Monday, November 17, 2008

AAI Living Archives website launch


For much of this year, I have been serving as Project Coordinator for the Asian Arts Initiative's Living Archives project (aka the Oral History project). This past Friday was the official launch for the website and I hope you all will check it out and read some of the excerpts from the interviews we conducted with 15 amazing artists about their work and addressing social justice issues (I'm included! Not to say that I'm "amazing" or anything--just that I'm included :])

The project coincides with AAI's 15-year Anniversary and is designed to celebrate the Inish and recognize all of the ways in which the organization has been instrumental in connecting artists to communities and facilitating social change.

The 15 artists interviewed are David Acosta, Tomie Arai, Pallabi Chakravorty, Ananya Chatterjea, Phally Chroy, Yalini Dream, Khanh Le, Magda Martinez, Michelle Myers, Alison Roh Park, Ju-Yeon Ryu, Shivaani Selvaraj, Eliseo Art Silva, Lena Sze, and Anu Yadav.

You can visit the Living Archives website through this link.

http://www.asianartsinitiative-livingarchives.org/

Peace and love always,
Michelle