HCMC – Project “Open Edit: Mobile Library”

Exhibition: 24 Feb – 09 Apr
Closing: Sat 09 Apr 2011, 6 pm
San Art

From San Art:
San Art invites you to participate in a project called Open Edit which brings a selection of material from Asia Art Archive (AAA)’s collection to different cities in Asia, inviting people to read and interact with it in unconventional ways. The first stage of the Open Edit tour is a collaborative effort of AAA, Sàn Art, and Hong Kong artist Jaffa Lam.

Approximately 180 items — including monographs, exhibition catalogues, reference books, and magazines, most of which relate conceptually to mobility, travelling, exchange, interaction, participation, and communication — form the Mobile Library collection. In addition to reading the books, the public is encouraged to ‘edit’ them by writing, drawing, highlighting, adhering notes and pictures, and even tearing pages out of them. Through these actions, people are reinterpreting the material, as well as engaging in a dialogue amongst themselves. The material, as the platform for communication, will eventually become a document of the Open Edit process.

Open Edit creates an experimental sphere for public participation in the discourse of contemporary art in Asia. Its process of inclusion challenges the canon established by the traditional intent of the archive—material conservation—and invites multiple new perspectives and meanings.

For more information, visit San Art’s website.