Curatography Issue 10 -Exhibition Amnesia, or, the Apparatus of Speculative Exhibition

Issue 10

Exhibition Amnesia

Introduction Essay

Exhibition Amnesia, or, the Apparatus of Speculative Curating

Hongjohn Lin

In today’s curatorial culture, the desire to mount a newly sensational exhibition is so strong that past exhibitions are often neglected and forgotten. For any exhibition, we are always looking for something novel, original, and, better yet, unprecedented…

Issue 10 Exhibition Amnesia, or, the Apparatus of Speculative Exhibition

How to Build an Exhibition Archive - A Preliminary Proposal from a Generative Studies Perspective

Lin Chi-Ming

We live in an age of forgetfulness or short-term memory, partly due to industrialization and partly due to the cultural industry’s deliberate manipulation of cultural production. Exhibitions are inevitably affected in such a situation…

Issue 10 Exhibition Amnesia, or, the Apparatus of Speculative Exhibition

Reformulating the Architecture of Exhibitions

Miya Yoshida

If you have curatorial experience, you might be familiar with the moment when something happens in the realm of the exhibition – the moment the exhibition transcends to become more than just the sum of individual art works in a specific space or site…

Issue 10 Exhibition Amnesia, or, the Apparatus of Speculative Exhibition

Orality and Its Amnesia in the Mist of Metalanguage

Tai-Sung Chen

If there is no meaning in art, then what is art for? It is self-contradictory to claim that there is the art of no meaning while deliberately refusing to acknowledge meaning, a refusal that ultimately renders itself insignificant…

Issue 10 Exhibition Amnesia

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Introduction/ Exhibition Amnesia, or, the Apparatus of Speculative Curating

Hongjohn Lin

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How to Build an Exhibition Archive - A Preliminary Proposal from a Generative Studies Perspective

Chi-Ming Lin

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Reformulating the Architecture of Exhibitions

Miya Yoshida

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Orality and Its Amnesia in the Mist of Metalanguage

Tai-Sung 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