Archival Glitch
Subtitle: Art + Feminisms in Asia Pacific Entanglings
By: Edited by Deanna MacDonald and Louise Rouse
Publisher: Sugarlift
Published: 2023
Place of publication: Tokyo
Language: eng; bur
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9784991249501
Copyright date: 2023
First sentence: The Archival Glitch project explores the effects of inequity in the world of art and academia and asks, “how do we fix it?”
Description: The Archival Glitch project explores the effects of inequity in the world of art and academia and asks, “how do we fix it?”

This book documents the Archival Glitch seminar series held via Zoom live from Tokyo over four weekends in February and March 2022 that brought together artists, filmmakers, and scholars—all connected to Japan in some way. The topics varied but core to all discussion was the experience of being a woman and creator in an biassed world.

This seminar series grew out of Art + Feminism Wikipedia events that Louise Rouse and Deanna Macdonald hosted in Tokyo since 2018, which aimed to increase and improve articles in English and Japanese about women and non-binary artists, especially those who are or were active in Japan. Training and supporting new Wikipedia editors can only tweak this biased archive, but more importantly, these events drew attention to the ways in which infrastructures of knowledge, especially digitally accelerated ones, repeat and inculcate existing power structures.

The systemic inequality built into Wikipedia and other institutions in art, academia and much more—inspired our Archival Glitch series, exploring intersectional bugs in the global archive related to sex/gender bias. This glitch affects whose stories get told and whose stories are forgotten or marginalised. But we can also think of the glitch as a point of departure/rupture, inspiring new paths.

All contributors to this edition fulfil the potential of the glitch to effect change as intergenerational artists, activists and academics breaking boundaries, asking difficult questions, creating records of experience, pleasure, suffering, love, anger, resistance, and hope.
Table of contents: label: Contents
title: iii; label: Note on name order
title: iv; label: Preface
title: Deanna MacDonald
pagenum: v; label: Introduction
title: Louise Rouse
pagenum: vi; label: Part 1
title: Intervening and Interrupted
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter 1
title: Art and Feminisms in Post-War Japan by Yoshiko Shimada
pagenum: 2; label: Chapter 2
title: Feminism in Japan by Tomorrow Girls Troop
pagenum: 24; label: Chapter 3
title: Unlabelled: Art, Politics & Feminism in Burma/Myanmar by Tin Tin Htun in collaboration with Ma Phyu Mon, Sandar Khine, Ma Ei, Nge Lay, Zun Ei Phyu, Zoncy and Lily
pagenum: 30; label: Glitch
title: 62; label: Open World: A Comic Tribute to Mieko Shiomi by Kaitlin Chan
title: 65; label: Part 2
title: Narrative and Document
pagenum: 75; label: Chapter 3
title: Of Myths and Goddesses: The Trans Voice in the Intersections of Art & Feminist Spaces by Ram Botero
pagenum: 76; label: Chapter 4
title: Seeing as an Act of Caring Hikaru Toda
pagenum: 90; label: Glitch
title: 98; label: Un-settling Residues, ‘Queer’ Asias? by Jennifer Ung Loh and J. Daniel Luther
title: 101; label: Part 3
title: Lens and Frame
pagenum: 119; label: Chapter 5
title: How to Disclose & Disguise Yourself: Wikipedia—Feminism—Girly Photos by Yurie Nagashima
pagenum: 120; label: Chapter 6
title: How to Discuss the Late Abstract Photography of Yamazawa Eiko: Constructions & Contemporariness by Hagiwara Hiroko
pagenum: 136; label: Glitch
title: 148; label: Feminist Interventions into Digital Art History: Behind the Camera & Japanese Women Photographers by Carrie Cushman and Kelly McCormick
title: 151; label: Japanese Women who Changed the World by Geri Coady
title: 160; label: Contributors
title: 168; label: Index
title: 170; label: Acknowledgements
title: 173; label: Colophon
title: 174