The (Im)possibility of Art Archives

This edited volume aims to fill the gap in the research, juxtaposition, and focused discussions in the existing literature on art archives in Asia. Most of the archives included in the book are independent and initiated by individuals, folk groups, or non-profit organizations. In this book, one can trace the dynamics and self-generative capacity in this particular historical an...

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This edited volume aims to fill the gap in the research, juxtaposition, and focused discussions in the existing literature on art archives in Asia. Most of the archives included in the book are independent and initiated by individuals, folk groups, or non-profit organizations. In this book, one can trace the dynamics and self-generative capacity in this particular historical and cultural milieu through these “alternative” archives and through the practices of artists and curators who apply their specific understanding of archive to their works. Many chapters resonate with each other in that they capture the experiences shared by many places in Asia. Those experiences could have resulted from the encounter with the Western idea of archive, the influence of the colonial experience, or a memory crisis triggered by the rapid transformation of media, and may serve as a basis for producing archive theories in/from Asia. The book provides an opportunity for the archives in Asia and those who work around them to recognize one another, understand what their colleagues in archival work do, how they do it and what else there is for them to do.

Front Matter
Pages i-xxxvii
Accumulation and Creation: The Birth of Archive
Front Matter
Pages 1-1
Diverse Voices of Japanese Modern and Contemporary Art: The Oral History Archives of Japanese Art
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxxvii
Accumulation and Creation: The Birth of Archive
Front Matter
Pages 1-1
Diverse Voices of Japanese Modern and Contemporary Art: The Oral History Archives of Japanese Art
Kenji Kajiya
Pages 3-15
“Accumulation” and “Reward”: An Interview with Chen Tong on Video Bureau
Lu Pan, Chen Tong
Pages 17-25
Re-visioning the Archives: On the Creation and Curation of Relational and Decolonial Visual Art Archives in Asia
Gregory Galligan
Pages 27-56
Hijikata Tatsumi Archive—A Pioneering Dance Archive in Japan
Takashi Morishita
Pages 57-70
One-Man Archive: Koh Nguang How on the Possibilities of Archiving Singapore Art
Koh Nguang How
Pages 71-87
Deconstruction and Recreation: Artist, Curator and Researcher on Archive
Front Matter
Pages 89-89
Encountering Incompleteness: Archives, Institutions and Exhibition-Making
Wong Hoy Cheong, Ahmad Mashadi, Shabbir Hussain Mustafa
Pages 91-108
The Need of Art Archives in India
Samit Das
Pages 109-128
The Timeless Plunge: The Ha Bik Chuen Archive
Sau Wai Vennes Cheng
Pages 129-152
Endless Documents: Chinese Contemporary Art and Curatorial Practices in Archives
Dong Bingfeng
Pages 153-164
The Eyes of Archives: How Contemporary Taiwanese Video Art Set Off a Revolt Regarding Japanese Colonial History
Sing Song-yong
Pages 165-180
Expose: Archive of (by) Yutaka Matsuzawa
Yoshiko Shimada
Pages 181-193
It Takes a Village: Archives Talk Back
Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez
Pages 195-206
Others, a Night in Tokyo, Coconut Forest and Tigers: Observations of a Pseudo-Tourist
Au Sow-Yee
Pages 207-218
Muse(ing) the Archive, Archival/Exhibiting Turn
Dayang Yraola
Pages 219-237
Retrieval, Restoration, and Predicament Objects, Memories and Records in Wartime
Lee Kai Chung
Pages 239-264
Toward Archiveology: Regarding Nguyen Trinh Thi’s Essay Films
Ma Ran
Pages 265-278
The Public and Imagination: Archive as Self-Portrait of Community
Front Matter
Pages 279-279
The Public and Imagination: Archive as Self-Portrait of Community
The Relationship Between Sendai Mediatheque’s Art Exhibitions and 3.11 Archives: A Case Study of “Record and Recalling: Walking on the House of Images”
Kento Shimizu
Pages 281-295
Rescuing Our Own Visual Heritage: Memoirs of a Taiwanese Folk Image Preservation Movement
Jiing Yng-ruey
Pages 297-306
Archives Without Archivists: Notes on I’m Calling You—Rebirth (Reverse) of Humans and the Elephant
Atsushi Matsumoto
Pages 307-318
Multitude Asia: Huang Sun-quan on Articulation, Network, Asian Visual Archive
Lu Pan, Huang Sun-quan
Pages 319-328
Praxis of Praxis: Collaborative Art Archiving, Going Beyond an Imagined Community Toward a Community in Process
Cho Juhyun
Pages 329-343
Archiving the Commons: Struggle of Anti-gentrification and Anti-eviction
Pelin Tan, Listen to the City
Pages 345-350
Back Matter
Pages 351-356
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