Seoul-based web art group Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries (YHCHI) spent the month of March 2011 at the Archive as AAA's second International Artists-in-residence.

Among the first artists to employ the Internet as an artistic platform in the late 1990s, Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries consists of Marc Voge from the United States and Young-hae Chang from Korea. Their work, which can be viewed at www.yhchang.com, is presented in 17 languages, and is characterised by text-based animation synchronised to a musical score, often originally composed jazz. Rather than emphasising sophisticated uses of new technologies, YHCHI presents works that are directly engaging and effective, characterised by references to film and concrete poetry and by the scale and rapid pace at which the text appears.

During their residency at AAA, YHCHI gave two presentations to the public and one to members of AAA's Collectors Circle, in which they presented work that took as its point of departure the excavation of the structure of the Archive in the context of the contemporary art community in the region. The presentations were entitled I SAW YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES (OR DID I?); CAN ART CHANGE THE WORLD? CAN ART CHANGE ANYTHING? DOES IT MATTER? DISCUSS. OR DON'T.; and IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE HERE: WE HAVE NOTHING TO SAY: COLLECTORS CIRCLE TALK AT WILLIAM LIM'S STUDIO.

As internet-based artists, YHCHI wishes to offer direct access to the content produced during their residency, circumventing the mediation of archival documentation. Upon the completion of their residency at the Archive, YHCHI uploaded all of the work created and presented during the month of March onto AAA's website.

At the same time, YHCHI sees the visionary mission of AAA, recognising the Archive as a home for documentation of all artists working in Asia, a place not unlike Wikipedia, where curatorial judgment is withheld, and where recognised artists share shelf space with unrecognised artists without the filter of the conventional art world.

To view the work created by YHCHI during their residency at AAA, follow the links below.

I SAW YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES (OR DID I?)

CAN ART CHANGE THE WORLD? CAN ART CHANGE ANYTHING? DOES IT MATTER? DISCUSS. OR DON'T.

IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE HERE: WE HAVE NOTHING TO SAY: COLLECTORS CIRCLE TALK AT WILLIAM LIM'S STUDIO

HOLLYWOOD CENTRE

About YHCHI

YHCHI's work has been shown at The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Tate, London; Pompidou Centre, Paris; The Getty Center, Los Angeles; Venice Biennial; Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial; Sao Paulo Biennial; and the Istanbul Biennial. It has been recognised by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for its contribution to Online Art. In 2001, the group was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts' Grants to Artists. YHCHI's exhibition, 'Black On White, Gray Ascending', a seven channel installation, was part of the inaugural opening of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, in 2007.

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