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Following a major renovation of our library in 2022, Asia Art Archive (AAA) continues to act as a gathering space for knowledge-sharing and artistic production with new research initiatives, exhibitions, talks, workshops, and performances. In March 2024, AAA presents programmes highlighting our ongoing research on the representation of archival time and tools for writing Hong Kong art history. Join us for our Annual Artist's Lecture by Raqs Media Collective, and view an exhibition that reconstructs a specific day in the history of our city.
Annual Artist’s Lecture: Raqs Media Collective
March 27, 2024, 11am–12pm (reception), 12–1:30pm (talk)
Hosted at AAA's library, this year's lecture welcomes Raqs Media Collective as guest speakers. Formed in New Delhi in 1992, Raqs Media Collective explores the intersection of contemporary art, philosophical speculation, and historical enquiry through films, publications, gatherings, lecture performances, and curatorial projects. In this lecture, Raqs Media Collective will reflect on their long-standing commitment to "kinetic contemplation," especially in regards to interruptions, distortions, shifts, twists, and flows in the perception and representation of time in daily life, archives, and imagined timelines. They ask: Does time always flow forward, from point A to point B? Can time flow in a spiral? How long is “now”?
Media partner: ArtReview
The Annual Artist's Lecture is generously supported by Mimi Brown & Alp Erçil, Mimi Chun & Chris Gradel, and Wendy Lee & Stephen Li. The lecture's brunch reception is supported by Aēsop.
Exhibition: Another Day in Hong Kong
March 18–August 31, 2024, Monday–Saturday, 10am–6pm
On view at AAA's library, Another Day in Hong Kong borrows from precedents established by Oscar Ho’s 1990 exhibition, One Day in Hong Kong, and expands upon it by exploring new dimensions. Using archival materials as its starting point, the exhibition reconstructs one day from Hong Kong's art historical past, examining what a day in and of art history could look like. Materials from AAA's Hong Kong Collections and other local archival resources are selected for display. The exhibition also invites six Hong Kong artists and art collectives to create new works, offering personalised perspectives that represent different generations. This exhibition is part of Recalling Disappearance: Hong Kong Contemporary Art.
Participating artists: KK Cheung, Florence Lam, Holly Lee, Lee Ka Sing, Ocean Leung, Siu King Chung, and To & Ling Are Covering Their Ears (To Yeuk and Lai Chun Ling)
Media partners: ArtReview, Being Hong Kong, Excohk, formless. p-articles, and Hong Kong Reminiscence
Another Day in Hong Kong is generously supported by the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme, Mimi Brown & Alp Erçil, Mimi Chun & Chris Gradel, and Wendy Lee & Stephen Li.
Recalling Disappearance: Hong Kong Contemporary Art is financially supported by the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The content of this programme does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
Online publication: LIKE A FEVER
Ongoing
LIKE A FEVER is AAA's new online publishing platform of art and cultural criticism—obsessive, moody, and oriented towards cure. We publish essays, conversations, poems, translations, artist interventions, and more. While we operate within a contemporary art archive, we also welcome writing about the aesthetics of films, video games, sports, food, laundry—basically, no topic is off limits if you're capable of deploying a critical yet personal sensibility, with compelling stakes that clarify narratives rather than simply "complicate" them. Read recent contributions by Larissa Pham, Ysabelle Cheung, Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross, and more.
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.
