Interview Octavio Zaya is a New York-based critic and curator, born in the Canary Islands, Spain. He is the Founding Editor of the art journal Balcon, and the Associate Editor of the magazine Atlantica. Zaya is co-curator of Documenta 11 (2002). Other exhibitions he has curated include 'In/Sight: African Photographers, 1940-Present' (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1996) and 'Alternating Currents', 2nd Johannesburg Biennale (1997). He contributes regularly to art magazines and journals, including Art Nexus, Flash Art and NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art. Survey Dana Friis-Hansen is an American critic and has been Chief Curator of the Austin Museum of Art, Texas, since 1999. From 1995 to 1999 he was Senior Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Texas, where he organized such exhibitions as 'Outbound: Passages from the 90s' (2000). He was previously Associate Curator at Nanjo and Associates, Tokyo, Japan (1991-95), and Curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1989-91). Friis-Hansen was co-curator of 'TransCulture' at the XLVI Venice Biennale (1995). He writes for journals including Parkett, Art in America and Flash Art. Focus Serizawa Takashi was formerly an urban planner and is now the Director of the environmental and art organization P3 art and environment in Tokyo. He is the author of View from the Moon: Hints on Living in the Twenty-first Century (1999). Artist's Choice Qiao Liang (1955-) and Wang Xianhui (1954-) are senior Chinese air force officers and the authors of Warfare Beyond Rules: Judgement of War and Methods of War in the Era of Globalisation (1999), a manual of new military strategy. Artist's Writings Cai Guo Qiang is a Chinese artist who lived in Japan from 1986 to 1995 and is today based in New York. Since the 1990s Cai has developed a growing reputation for the ambitious, often explosive projects which he has realized throughout the world. Recipient of the Leone d'Oro prize al the 48th Venice Biennale (1999), Cai was nominated for the Hugo Boss Prize in 1996. Cai's interest in harnessing the power of nature in his works is reflected in his project notes and in a previously unpublished text, 'The Foolish Man and the Mountain', on his unrealized works.