Introduction
The Diversity Art Forum collection (formerly known as the African and Asian Visual Artist’s Archive, or AAVAA), moved to the Archive suite in the Library and Learning Centre during August 2004. Diversity Art Forum represents an important collection of slides, exhibition catalogues, videos, papers and ephemera relating to the work of artists of Afro-Caribbean or Asian origin living and working with the UK. It represents a living archive which has been utilised for a number of various projects by both researchers and students.
General Background Information
In addition to the inherited archive material of Black, African and Asian artists living in Britain, Diversity Art Forum aims to enhance the archive with new material from artists out side Britain and Western Europe. Diversity Art Forum have new material from artists working in sound art, internet as well other visual mediums.
Scholarly research about artists, art forms and critical discourse is at the heart of Diversity Art Forum's objectives. In this sense the archive occupies a unique position, in that a dynamic and continuous relationship with its Contributors (artists, curators and writers) is needed for Diversity Art Forum's very existence. This relationship brings meaning to calling Diversity Art Forum a 'living' archive, evaluating 'live' documents.
In 2006, the AAVAA Online Project was launched providing online access to key artist information and works held within the DAF collections. This site has been designed as an easy-to-navigate archive of African and Asian visual arts in Britain and contains over 3000 images and information about concerning 200 artists. AAVAA Online is a comprehensive resource for students, historians, artists and museum practitioners alike
AAVAA Online: http://www.aavaa.org.uk/
Descriptions for all current UEL Archival Collections can be found on both the Archives Hub and AIM25 websites.
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