Curatography

Issue 12

Grassroots Curating in Asia

Introduction

Zian Chen

In a recent essay on the 2024 Diriyah Biennale that extends to diagonalizing the general plight of large-scale international exhibitions, Singaporean artist and writer Ho Rui An contrasted the gradual demise of biennales in Europe with the…

Issue 12 Grassroots Curating in Asia

Strolling and Catching a Show: On the Performance Walks of Macau-Based Art Group“Step Out”

Wu Sih-Fong

Today, as we are so accustomed to watching plays in a theater, we often overlook the fact that this cultural consumption behavior actually implies a particular spatial order introduced by modern theatrical semiotics. With the advent of theater productions that highlight experiential, participatory, and public engagement, as…

Issue 12 Grassroots Curating in Asia

Queers and Art in Precarity: Reflections on NGOs and Curatorial Practices in Beijing

Yang Zi

When I joined the Beijing LGBT Center in 2007, I was still a student in the Philosophy Department at Nanjing University. Prior to that, I had attended a summer camp for gay and lesbian youth in Beijing, which I had discovered through the BBS board, The Same Sky, at Nanjing University. I went to an offline gathering of…

Issue 12 Grassroots Curating in Asia

Musing the Artistic Alchemy: Reflections on the Artist-Curator Model of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale

Anushka Rajendran

In South Asia, where the figure of the contemporary curator is relatively new, the possible implications and scope of curating are sometimes ambiguous, even to self-proclaimed curators themselves, as well as to institutions and galleries that are sustained by collecting practices. Additionally, there are not enough…

Issue 12 Grassroots Curating in Asia

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Introduction/
Grassroots Curating in Asia

Zian Chen

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Strolling and Catching a Show: On the Performance Walks of Macau-Based Art Group“Step Out”

Wu Sih-Fong

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Queers and Art in Precarity: Reflections on NGOs and Curatorial Practices in Beijing

Yang Zi

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Musing the Artistic Alchemy: Reflections on the Artist-Curator Model of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale

Anushka Rajendran

Archive
Issue 12 Grassroots Curating in Asia
Introduction / Grassroots Curating 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

Issue 11 Ethics of Flourishing Onto-Epistemologies
Introduction / 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 and Vuth Lyno

Issue 10 Exhibition Amnesia
Introduction / Exhibition Amnesia, or, the Apparatus of Speculative Curating	Hongjohn Lin
How to Build an Exhibition Archive - A Preliminary Proposal from a Generative Studies Perspective	Lin Chi-Ming
Reformulating the Architecture of Exhibitions	Miya Yoshida
Orality and Its Amnesia in the Mist of Metalanguage	Tai-Sung Chen

Issue 9 Curating Against Forgetting
Editorial / 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	Zian Chen and Chi-Yu Wu
Memories of Underdevelopment: Revisiting Curatorial Methods and the Asian Context	Wan-Yin Chen

Issue 8 Reformatting Documenta with lumbung Formula: documenta fifteen
Editorial / 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

Issue 7 The Heterogeneous South
Editorial / 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

Issue 6 The Beginning of Curating
Editorial / 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

Issue 5 Curatorial Episteme
Editorial / Curatorial Episteme	Hongjohn Lin
Epistemic Encounters	Henk Slager
The Curatorial Thing	Hongjohn Lin
Ethics of Curating	Meng-Shi Chen

Issue 4 Curatorial Consciousness in the Times of Post-Nationalism
Editorial / 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

Issue 3 Curating Performativity
Editorial / Curating Performativity	I-wen Chang
Choreographing Exhibitions: Performative Curatorgraphy 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

Issue 2 Curators' Living Rooms
Editorial / Curators' Living Rooms	Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo
Extended Living Room: Space and Conversation	ruangrupa（Ade Darmawan, Mirwan Andan）
Freeing the Weights of the Habitual	Raqs Media Collective
Curating Topography	Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo

Issue 1 Curatography
Editorial / 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