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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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