This exhibition shows artists’ responses to the impact of mass media and the changing technologies that have shaped the world over the last hundred years. The exhibition includes a wide variety of techniques and materials – from posters and paint to analogue and digital technologies – that raise questions about feminism, consumerism and the cult of celebrity.
Tate Media exhibition
In my opinion, too broad a theme for this exhibition. The redundancy and illogical stacking of content only allows the audience to go through the motions, neither clarifying the historical timeline of media development nor empathising with the works. It makes it difficult for the audience to focus on a specific media material and theme.
Charline von Heyl, Untitled 2011
Ming Wong, Life of Imitation 2009
For example, the Guerrilla Girls.regarding this art project, the curator has covered the walls with artworks on a large scale, and as the audience carefully reads the words in them, while absorbing the impressive content of them. Turn a corner and one arrives at another conceptual art medium. Most of the words and hidden connotations in the Guerrilla Girls then fade out of the audience’s mind. This curatorial idea without logical connection is like swiping a short video that flashes through the audience’s mind.
Guerrilla Girls, Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into the Met. Museum? 1989
As a result, they get exhibition amnesia. We live in an era of hypermetabolic memory, and the more exhibitions there are, the fewer viewers will be able to remember what they have seen.
So in the following part of my curatorial proposal, I think I need to curate an exhibition that can bring deep content to the audience, that allows them to empathise, interact, understand and learn about the knowledge and culture involved.
