Hanoi Grapevine's Finest (HGF) — an annual, audience-nominated recognition of outstanding contemporary art projects in Vietnam, running since 2019 — is now hosted on the Southeast Asia Digital Library. This conversation marks the launch and explores what it means for a grassroots, bottom-up archive to enter an international digital library consortium. A cultural practitioner, an anthropologist, and a digital librarian think through questions of whose knowledge counts, how digital archives shape research narratives, and what happens when an audience-led record meets the infrastructure of international scholarly preservation.

Speakers:

Nguyễn Tú Hằng - Director of Hanoi GrapevineEmily Zinger - Southeast Asia Digital LibrarianĐỗ Tường Linh - Director, Nguyen Wahed Gallery and Art Curator Vincom Center for Contemporary Art