Starchitect
Nepalese Nettle textile and clothing culture - by Oliver Lowenstein
Electronic and ancient living Cambodian mixed-media musics- by David Gunn
On the trail of the European Silk Route - in Sweden and France
Auroville's post-tsunami health centres by Suhasini Ayers
WRKSHP in Northern India – Clem Blakemore
Anna Heringer's Journey to the East
Handmade school 2.0 - ZWS Berlin in Bangladesh
Cinnamon Girl - Rozita Rahman's intern adventure on TYIN Cassia Co-Op project
Francis Kéré - Burden of Dreams
East/West - Makeshift
East/West - Ground Up Architecture
India
India
Bangladesh
Thailand & Sumatra
North/South - Ground Up Architecture
Indian Ocean of Sound – Drones, Gamelan and Raga's - A special music feature
Sheila Chandra – Song of a Million years
The Gamelan Loop Orchestra of Mark Lockett - by Ruth Hellier-Tinoco
Jon Hassell's Fourth World Raga
