The feedback after the presentation included: I need to explain my intention as a curator more clearly and consider why it is necessary to use guiding questions. Overall, I need to be more specific and avoid abstract expressions. Therefore, I’ll make a summary, clarify my purpose again, and consider how using ethnography as material could help me achieve it.

In the first week, I proposed the metaphor of the anthill to reveal a problem within the contemporary global art ecology: although it is spatially dispersed, power remains concentrated. To address this issue, I proposed returning the authority to interpret artworks to the audience, to decentralise power within the art world. In the third week, I discussed the obstacles posed by curatorial ethics and cultural policy. Then discussed the limitations of my plan. In the fourth week, I explained the disadvantages of the concentration of curatorial authority in contemporary exhibitions for audience understanding, and proposed experimenting with the use of ethnographic materials within exhibitions to help audiences understand artworks through their own knowledge and cultural background. This method of encouraging audiences to construct their own understanding is highly similar to constructivist museum education. Therefore, in the fifth week, I studied constructivist museum pedagogy, pointed out its shortcomings, and proposed how I would modify it and integrate it into my curatorial practice. Afterwards, during flexible learning week, I explored how ethnographic materials could be used to incorporate constructivist museum pedagogy into the curatorial process. I also conducted a small-scale fieldwork and used parts of my field notes to carry out initial testing.

Although in week four I mentioned the regulating role that an introduction can have on the way audiences understand artworks, the guiding questions I used in my plan may still carry this suspicion and do not provide a clear benefit to my aim. Therefore, in response to my tutor’s feedback, I will change this part to an introduction that explains the intention of the exhibition, while avoiding the setting of a biased framework for interpretation. This will include clarifying what ethnographic materials I provide for the audience, how these materials relate to the artworks, and encouraging the audience to understand the works through these materials. Although this change still in practice prescribes a way of understanding the works, it avoids the curator acting as a translator who imposes a biased context and interpretation for the audience.

I shall also incorporate specific details such as the artist’s statement regarding the work, along with the website’s information hierarchy, to further refine the proposal.