Satellites website. Design by Son La Pham. Image courtesy of Satellites.
L-R: Emma Ng and Rosabel Tan. Photo by Jinki Cambronero. Image courtesy of Satellites.
Satellites aims to connect the past, present and future of Asian arts practice in Aotearoa, supporting the development of unique Aotearoa Asian voices. In 2024, they are delivering three intertwined projects: a digital archive of Aotearoa Asian artists, a year-long season of online publishing and a visiting artists programme.
Satellites is led by Rosabel Tan (Director) and Emma Ng (Editorial Director), working with a wider curatorial advisory group, as well as the Satellites archivists who research and author entries for the archive, and a small team who contribute to the production and documentation of the visiting artists programme.
Desire lines: Finding New paths through the Satellites Archive
Urban Dream Brokerage
115 Taranaki Street, Wellington
Sunday 21 April, 10am-12pm
Help shape the growing Satellites archive of Aotearoa Asian art!
The Satellites digital archive is an ever-evolving resource for students, artists, curators and anyone with an interest in Aotearoa Asian art. It includes artists and artworks dating as far back as the 1880s and spans creative pursuits ranging from food to bonsai to K-pop choreography, celebrating legacy artists such as Guy Ngan alongside new generations of designers, musicians, architects and more.
This workshop invited people to come along to learn more about the archive and explore the artists, works and moments featured in it so far. It’s a work in progress — and at this workshop led by Editorial Director, Emma Ng and Archivist Jennifer Cheuk, suggestions were collected for future entries, and opportunities offered to ‘curate’ different ways to discover what’s in the archive, from pulling together artists and works who explore similar themes or topics, or even archive entries connected by the same events in history (e.g. artists who have created work responding to the sinking of the SS Ventnor).
Participants were invited to bring a device they could use to explore the Satellites archive — a smartphone, a tablet, or a laptop. Morning tea was provided.
The archive is part of the Satellites 2024 programme, which also includes a year-long season of online publishing and an international artists programme.
Limited capacity. FREE and all welcome.
