As Akiko Miki, one of the three curators of this year¡¯s Yokohama Triennale, tries to wrap up a roundtable discussion titled ¡°The Connecting World and the Isolating World¡± at the Yokohama Museum of Art, a question is shouted out from the back of the room.
¡°What about nature? Isn¡¯t nature very important to Asia?¡± the person asks.
Ah yes, that old chestnut; the East is all about birds and flowers, spirituality and harmony, while the West is about cold logic, mind-body duality and modernity ... unnatural, as it were.
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