Asia Art Archive presents a series of panel discussions titled ‘Unpacking Global’ to enquire into the different registers in which ideas of the ‘global’ work. In each of the next three years, AAA will examine one element of ‘global’ art and its modes of circulation, display, and enquiry. In 2013, AAA starts with the notion of ‘form,’ exploring the impact that the ‘global’ has on artistic practice, in conversation with artists from around the world. The AAA Burger Collection Keynote Lecture, honouring a significant voice in the field, will this year feature the influential Delhi-based critic, curator, and scholar Geeta Kapur.

Venue: N106-108, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Expo Drive, Wanchai, Hong Kong

Panel discussion: Abstraction
Thursday 23 May 5:30–7:30pm
Byron Kim (New York), Seher Shah (New York), Wang Gangle (Beijing)
Moderator: Joan Kee Assistant Professor, History of Art, University of Michigan

Panel discussion: The Document 
Friday 24 May 5–6:30pm
Abbas Kiarostami (Tehran), Linda Lai (Hong Kong), Shooshie Sulaiman (Kuala Lumpur) 
Moderator: Hammad Nasar, Head of Research and Programmes, Asia Art Archive

AAA Burger Collection Keynote Lecture: Geeta Kapur/Citizen Artist: Forms of Address 
Saturday 25 May 5:30–7:30pm

Talk: Vivan Sundaram: artist, activist/curator 
Friday 24 May 11am–noon
Venue: A Space, Asia Art Archive, 10/F Hollywood Centre, 233 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

Free admission, please register: registration@aaa.org.hk
For more information: www.aaa.org.hk/unpackingglobal

Documentation of all talks will be available for viewing via AAA’s Collection Online and at the Archive.

In conjunction with the Hong Kong edition of Art Basel. Sponsored by Home Affairs Bureau, the Government of Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region; Bloomberg; and the Ritz Carlton Hong Kong. Funded by Burger Collection. Special thanks to Yana & Stephen Peel. Media partners: ArtAsiaPacific and Timeout Hong Kong.

Open Platform 
23–26 May 2013, noon–5:30pm 
Booth P1, Hong Kong edition of Art Basel

Open Platform is an extension of AAA’s endeavour to enable new thinking in the field, inviting cultural practitioners to use the Archive’s space and network to hold open meetings that will further their ongoing projects, catalyse new ones, or simply be an opportunity to make connections.

Meetings (and their hosts) include:
Artistic Research in the Economies of ‘Post’: Elaine W Ho
Art Ecology and Education: Ting Wing Yan Vivian & Emma Watts, Hong Kong Baptist University
Asian Art Worlds/Western Gatekeepers: Jonathan Harris, University of Southampton
Comparative Contemporaries: Lee Weng Choy 
Contemporary Reframing of Ink: Britta Erickson 
A Generation: Cross-Cultural Connections: Zoë Marden & Julia Marchand
Institutional Change in Post-2000 Asia: Menene Gras, Casa Asia
Mapping Asia: Claire Hsu & Chantal Wong, Asia Art Archive 
Meet the Parents: Clara Cheung & Gum Cheng, C&G Artpartment
Vernacular Art Education in Asia: Sophia McKinnon
The Gallerist Programme: Ann Demeester, De Appel Arts Centre
Writing Across Cultures: Keith Wallace, Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art

More details including a list of participants and meeting timetable will be updated on the AAA website.

Booth supported by Elaine and Anto Marden
Design Partners: Art Lab x Milkxhake

About Asia Art Archive 
AAA is an independent non-profit organisation in Hong Kong dedicated to documenting the recent history of art in Asia within an international context. Founded in 2000, AAA is widely regarded as one of the leading public resources in the field. AAA’s collection is accessible free of charge from AAA’s physical space, online catalogue, and the Collection Online. Through public programmes, research, and residencies AAA instigates critical thinking and dialogue that generate new ideas and works that continually reshape the Archive itself. 
www.aaa.org.hk

 

Asia Art Archive (AAA) initiated Open Platform in 2011 for cultural practitioners to present their projects on a global stage. This year, as ongoing cultural partner of Art Basel’s Hong Kong show, AAA’s Open Platform transitions from stage to booth by offering a platform for researchers, curators, writers, artists, students, academics, and art organisations to hold open meetings that might further their ongoing projects, catalyse new ones, or simply be an opportunity to make connections.

AAA will provide coffee and tea to fuel discussions, and applicants may request the use of AAA’s rolodex to reach out to people they wish to invite. Meetings will not be recorded, and although applicants are free to invite AAA staff, there is no obligation to do so. The only requirements are that topics of discussion reference the concerns of Asia Art Archive and its collection (please see the list below for a non-exhaustive list of such topics) and that applicants are willing to contribute material to enrich AAA’s collection, a free resource supporting the study of contemporary art in Asia. Applicants are expected to cover their own travel and accommodation costs.

Some key topics relating to AAA’s ongoing projects and concerns include (in alpha order): 

Abstraction, the archive/the document, art writing, artist-run spaces, the contemporary, exhibition histories, geographies, globalisation, institutions, keywords, mapping, oral history, pedagogy, performance art, periodicals, timelines, the vernacular

But we like surprises.

Application guidelines
Please submit:
–Proposal outlining the topic of your meeting (no more than one A4 page written in English).
–Participant list—divided between those you know and up to three people you need AAA’s assistance to reach. AAA will make its best effort to initiate the conversation.
–A list of material (books, periodicals, film, ephemera, etc.)—a maximum of ten items—from AAA’s library that relate to your discussion topic to be made available during your meeting as reference. Please visit www.aaa.org.hk to browse or search the online catalogue of AAA’s collection.
–A proposed list of material that you and members of your discussion wish to add to AAA’s collection.

Proposals should be e-mailed to submissions@aaa.org.hk.

Application deadline: 12pm (HKT), 19 April 2013

Successful applicants will be contacted via email by the end of April and announced on AAA’s website in the beginning of May. Only selected applicants will be contacted. Each meeting will be allocated a 90-minute slot during the course of Art Basel’s Hong Kong Show (23–26 May 2013).

Asia Art Archive is an independent non-profit organisation dedicated to documenting the recent history of contemporary art in Asia within an international context. Founded in 2000, AAA is one of the world’s leading public resources for contemporary Asian art and it continues to grow through systematic research and information gathering. Comprised of 85% donated material, AAA is committed to creating a collection that belongs to the public; accessible free of charge on-site and searchable online, the collection is now accessible globally via the Collection Online, which launched in June 2012. More than a static repository waiting to be discovered, AAA is a proactive platform, instigating critical thinking and dialogue that generate new ideas and works that continually reshape the Archive itself.

Co-presented by Asia Art Archive and Mobile M+ of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority

On 22 January 2013, Beijing-based artist Song Dong will open his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. Titled Song Dong: 36 Calendars, the exhibition is co-presented by Asia Art Archive (AAA) and Mobile M+, West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA).

Conceived and initiated during his residency at AAA in October 2011 and January 2012, Song spent more than a year realising this ambitious participatory project which involves the re-writing of the last 36 years of history (1978–2013) from his personal perspective in the form of 36 years of hand-drawn annual household wall calendars. Each of the 432 months is accompanied by a sketch of a significant historical event, relaying Song’s longtime interest in socio-political history, individual experience, and art history.

During the exhibition opening, Song invites over 400 members of the public to collaborate with him to complete the project by adding, changing, or editing individual months according to their own memories of historical events. Alongside Song’s version of the calendar, participants’ creations will add another layer to the artwork and will be on display throughout the exhibition from 22 January to 8 February 2013, and online after the exhibition.

36 Calendars is co-presented by Asia Art Archive as a project developed during its annual artist residency, a programme that seeks to activate its public collection of material in unconventional ways through interventions by artists, and Mobile M+, a series of pre-opening ‘nomadic’ exhibitions curated by M+ of the WKCDA, Hong Kong’s future museum for visual culture. This exhibition platform allows the museum to explore different possibilities for engaging the public without the presence of a building—planned for completion in late 2017.

Public programmes and guided tours 
A series of public and educational programmes around the project will take place at ArtisTree during the exhibition. Guided tours are also available on weekends. Please click here for the full schedule and more details.

Song Dong in conversation with Ou Ning, artist, curator, Chief Editor of Chutzpah!
Saturday 26 January
Mandarin with English interpretation | 4–5pm

Panel discussion 
Saturday 26 January
English and Cantonese | 1–3pm 
Speakers: Professor David Clarke, Department of Fine Arts, the University of Hong Kong | Liu Heung Shing, Beijing-based photojournalist | Carol Yinghua Lu, Beijing-based critic and curator

SONG DONG (b. 1966, Beijing) is one of the most important contemporary artists working today. He is a Visiting Professor at Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing Film Academy, and Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Since the early 1990s, Song’s artistic practice has focused on video, installation, performance, photography, and theatre, as well as curating contemporary art exhibitions. The artist participated in Documenta 13 in 2012. He received the Young Artist Award from the UNESCO/ASCHBERG Bursaries for Artists Programme in 2000, the Grand Award from the 2006 Gwangju Biennale, the Annual Award from the Fifth Artron Art China in 2010, and a Certificate of Honor from the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco in 2011.

Asia Art Archive is an independent non-profit organisation dedicated to documenting the recent history of contemporary art in Asia within an international context. Founded in 2000, AAA is one of the world’s leading public resources for contemporary Asian art and it continues to grow through systematic research and information gathering. Comprised of 85% donated material, AAA is committed to creating a collection that belongs to the public; accessible free of charge on-site and searchable online, the collection is now accessible globally via the Collection Online, which launched in June 2012. More than a static repository waiting to be discovered, AAA is a proactive platform, instigating critical thinking and dialogue that generate new ideas and works that continually reshape the Archive itself.

M+ is the new museum for visual culture in Hong Kong, as part of West Kowloon Cultural District, focusing on 20th- and 21st-century art, design, architecture, popular culture, and the moving image. From day one, M+ is set to develop content from a Hong Kong perspective, the perspective of the ‘now,’ and with a global vision, expanding to other regions of China, Asia and the rest of the world. Mobile M+ is a series of pop-up “nomadic” exhibitions curated by M+. Installed across various locations in the future neighbourhood of M+, it marks the beginning of the museum’s venture into programming, to engage the public, before the completion of the building in late 2017.

Enquiries: 36calendars@aaa.org.hk / +852 2815 1112

Asia Art Archive (AAA), an independent non-profit documentation, research, and ideas platform for contemporary art, announces today that this year’s fundraising auction and dinner will take place on Saturday 24 November, with a preview of works from 20 to 23 November at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, giving art collectors access to a range of 73 significant works by internationally recognised artists.

AAA’s annual auction is a major source of support for its operations, programmes and endowment. In 2011, the auction raised funds towards AAA’s new website and Collection Online, enabling global access to AAA’s extensive digital collection.

This year, AAA continues to raise funds toward its endowment goal of USD 6.5 million which provides ongoing support for its research and programmes, as well as a long-term strategy for its growing extensive collection of physical and digital material documenting the recent history of contemporary art in Asia. The endowment campaign was launched in 2007 and to date the Archive has raised USD 4.3 million towards its goal. 

AAA is extremely grateful to the wide support from artists and galleries who share AAA’s mission of creating a collection belonging to the public, instigating critical thinking and dialogue that generate new ideas.

2012 auction highlights include a seminal limited edition work by leading Chinese artist Song Dong produced during his residency at AAA, a light sculpture from Korean artist Haegue Yang, documentation of ‘Cage Piece’ from Hsieh Tehching‘s One Year Performance, an early sketch by American artist George Condo, a painting from established Chinese artist Liu Wei, a photograph from American photographer Taryn Simon‘s most recent series, a seminal work from Chinese artist Wang Gongxin, a cardboard painting from Lee Kit‘s recent series, an oil on canvas by Duan Jianyu, a work by Hong Kong artist Wilson Shieh, a reverse painting by Nalini Malani, and a set of two paintings by Chinese abstract artist Ding Yi.

See the 2012 AAA Auction catalogue at www.aaa.org.hk/fundraiser2012 from 1 November onwards.

The dinner is sold out but all works will be on view at Sotheby’s Hong Kong from 20–23 November or online. AAA accepts absentee or phone bids.

AAA is grateful to the following artists and galleries who have generously donated works:
Au Hoi Lam, Aung Kyaw Htet, Rina Banerjee, Konstantin Bessmertny, BOOMOON, Roberto Chabet, Chen Shu-chu, Chen Wei, Heman Chong, George Condo, Ding Yi, Duan Jianyu, Anis Ekowindu, Tehching Hsieh, Hu Fang, Hu Xiangqian, Geraldine Javier, Jin Shan, Jing Kewen, Jr, Tilo Kaiser, Kwan Sheung Chi, Lam Tung Pang, Janet Laurence, Lee Dongi, Lee Dong-jae, Lee Hun-chung, Jung Lee, Lee Kit, Michael Lee, Leung Chi Wo, Joey Leung Ka Yin, Li Lang, Liang Quan, Liao Guohe, Liu Wei, Sandrine Llouquet, Ivy Ma, Nalini Malani, MAP Office, Jin Meyerson, Sandeep Mukherjee, Vik Muniz, Nan Chao, Maleonn, Manish Nai, Annysa Ng, Nyein Chan Su (NCS), Talha Rathore, Tsherin Sherpa, Wilson Shieh, Taryn Simon, Song Dong, Peter Steinhauer, Sun Xun, Vivan Sundaram, Amikam Toren, Charwei Tsai, Tsang Tsou Choi, Hiroki Tsukuda, Joao Vasco Paiva, Wang Youshen, Wang Gongxin, Wei Dong, anothermountainman, Haegue Yang, Yang Jiechang, Yang Zhichao, Yuan Yuan, Zhang Dun, and Zhu Jinshi.

10 Chancery Lane, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Anna Ning Fine Arts, Art Experience Gallery, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Blindspot Gallery, Boers-Li Gallery, the Cat Street Gallery, Chambers Fine Arts, Contemporary by Angela Li, Edouard Malingue, Gagosian Gallery, Galerie Lelong, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Galerie Perrotin, Galerie Quynh, Gallery 2, Gallery EXIT, Gana Art Gallery, Gandhara Art Gallery, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong Creates, Karin Weber Gallery, Kukje Gallery, Kwai Fung Hin, Leeahn Gallery, Leo Xu Projects, Nanzuka, ONE AND J. Gallery, Osage Gallery, Pearl Lam Fine Arts, Platform China, Project 88, Red Rock Studio, Rossi and Rossi, Schoeni Art Gallery, Sean Kelly Gallery, ShanghART Gallery, Simon Lee Gallery, Sin Sin Fine Arts, Thavibu Gallery, Tin-Aw Gallery, TKG+, Valentine Willie Fine Art, and Vitamin Creative Space.

About Asia Art Archive
AAA is dedicated to documenting the recent history of art in Asia within an international context. Founded in 2000, AAA is widely regarded as one of the leading public resources in the field. AAA’s collection is accessible free of charge from AAA’s physical space, the online catalogue, and the Collection Online. Through public programmes, AAA instigates critical thinking and dialogue that generate new ideas and works that continually reshape the Archive itself.

Asia Art Archive
11/F Hollywood Centre 
233 Hollywood Rd
Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
info@aaa.org.hk
www.aaa.org.hk

 

 

Asia Art Archive is pleased to welcome Hammad Nasar as Head of Research and Programmes. Working closely with AAA’s Executive Director, Nasar will play a major strategic role in developing AAA’s collection and guiding its growth as a platform for research. He will focus on developing initiatives and programmes that generate new thinking around the material in the collection and about the art of the region. Nasar will step down as Director of Green Cardamom, and will assume his new role leading AAA Research at the end of September 2012.

AAA Research is the platform from which AAA conducts research, develops residencies, produces publications and online projects, and initiates exhibitions related to its research. AAA’s Research activities help to define the Archive’s overall framework and act as a catalyst in expanding the possibilities of the material in the Archive beyond the walls of the collection. Through thematic archiving projects and research grants, AAA’s Research team works closely with the library to identify areas of priority and oversee the development of the collection. The Research team also helps to develop public programmes, including symposia, workshops, talks, and lectures, that serve to introduce as wide an audience as possible to this rich resource, bring new readings to the Archive, and continually reshape and redefine the idea of the ‘archive’ itself.

Comprised of Archive staff in Hong Kong and researchers currently based in Baroda, Beijing, Delhi, Manila, Seoul, Taipei, and Tokyo, the Research team works directly with regional art communities to locate and preserve rare material, conduct interviews, develop programmes, and document key events and exhibitions integral to the development of art in the region.

About Hammad Nasar
Formerly based in London, Hammad Nasar is a curator and writer, and co-founder of Green Cardamom, a not-for-profit organisation with a focus on art from South Asia and a commitment to exhibition-led enquiry. He was a Fellow of the UK’s Clore Leadership Programme and Research Fellow at Goldsmiths College, London. He has lectured at, curated exhibitions for, and contributed to public programmes at numerous institutions internationally, including the Sindh Museum in Pakistan, the British Museum, Manchester Art Gallery, SOAS, and Whitechapel Gallery in the UK, and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (CT), Asian Art Museum (CA), and the Pacific Asia Museum (CA) in the USA. He most recently organised an exhibition and symposium at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University (NY) entitled ‘Lines of Control,’ part of an ongoing project that looks at the idea of partitions as a productive space—where nations are made.

About Asia Art Archive
Asia Art Archive is an independent non-profit organisation dedicated to documenting the recent history of contemporary art in Asia within an international context. Founded in 2000, AAA is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading public resources for contemporary art in Asia and it continues to grow through a systematic programme of research and critical engagement. AAA is committed to creating a collection that belongs to the public; the collection is accessible free of charge from AAA’s physical space and searchable from anywhere in the world via its online catalogue. In order to make more of its collection available to the public, AAA recently launched the Collection Online with an initial batch of 3,000 items drawn from five Special Collections. Through public, educational, and residential programmes, AAA instigates critical thinking and dialogue that generate new ideas and works that continually reshape the Archive itself. Please visit www.aaa.org.hk for more details.

 

 

Initial launch makes more than 3000 items—including images, video documentation, and primary source material—available worldwide for the first time, with new material continuously uploaded.

Asia Art Archive has launched its new website featuring the Collection Online, a continuously growing digital archive of primary source material culled by individual practitioners and researchers in cities across Asia. Making thousands of previously unavailable images, correspondences, ephemera, and documentation of talks and interviews available to the public for the first time, this worldwide platform for research has the capacity to enrich and challenge the way art history is written and shared. Toward its belief in preservation through sharing, AAA is focused on increasing digital access to the information in its collection and connectivity with other knowledge networks and platforms.

AAA’s collection currently contains over 34,000 records comprised of hundreds of thousands of physical and digital items, including books and catalogues, audiovisual material, rare periodicals, primary source material, and the Special Collections (digitised personal collections and focused research projects that enrich the recent histories of the region with divergent micro-narratives). Approximately 300,000 digitised items will eventually be made available through the Collection Online, which launched with an initial 3000 items in June. The Collection Online is a natural extension of AAA’s archival activities and key to its vision of accessibility for all. The digital material in the Collection Online is carefully interlinked and can be navigated in various ways.

AAA aims to make available online as much of the material it houses as possible. The initial launch of the Collection Online provides access to material from AAA’s talk programmes and three Special Collections. These include Another Life: The Digitised Personal Archive of Geeta Kapur and Vivan Sundaram; The Chabet Archive: Covering Fifty Years of the Artist’s Materials; and The Mao Xuhui Collection, The Zhang Peili Archive, and The Zhang Xiaogang Collection, all of which are part of Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980–1990. The material in the Collection Online will steadily increase over time to offer multiple entry points into the recent histories of the region.

AAA has also launched Field Notes, a tri-annual bilingual (English and Chinese) e-journal with The And: An Expanded Questionnaire on the Contemporary. This inaugural issue, with contributions from over 40 scholars, critics, curators, and artists—including Rasheed Aaraeen, Senake Bandaranayake, Kurt Chan, David Clarke, Patrick Flores, Gao Shiming, Tapati Guha Thakurta, Atreyee Gupta, Hu Fang, Joan Kee, Naiza Khan, Hyunjin Kim, Martina Koppel-Yang, Lee Wengchoy, Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez, Iola Lenzi, Raqs Media Collective, Vidya Shivadas, Karen Smith, David The, and Reiko Tomii—addresses a theme that is central not only to AAA, but is one of the most vexing topics in recent years: the notion of the ‘contemporary in art,’ with specificity to the contexts of Asia. Field Notes is downloadable in print-friendly PDF format.

AAA’s digitisation project is sponsored by The Hong Kong Jockey Club and ARTstor.

About Asia Art Archive
Asia Art Archive is a non-profit organisation dedicated to documenting the recent history of contemporary art in Asia within an international context. Founded in 2000, AAA is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading public resources for contemporary Asian art and it continues to grow through a systematic programme of research. AAA is committed to creating a collection that belongs to the public; the collection is accessible free of charge from AAA’s physical space and searchable from anywhere in the world via its online catalogue. Through public, educational, and residential programmes, AAA instigates critical thinking and dialogue that generate new ideas and works that continually reshape the Archive itself. Please visit www.aaa.org.hk for more details.

Backroom Conversations
As the official Education Partner of ART HK since its 2008 inception, Asia Art Archive once again presents Backroom Conversations, a series of discussions in which leading experts and practitioners in the contemporary art field consider key issues affecting the art world.

Whose History?
Thursday 17 May 3:30–5:30pm
We have yet to develop methodologies that take multiple localised art histories into consideration. This panel looks at parallel artistic developments under the concept of contemporaneity.
Iftikhar Dadi Associate Professor and Department Chair, Department of Art, Cornell University, New York; Marian Pastor Roces critic and curator, Manila; Manuel Borja-Villel Director, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Moderator: Reiko Tomii Co-founder of PoNHA-GenKon, New York

Burger Collection Keynote Lecture: Okwui Enwezor
Thursday 17 May 6–8pm
Burger Collection Keynote Lecture recognises an individual who has made significant contributions to the field. This year, AAA honours Director of Haus der Kunst, curator, art critic, writer, poet, educator, and art historian Okwui Enwezor.

Open Platform
Friday 18 May 1:30–3:30pm
This programme offers a 28-minute platform for selected cultural producers and organisers to present projects and ideas that demand to be heard. A panel of judges, including Alan Cruickshank from Broadsheet, Kao Tzu-Chin from ARTCO, Elaine Ng from ArtAsiaPacific, and Mark Rappolt from Art Review has selected four presentations based on diversity of content, originality, format, and relevance to today’s world.
Presenters: DOXA Hong Kong, London, Paris; Suresh Jayaram Bangalore; Parallel Lab Hong Kong; Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries Seoul

The Collection as Social Sculpture
Friday 18 May 4–6pm
This panel will ask what might happen when a private collection expands upon common practices to become more broadly enmeshed in the social fabric. What transformations are necessary for a collection to become a social medium?
Rahaab Allana Curator, Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, New Delhi; Toby Kamps Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Menil Collection, Houston; Fram Kitagawa General Director of Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial and Setouchi International Art Festival
Moderator: Daniel Kurjakovic Curator/Head of Program, Burger Collection, Hong Kong

The Decade Revisited…
Saturday 19 May 2–4pm 
AAA asks art professionals to reflect on the past 10 years through the introduction and consideration of three key works or projects.
Hans Ulrich Obrist Co-director of Exhibitions & Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, London; Gayatri Sinha critic and curator, New Delhi; June Yap independent curator, Singapore
Moderator: Inti Guerrero Associate Artistic Director of TEOR/éTica, San José, Costa Rica

Artists Through the Lens
Saturday 19 May 4:30–6:30pm
Cao Fei artist, Beijing; Hu Fang Co-founder and Artistic Director, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou
Chen Chieh-jen artist, Taipei; Amy Cheng curator, Taipei
Tam Wai Ping artist, Hong Kong; Janet Chan Assistant Head of Research+, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong

Uncatalogued: the Case of Oil Street Artist Village
Booth Z1 at ART HK 12
AAA presents “Uncatalogued: the Case of Oil Street Artist Village,” a project that revisits the short-lived artist village in Hong Kong by reinterpreting/performing a collection of archival materials about this moment in recent history. This two-part exhibition is on view simultaneously at AAA’s Booth Z1 at ART HK 12 and at AAA’s physical premise on Hollywood Road until 8 July 2012, inviting a wider interpretation of the material with talks by artist Paul Chan and local storyteller Yuen Che Hung.

Why artist groups form and why they fall: a theory
Talk by Paul Chan, New York-based artist
Friday 18 May 11–12pm (English)
Venue: Asia Art Archive, 11/F, Hollywood Centre, 233 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

Storytelling by Yuen Che Hung, Hong Kong-based storyteller
Saturday 19 May 1:45pm & 4:15pm; Sunday 20 May 2pm & 3pm (Cantonese)
Venue: Booth Z1, ART HK 12

AAA’s booth is funded by Burger Collection, and supported by 84000communications, ART HK, and Pico.

Satellite Programmes
Venue: N106-108, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre

The Royal Academy of Arts In Conversation with artist Mariko Mori
Thursday 17 May 12–1pm
Speakers: Mariko Mori artist; Charles Saumarez Smith Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts; Richard Chang collector and Trustee of the Royal Academy Trust

Sharjah Biennial 11: A New Cultural Cartography
Thursday 17 May 2–3pm
Speakers: Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi President, Sharjah Art Foundation; Yuko Hasegawa Curator of Sharjah Biennial 11
Moderator: Oscar Ho Director of the MA Programme in Cultural Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong

‘Reactivation’ in Shanghai – three talks by curators of the 2012 Shanghai Biennale
Saturday 19 May 11:30–1pm
Speakers: Johnson Chang curator, Guest Professor of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou; Director of Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong; Jens Hoffman Director, the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, California College of the Arts, San Francisco; Qiu Zhijie Professor of School of Inter-media Art, China Art Academy, Hangzhou

Intelligence Squared Asia Debate: “Contemporary Art Excludes the 99 Percent”
Friday 18 May 2012 6.30–8pm
Venue: N101, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre
Speakers: Ben Lewis UK documentary film-maker, author, and art critic; Paul Chan artist; Joseph Kosuth artist; Elizabeth Ann Macgregor Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Moderator: Hung Huang commentator on culture, founder of Brand New China
Tickets: HK300 through HK Ticketing (www.hkticketing.com / +852 3128 8288)

About AAA
Asia Art Archive is an independent non-profit organisation dedicated to documenting the recent history of contemporary art in Asia within an international context. AAA is committed to creating a collection that belongs to the public; accessible free of charge on-site and searchable online, it will soon be accessible globally via the Collection Online, which launches in June. More than a static repository waiting to be discovered, AAA is a proactive platform, instigating critical thinking and dialogue that generate new ideas and works that continually reshape the Archive itself.

Asia Art Archive (AAA), the region’s foremost public platform for research and dialogue, will hold its annual fundraising auction and dinner on 19 November 2011, with a preview of works at Sotheby’s Hong Kong from 14 to 18 November. The annual auction is a major source of support for AAA’s operations and public programmes, giving art collectors access to a range of significant works by 68 internationally recognised artists.

One of AAA’s priorities in the past few years has been working toward making its collection more accessible to the public. In 2010, AAA began work on a new website, which will launch in spring 2012 with the Collection Online. Funds raised this year will support this new digital platform, enabling global access for all to much of AAA’s extensive collection on contemporary art.

Auction highlights include an ink painting by Wu Guanzhong dated to the early 80′s, a TV installation by Nam June Paik, a work from the Flower series by Takashi Murakami, a photo-installation by Raqs Media Collective, a set of prints responding to the serial bomb in Bombay by Nalini Malani, a photo-installation by Gu Dexin, a print by Zeng Fanzhi, and a set of posters entitled Hong Kong Art Archive produced by Wong Wai Yin during her residency at AAA.

The dinner is sold out but all works will be on view at Sotheby’s Hong Kong from 14–18 November or online. AAA accepts absentee or phone bids.

Works were generously donated by the following artists and galleries:
Nadim Abbas, Dhruvi Acharya, Au Hoi Lam, Bae Bien U, Simon Birch, Cao Fei, Roberto Chabet, Chen Jiagang, Choksi Neha, Gu Dexin, Shilpa Gupta, Ho Sin Tung, Candida Höfer, Hu Fang, Callum Innes, Jiang Pengyi, Sosa Joseph, Misaki Kawai, Aisha Khalid, Naiza H Khan, Koh Sang Woo, Lam Yau Sum, Lee Kyong Mi, Jung Lee, Nikki S Lee, Li Qing, Lin Tianmiao, Lin Xue, Liu Dahong, Liu Hung, Liu Xiaodong, Nalini Malani, Mok Wai Hong, Takashi Murakami, Wawi Navarroza, Trung Nguyen, Oh Seung Yul, Donna Ong, Nam June Paik, Pak Sheung Chuen, Vijai Patchineelam, Sopheap Pich, Agus Baqul Purnomo, Qiu Zhijie, Marc Quinn, Raqs Media Collective, Rhee Kibong, T V Santhosh, Mithu Sen, Nilima Sheikh, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Shi Jing, Stephanie Sin, Donghyun Son, Vivan Sundaram, Chintan Upadhyay, Clairelynn Uy, Wang Keping, Wen Ling, Entang Wilharso, Wong Wai Yin, Wu Guanzhong, Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries, Zeng Fanzhi, Zhao Gang, Zheng Guogu, Zhou Jinhua

10 Chancery Lane, ARNDT Berlin, AW Asia, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Blindspot Gallery, Cais Gallery, Chambers Fine Art, Chemould Prescott Road, Contemporary by Angela Li, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Gagosian Gallery, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke Gallery, Galerie Quynh, GalleriaContinua, Gallery 2, Gallery EXIT, Gana Art, Gandhara Art, Grotto Fine Arts, Hanart TZ Gallery, Kukje Gallery, LeeAhn Gallery, ONE AND J. Gallery, Osage Gallery, Project 88, Rossi & Rossi, Sakshi Gallery, Schoeni Art Gallery, Seven Art Limited Gallery, Silverlens Galleries, Sin Sin Fine Art, Take Ninagawa, The Cat Street Gallery, The Guild Art Gallery, THE MINISTRY OF ART, Tin-aw Art Management Inc., Vadehra Gallery, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Vitamin Creative Space, White Cube

About Asia Art Archive
Asia Art Archive is a non-profit organisation dedicated to documenting the recent history of contemporary art in Asia within an international context. Founded in 2000, AAA has compiled an extensive publicly accessible collection of materials, which continues to grow through a systematic programme of research and information gathering. AAA is committed to creating a collection that belongs to the public; currently accessible free of charge from AAA’s physical space and searchable via its online catalogue, much of the archive will be gradually accessible from anywhere in the world via the Collection Online in 2012. More than a static repository, AAA also presents public, educational, and residential programmes, instigating critical thinking and dialogue that generate new ideas and works that continually reshape the Archive itself.

Asia Art Archive
11/F Hollywood Centre
233 Hollywood Rd
Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
info@aaa.org.hk
www.aaa.org.hk

Asia Art Archive is a non-profit organisation dedicated to documenting the recent history of contemporary Asian art within an international context. As a proactive platform for instigating critical thinking and dialogue and bringing people together, AAA presents diverse public and educational programmes for a wide range of audiences. AAA is now seeking a senior level Head of Research+ and AAA Programmes to develop and oversee research strategies for AAA’s collection and oversee the coordination of the organisation’s programmes.

The Head of Research + and AAA Programmes will perform a wide range of duties including the following:

• Developing research strategies for AAA’s collection (a research-driven collection)
• Working closely with the Library Department on collection development
• Building and leading the Research+ Department
• Overseeing AAA’s regional researchers
• Planning ongoing, annual, and one-time programmes
• Working closely with the Executive Director and AAA team to articulate project proposals and budgets
• Developing new initiatives to support AAA’s mission
• Assisting with funding proposals and reports for funders
• Managing programme and departmental budgets
• Developing programme-related materials
• Managing communication with collaborating organisations
• Supervising programme staff

The ideal candidate will:

Build Relationships: Develop networks with peer organisations on an international level and act as an ambassador for AAA in the public eye.
Communicate Effectively: Speak, listen, and write in a clear, thorough, and timely manner.
Be Creative/Innovative: Develop new research strategies and programmes around the collection and AAA’s mission, and improve existing ones.
Be Proactive: Anticipate and respond to the needs of internal and external colleagues to meet or exceed their expectations.
Foster Teamwork: Work cooperatively and effectively with others to set goals, resolve problems diplomatically, and make decisions that enhance organisational effectiveness.
Be Flexible: Have a positive attitude and a willingness to put in extra time after office hours.
Make Decisions: Assess situations to determine importance and make clear, timely decisions.
Be Organised: Set priorities, implement action plans, develop a work schedule, and track activities.

The ideal candidate will possess the following Professional Qualifications:

• An M.A. or Ph.D. degree in a related field
• 8-10 years experience in the field
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and database management
• Bilingual English/Chinese or other Asian languages

To apply, please send a cover letter and resume with salary requirements, as well as a list of three professional references to work@aaa.org.hk
Closing date for applications: 4 July 2011
Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

About AAA:

Asia Art Archive is a non-profit organisation dedicated to documenting the recent history of contemporary Asian art. Founded a decade ago, AAA has grown from a single bookshelf to more than 32,000 items. It is now the most comprehensive collection of research materials in the field – including books and catalogues, audiovisual material, rare periodicals, and individual personal archives—and it continues to grow through a systematic programme of research and information gathering. The collection is accessible free of charge from AAA’s physical space and searchable from anywhere in the world via its online catalogue (www.aaa.org.hk). AAA has presented over 150 different projects and programmes to include talks, workshops, symposia, residencies and community outreach.