Workshop
An Archive of Annotations Zine Workshop

Accompanying programme of "Colours of Humanity"

Sat, 23.11.2024
2:00 PM - 17:00 Goethe-Gallery

Artist: Nicole M. Neopmuceno
Conducted in English

Max number of participants: 8

Registration required: https://forms.gle/MoYjaWhTczSKXR4L9

An Archive of Annotations is a collaborative zine that annotates Hong Kong art and history by mapping traces of the South and Southeast Asian diaspora in the city. The zine incorporates familial autobiographies, interviews, personal archives, and archive ephemera. It is a continuously expanding shared body of work.  Together, participants will read and annotate a copy of the zine through writing, drawing, spoken sharing, and reflections. At the end, participants will each create a mini-zine inspired by their annotations and reflections. They are welcome to leave their mini-zine as an insert in An Archive of Annotations—enriching it!—or to take them home.

The first few sections of An Archive of Annotations were published as part of Asia Art Archive’s Try Try Zine Residency 2024. Contributors include Faith Monsod, Dinakar Mall, Ranju Ghamal, Ani Phoebe, Reana Bachiller, and Evelyna Liang. The zine references essays and exhibitions by Oscar Ho. More info here and here.

Nicole M. Nepomuceno (Ning-Ning) is a writer and researcher focusing on themes of migration and peripherality in Hong Kong art and history. Her work has been driven by two questions: How can approaching Hong Kong art history through the lens of migration expand its perimeters beyond ethnonationalism and toward greater variety, abundance, and access? And how can we create enriching, supportive, and sustainable spaces for peripheral experiences within the arts? 

Things to do:

Part 1 Introductions and Annotations (45 mins)
Waiting for people to come in (5 mins)
Introduction of the zine (5 mins)
Making name tags for each other (5 mins)
What is everyone’s experience annotating? (5 mins)
Reading and annotating parts of the zine in small groups (25 mins)

BREAK (10 mins)

Part 2 Maps (55 mins)
Sharing annotations and reflections (25 mins)
Adding onto “An Incomplete Map of Hong Kong Migration History” (15 mins)
Adding onto “What is abundance to you?” (15 mins)

BREAK (10 mins)

Part 3 Zine-making (60 mins)
Making mini-zines to insert and add onto the Archive of Annotations (40 mins)
Sharing and reflections (20 mins)

Things for participants to prepare:
Images and other print materials they would like to include in their mini-zine inserts that they feel responds to the themes of migration, marginality, and annotations

Notes for participants:
The zine draws from multiple personal stories. Migration history itself is very personal and participants are by no means obligated to share more than what they are comfortable with.

Annotations to the zine, responses to the maps, and the contents of the mini-zine can be as vague or detailed as they would like. They also do not need to be factual information; they can be speculative and fictional, responsive and reflective. Participants can choose not to put their names down for anything.
The mini-zines can either be taken home by the participants or kept inside the zine to enrich it for the next readers to read and annotate.

What the participants want to include in the mini-zine is open-ended. It does not have to trace the routes of their migration or personal histories. As long as it responds to themes of movement, migration, and / or annotation.

Information in the zine may be outdated / inaccurate. Corrections and questions are welcome and encouraged. The zine is about writing history together.

The sharing will take place in one part of the exhibition space. Other visitors may walk in as we are sharing.