For this entire exhibition, I think it is a success. I am very happy to cooperate with yushan zhao. We have a tacit understanding. Whether it is from the initial installation process to the exhibition distribution to the final disassembly work, we are very happy with all the processes. A good interpretation of the division of labor and cooperation and mutual help.
My job is not only to take care of my own part of the exhibition, but also to take care of the entire exhibition. Helping Yushan to discuss and cooperate with her is very important for the entire exhibition.
๐บCurating work on classes:๏ผthe design of the overall poster๏ผ
I am mainly responsible for the design of the overall poster๐, which is a very difficult and important task. Whether the poster is attractive enough affects the flow of people in the whole exhibition to a certain extent.
I think it is the most troublesome and important thing to collect copywriting work in the early stage. It is necessary to collect everyone’s exhibition location and time accurately without leaving anything behind. There are many classes, and I am afraid that one of them will be left behind. Therefore, I will design each edition The poster is updated in teams and marked if there is any missing information, please contact me immediately, which can improve efficiency and update in real time.
๐ก In the mid-term revision, I chose to use stones and flowers for the main design.
1. ๐Flowers can represent the current exhibition season. Spring is a good season for all things to repeat and flowers to officially bloom. And the flowers also symbolize our vigor and youth.
2.ย ๐ชจStone can represent firmness. I hope to express the power of our cohesion, even though our exhibitions are scattered in various places, each of us is a part of this collective, just like our theme 1^25.
I modeled and presented the elements of the entire poster in the form of C4d, hoping that the audience can find our exhibition poster at a glance whether they are near or far away.
3.In the final typesetting, due to various elements such as text information, the amount of information that the poster needs to present is too large, but it must also meet the needs of clear printing. I modified the font color, font size, and typesetting, and jl also gave a lot of suggestions , I trimmed them one by one. All curatorial locations and promotional information are included.
โก๏ธA total of 5-6 versions have been changed, and the feedback on the final effect is very good. Many viewers said that they were attracted by the poster, which happened to achieve the purpose of the design, so the work assigned by the class as a whole was successfully completed.
๏ผEveryone’s praise for the poster design๏ฝ๏ฝโบ๏ธ๏ผ
๐บMy own exhibition work:
- Early stage:ย
Communicate with designers, obtain copyright consent, and introduce the theme of the entire exhibition content and some involved content to them. I think early communication is very important. Whether or not copyright can be obtained depends on the sincerity and sincerity of the curator. Working hard, I listed the theme, content, time and place of the curation, and the points why I want to exhibit and appreciate each work and sent them to the designers in the form of documents to obtain copyrightconsent.
- Mid-term:ย
sort out all curated works and classify them, and communicate with Yushan. We chose a complementary approach in terms of exhibition content. I mainly focus on art works, and Yushan mainly looks for some childhood items, snacks, books and other objects. Communicate with the artist before the exhibition date. ๏ผFor example, Jiayiโs works need to be picked up for the on-site exhibition. I asked about the storage location of the works in advance, and made an appointment to pick up the works two hours in advance on the day of the exhibition.๏ผ
(๐ We communicated and coordinated with Yushan in the middle of the whole process. For example, we searched for our curatorial location, went to the classrooms of several different campuses in Edinburgh, and finally chose the ECA main building; for example, our exhibition works and equipment, put my The stop-motion animation work was placed in the middle of the meeting room as a transitional work of the exhibition, and Yushan used a tablet computer to make the exhibition video…)
- Deadline:
Within a week before the exhibition
1. I collected and purchased some materials and materials such as glue, parts, colored pens, etc. used in the exhibition. And I have consulted the curation methods of many excellent exhibitions and some small tips, (such as the “wrapping” concept of Christo’s “The Wrapped Arc de Triomphe”), I believe it will be beneficial to my curation.
2. The work was printed one week in advance. In order to be able to use it safely on the day of the exhibition, the printing task must be done in advance. Sure enough, there was an accident during the printing process. Since the two printing devices that went there were broken, after two Genius prints successfully.
3. Made some derivative peripheral 3D elements, I hope that some small decorations can play a certain role in distinguishing without affecting the overall curatorial content (distinguish the content from yushan and the division between different exhibits and exhibits)
4.The installation and disassembly work has been listed separately in the blog for organization
- On the day of the exhibition:
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I arrived an hour early to pick up some trash from the19th install and check for missing parts.
Reasonably guide the audience to visit and give explanations. At the entrance, I distributed the exhibition wristbands designed by myself to the audience, adding my 3D elements, so that the audience can be more immersed in the “childhood memories”.
I hope that the whole exhibition will give people a relaxed feeling. Chatting with the audience throughout the whole process made me feel very relaxed and learned a lot from them. In the communication with the audience, I also felt the sympathy of some audiences. ๐งA girl was very moved when she saw Zhiqian, which is my physical book art project. She said, “She never thought that she could express her love for her mother like this I really hope that I will give my mother such a gift if I have the opportunity.โ I think this is a two-way touch, and I cherish every friend and audience who participated in the exhibition. This is a rare and precious memory. I set up a message board, and everyone who has watched the exhibition can leave an expression on the theme of childhood, which can be a sentence or a word. This message board is very warm, and I think it is very correct to set it up.
The entire exhibition seems to provide an opportunity to let the audience experience the artist’s childhood in the artwork through illustrations, stop-motion animation videos, installations, book designs and other artworks, and let the audience experience the artist’s childhood in the artworks, and empathize with their own memories of childhood stories, and relive their childhood.
โฌ ๏ธ(After the artist herself came to visit, he posted it on WeChat Moments to express his gratitudeโบ๏ธ)
In the end, the exhibition successfully conveyed information and themes, and the cooperation with Yushan was perfect. It attracted many audiences and received unanimous praise. It displayed themes and information in a variety of ways.
