WEEK 4 BLOG

This week we attended an offline workshop with EMBASSY. The workshop was very interesting and helpful for my curatorial learning.

EMBASSY is an interesting artist organization that caters to Edinburgh and Scottish artists, but also embraces students, and has held several curatorial events over the past few years, both online and offline. During their sharing, I was more interested in the planning stage of curatorship: how they came up with the idea of curation, how they established the form of curation and how they contacted various groups, and how they practiced in the preparation of curation. EMBASSY gave full answers to all these questions, which benefited me a lot.

During the Q&A session, I asked them about online curation, i.e., how they prepare for an online curatorial event and how they build the framework of online curation. One EMBASSY member replied that their online curation relies on some external technical support, combined with EMBASSY’s own creative practice, and tries to show the curatorial qualities through several dimensions. I think this part of the session also helped me a lot with my subsequent curatorial ideas.

I also checked out EMBASSY’s online website as a follow-up to my study and was intrigued by their Biscuit Tin 2022 Artists’ Moving Image Festival, a small film and television exhibition designed to help participants examine the realities of the past and explore the mysteries of life’s journey. Live screenings are seated events with intermediate audio and film projections in a darkened space. The lights in the elevated gallery are then turned on before and after the screening and during intermission. The gallery space is located in the basement with 12 concrete steps leading down into the space. Such an offline screening event must be very interesting and impressive