Dispatches, briefs, experiments, research reports, image galleries, and travelogues
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we can never quite grasp the moon
Megan Lee shares a poem on the theme of archiving Hong Kong
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what strange weather for a promise
Yang Yeung writes about temperature, intimacy, and silence as contingent, but not arbitrary qualities of human interaction
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3SUMS | what is excess?
Soje, Hoyoung Moon, and Jaewon Che explore "excess" as the snail's slime trail, as subconsciously social, and as lovespoil
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A Concise Glossary for Art Collectives
Pat WingShan Wong (aka Flyingpig) illustrates some conflicts and challenges that shape the identity of art collectives
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That I Require
Koel Chu ruminates on masturbation, making a living as a translator, and writing without writing
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3SUMS | what can't you escape?
Heman Chong, İz Öztat, and Doretta Lau explore some not-so-hidden things they cannot shake
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Two Currents
Claire Lee shares a poem on the theme of archiving Hong Kong
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3SUMS | what's your refuge?
Oscar Chan, Lau Hiu Tung, and Eunice Tsang talk about their places of refuge in Hong Kong
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In Hot Water
Hou Lam Tsui reflects on her obsession with City Pop and Shōwa aesthetics, and their significance for her art practice
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Mithila Art and the Conversation of Change
Pallavi Payal considers the evolving form and content of contemporary Mithila art, and her own artistic identity
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Green Veils
Louise Leung Fung Yee shares a poem on the theme of archiving Hong Kong
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3SUMS | what keeps you connected?
Christina Yuen Zi Chung, Xyza Cruz Bacani, and Wing Chan share objects they own that keep them connected to Hong Kong
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Exquisite Pain
Darian Leader writes about accessing grief through art, and the public dimension to mourning
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Good Art: “Hong Kong Sixties”
Oscar Ho reflects on the challenges of curating exhibitions that speak to the distinctiveness and vibrancy of Hong Kong culture
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Lo Ting and Hong Kong Cultural Identity: Part One
Oscar Ho reflects on 1990s Hong Kong, the mythological figure Lo Ting, and the stakes of writing art history
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Lo Ting and Hong Kong Cultural Identity: Part Two
Oscar Ho reflects on the conceptualisation, audience reactions, and afterlives of his exhibition about Lo Ting and the ancestral myth of Hong Kongers
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No Respect, No Hierarchy: “We Don’t Know How To Paint!”
Oscar Ho considers more expansive definitions of art, and some provocations around curatorial gatekeeping and authority
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Boundaries and boundlessness: On Kingsley Ng's works
Grace Gut looks at the question of the audience in the Hong Kong artist's recent works
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Undefeated Mutual Attachment
Lauren Berlant considers what our bodies, attachments, and solidarities make possible in the midst of structural cruelty
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AAA’s IDEAS Journal | About & Submissions
AAA is accepting pitches for IDEAS Journal
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Indecisive Intuition
S. Yi Yao Chao’s artist response to the Lee Wen Archive
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Gudskul Art Collective: Learning while Nongkrong, Nongkrong while Learning
Angga Wijaya reflects on the Jakarta-based art collective’s belief in togetherness and experience-based pedagogy
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A Performative State of Indefinite Duration
Bruce Quek reflects on contingency, institutional order co-existing with fractal weirdness, and the Independent Archive
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Crying in the Gallery: On Grief and Empathetic Curating
Kaitlin Chan reflects on her experience curating an exhibition for the late Hong Kong artist Hon Chi-fun
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I Go South
Anthony Yung reflects on Cantonese art and the challenges of representation
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Updates to AAA's Website
An overview of some key updates to Asia Art Archive's website
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Part-time Pedagogies: Introducing Three Places for Emancipatory Learning
Through annotated illustrations, Michael Leung reflects on the potential for emancipatory learning in Hong Kong
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Writing and Weaving: Engendering Documents in History
Li Xiaojiang reflects on her work at the Women’s Culture Museum in Shaanxi, and the need for new ways of centring women’s cultural legacies
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Registers of Text
How the Philippine Art Supplement plays a crucial part in shaping the narrative of 1980s art history
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Green Papaya Art Projects: Why Artist-Run Spaces
Norberto Roldan's speech at Asia Society’s 2017 Arts & Museum Summit in Manila
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Seasonal Changes: Celebrating Spring Workshop
A look at some of the programmes and publications the Hong Kong cultural non-profit produced over six years
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Reading Recommendations | Seeing Things, Being There
A list of primary and secondary materials and books related to the Asia Art Archive exhibition
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The Ground Underneath: On Ho Tzu Nyen's The Nameless
Võ Hồng Chương-Đài examines how Ho's video installation acts as a non sequitur to colonialist and nationalist historiographies
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Periodicals, American Interventions, and Art in Asia During the Cold War
On Ho Tzu Nyen's research in relation to items in the Ha Bik Chuen Archive
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On Periodicals, Exhibition Materials, Personal Archives, and Approaching Issues from Multiple Angles
Peggy Wang discusses her process and the materials that inform her scholarship
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Back to the Future: Contemporary Art and the Hong Kong Handover
What two Hong Kong exhibitions reveal about the handover, identity, and contemporary art
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Welcome to AAA's New Website
Asia Art Archive's revamped digital platform focuses on increased access, openness, and user-friendly functions
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a short history of the art book bag (and the things that go in them)
Ingrid Chu explores the international phenomenon of the "art book bag"
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Framing Spatial Stories: Life Beyond the Plan, Survey, and Grid
Solomon Benjamin and Wing Shing Tang's artistic explorations of Hong Kong for 15 Invitations
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Toko Pura-Pura (Quasi-shop)
A Jakarta-based artist collective creates a transactional space where knowledge and ideas are exchanged through collaborations
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Six Windows
Sarah Howe considers how artists across different countries and cultures explore similar subject matters
