Open Call | Assembling Art Archives: Workshops for South Asia

Art South Asia Project (ASAP) and Asia Art Archive in India (AAA-I) announce an open call for Assembling Art Archives: Workshops for South Asia, a programme on archiving within the field of modern and contemporary art from South Asia.

ASAP partners with AAA-I to host Assembling Art Archives: Workshops for South Asia, a ten-month-long online programme on archiving within the field of modern and contemporary art from South Asia. The first of its kind in the region, this programme hopes to foster learning exchange of methods, frameworks, and techniques for the building of art archives, with sessions facilitated by archivists working in diverse institutional contexts across the Global South and beyond.

Assembling Art Archives is designed for participants working in arts organisations and institutions, artist estates and studios, and independent arts spaces in the region. Scheduled to commence in August 2025, the programme consists of a maximum of twenty participants selected via open call from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The online programme will be accompanied by an in-person gathering in Nepal in November 2025.

Eligibility:

• Background in art history or related fields
• Three to five years of experience related to a visual arts organisation/institution in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, or Sri Lanka
• Resident of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, or Sri Lanka
• Ability to commit to the programme for ten months and travel to Nepal during the programme

What you get: Professional development in archival knowledge

Deadline 30 May 2025

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