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

Issue 4

Curatorial Consciousness in the Times of Post-Nationalism

Editorial

Curatorial Consciousness in the Times of Post-Nationalism

Manray Hsu

In the times of post-nationalism where different degrees of globalization and de-globalization have taken place, exhibition-making in biennials, museums, and art fairs reflects a curatorial consciousness that has always dealt with a nation’s historical past and cultural pride, or rather the unconscious as something repressed. Curating practices in the sense of a “cure” fabricate the politics of memory, i.e., what to remember, …

Issue 4 Curatorial Consciousness in the Times of Post-Nationalism

When Kacalisian Culture Meets the Vertical City: Contemporary Art from Greater Sandimen

Manray Hsu

The topic that I am going to deliver is closely related to my research in the last few years. Namely, how do we see Taiwan as a nascent people and nation in the process of recertifying her own ethnic identification? Shall we follow the agenda set by the state apparatus and the politicians? Or shall we, the cultural set, pursue an alternative narrative that transcends national boundaries and reconfigures the issue? I will explain what I mean in regards to transcending national boundaries as we go along…

Issue 4 Curatorial Consciousness in the Times of Post-Nationalism

Pathways and Challenges: Art History in the Context of Global Contemporary Art

Jau-Lan Guo

The proliferation of contemporary art in Taiwan since the late 1990s has come hand in hand with the development of artistic infrastructure of every stripe: the solidifying institutions of Taiwan’s various biennials, a subsidy system that encourages a high-degree of transnational collaboration, the public sector’s insistence that art museums serve wide demographics, the democratization of artistic practice, and various policies mobilizing the arts as a means of cultural diplomacy…

Issue 4 Curatorial Consciousness in the Times of Post-Nationalism

Curating Commemoration: Conditions of Political Choreography, a performance exhibition in retrospect

Sophie Goltz

When I first came to Taiwan in 2019, I visited the Jing-Mei White Terror Memorial Park (human rights memorial and museum) in New City Taipe where young artists held some inventions throughout the memorial site (since 2007). The participating artists were also invited to human rights institutions and museums in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Gwangju, South Korea and Berlin, Germany…

Issue 4 Curatorial Consciousness in the Times of Post-Nationalism

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Editorial / Curatorial Consciousness in the Times of Post-Nationalism

Manray Hsu

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When Kacalisian Culture Meets the Vertical City: Contemporary Art from Greater Sandimen

Manray Hsu

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Pathways and Challenges: Art History in the Context of Global Contemporary Art

Jau-Lan Guo

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Curating Commemoration: Conditions of Political Choreography, a Performance Exhibition in Retrospect

Sophie Goltz

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