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Asia Art Archive (AAA) has opened its expanded library as a gathering space for knowledge-sharing and artistic production. In March 2023, Asia Art Archive will present talks and exhibitions that highlight our ongoing research initiative on art collectives and independent art spaces.
Join us for our Annual Artist’s Lecture by Ade Darmawan and farid rakun from ruangrupa, view an exhibition on art collectives in Asia, and visit our display with newly commissioned works by six Hong Kong artists responding to AAA Collections in our booth at Art Basel Hong Kong.
Annual Artist’s Lecture: ruangrupa
March 22, 2023, 11am–12:30pm
Hosted at AAA, this year’s Annual Artist’s Lecture welcomes Ade Darmawan and farid rakun from ruangrupa as our guest speakers. ruangrupa is a Jakarta-based contemporary art collective that provides platforms for exhibitions, workshops, critical thinking, and research. Most recently, ruangrupa provided collective artistic direction based on the core values of lumbung for documenta fifteen in Kassel, Germany. In this conversation, Darmawan and rakun reflect on the historical conditions that make independent art spaces necessary, as well as recent debates on collectivity and resource sharing in the arts.
Exhibition: The Collective School
Through April 1, 2023, Monday–Saturday, 10am–6pm
On view at AAA’s CCG Library, The Collective School is an exhibition and a series of programmes that explore artist-driven and collective models of learning. Developed in collaboration with the Jakarta-based collective Gudskul, The Collective School presents Gudskul and a cohort of collectives’ responses to materials from the archives of other collectives found in AAA’s Collections. What makes collectivity necessary for survival today, and how do collectives remain adaptive and relevant to their respective contexts?
Participants: ba-bau AIR (Hanoi), BiSCA (Bishkek), Gudskul (Jakarta), Load na Dito (Quezon City), Omnispace (Bandung), Pangrok Sulap (Sabah), Salikhain Kolektib (Quezon City), Scutoid Coop (Kaohsiung), and Yayasan Tonjo Foundation (Yogyakarta)
Local Partners: Floating Projects (Hong Kong) and Rooftop Institute (Hong Kong)
The Collective School is generously supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, as well as Wendy Lee & Stephen Li, and Virginia & Wellington Yee.
Exhibition: Life-Size, or Not: Another Portrait of Hong Kong Art
March 21–25, 2023
As a Cultural Partner of Art Basel Hong Kong, AAA presents an exhibition that invites six Hong Kong–based artists to create a “portrait” of a fellow artist of their choosing, using materials from AAA’s Collections. The selection criteria was subject to the whims of the invited artist. One chose an artist known more as a writer; another attempted to portray an artist who doesn’t want to be remembered. Every pair is deeply personal—and this personal link, in turn, informs the portraits themselves. Together, they point to that which exceeds the logic of the archive, and challenge the way we write art histories about Hong Kong.
Artists: C&G, Leung Chi Wo, Tozer Pak Sheung Chuen, Wong Wai Yin, Ricky Yeung Sau Churk, and Samson Young
Media Partners: ArtReview, formless. p-articles, and Ocula
Asia Art Archive is an independent non-profit organisation initiated in 2000 in response to the urgent need to document and make accessible the multiple recent histories of art in the region. With one of the most valuable collections of material on art freely available from its website and onsite library, AAA builds tools and communities to collectively expand knowledge through research, residency, and educational programmes.
