Curatography Issue 15 － What Is to Be Done in Curating? - Curatography

The Study of
Curatorial Culture

The Study of
Curatorial Culture

What Is to Be Done in Curating?

Curating and Re‑public / Re‑commons

Introduction

What Is to Be Done in Curating?

Yenchi Yang

One morning, I read the news about the latest exhibition of the Mori Art Museum, in Tokyo, entitled “Machine Love: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art.” It immediately reminded me of the book Machinic Eros: Writings on Japan by Gary Genosko and Jay Hetrick…

Issue 15 What Is to Be Done in Curating?

A Note Towards Curatorial Anarchy

Jean-Paul Martinon

Curating is usually understood as a professional activity that requires a set of skills that bridge the rational, intuitive, and emotive and cannot thereby be categorized under specific disciplines, even though they are often captured by fine art, art history, anthropology, sociology, media, and cultural studies…

Issue 15 What Is to Be Done in Curating?

Afterthoughts: Porcelain Photo in Hong Kong: A Mobile Museum (2017)

Kalen Wing Ki Lee

Since the invention of photography by French photographer Nicéphore Niépce in 1822, and the subsequent global expansion of photographic practices, the act of taking or making a photograph has served as a ritual for documenting life events and both human and non-human activities. Photographs are commonly perceived and…

Issue 15 What Is to Be Done in Curating?

Queer Exercises for Deep Time Thinking

Esther Lu

“Can the future stop being a fantasy of heterosexual reproduction?”
José Esteban Muñoz.

The modern industrial concept of time has pinned our productivity to the clock face and flattened our imagination, reducing our capacity to create different connections with other beings on Earth. Would it be…

Issue 15 What Is to Be Done in Curating?

⚫

Introduction/
What Is to Be Done in Curating?

Yenchi Yang

⚊

A Note Towards Curatorial Anarchy

Jean-Paul Martinon

⚊

Afterthoughts: Porcelain Photo in Hong Kong: A Mobile Museum (2017)

Kalen Wing Ki Lee

⚊

Queer Exercises for Deep Time Thinking

Esther Lu

×

Curatography Issue 15 － What Is to Be Done in Curating?

What Is to Be Done in Curating? – Yenchi Yang
A Note Towards Curatorial Anarchy – Jean-Paul Martinon
Afterthoughts: Porcelain Photo in Hong Kong: A Mobile Museum (2017) – Kalen Wing Ki Lee
Queer Exercises for Deep Time Thinking – Esther Lu

Curatography Issue 14 － Curating and Re‑public / Re‑commons

Curating and Re‑public / Re‑commons – Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo
In The Process of Becoming: Reflections from The Innards of Jakarta Biennale 2024 – Berto Tukan
Curating Publicness: A Case Study of the 2024 Tainan Arts Festival – Yi-Wei Keng
Between Light & Poetic Silence – Shamim Ahmed Chowdhury

SPECIAL ISSUE － It’s Us, Not You: Curatorial Notes on the 6th Asia Triennial Manchester

It’s Us, Not You: Curatorial Notes on the 6th Asian Triennial Manchester – Hongjohn Lin, Joanna J. Chuang
Transvaluation and Curating in the Expanded Field – Anna Bergqvist
The Serpent of Value : Duchamp’s Wandering Ghost – Tai-Sung Chen
Floating Bodies & Scorched Earth: On the Threshold of a Post-Capitalist World – Sarah E. James
The Practices of LOVE – Kalen Wing Ki Lee
Transvaluation and Eco-Aesthetics – Hongjohn Lin
Twelve Theses towards A Transvaluation Manifesto – Henk Slager
The Politics of identity, diversity, and cosmopolitanism: Asia Triennial Manchester – Ming Turner
New Alternatives-site for Potentiality – Yusaku Imamura
Time Reclaimed: Life on the Move – Miya Yoshida

Curatography Issue 13 － The Economy of Curation and the Capital of Attention

The Economy of Curation and the Capital of Attention – Hongjohn Lin
The Taipei Performing Arts Center and the Bauhaus – The Visceral Economy of “Avant-Garde” – Freda Fiala
Forking Sovereignty! Mutates Through Contagion – Tzu Tung Lee
In Praise of Troubleness – Yenchi Yang

Curatography Issue 12 － Grassroots Curating in Asia

Grassroots Exhibitionaries in Asia – Zian Chen
Strolling and Catching a Show: On the Performance Walks of Macau-Based Art Group“Step Out” – Wu Sih-Fong
Queers and Art in Precarity: Reflections on NGOs and Curatorial Practices in Beijing – Yang Zi
Musing the Artistic Alchemy: Reflections on the Artist-Curator Model of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale – Anushka Rajendran

Curatography Issue 11 － Ethics of Flourishing Onto-Epistemologies

Ethics of Flourishing Onto-Epistemologies – Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo
A Chronicle of “the Open World” and the Chiang Rai Biennale 2023 – Sorayut Aiem-UeaYut
The Exhibition Is Not Enough: Evolving Trends in Indonesian Art Biennials – Ayos Purwoaji
Streaming Discourse: Phnom Penh as Currents of Dialogues – Pen Sereypagna, Vuth Lyno

Curatography Issue 10 － Exhibition Amnesia, or, the Apparatus of Speculative Exhibition

Exhibition Amnesia, or, the Apparatus of Speculative Exhibition – Hongjohn Lin
How to Build an Exhibition Archive – A Preliminary Proposal from a Generative Studies Perspective – Chi-Ming Lin
Reformulating the Architecture of Exhibitions – Miya Yoshida
Orality and Its Amnesia in the Mist of Metalanguage – Tai-Sung Chen

Curatography Issue 9 － Curating Against Forgetting

Transgressing Epistemic Boundaries – Zian Chen
Icon and Network: Solidarity’s Mediums and a Materialist Internationalism – Ho Rui An
Settlers and the Unhomely: The Cinematic Visions of Infrastructure in Eastern Taiwan – Wu Chi-Yu, Zian Chen
Memories of Underdevelopment: Revisiting Curatorial Methods and the Asian Context – Wan-Yin Chen

Curatography Issue 8－ Reformatting documenta with lumbung Formula: documenta 15

Reformatting Documenta with lumbung Formula: documenta fifteen – Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo
Harvesting and a Single Story of Lumbung – Putra Hidayatullah
The Politics in the Ramayana / Ramakien in documenta fifteen: Decoding the Power of the Thai Ruling Class – Jiandyin
Malaise of Commons: on the Quality of the Relationships in documenta fifteen – Hsiang-Pin Wu

Curatography Issue 7 － The Heterogeneous South

The Heterogeneous South – Hongjohn Lin
The South – An art of asking and listening – Manray Hsu
Uncharted Territory: The Roots of Curatorial Practices in Eastern Indonesia – Ayos Purwoaji
South Fever: The South as a Method in Taiwan Contemporary Curating – Pei-Yi Lu

Curatography Issue 6 － The Beginning of Curating

The Beginning of Curating – Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo
Are curators really needed? – Bùi Kim Đĩnh
The Documents 15 and the Concept of Lumbung. – ruangrupa
The Three Axes of Curating: Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics – Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo

Curatography Issue 5 － Curatorial Episteme

Curatorial Episteme – Hongjohn Lin
Epistemic Encounters – Henk Slager
The Curatorial Thing – Hongjohn Lin
Ethics of Curating – Meng-Shi Chen

Curatography Issue 4 － Curatorial Consciousness in the Times of Post-Nationalism

Curatorial Consciousness in the Times of Post-Nationalism – Manray Hsu
When Kacalisian Culture Meets the Vertical City: Contemporary Art from Greater Sandimen – Manray Hsu
Pathways and Challenges: Art History in the Context of Global Contemporary Art – Jau-Lan Guo
Curating Commemoration: Conditions of Political Choreography, a Performance Exhibition in Retrospect – Sophie Goltz

Curatography Issue 3 － Curating Performativity

Curating Performativity – I-wen Chang
Choreographing Exhibitions: Curating Performativity in Taiwan – I-wen Chang
Living and Working Together in the Now Normal: Visual Arts and Co. at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre – Pawit Mahasarinand
The Curatorial as A Praxis of Disobedience – Miya Yoshida

Curatography Issue 2 － Curators’ Living Rooms

Curators’ Living Rooms – Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo
Extended Living Room: Space and Conversation Conversation by ruangrupa – Ade Darmawan, Mirwan Andan
Freeing the Weights of the Habitual – Raqs Media Collective
Curating Topography – Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo

Curatography Issue 1 － Curatography

One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward – Hongjohn Lin
What is Curatography? – Hongjohn Lin
Les fleurs américaines – Yoann Gourmel, Elodie Royer
There are No Blank Slates – Eileen Legaspi Ramirez