Dispatches, briefs, experiments, research reports, image galleries, and travelogues
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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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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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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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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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Indecisive Intuition
S. Yi Yao Chao’s artist response to the Lee Wen Archive
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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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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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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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The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away
A collaboration with Guangdong Times Museum
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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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Operation PRD Big Tail Elephants: One Hour, No Room, Five Shows
A collaboration with Guangdong Times Museum
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Samson Young's AAAFM 993
The Hong Kong-based artist creates a roving sound station
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Section 39_Index XXXVII: Traboulsi
Suha Traboulsi's "sculptural spaces" and reproductions of canonical modern paintings by Arab artists
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Untitled (for redundant books)
Hu Fang and Zhang Wei explore books at AAA inspired by gardening
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An Invitation to Trespass | A Response to "The Time is Out of Joint"
A collective inquiry into how art as a form of knowledge can be meaningfully shared and mediated
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Udlot-udlot
Inti Guerrero's archival research on the Filipino experimental musician and composer José Maceda
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AAA's Collection: Exhibition Catalogues and Monographs
Visualisations of data about AAA's Collection
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ArtBubbles: Field Notes Edition
Petko Dourmana's smart phone app reveals the art world's Eurocentric bent
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Privatising Public Space: Times Square Incidents in Hong Kong
A timeline of events
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The Armory Show Focus Group
An installation that plays with the relationship between market forces and artistic production
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Days of Cannibalism
Teboho Edkins's research photographs for his film project Days of Cannibalism, which takes place between Guangzhou and Lesotho
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Mapping Asia: Notes and Clippings
Images and notes from the editors of Field Notes
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Micropolitics of the Archive | Part II: Southern Conceptualisms Network, a Brief Chronology
An intervention into different possibilities for history, the archive, and the transmission of knowledge
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Photologue | Spring’s Wave and Sound
Images of art events across genres in South Korea
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"Inexistent Time" and "Waiting for a Friend"
Pak Sheung Chuen provides two aphoristic meditations
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Photologue | Physicality of the Visual Image
Images of the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Vision
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Photologue | Passage Through India
Images of a trip to India during the India Art Fair
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Photologue | Thinking of the City
Images of exhibitions in Seoul around the theme of "the city"
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Photologue | Drawing Lines: Shadows along the Equator
Images of Biennale Jogja XI
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The Chabet Archive | Covering Fifty Years of the Artist’s Materials
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Photologue | The New Generation of Manila’s Artist-Run Spaces
Images of the newest artist-run spaces in Manila
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Research Log | Twist and Turns in Gunsan
Insight into how artists from other regions see the city of Gunsan
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Photologue | Mediation and Meditation in Asia, the 3rd Asian Art Biennial
Images of the 3rd Asian Art Biennial
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Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990
In 2006, AAA began locating, collecting, and preserving a large body of important material from the 1980s, a period in China's art history that was in danger of being lost.
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Photologue | Shanghai Highlights
Images of exhibition openings during the SH Contemporary in Shanghai
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Photologue | Time for Introspection
Images of self-reflexive exhibitions that question the place of art institutes in the contemporary era
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Photologue | The Chance to Recover Our Humanity
Images of the Yokohama Triennale 2011
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Research Log | Turbulence in Cultural Affairs
Taipei Fine Arts Museum in turmoil
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Photologue | Hong Kong Heat Wave
Images of Hong Kong's art scene in the summer
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Photologue | Nations in Venice
Images of the 54th Venice Biennale
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Photologue | High Season in the PRD Region
Images of a busy month in the art world of the Pearl River Delta
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Photologue | Probing the New: Open Edit and More in Ho Chi Minh City
Images of a trip to Ho Chi Minh City during AAA's Open Edit: Mobile Library
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Photologue | Reinterpreting Museum Collections in Korea
Images of exhibitions that offer interpretations of the history of Korean contemporary art
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Photologue | Guests at Open House
Images of the Singapore Biennale 2011
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Photologue | Tokyo Art Scene’s Busiest February Ever?
Images of an unusually bustling February in Tokyo
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Research Log | On the Precipice of Events
Interrogating the limits of an artistic "event"
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Photologue | The Festive Pearl River Delta
Images of a December in the Pearl River Delta's art scene
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Photologue | From Shanghai to Nanjing: Two International Biennales and the In-Betweens
Images of the Shanghai and Nanjing Biennales
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Research Log | The Curatorial Imperative
The buzzword of the season in India is “curating”
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Photologue | A Biennial about Biennials: The 2010 Taipei Biennial
Images of the 7th Taipei Biennial
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Photologue | The Images of 10,000 Lives: The 8th Gwangju Biennale
Images from the 8th Gwangju Biennale
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Photologue | A Breath of Fresh Air for International Art Exhibitions in Japan: The Aichi Triennale
Images of the inaugural Aichi Triennale
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Research Log | Logic Behind The Chaos: A Glimpse into Performance Art in Indonesia
Observations on the divisions within the Indonesian contemporary art scene
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Research Log | The Importance of Continuous Discussion
Takayuki Kubota rethinks the form of biennials and triennials after a recent trip to the Setouchi International Art Festival
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Research Log | A Cloud Over Baguio
Memories of the Baguio Art Festivals in the 1990s
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Photologue | Art That Depends Upon The Beauty of Distance
Images of the 17th Biennale of Sydney
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Photologue | Shanghai Today
A look at exhibitions in Shanghai during Expo 2010
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Travelogue | Art in a Fragile State
A short trip to Colombo, Sri Lanka
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Research Log | New Forms of Sponsorship
The effects of government support on Taiwan's contemporary art scene
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Research Log | Green Papaya Art Project: Plan B
One of the last surviving alternative artist-run spaces in Manila has gone through several moves and upheavals