\u201cArchive is a method,\u201d \u00d6zge Ersoy says, sitting among the rooms full of bookshelves that now hold some 45,000 physical books, a far cry from the single shelf the Asia Art Archive started with 25 years ago.<\/p>\n
In September, Ersoy became the Hong Kong non-profit\u2019s new executive director, taking over from the artist Christopher K. Ho as the archive celebrates its silver jubilee.<\/p>\n
The Turkey-born curator, researcher and educator is a familiar face in Hong Kong\u2019s art scene, having been a full-time member of the AAA team since 2017, the year he arrived in the city.<\/p>\n
The methods of archiving at the AAA have never just been about dusty records. With her track record in mobilising international networks for knowledge exchanges, such as co-curating \u201cThe Collective School\u201d in 2023, Ersoy will continue to make AAA a platform that enables more people to research and record Asian art history and be inspired by it.<\/p>\n
That includes people like the Beijing artist Song Dong, who returned recently for an \u201cinteractive artistic intervention\u201d at the AAA library in his inimitable style.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>That style is not so much his head-to-toe ensemble in canary yellow and beard that, he joked, makes him look like Takashi Murakami, but the way he stakes his personal memories in an archive as interventions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n