Curatography Issue 2 － Curators' Living Rooms

Issue 2

Curators’ Living Rooms

Curatography

Editorial

Curators’ living rooms are artistic labyrinths of thinking and practice, places compatible with both reality and imagination.

According to the description in “Extended Living Room: Space and Conversation” by the Indonesian Jakarta art group ruangrupa, this living room is a place for them to “hang out” (in Indonesian, nongkrong), and it is a place for learning from each other, sharing living in the moment with others, and having a good time together. At the same time, it is also a place for them to develop the “barn” (lumbung in Indonesian) as the core metaphor to create a shared “resource pot” as a method to carry out collaborative thinking and collectivist practice…

Issue 2 Curators' Living Rooms

Extended Living Room: Space and Conversation

ruangrupa（Ade Darmawan, Mirwan Andan）

Ruangrupa is a Jakarta-based collective established in 2000, known for organizing festivals, exhibitions, and various events and publications. One recent project is the Gudskul Ecosystem, a community-based cross-disciplinary platform and cultural support system, inspired by collective farming and traditional agricultural methods in Sulawesi. Pronounced “good school” in English, the project’s complete name is GUD-SKUL: contemporary art collective and ecosystem studies…

Issue 2 Curators' Living Rooms

Freeing the Weight of the Habitual

Raqs Media Collective

In a recent conversation, the Vietnamese American writer Ocean Vuong elucidated the thinking process behind his new book, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous:

“It was important to me, at least in this book, that violence remain independent from any character’s self-worth, rendering it inert, terrible, and felt—but not a means of “development.” Through Kishōtenketsu, violence becomes fact and not a vehicle towards a climax. Having been a student mainly of Western literature, it became clear to me that the most perennial protagonist is not necessarily the main character, but conflict-driven plot. In Western narratology, the plot is the dominant mode to which all characters are subordinate…

Issue 2 Curators' Living Rooms

Curating Topography

Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo

Looking at the current art world, the main locations of art activities are still mainly art museums. In fact, from modern art to contemporary art, so-called “art” has always taken “gaze” as its core, constructed a logical aesthetic framework of “representation” based on authors, works, and viewers, and built an abstract space, usually a museum or a gallery, out of the context of daily life and social context as a field for displaying works of art…

Issue 2 Curators’ Living Rooms

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Editorial / Curators’ Living Rooms

Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo

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Extended Living Room: Space and Conversation

ruangrupa（Ade Darmawan, Mirwan Andan）

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Freeing the Weight of the Habitual

Raqs Media Collective

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Curating Topography