THE TITLES OF this year's Singapore, Shanghai, and Gwangju biennials--"Belief," "Hyper Design," and "Fever Variations," respectively--will to some no doubt seem typically Asian, their cumulative vocabulary evoking a millennial blend of futurism and age-old spiritualism. Regardless of whether the latter term will prove true to audiences' experience of the shows--will we actually see ecstatic leaps of faith, for example, as opposed to the cool conceptualisms or political postures of ...