Archive as Detour: Historical Re-enactment in Artist Archive and Archival Art Practices of Contemporary Hong Kong

Contents
List of Figures
1 Introduction
	The Anxiety of Enforced Forgetfulness
		Detour Is Method
	The Social and Political Condition of Archival Turn in Art
	Archive as Detour
	References
2 Art, Archives, and Histories
	Archival Turn in Contemporary Art
	Archival Turn of Art in Hong Kong and China
	Archival Art Practice
	From Single to Multiple Entry Points
	Asia Art Archive and Ha Bik Chuen Archive
	Private Life and Public History
	References
3 The Assemblage of Ha Bik Chuen: His Art and His Archive as Art
	Agencement and Symbiosis
	The Art of Ha Bik Chuen—The Realm of Assemblage
	Assemblage, Rhizome to Constellation
	Archive as Art
	The Contemplative Semi-Circular Sanctum
	References
4 Image Constellation: Ha Bik Chuen’s Modified Books
	The Concept of Constellation and Detour
	Image Constellations as a Thinking Tool
	Modified Books of Ha Bik Chuen: The Form of Book as Image Atlas
		Book as Image Atlas
		The Stability and Caprice of Chinese Style 《中國風》 (Zhong Guo Feng)
		The Re-enactment of Historical Angel: Rosenwind
		Portrait Atlas: The Disquiet Memory of the Present
		London Interiors: From Private to Public
	References
5 Counter-Memorial Strategy: Disabled Histories in the Archival Art Practices of Leung Chi Wo and Lee Kai Chung
	Mnemosyne of Amnesia—Leung Chi Wo
	Ruins of Present—Lee Kai Chung
	Countermemory and Ruination of History
	References
6 Staging the Archive: The Curatorial as Detour
	The Curatorial and Allegory
	Ha Bik Chuen Archive and Its Curatorial
	The Curatorial Exercise: Staging Ha Bik Chuen Archive
	Research to Re-enact the Archive
	The Commissioned Artworks
	The Exhibition: ‘Non-History: Archive as Detour’
	Beyond the Spectacular
	References
7 Epilogue: The Becoming History
	The Becoming History
	Art as Historical Mirror
	References
Bibliography
Index