[Reader-list] Asia Art Archive Research Post in India + Call for Material

[Chantal Wong]

Asia Art Archive Research Post in India + Call for Material

With the world's most comprehensive public collection of 20,000+ items of
material on contemporary Asian art, and the active organiser of over 50
educational programmes, Asia Art Archive (AAA) is an internationally
recognized organisation and resource in the field of contemporary Asian art.


With only 3 research posts in 2004, AAA now has 9 across Asia with the Head
Researcher based in Hong Kong. The posts include China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
(2002); Japan, Korea, Singapore, Thailand (2005); and only recently India,
Pakistan and The Philippines (2007).

AAA is pleased to welcome Atreyee Gupta, new full-time researcher for India,
to its team. Gupta will collect publications and primary source materials,
document events and exhibitions and conduct video-interviews with key
artists, critics and curators at events in India to help build up a
comprehensive collection on contemporary Indian art developments. This
material will then be made publicly accessible from AAA's website and
physical library in Hong Kong. She will also assist AAA in developing its
regional network and initiate focused research projects.

"The success of an enterprise of this scale is impossible without your
cooperation. We therefore request, urge, and encourage you to send us
material of your recent and past; and information on upcoming projects, this
will help us in documentation and updating of our records. Your profile will
be important to the Archive as well as facilitate research in the field of
contemporary Asian art.

Suggested material includes, but is not restricted to: Recent and detailed
CV or biography (including exhibition records), photos, digital images, or
slides of artworks (past and present), published/unpublished texts and
personal papers Project Proposals, exhibition catalogues / leaflets /
invitations/ newsletters. For material that you are unwilling to part with,
but believe would be important for research, we are happy to make
arrangements to duplicate and have the original sent back to you." - Gupta

Atreyee Gupta is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Art History,
University of Minnesota, in South Asian modern art. Her Ph.D. focuses on
institutions for the production, display, and dissemination of art in India
from 1920s -1970s. As an extension of her interest in the
institutionalization of art in colonial and post-colonial India, she has
published essays on global art history and the interface between religion,
archaeology, and art history in India. Atreyee has been a coordinator for a
number of art activism projects. 

For information please contact Chantal Wong at chantal at aaa.org.hk or +852
2815 1112 or Atreyee Gupta at atreyee at aaa.org.hk. 

For more information visit  <blocked::http://www.aaa.org.hk/>
www.aaa.org.hk, Asia Art Archive, 11/F Hollywood Centre, 233 Hollywood Rd.,
Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, Tel: (852) 2815 1112, Fax: (852) 2815 0032


 
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