ArchiveMark TehArchives can be understood as depositories for things which will not go away,
where documents have the ability to accumulate into monuments.

Observing that the construction and constitution of an archive takes place whenthe memory that requires preservation is beginning to fragment or disintegrate,
Jacques Derrida noted in Archive Fever (1995) that they are “at once institutiveand conservative. Revolutionary and traditional… There is no political power
without control of the archive.”

In recent decades a significant trajectory of art and documentary practice has
proliferated around the archival, often seeking to challenge, disperse anddecolonise the formal orderings, classifications, and rationalities that govern
state, official or institutional archives. Treating them as dynamic, open-ended
systems for generating future knowledge, artists, curators and researchers
critically reconfigure existing archival materials and structures – excavating
subjective taxonomies, making available personal collections, constellating digital
resources, constructing alternative or participatory repositories, as well as
drawing out embodied knowledges and practices that reside in individual andcommunity lives.

Koh Nguang How, Artists in the News (2011), installation with newspaper archive and ongoing
research, Singapore Art Museum.
Source: https://opencontours.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/work-in-process/The aftermath of a fire on June 3 2020 in Green Papaya Art Projects – the oldest artist-run
space in Manila – which partially destroyed their archives.
Source: https://cnnphilippines.com/life/culture/2020/6/30/green-papaya-catch-272.html

Related Links
Books, Websites & Videos
1. Antariksa (KUNCI Study Forum & Collective) interview, researching Indonesiancollections and archives at University Leiden library, with a focus oncollaborative works between Japanese and Indonesian artists during theJapanese Occupation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qod3f_4a9yg
2. Kohara Masashi’s article and collection of images relating to 1903 World's
Natives Building and Exposition in Osaka, Japan, published in photographers’
gallery press no. 14: Human – Exhibition - Histories (Tokyo: photographers’gallery, 2019). https://pg-web.net/shop/pg-press-file/photographers-gallerypress-no-14/
3. Adrian Mulya interview about So Far So Close (2019), a project investigating
Chinese-Indonesian identity and his family history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxPeT0BEeCw
4. Hoo Fan Chon, curator’s tour of “Bayangnya itu Timbul Tenggelam” exhibition(2020). Focus on trans performer Ava Leong’s portraits and otherphotographic cultures in Malaysia https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=6esUDVywDGc
5. Green Papaya Art Projects, notes and documentation relating to June 3 2020
fire, which partially destroyed their archives. https://greenpapaya.art/FireNotes-master
6. Koh Nguang How interview about Artists in the News (2011).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOWVCgsv688
7. Judy Freya Sibayan, Scapular Gallery Nomad and The Museum of Mental
Objects. Ongoing performance art gallery and museum by the artist.
https://judyfreyasibayan.weebly.com/uploads/4/3/3/6/43365903/sgn_4_pages_
nparadoxa_final.pdf
8. Ho Tzu Nyen, The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia.
https://aaa.cdosea.org/#about/a
9. Simon Soon & Visual Art Program, Cultural Centre, Universiti Malaya &Malaysia Design Archive, Researching Colonial History of the Malay World
Like A Millenial.
https://sites.google.com/um.edu.my/colonialhistoryofthemalayworld10. Dhaka Art Summit Compendium (2020, online).
http://www.dascompendium.com/
11. The center for remembering 3.11, by Sendai Mediatheque.
https://recorder311-e.smt.jp/