Professor Harriet Edquist surveys some of the issues that surround the ever-expanding idea of the archive, with examples ranging from the highly structured archive of John Soane to the participatory and community-oriented archive models advocated by contemporary museology. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 15 June 2017, in ass…

Rob Schmitz, Shanghai correspondent for NPR and author of 'Street of Eternal Happiness', in conversation with Gene Sherman. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 27 May 2017, in association with the 2017 Sydney Writers' Festival.

Soichiro Fukutake presents the thinking behind his bold, far-reaching experiment on islands in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea. Benesse Art Site Naoshima comprises museums, permanent art installations and commissions on the islands of Naoshima, Teshima and Inujima. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 22 April 2017, in association with S…

Greg Semu in conversation with Mark Feary, curator, prior to the opening of Collection+: Greg Semu. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 8 October 2016, in association with SCAF Project 33, Collection+: Greg Semu.

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) presents Collection+: Greg Semu, curated by Mark Feary. In this film, go behind the scenes of the exhibition install and hear Gene Sherman, Greg Semu and Mark Feary discuss the project. Collection+: Greg Semu, SCAF Project 33, was at SCAF from 7 October – 10 December 2016.…

Dr Wiyu Wahono, noted Indonesian-born, German-educated art collector shares insights into the contemporary Indonesian art scene. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 10 September 2016, in association with SCAF Project 32, Jompet Kuswidananto: After Voices.

As part of Film Saturdays @ SCAF, Tokyo-based art impresario Joni Waka introduces The Strangest Stranger, a documentary film in which he also features. The Strangest Stranger, 2016, is directed by Magnus Bärtås. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 16 July 2016.

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), in partnership with architectural firm BVN, presents Vo Trong Nghia Architects: Green Ladder, 2016. Presented in SCAF’s Courtyard Garden, Green Ladder was created for the fourth and final iteration of SCAF’s Fugitive Strcutres series – an annual celebration of experimental architecture. In this film, go b…

Nicholas Jose shares from his 2014 publication, Bapo – a collection of short stories inspired by events, people and personal experience during his decades of involvement in China. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 18 June 2015, in association with SCAF Project 26, Yang Zhichao: Chinese Bible.…

Indonesia-based curator and writer, Alia Swastika presents on contemporary Indonesian art. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 29 May 2014.

As part of Film Saturdays @ SCAF, Craig Judd, artist, independent curator, arts writer and educator, provides an introduction to the film Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, and explores the era in which Peggy thrived - with special emphasis on post-war abstract expressionism and minimalism. Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, 2015, is directed by Lisa Immordi…

Xu Zhiyuan, cultural intellectual, writer and journalist, in conversation with Nicholas Jose, author and former Cultural Counsellor, Australian Embassy, Beijing. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 18 May 2016, in association with the 2016 Sydney Writers' Festival.

Aaron Seeto and Rachel Kent in conversation about Southeast-Asian art, moderated by Gene Sherman. Aaron Seeto is Curatorial Manager, Asian and Pacific Art at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, and Rachel Kent is Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 11 Au…

As part of Film Saturdays @ SCAF, Melanie Eastburn, Senior Curator, Asian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, provides an introduction to the film Cutie and the Boxer, and speaks about the Japanese art scene from the late 1960s - early 1970s. Cutie and the Boxer, 2013, is directed by Zachary Heinzerling. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Founda…

Jompet Kuswidananto in conversation with Alia Swastika, curator, prior to the opening of Jompet Kuswidananto: After Voices. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 25 June 2016, in association with SCAF Project 32, Jompet Kuswidananto: After Voices.

This short film follows Gene Sherman through Ho Chi Minh City in 2015. In the lead up to Vo Trong Nghia Architects: Green Ladder, Gene travelled to Vietnam to meet with architect Vo Trong Nghia, and visit a number of his projects across the city. Vo Trong Nghia Architects: Green Ladder, SCAF Project 31, is the fourth and final iteration of Fugitive…

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) presents Jompet Kuswidananto: After Voices, 2016, curated by Alia Swastika. In this short film, go behind the scenes of the After Voices install, and hear from Gene Sherman, Executive Director of SCAF, the artist and the project curator. Jompet Kuswidananto: After Voices, SCAF Project 32, was at SCAF from …

Rémy Fenzy, Director of the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, Arles, France, discusses photographic practice and educational institutions with Dr Gene Sherman and Dr Patricia Marechal-Ross. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 5 May 2016.

Dr Gregory Ferris, Lecturer, Media Arts & Production, UTS, leads an informal and wide ranging discussion with Mikhael Subotzky about his major projects, his approach to making art, and the ways he works with ideas of place in his creative practice. Recorded at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), 23 March 2016, in association with Sherman Co…

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) presents Mikhael Subotzky: WYE, 2016, an intersecting three channel, immersive video presentation. In this short film, go behind the scenes of the WYE install and hear Gene Sherman & Mikhael Subotzky discuss the project. Mikhael Subotzky: WYE, SCAF Project 30, was at SCAF from 18 March – 21 May 2016.…

Artist Mikhael Subotzky in conversation with Nina Miall, curator and WYE essayist, prior to the opening of Mikhael Subotzky: WYE. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 17 March 2016, in association with SCAF Project 30, Mikhael Subotzky: WYE.

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) presents Collection+: Christian Thompson, curated by Alana Kushnir. In this film, Christian Thompson and Gene Sherman, Executive Director of SCAF, discuss the project and the artist's practice. Collection+: Christian Thompson, SCAF Project 29, was at SCAF from 23 October – 12 December 2015.…

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) presents Collection+: Christian Thompson, curated by Alana Kushnir. In this film, Christian Thompson and Gene Sherman, Executive Director of SCAF, discuss the project and Christian's practice. Collection+: Christian Thompson, SCAF Project 29, was at SCAF from 23 October – 12 December 2015.…

Artist Christian Thompson and curator Alana Kushnir discuss with Gene Sherman the genesis of the Collection+ exhibition as well as Alana's curatorial approach to the Collection+ show. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 22 October 2015, in association with SCAF Project 29, Collection+: Christian Thompson.…

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), in partnership with architectural firm BVN, presents Sack and Reicher + Muller with Eyal Zur: Sway, 2015. Presented in SCAF’s Courtyard Garden, Sway was created for the third iteration of SCAF's Fugitive Structures series - an annual celebration of experimental architecture. In this short film, go behind …

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) presents Hugo Moline and Heidi Axelsen: Owner Occupy, 2015, an interactive gallery installation that seeks to create a timely discussion around architecture’s role in housing affordability, and the real estate market’s control of land ownership. In this film, Hugo Moline and Heidi Axelsen speak about this …

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) presents Hugo Moline and Heidi Axelsen: Owner Occupy, 2015, an interactive gallery installation that seeks to create a timely discussion around architecture’s role in housing affordability, and the real estate market’s control of land ownership. In this film, Hugo Moline and Heidi Axelsen speak about this …

Dr Barbara Polla presents on Australian artist Shaun Gladwell and the 2015 SCAF/UNSW Galleries collaboration. Dr Polla is an academic, a medical doctor and researcher, a curator and gallerist, writer, a former Swiss MP and a teacher. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 23 July 2014, in association with SCAF Project 24, Shaun Gla…

Pauline Yao, Curator at M+, Hong Kong, presents a behind-the-scenes preview of the museum’s architecture and curatorial vision. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 9 July 2015.

Pauline Yao, Curator at M+, Hong Kong, presents a behind-the-scenes preview of the museum’s architecture and curatorial vision. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 9 July 2015.

Chinese art expert Claire Roberts speaks with Nikki Anderson about Yang Zhichao’s work and the significance of his work Chinese Bible (2009). Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 23 May 2015, in association with SCAF Project 26, Yang Zhichao: Chinese Bible.

Chinese art expert Dr Claire Roberts speaks with Nikki Anderson about Yang Zhichao’s practice and the significance of his 2009 work Chinese Bible. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 23 May 2015, in association with SCAF Project 26, Yang Zhichao: Chinese Bible.

Xue Xinran shares from her 2015 book, Buy Me the Sky, recounting stories of men and women born under China's single-child policy instituted in 1979. From the businessman's son unable to pack his own suitcase - to the PhD student who pulled herself out of extreme rural poverty, these revered 'little emperors and suns' form the emerging face of China…

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) presents Yang Zhichao: Chinese Bible, 2009, curated by Claire Roberts. Chinese Bible is a performance installation comprising 3,000 diaries and notebooks collected by Beijing-based artist Yang Zhichao. In this short film, go behind the scenes of the Chinese Bible install and hear the artist and curator dis…

Artist statement from Chinese artist Ai Weiwei to accompany his work An Archive (2015), exhibited as part of Go East: The Gene & Brian Sherman Contemporary Asian Art Collection with the Art Gallery of NSW in 2015.

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) presents Yang Zhichao: Chinese Bible, 2009, curated by Claire Roberts. Chinese Bible is a performance installation comprising 3,000 diaries and notebooks collected by Beijing-based artist Yang Zhichao. In this short film, go behind the scenes of the Chinese Bible install and hear the artist and curator dis…

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) presents Yang Zhichao: Chinese Bible, 2009, curated by Claire Roberts. Chinese Bible is a performance installation comprising 3,000 diaries and notebooks collected by Beijing-based artist Yang Zhichao. In this short film, go behind the scenes of the Chinese Bible install and hear the artist and curator dis…

Artist statement from Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, accompanying his work An Archive (2015), exhibited as part of Go East: The Gene & Brian Sherman Contemporary Asian Art Collection with the Art Gallery of NSW in 2015.

Angus Trumble, Director, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, and Gene Sherman, examine how Shaun Gladwell works to establish new perspectives within the field of contemporary portraiture. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) on 28 March, 2015, in association with SCAF Project 24, Shaun Gladwell: The Lacrima Chair, and SCAF Projec…

Gerard Vaughan, Director, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, presents his reflections on the particular role of a National Art Gallery for Australia. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 24 March 2015, in partnership with the Australian Institute of Art History (AIAH).

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) presents two Shaun Gladwell projects: a major new commission at SCAF, The Lacrima Chair (SCAF Project 24), and Collection+: Shaun Gladwell (SCAF Project 25) at UNSW Galleries. In this film, Gene Sherman, Executive Director of SCAF; Barbara Polla, co-curator of Collection+: Shaun Gladwell; and Shaun Gladwel…

Shaun Gladwell in conversation with Collection+: Shaun Gladwell curators Dr Barbara Polla and Prof. Paul Ardenne, moderated by Dr Gene Sherman AM. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 5 March 2015, in association with SCAF Project 24, Shaun Gladwell: The Lacrima Chair, and SCAF Project 25, Collection+: Shaun Gladwell.…

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) presents Collection+: Pinaree Sanpitak, curated by Jasmin Stephens. In this film, Gene Sherman, Executive Director of SCAF, discusses this project - the third iteration of the Collection+ series. Collection+: Pinaree Sanpitak, SCAF Project 23, was at SCAF from 17 October - 13 December 2014.…

Pinaree Sanpitak in conversation with Jasmin Stephens, curator, and Rhana Devenport, Director, Auckland Art Gallery. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 16 October 2014, in association with SCAF Project 23, Collection+: Pinaree Sanpitak.

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), in partnership with architectural firm BVN, presents Tomahawk // Archer Breakspear: Poly, 2014, a dynamic gallery installation as part of Fugitive Structures 2014. Tomahawk // Archer Breakspear: Poly, SCAF Project 21, was at SCAF from 21 March – 2 May & 20 August – 4 October 2014.…

Linda Jaivin and Dr Sophie McIntyre consider their experiences of Taiwan and mainland China – Linda presents her impressions of the Mainland during the 1980s, whilst Sophie reflects upon her engagement with contemporary Taiwanese art. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 31 July 2014, in association with SCAF Project 22, HOME: Ch…

Linda Jaivin and Dr Sophie McIntyre consider their experiences of Taiwan and mainland China – Linda presents her impressions of the Mainland during the 1980?s, whilst Sophie reflects upon her engagement with contemporary Taiwanese art. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 31 July 2014, in association with SCAF Project 22, HOME: C…

A discussion between Anna Broinowski and Nick Torrens, hosted by Linda Jaivin, held prior to a special Documentary Australia Foundation fundraiser screening of the award-winning documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012), by Alison Klayman. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 5 June 2014.…

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) in association with the National Art School Gallery (NAS) presents HOME: Chen Chieh-jen and Chien-Chi Chang. This two-site project presents work by two pre-eminent Taiwanese artists. In this film, Gene Sherman, Executive Director of SCAF, discusses the project, and Joni Waka speaks with Chien-Chi Chang abo…