Curatography

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

Archive
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