Chaitanya Sambrani | Careers of Internationalism: Baroda and Bandung
Talk
Mar 2017
Rashid Rana | Present Elsewhere
15 Invitations | Publication Project
Nov 2016
Sarah Howe | Six Windows
15 Invitations | Talk
Tue-Sat, 18-22 Oct 2016
The Bibliography Workshops | Pune, India
Bibliography of Modern and Contemporary Art Writing of South Asia | Workshop
1 Research Collection
Li Xianting Archive 栗憲庭檔案
1707 Records
Li Xianting Archive 栗憲庭檔案
129 Ideas
Collection Spotlight
Shortlist | Speculation as Method
Merve Ünsal looks at artist books in Turkey that wrestle with narrating the unnarratable
Essays
From Within the Fog
Trisha Low’s lyric ruminations on art writing, gestures of refusal, and the unresolvable desire for shared utopia amidst crisis and collapse
Collection Spotlight
Off the Shelf | Somewhere, Someone Just Wanted to Let You Know
An exploration of AAA's collection of zines on the ongoing political movement in Hong Kong
Essays
Is It Socially Engaged Art?: The Debate over “Art Projects” in Japan
Yeung Tin Shui traces alternatives to Eurocentric conceptions of art projects in Japan
Conversations
Crossing Borders: Art and Artists’ Writings Across Languages
On the challenges of researching art writing across multiple languages and translations in South Asia
Notes
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
Collection Spotlight
Off the Shelf | Trace Retrace: Paintings, Nilima Sheikh
A review of an artist monograph that explores Nilima Sheikh’s artworks as alternative forms of storytelling and narration
Collection Spotlight
Off the Shelf | Country Paper — Pakistan
A look at Salima Hashmi's writing on women artists in Pakistan
Notes
Seasonal Changes: Celebrating Spring Workshop
A look at some of the programmes and publications the Hong Kong cultural non-profit produced over six years
Conversations
Boris Groys in Conversation with Johnson Chang
On archives as “museums minus the aesthetic experience,” the return of God as a spectator, and the totalitarianism of music
Collection Spotlight
AAA Collection at the Guggenheim | Alternative Publishing
Items from AAA on display at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum for Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World
Notes
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
Conversations
Digital Shadows: An Interview with Tyler Coburn
The New York-based artist discusses his work with the Ha Bik Chuen Archive
Notes
On Periodicals, Exhibition Materials, Personal Archives, and Approaching Issues from Multiple Angles
Peggy Wang discusses her process and the materials that inform her scholarship
Essays
Notes on the "Vernacular" Milieus of Art Writing
Sneha Ragavan questions the dominance of English in India’s art historiography and criticism
Notes
Six Windows
Sarah Howe considers how artists across different countries and cultures explore similar subject matters
Essays
Practicing Friendship: Respecting Time as a Curator
Zoe Butt considers the significance of friendships for artistic languages and forms
Notes
Resemble Reassemble
Rashid Rana complicates the curatorial framing of exhibitions
Notes
The Armory Show Focus Group
An installation that plays with the relationship between market forces and artistic production
Essays
The Unsettled Pleasures of Viewing: Exhibition as a Meeting Point Between Our Bodies and Artwork
Biljana Ciric discusses images as intimate, fragmented readings of exhibition experiences
Essays
Art Writing and Its Circulation: Three Moments in Hong Kong
Michelle Wong looks at three instances of art writing and their relationship with Hong Kong
Essays
Entangled Temporality in Art Practice: Contemporary Revisiting of the "Golden" Age
Parul Dave-Mukherji discusses the past as lost golden age or melancholic condition that has uncanny affinity with the present
Essays
An Expanded Questionnaire on the Contemporary: Part I
AAA expands upon Hal Foster’s 2009 questionnaire on "the contemporary"
Essays
An Expanded Questionnaire on the Contemporary: Part II
AAA expands upon Hal Foster’s 2009 questionnaire on "the contemporary"
Essays
An Expanded Questionnaire on the Contemporary: Part III
AAA expands upon Hal Foster’s 2009 questionnaire on "the contemporary"
Essays
An Expanded Questionnaire on the Contemporary: Part IV
AAA expands upon Hal Foster’s 2009 questionnaire on "the contemporary"
Conversations
Has the Moment of the Contemporary Come and Gone?
A discussion at Speakers' Forum, India Art Fair 2012 in Delhi
Essays
Ivan Peries: The Predicament of the Bourgeois Artist in the Societies of the Third World
Senake Bandaranayake provides a socio-historical analysis of the work of Ivan Peries
Essays
Learning from History: The Discourse of (L)imitation in 1960s Japan
Reiko Tomii offers a historical study on 1960s Japan as a paradigmatic site of world art history
Essays
Memory and Cultural Sustainability in Contemporary Tibetan Art
Tibetan artists in relation to ethnicity, religion, and as politicised subjects in post-Cultural Revolution China
Essays
Resisting Commoditisation of the Art Object
Song Misook looks at Korean contemporary artists and their strategies for dismantling and transforming existing systems
Essays
Free Art vs. Public Law | Tattoos on Shared Social Skin: The Art and Laws of Street Murals and Graffiti
Kao Chien Hui looks at street art in Chinese communities and its uneasy relationship with graffiti laws
Notes
Research Log | Twist and Turns in Gunsan
Insight into how artists from other regions see the city of Gunsan
Essays
A Horse for the Arts: Looking Back at the Future
Art's task is to reveal the present more critically, clearly, and with wonder
Essays
Stepping Over the Fence
Suspending pre-conceptions about art for spaces of commonality
Notes
Research Log | Turbulence in Cultural Affairs
Taipei Fine Arts Museum in turmoil
Essays
What Can We Do? Action/Reaction in Japan
Yukie Kamiya on the possibilities of creating art in times of crisis
Essays
Tracing (Un)certain Legacies: Conceptualism in Singapore and the Philippines
Isabel Ching complicates art historical narratives on conceptualism as a historiographic category
Essays
An Archive Remembered
Parvez Kabir reflects on some defining moments that shaped the Image Archive of MS University of Baroda
Essays
Viewed from a Train: Glimpses of the Artist as Hong Kong Citizen
Valerie C. Doran looks at an arts festival held in a Hong Kong village slated for demolition, and how artists respond to social issues in alternative ways
Notes
Research Log | On the Precipice of Events
Interrogating the limits of an artistic "event"
Essays
Between Tragedy and Farce: Short Takes on the Performance Archive
Ontological and epistemological questions surrounding representational technologies in relation to performance archiving
Essays
Towards a Discursive Polylogue of Chinese and Western Contemporary Art Theory
Paul Gladston examines critical discourses associated with the concept of contemporaneity
Notes
Research Log | The Curatorial Imperative
The buzzword of the season in India is “curating”
Essays
Theertha: A Journey by a Collective of Restless Artists
Anoli Perera examines how artists-led initiative Theertha responds to sociopolitical circumstances and the art ecology in Sri Lanka
Essays
Art into Action: Performance Art Festivals in Asia
Examining the public value and communal utility of art in relation to performance art in Asia
Essays
Re-Orienting Taiwan: The China Factor in Contemporary Art from Taiwan
Sophie McIntyre explores the implications of Taiwan's closer relationship with China upon the visual arts field
Essays
Predicaments and Promises: Reflections on Art Writing in Malaysia and Singapore
Kelvin Chuah argues that new, transdisciplinary efforts are needed to analyse modern art in Malaysia and Singapore
Notes
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
Essays
Asian Canadian Art Matters
Alice Ming Wai Jim explores why Asian Canadian art matters now
Notes
Research Log | A Cloud Over Baguio
Memories of the Baguio Art Festivals in the 1990s
Essays
Cultural Exchange and Civil Society in Asia: A Perspective From India
Rustom Bharucha is an independent writer, director, and cultural critic based in Kolkata, India
Essays
A Virtuoso with Multiple Faces
Jay Koh and Chu Yuan of IFIMA
Essays
The Sustainability of Ideas
Ade Darmawan is an Indonesian artist and Director of the ruangrupa artists’ initiative
Essays
Un-invested Investments: Critical Writing and Publishing in Mainland China
Keith Wallace asks where critical writing will make its impact within the Chinese publishing world
Essays
The Chimera of a Greater China: Analyzing the 2009 Fall Art Fair Season in Mainland China And Taiwan
James Donald examines the anxieties, thrills, and unpredictability of the Asian art market
Essays
Speakeasy
Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez searches for ways to speak about art more frequently and earnestly
Essays
Beyond Recurring Traumas and a New Scar: Notes on the Impoverished Public Art Infrastructure in Korea
Kim Heejin calls for renewed attention to the importance of good infrastructure and art institutions in Korea
Essays
The Politics of Play in Malaysian Art
Eva McGovern is an independent curator, art critic, and lecturer based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Essays
Admittance Anxiety
Adele Tan teaches and writes on art and art history, in particular contemporary art and performance in China and Singapore
Essays
Reading Through the Lense of the Political: Contemporary Art in Pakistan
Naiza is a visual artist and researcher based in Karachi
Essays
Regional Formation and the Postcolonial Question: Contemporary Art in Hong Kong and the PRD
Carolyn Cartier, Professor of Human Geography and China Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney
Essays
Beyond the Collection Display
Reiko Tomii is a New York-based independent scholar and curator who investigates post 1945 Japanese art in global and local contexts
Notes
Research Log | Observing Contemporary Chinese Art Through Writings
Fiona He shares observations on the contemporary art scene in China
Essays
The Necessary Instability of Hybrid Cultures
Davide Quadrio argues that art needs to be empowered by people who genuinely desire communities of ideas and innovation
Essays
Farm-to-Market Roads
Patrick D. Flores is Professor of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines
Essays
At the Cross Roads: Looking Back Forward Looking
Charles Merewether is an art historian and curator
Essays
Thinking Backwards: Notes on Art Tamed and Contained (in both Senses of the Term)
Yeung Yang reflects on the complications of "public art"
Essays
Critical Horizons: On Art Criticism in China
Pauline J. Yao is a curator and scholar based in Beijing and San Francisco and co-founder of Arrow Factory
Notes
Research Log | More than Parties, More than Drinks
A visit to the Macau Museum of Art for Inward Gazes 2008
Essays
Home, Again: Notes on Contemporary Vietnamese Art
Việt Lê is an artist, creative writer, and independent curator
Notes
Research Log | Plugging-in into Shanghai’s Urbanized Landscape
Fiona He spends four days exploring openings and events at the Shanghai eArts Festival
Essays
Reflecting on International Biennials and Triennials in Asia
Meiqin Wang is an assistant professor of Asian art history at California State University, Northridge
Essays
Re-imagi(ni)ng the Buddha: The Multiplicity of Authenticities in Contemporary Tibetan Art
Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Assistant Professor of Tibetan Cultural History at the University of Alabama
Notes
My China Now
Karen Smith looks at at project designed to foster awareness of Chinese culture within China and abroad
Essays
Building a New Arts Infrastructure: Non-State Foundations in Asia
Christine Clark is a curator and art administrator
Essays
Mature Museums
Tobias Berger, Director and Chief Curator of Para/Site Art Space
Essays
An Open Letter to Artists in Pakistan
Rasheed Araeen is the founding editor of Third Text
Essays
Positionings: A Round-up of Perspectives for 2007
Deeksha Nath is an art historian, critic, and curator based in New Delhi
Essays
Biennale Demand
Lee Weng Choy, an art critic and artistic co-director of The Substation arts centre in Singapore
Essays
Art Market Micro Economics
Jonathan Thomson is an artist, art historian, critic, and curator based in Hong Kong
Essays
Malaysia’s New People Power
Kathy Rowland, Co-Founder and Managing Editor of Kakiseni
Essays
The Mekong Art and Culture Project
Secretariat Team of The Mekong Art and Culture Project
Notes
It's a Bull Market!: Investing in the Future of Contemporary Asian Art
Susan Acret, a Hong Kong based independent writer and the editor of AAA's monthly newsletter
Notes
Research Log | For Every One of Them, There Are Ten of Us
A Baroda Diary, 9–14 May 2007
Essays
A Note on the Re-worlding of "Contemporary Indian Art"
Rahul Bhattacharya is an independent art critic, historian, and curator in India
Essays
Beyond Vol. I, No. 1: Ctrl+P Journal of Contemporary Art
Flaudette May V. Datuin, Editor and Co-Founder of Ctrl+P Journal of Contemporary Art
Essays
. . . and Malaysia?
Michelle Antoinette on Malaysian art
Essays
Thais: Art, Culture, and the Growing Up
Chatvichai Promadhattavedi, Chairman of the Committee of Cultural Management Policy, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Essays
Myanmar Contemporary Art: Is There Such a Thing?
Jacquelyn Suter, Founder of Gold Leaf
Notes
The Near Future: Asian Art in the UK
Sally Lai, an independent curator and fellow of the Clore Leadership Programme
Essays
Curatorship and Criticism in Thailand: Between Promotion and Critique
David Teh, an independent writer and curator
Essays
Excursion: Group Exhibition of Contemporary Visual Artists in Hong Kong
Jeff Leung, a freelance art worker focusing on Hong Kong Visual Arts
Essays
An Art Market with Chinese Characteristics
Jonathan Napack, an independent art critic and Asia Advisor for Art Basel
Notes
Reviewing Reviews: Looking Back at 2005 DiAAAlogues
David Elliott provides "a review of reviews"
Essays
Report on the South East Asian Tour of documenta 12 Magazine
Keiko Sei, a writer, curator, and educator of independent media
Essays
Developing a Consequential Biennials Dialogue
Joe Martin Hill, Founder of Vision Connect
Essays
Asia Australia Arts Centre: Asian Traffic on the Move
Binghui Huangfu, Director of Asia Australia Art Centre
Notes
The "Great Leap Forward" of Culture in the Pearl River Delta
Hu Fang highlights some cultural and artistic developments in the constantly evolving PRD
Notes
Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre
Phatarawadee Phataranawik from The Nation, Bangkok's Independent Newspaper
Notes
Diving into Parallel Realities: Notes on The 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale
Kuroda Raiji, Chief Curator, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
Notes
Floating Towards Venice
Peter Nagy, artist, curator, and Director of Gallery Nature Morte, New Delhi
Notes
On My Way
Oscar Ho, Director of MoCA Shanghai
Essays
Ho Chi Minh City: Emerging Scenes, Emerging Scenarios
Sue Hadju, visual artist and Co-Founder & Co-Director of a little blah blah
Essays
Wicked WKCD
Matthew Turner, Professor at Edinburgh Napier University
Notes
In Residence in Beijing
Brian Wallace, AAA Academic Advisor and Director of Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
Notes
Release, Replica, and Intervention: Review of the 9th NIPAF Asian Series 2004
Jevijoe Vitug writes on performance art's refusal to be treated as a commodity
Essays
Contemporary Taiwanese Art in the Era of Contention
Lee Yulin is an art historian and curator
Notes
Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India
Chaitanya Sambrani, curator, and art historian
Essays
The Archive and Archiving: The Stuff of My Art
Judy Freya Sibayan is an artist, archivist, and lecturer
Essays
A Call for a Normalised Art History
Joan Kee examines how scholars handle non-Western artists
Essays
Criticism and “The Essence of Contemporary Asian Art”
Lee Weng Choy on emerging discourses that stake as well as contest claims about what "Asia" might mean
Essays
Layers (or the Pardon of a Narrow Glocal Vision)
Jaspar Lau provides short notes on Hong Kong artists’ initiatives, curatorship, and criticism
Essays
Our Modernities: Positioning Asian Art Now
Xenia Xenia Tetmajer von Przerwa is a Beijing-based art critic and sinologist
Notes
Hong Kong Biennial 2003
John Batten, AAA Advisor
Notes
Mori Art Museum | Happiness: A Survival Guide to Art and Life
Pamela Kember, AAA Director, art critic, and lecturer
Notes
Venice Biennale and Contemporary Asian Art: A Juror's Perspective
Vishakha Desai, Senior Vice-President and Director of the Museum of Asia Society
Essays
Publishing and Contemporary Asian Art
Susan Acret, art critic and former editor of Art Asia Pacific
Essays
The Charm of Foreign Parts
John Clark wonders whether modernity re-defined in Asia will be able to re-define modern art itself
Notes
A Guggenheim in Hong Kong?
Jane DeBevoise follows up on two talks recently held at AAA entitled “A Guggenheim in Hong Kong?”
Notes
Has the World Really Changed?
Lu Peng reflects on the loss of metaphysical richness in art
Notes
Notes from Brisbane
Rhana Devenport, AAA Academic Advisor, Senior Project Officer of the Asia Pacific Triennial, and Manager of the Australian Centre of Asia-Pacific Art
Notes
Plan for an Exhibition
Dr. Britta Erickson, AAA Academic Advisor, curator, and art historian
Notes
Notes from Taiwan
Chang Tsong-zung, AAA Co-Founder and Director
Conversations
Email Forum on Art and Social Change, May 2011
Kao Chien-hui, Valerie Doran, Rasheed Araeen, Naiza Khan, Raqs Media Collective, and Lee Weng Choy
Notes
Ideas is AAA's New Online Journal
Asia Art Archive publishes new essays, interviews, and curated journeys through our collections
Collection Spotlight
Shortlist | Alternative Publishing Platforms of Experimental Art in China: From the 1990s to Mid-2000s
Recommended readings on the role played by alternative publications in promoting experimental art in Mainland China from the 1990s to mid-2000s
Collection Spotlight
Shortlist | Art Periodicals in the Philippines, 1970s to 2000s
Recommended readings on the rise and fall of the art periodical scene in the Philippines from the 1970s to 2000s
Collection Spotlight
Shortlist | The Dispute Over Art Criticism: Politics, Public Affairs, and the Search for Identity (Hong Kong)
Recommended readings on the politics of art writing and criticism in Hong Kong since the 1970s
4 Resources
Mon, 23 Oct 2017
Departing from Socialist Realism: April Photo Society, 1979–1981
Chen Shuxia
Tue, 1 Jan 2013
Image and Phenomena: The Development of Video Art in China, 1988 to 1998
Katherine Grube | The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Greater China Research Grant 2013 Report
Thu, 1 Jan 2009
Mapping the Field of Indian Art Criticism: Post-independence
Vidya Shivadas | AAA Research Grant
Vietnam: The Making of the Modern and the Contemporary
WATCH: This talk unpacks and examines modern and contemporary art in Vietnam in relation its colonial history.
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