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 association with SCAF Projects 34 & 35, The inventive work of Shigeru Ban.

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 SCAF Projects 34 & 35, The inventive work of Shigeru Ban.

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.

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 Immordino Vreeland.

Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 20 August 2016.

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 August 2016, in association with SCAF Project 32, Jompet Kuswidananto: After Voices.

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 Foundation (SCAF), 6 August 2016.