AAA FM 993 | Samson Young

Hong Kong–based artist Samson Young moves through various locations in and around AAA by way of a roving sound station—doubling as a bookmobile and deejay booth—to generate a series of mobile radio broadcasts. His project AAA FM 993 invokes classic radio programmes with news announcements, interview segments, and commercials incorporating ambient noise sourced from AAA's audio collection, focusing on the in-between to parallel past and present.

John Clark Archive

Asia Art Archive commenced the digitisation and mapping of Sydney-based art historian and emeritus professor John Clark’s interview archive in 2013.

Clark’s archive comprises of over 280 interviews of artists and art professionals from across Asia spanning the past 27 years, presenting a set of art historical narratives constructed through oral histories and conversations. It is accompanied by ten volumes of interview transcripts, including Clark’s research notes on chronologies and bibliographies of individual artists. An in-depth interview with Clark was conducted by AAA to further contextualise his research practice.The material is largely geographically structured—divisions to enable coherent browsing that classify artists by the countries in which they live and work, and by those whose works and interests concern a particular region.More material will be gradually made accessible through the AAA website.

View here for a preliminary list mapping the artists and art professionals interviewed by John Clark.

Hong Kong–based artist Samson Young moves through various locations in and around AAA by way of a roving sound station—doubling as a bookmobile and deejay booth—to generate a series of mobile radio broadcasts. His project AAA FM 993 invokes classic radio programmes with news announcements, interview segments, and commercials incorporating ambient noise sourced from AAA's audio collection, focusing on the in-between to parallel past and present.


During the live broadcast session at Pound Lane, Artist Samson Young interviewed his artist friend, Lisa Park.

During the live broadcast session at Pound Lane, Artist Samson Young interviewed his mother.

The AAA FM993 Live Broadcast Cart

Artist Samson Young asks his interviewees to leave an random object at the end of the interviews, and stored them in the broadcast cart.

Get to know the stories of the objects, broadcasts available through here.

AAA FM993 at Open Saturday

A day-long programme centring on art as a means of inquiry. Invited collaborators from various fields share fresh perspectives on a range of topics for diverse audiences to actively explore art’s capacity to generate ideas.

Sea of Stories (SOS) is an array of dynamic initiatives: a radio broadcast, bookmaking, pop-up storefront, film screening, and performances—accompanied by a talk, tours, workshops, and an exhibition. Spanning a full day and evening while traveling between indoor and outdoor locations, audiences can unlock secrets and re-imagine narratives by navigating through AAA's collection and sites within Sheung Wan.

Check out more about AAA's public workshop here.