In 2014, Asia Art Archive became custodian of a studio filled with six hundred dust-choked boxes of photographs, catalogues, collages, and books. Belonging to the late Hong Kong–based artist Ha Bik Chuen, these materials documented thousands of the city’s exhibitions from the 1960s through his death in 2009. Ha accumulated them unselectively, obsessively: The boxes contain photographs of artist friends; leaflets from early shows featuring the avant-garde Circle Art Group; and printed ephemera from ad hoc art spaces, including a cathedral hall, that preceded the boom of commercial galleries. The