The (Im)possibility of Art Archives : Theories and Experience in/from Asia

• Autore: Pan Lu
• Pubblicazione: Singapore : , : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (383 pages)
• Disciplina: 026.7095
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Introduction -- "Archive" (Lost) in the Chinese Language: Wenxian, Dang'an, or What Else? -- Can Asian Experience Generate Theories of Archive? -- References -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Accumulation and Creation: The Birth of Archive -- Diverse Voices of Japanese Modern and Contemporary Art: The Oral History Archives of Japanese Art -- The Founding of the Archives -- Methodology for Oral History Interviews -- Examples of Interviews -- Disseminating Oral Histories in Japan -- Materials for Future Use -- "Accumulation" and "Reward": An Interview with Chen Tong on Video Bureau -- Re-visioning the Archives: On the Creation and Curation of Relational and Decolonial Visual Art Archives in Asia -- From Repository to Relational Platform: The Visual Art Archive Reconsidered -- Toward Relational Visual Art Archives in Asia -- Resisting Narrative: Archives, Exhibitions, and the Emergence of Anti-Hegemonic Asian Art Histories -- Futuring a Relational and Decolonial Visual Art Archive(s) in Asia -- Hijikata Tatsumi Archive-A Pioneering Dance Archive in Japan -- Introduction -- The Archival Experiment: The Genetic Archive -- Our Archive's Principles and Aims -- Our Archive's Features and Roles -- The Archive's Various Activities -- Conclusion -- One-Man Archive: Koh Nguang How on the Possibilities of Archiving Singapore Art -- Beginning of Archiving in Singapore -- Alternative Art Histories and their Archiving Approach/Method -- Singapore Art Archive Project (SAAP) -- Exchanges between Singaporean and other Asian Artists -- Archive as Artwork -- Endless Archive in Limited Space, and the Climate -- Deconstruction and Recreation: Artist, Curator and Researcher on Archive -- Encountering Incompleteness: Archives, Institutions and Exhibition-Making -- References -- The Need of Art Archives in India -- Introduction. ; Modernism in India: Art in the Post-Second World War -- The Need of Archive for Indian Modern Art -- The Timeless Plunge: The Ha Bik Chuen Archive -- From Personal Collection to Archive -- Atemporal Modified Books -- The Plunging Spike: Asia Art Archive (AAA) -- Archival Rhizome -- Bibliography -- Endless Documents: Chinese Contemporary Art and Curatorial Practices in Archives -- Archive and History -- Institutions and Exhibitions -- Archive: Theory and Practice -- The Eyes of Archives: How Contemporary Taiwanese Video Art Set Off a Revolt Regarding Japanese Colonial History -- Introduction -- Chen Chieh-Jen's Realm of Reverberations -- Three Films from Kao Chung-Li's Series Slide-Briefing Film -- Hsu Chia-Wei's Series Industrial Research Institute of the Taiwan Governor-General's Office -- Conclusion -- Expose: Archive of (by) Yutaka Matsuzawa -- Matsuzawa and His House in Suwa -- Expose-Diagram of Self-Archiving -- The Four Circles of the Diagram -- Circle One-Nirvana -- Circle Two-Bigakkō (美学校) -- Circle Three-DCCA (Data Center of Contemporary Art) -- Circle Four-'X' -- Free Art-Free Document-Archive -- 'Expose ↔ Total Communication' in the Internet Age -- The End of the Psi Room -- It Takes a Village: Archives Talk Back -- The Archive as Site of Meaning Mediation -- Unstable But Free-for-All Resource -- Dispersal as Survivalist Tactic -- Others, a Night in Tokyo, Coconut Forest and Tigers: Observations of a Pseudo-Tourist -- Introduction -- Prologue -- (Others) -- (A Night in Tokyo) -- Coconut Forest -- (Tiger) -- (Notes from the author) -- Muse(ing) the Archive, Archival/Exhibiting Turn -- Introduction -- Exhibiting Archives, Archival Exhibit -- Archival Turn, Archival Art -- Archiving Is to Keep, Exhibiting Is to Show -- Retrieval, Restoration, and Predicament Objects, Memories and Records in Wartime -- Section One -- First Premise. ; Second Premise -- Second Section -- Regarding The Retrieval, Restoration, and Predicament -- Retrieval-Dialogue of the Documents -- Restoration-The Damaged Queen Victoria Statue and the Lost Blueprint -- Predicament-Post-War Problems and Public Auction -- Epilogue -- History as 'Now' and 'in the Moment' -- Toward Archiveology: Regarding Nguyen Trinh Thi's Essay Films -- Works Cited -- 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" -- Introduction -- Exhibition Outline -- On "The House" -- Art Documentation -- Conclusion -- Rescuing Our Own Visual Heritage: Memoirs of a Taiwanese Folk Image Preservation Movement -- Introduction -- Is Archive Neutral? -- Why Is Rescuing Ordinary People's Visual Heritage a Social Movement? -- Wherefore a Counter-Attack? Who Is the Target? -- How Are Folk Images Defined? -- Which Are the Subjects of Rescue at the Workshops? What Curriculum Has Been Planned? -- Conclusion -- Archives Without Archivists: Notes on I'm Calling You-Rebirth (Reverse) of Humans and the Elephant -- Archives Without Archivists -- I'm Calling You -- Big Questions Out of Small Places -- Rebirth and Reverse -- Borrowing the Perspectives of Others -- References -- Multitude Asia: Huang Sun-quan on Articulation, Network, Asian Visual Archive -- About Multitude Asia (Excerpt from http://multitude.asia/about) -- The Birth and Purpose of Multitude Asia -- What Is the Multitude? -- Articulation and Network -- Praxis of Praxis: Collaborative Art Archiving, Going Beyond an Imagined Community Toward a Community in Process -- "Archive in Process," Transforming and Growing -- Scenario of Coordination and Antagonism Conceived Through "Anti-archive". ; Villages, Communities and People Gathered On a Timeline: Broadcasting the Archive! -- Archiving the Commons: Struggle of Anti-gentrification and Anti-eviction -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: The (Im)possibility of Art Archives
• ISBN: 981-9958-98-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910831005203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics Series