Curatography

Issue 9

Curating Against Forgetting

Editorial

Zian Chen

In the 9th issue of Curatography, titled “Curating Against Forgetting,” we have brought together a collection of works by artists and writers who utilize visual analysis to delve into exhibition histories…

Issue 9 Curating Against Forgetting

Icon and Network: Solidarity’s Mediums and a Materialist Internationalism

Ho Rui An

n May 2020, as Singapore, like many countries, was hit by the COVID-19 outbreak, and went into national lockdown, scenes of large-scale protests against the police killing of Black American …

Issue 9 Curating Against Forgetting

Settlers and the Unhomely: The Cinematic Visions of Infrastructure in Eastern Taiwan

Zian Chen and Chi-Yu Wu

The eastern coast of Taiwan, nestled amidst majestic mountains, stood as the last bastion that went through the profound transformations wrought by the extractivist practice of modernity…

Issue 9 Curating Against Forgetting

Memories of Underdevelopment: Revisiting Curatorial Methods and the Asian Context

Wan-Yin Chen

On the Asia Art Archive’s online repository, one can still read the once heated intellectual correspondence back in May 2013 between the Pakistan-British artist Rasheed Araeen…

Issue 9 Curating Against Forgetting

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Editorial / Transgressing Epistemic Boundaries

Zian Chen

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Icon and Network: Solidarity’s Mediums and a Materialist Internationalism

Ho Rui An

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Settlers and the Unhomely: The Cinematic Visions of Infrastructure in Eastern Taiwan

Zian Chen and Chi-Yu Wu

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Memories of Underdevelopment: Revisiting Curatorial Methods and the Asian Context

Wan-Yin Chen

Archive
Issue 13 The Economy of Curation and the Capital of Attention
Introduction / 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

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