An(g)archivery

an(g)archivery (2017) is an experimental portrait of an archive within an archive, as well as a portrait of the archive as artist, or the artist as archive. an(g)archivery moves through the Gate Foundation archive (1998-2006) housed within the Van Abbemuseum collection, using a camera-phone and scanner to document dispersed traces of the artist, Tiong Ang, between catalogued and un-catalogued dimensions of the museum. Ang traverses both the Gate and Van Abbe, gaining institutional recognition in the mid-1990s as a new young Dutch artist, going on to collaborate in prominent independent projects in the 2000s, exploring the ‘non-Western’, ‘migrant’, ‘foreign’ and ‘other’. The Gate’s commitment to ‘non-Western’ artists, particularly from Asia, is both visible and obscured between museum’s narratives of the 'modern' and 'contemporary’. Meanwhile, Ang moves from sculptural painterly objects to situation comedy, to film and performance collaborations. an(g)archivery documents the scattered archive, and the pursuit of an artist whose practice both inhabits and exceeds the archive and museum.

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