During the extended lockdowns, many art practitioners turned to archiving to make good use of the unexpected downtime. We hear from archivists about the pleasures and pains of the archiving process, and the lessons they have learnt to make the endeavour as seamless as possible.
Speakers:
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Chew Tee Pao has been with the Asian Film Archive (AFA) since 2009. As Archivist, he oversees the development of the film collection, helps to plan the Archive’s preservation strategies, and is responsible for selecting and overseeing film restorations. He has contributed articles on film preservation and co-written a chapter on digital filmmaking and its impact on film archiving in Singapore for the book ‘Singapore Cinema: New Perspectives’ published in 2017.
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Chương-Đài Võ is Researcher at Asia Art Archive, where she supervises archival collections of contemporary art from Southeast Asia. Her writing can be found in publications from MOMA Warsaw (forthcoming), Afterall, Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Moderna Galerija, and Taipei Fine Arts Museum. Recent curatorial projects include ‘Form Colour Action: Sketchbooks and Notebooks of Lee Wen’, and Ho Tzu Nyen’s ‘The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia, Vol. 1: G for Ghost(writers)’.
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Trained as an architect at Universitas Indonesia and Cranbrook Academy of Art, farid rakun wears different hats, depending on who is asking. He is a part of the artists’ collective ruangrupa, with whom he co-curated ‘SONSBEEK ’16: transACTION’ in Arnhem, the Netherlands, and is currently providing artistic direction for documenta fifteen, which will be held in Kassel, Germany in 2022. He is also a visiting lecturer in the Architecture Department of Universitas Indonesia.
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Tutik Indras Oktafia graduated from Universitas Indonesia majoring in Library and Information Science. Without having an art background, she became interested in art after joining GUDSKUL, an educational knowledge-sharing platform formed in 2018 by three Jakarta-based collectives ruangrupa, Serrum, and Grafis Huru Hara. Throughout her practice, she has been looking for a way to combine the management of archives with the input of a larger ecosystem of artists and art collectives.
Moderator:
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Nadya Wang is Editor at A&M, a multimedia platform presenting specialist content on Southeast Asian art, with a focus on artistic, curatorial and business practices. In 2021, she launched sibling site Fashion & Market (FAM), which explores the interdisciplinary practices within the Southeast Asian fashion community. She is interested in profiling underrepresented work, and conceptualising projects to demystify and encourage endeavours in the regional art and fashion communities. Nadya is also a lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts.
This panel is co-presented by Art & Market.