Find and document three websites of recent exhibitions, events or festivals independently that are relevant to your own curatorial project
How to Love Many in Many Ways
The project is based on the idea that “love is not a private thing” and invites other creators to develop exercises and games that respond to the question “How to Love Many in Many Ways? The question. This is a new way of imagining love.
In this project, ten artists from around the world have developed ten games and exercises in which the artists invite audiences of different backgrounds, ages and disciplines to participate in the practice. Through the ideas that have been experimented with, viewers can imagine love as a relationship with something or someone and extend that relationship into a conscious turning towards the world around us. The creators believe that love implies a special concern for others. At a time when humans pose a threat to the world, because of the lack of care and attention of many people, it makes the intentional exercise of intimacy and reflection important.
This project and my project are both based on the theme of love. I could feel the creators of this project doing their best to engage the community after throwing out the questions and allowing the interactive participation of the audience to respond to the questions of the exhibition. It was a very clever way of collaborating with the artist and the audience, instead of simply touring and enjoying the project.
A Love to Last 13 Hours | Pioneer Winter
A LOVE TO LAST 13 HOURS is a 13-hour performance project by Pioneer Winter to keep the heavy and unstable glass structure from collapsing by maintaining it. The set elements of this project consist of glass shards, mirrors and hanging display cases, and through this installation the artist wanted to concretize the tensions of romance and human relationships. Interestingly, the artist played a collection of 13 hours and 9 minutes of break-up stories that included themes of intimacy, power, responsibility, fatigue, will, surrender, and heartbreak during the 13 hours of maintaining the exhibit.
My understanding of this project is that love is not only a romantic relationship, but also a very weak one, and that glass itself is fragile, as if some relationships are fragile. The artist’s 13 hour effort to maintain the balance of the glass cabinet is akin to lovers trying to maintain their relationship. However, this continuous work is also a test of the performer’s endurance, just as the bonding in love is a test for lovers, whose quarrels and break-ups are like the broken glass in the exhibition. It is really interesting that the artist uses this metaphor to represent the effort and fragility of love.
STATES OF THE BODY PRODUCED BY LOVE
STATES OF THE BODY PRODUCED BY LOVE is a poem written by Nisha Ramayya in which the body assumes as many forms as love produces states: attraction and repulsion, excitement and exhaustion, selfishness and the dissolution of self. and repulsion, excitement and exhaustion, selfishness and the dissolution of self.
STATES OF THE BODY PRODUCED BY LOVE, (ten states are named: joy of the eyes, pensive reflection, desire, sleeplessness, emaciation, indifference to external objects, abandonment of shame, infatuation, fainting away, death).
These definitions gave me a lot of ideas that there are different stages of love and first love relationships, like the physical states mentioned in this poem. Perhaps I could divide my exhibition into these different stages and thus establish a connection between the artworks.
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