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

The Study of
Curatorial Culture

The Study of
Curatorial Culture

Curating and Re‑public / Re‑commons

Curating and Re‑public / Re‑commons

Introduction

Curating and Re‑public / Re‑commons

Sandy Hsiu‑chih Lo

Amid the profound transformations of contemporary social structures and epistemic systems, curating as a form of cultural practice is confronted with unprecedented challenges and opportunities. The expansion of global capitalism, the inherited colonial apparatus…

Issue 14 Curating and Re‑public / Re‑commons

In The Process of Becoming: Reflections from The Innards of Jakarta Biennale 2024

Berto Tukan

November 15, 2024, has passed more than half a year ago. The Jakarta Biennale 2024 (JB 2024) which was organized to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the event (1974 – 2024) was finally held for 46 days. The main concentration of this event took place in Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta…

Issue 14 Curating and Re‑public / Re‑commons

Curating Publicness: A Case Study of the 2024 Tainan Arts Festival

Yi-Wei Keng

When Meg Stuart, an American choreographer based in Europe, was asked about the difference between a good and bad creative process, she responded: “A bad process is one leading to a breakdown of trust and mutual respect, and unwillingness to try proposals…

Issue 14 Curating and Re‑public / Re‑commons

Between Light & Poetic Silence

Shamim Ahmed Chowdhury

Amid the swift currents of life, we rarely pause to gather the quiet echoes — the stories of our change, endurance, the vivid remembrance of past journeys, and the soft pulse of our belongingness. With each passing layer of time there is a light that falls upon our pathways and suddenly we feel a new narrative starting to unfold…

Issue 14 Curating and Re‑public / Re‑commons

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Introduction/
Curating and Re‑public / Re‑commons

Sandy Hsiu‑chih Lo

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In The Process of Becoming: Reflections from The Innards of Jakarta Biennale 2024

Berto Tukan

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Curating Publicness: A Case Study of the 2024 Tainan Arts Festival

Yi-Wei Keng

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Between Light & Poetic Silence

Shamim Ahmed Chowdhury

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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 – Miya Yoshida, Yusaku Imamura
Curating Publicness: A Case Study of the 2024 Tainan Arts Festival – Miya Yoshida, Yusaku Imamura
Between Light & Poetic Silence – Miya Yoshida, Yusaku Imamura

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 – Miya Yoshida
Time Reclaimed: Life on the Move – Miya Yoshida, Yusaku Imamura

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, Miya Yoshida
Streaming Discourse: Phnom Penh as Currents of Dialogues – Miya Yoshida, 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 – Miya Yoshida

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 – Chen Wan-Yin

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 – Meng-Shi Chen
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, Manray Hsu
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 – 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