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Issue 16 2025

Curating Speculative Feminism

Unfixing “Women”: Curating the Gender of Leaving

Introduction

Unfixing "Women": Curating the Gender of Leaving

Esther Yi-Chun Lin

In recent years, exhibitions foregrounding “women” as a curatorial framework or methodology have become increasingly visible across major museums in Europe and Asia. Examples include the 59th Venice Biennale The Milk of Dreams (2022), the 60th Venice Biennale……

Issue 16 Curating Speculative Feminism

Speaking Nearby: A Letter on Ocean in Us, Southern Visions of Women Artists

Tammy Yu-Ting Hsieh

Dear Reader,

I have spent a long time considering how to approach writing on the exhibition, Ocean in Us —Southern Visions of Women Artists (hereafter Ocean in Us). As a Taiwanese woman, a curator who had lived in Kaohsiung for several years, and a former staff member at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts……

Issue 16 Curating Speculative Feminism

The Fiction of Michelle Chen

Ileana Tu (Miss Bench)
Translated by Joanna J. Chung

That morning, as usual, Ayu left home at 4 a.m. to get to the central kitchen of the factory in time for work. There she prepared ingredients, cooked, and portioned dishes without a moment’s pause. It was not until eight o’clock that she took her first bite of the day……

Issue 16 Curating Speculative Feminism

ALOHA NŌ: What's Love Got to Do with It?

Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Binna Choi, and Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu

The following1 is a conversation held by three curators–Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu, and myself–of Hawaiʻi Triennial 2025, somewhere in the middle of the preparation for the Triennial. The conversation foregrounds the process behind curating the Triennial, through which we also shape the meaning of ALOHA NŌ, the title and theme of the Triennial……

Issue 16 Curating Speculative Feminism

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Introduction/
Unfixing "Women": Curating the Gender of Leaving

Esther Yi-Chun Lin

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Speaking Nearby: A Letter on Ocean in Us, Southern Visions of Women Artists

Tammy Yu-Ting Hsieh

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The Fiction of Michelle Chen

Ileana Tu (Miss Bench)

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ALOHA NŌ: What's Love Got to Do with It?

Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Binna Choi, and Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu

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Curatography Issue 16 － Curating Speculative Feminism

Unfixing “Women”: Curating the Gender of Leaving – Esther Yi-Chun Lin
Speaking Nearby: A Letter on Ocean in Us, Southern Visions of Women Artists – Tammy Yu-Ting Hsieh
The Fiction of Michelle Chen – Ileana Tu (Miss Bench)
ALOHA NŌ: What’s Love Got to do with it? A Conversation between Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Binna Choi, and Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu – Binna Choi

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