Congratulations to Hong Kong’s Asia Art Archive and the recently-founded Myanmar Art Resource Center and Archive for last Friday launching the Mobile Library: Myanmar project. From now until March 2015, more than 450 publications on art theory, philosophy, spaces, curating and archiving will move around a series of venues in Yangon and Mandalay. Previously, AAA undertook the Mobile Library: Vietnam project in 2011 in collaboration with Sàn Art in Ho Chi Minh City, and the Mobile Library: Sri Lanka project in 2013 in collaboration with Raking Leaves in Jaffna and Colombo.

In the long run, MARCA “aims to become the largest bilingual digital resource on the history and current state of Myanmar arts; to stimulate and nourish creative teaching and learning as well as provide research materials for students, teachers, artists, and the greater public”. Founded by artists Khin Zaw Latt and Zon Sapal Phyu together with researcher Nathalie Johnston, it looks like being an important initiative in a still emergent local art scene.