A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ART BOOK BAG (AND THE THINGS THAT GO IN THEM) Organised by Ingrid Chu, AAA Public Programmes Curator 24 August–24 October, 2015 Monday–Saturday, 10am–6pm Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong Exhibition Team Kit Long Lam Stephen Lam Chun Hei Lo Hammad Nasar Vivian Poon Daniel Suen Michelle Wong Special Thanks The AAA team Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna, Latitudes Janice Ching and Deborah Erlich, Art Basel Cheong Kah Kit Silas Fong Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin Charles Guarino, Artforum Lam Tung Pang Wylie Lam, K11 Art Foundation Liz Magic Laser and Various Small Fires Sarah Lee, Sky Yutaka Ltd. Magnus and Emma Renfrew Ada and Marco Roso, DIS Yung Ma, M+ Pak Sheung Chuen Hannah Myall and Jordan Sonenberg, Art Metropole Heather Hubbs and Zack Tornaben, New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) Michelle Kwok and Nathan Whitton, Louis Vuitton Vita Wong Yeung Sau Lun Credits All photography and images courtesy of Asia Art Archive unless otherwise noted.
Asia Art Archive marks its 15th year by extending 15 Invitations to creative practitioners to look within and beyond the organisation as an archive, a collection of material, a digital platform, and a node in a wider collective network. The 15 Invitations will take various sizes, forms, and directions— literary, polemic, political, sonic, physical, and digital—and function as a series of 'drop pins' to alternatively navigate where AAA originated and where it may be going. AAA's e-journal Field Notes will trace the 15 participants as they contribute notes and entries to document the process, resulting in a final print publication. 15 Invitations, Asia Art Archive's 15-Year Anniversary programme, is generously supported by the S. H. Ho Foundation Limited and the C. K. & Kay Ho Foundation.
AAA is supported by The Hong Kong Arts Development Council. 15 Invitations is part of the ADC 20th Anniversary Celebration Series.
Zine design: Ingrid Chu 15 Invitations Graphic Design Partner: Hani Charaf, Kemistry Design 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 an international Board of Directors, an Advisory Board made up of noted scholars and curators, and an in-house research team, AAA has collated one of the most valuable collections of material on contemporary art in the region—open to the public free of charge and increasingly accessible from its website. More than a static repository waiting to be discovered, AAA instigates critical thinking and dialogue for a wide range of audiences via public, research, residential and educational programmes. Asia Art Archive 11/F Hollywood Centre 233 Hollywood Road Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
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