1.From Concept to Situated Practice Week 9 marks a critical moment where my curatorial thinking is realised through the exhibition Our Shell at Summerhall. The project shifts from a conceptual exploration of “home” towards a situated practice shaped by material, audience interaction, and spatial conditions. Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, the exhibition operates as an open […]
1. Naming the Exhibition our discussion at Summerhall helped us confirm the direction of our exhibition more clearly. We finalised the exhibition date, selected the works we want to include, and agreed on the title: Our Shell. This title feels closely connected to Ji Ju Collective itself. For us, Ji Ju is not just a group name, but […]
1. Using an Object from Home as a Curatorial Entry Point This week, Ji Ju Collective continued our discussion at Summerhall. As part of this session, each of us shared an artwork or object connected to our hometown and introduced the cultural background behind it. This exercise was not simply about “showing where we come […]
1) Summerhall group curating: learning from space, not just from ideas This week, my Jiju group went to Summerhall for a collective curatorial exercise. Working as a group in a real exhibition context made my project feel less like an idea on paper and more like a set of decisions that must survive space, […]
Title Awareness: How Materials Accompany Us, and How They Push Back Treat everyday materials as weighty presences, so viewers relearn attention through bodily pacing and looking. ___ Siqi Xue
Title: Awareness Artist: Guo Puyi 1) What I’m making This is a solo show of Guo Puyi titled Awareness. It’s not trying to teach people big theories. It’s about pulling our attention back to something basic: what we are actually seeing, touching, ignoring, and automatically accepting every day. 2) Why Guo Guo’s work feels […]
1) Why Awareness, and why I am working with Guo Puyi This week I decided to ground my individual curatorial project in a theme that is easy to understand and also realistic to deliver: awareness. For me, awareness is not something abstract. It is the moment when you suddenly notice how you have been looking […]
1) My individual project: a simple, workable idea This week I clarified a more grounded direction for my individual curatorial project. After seeing CAP classmates bring and present their works in class, I realised something very direct: most of the works were not built from “art jargon,” but from personal background, cultural memory, and […]
1) My individual curatorial project This week, I started to define my individual curatorial project in a more concrete way. Instead of thinking about exhibitions in an abstract sense, I am focusing on how curating can happen in everyday commercial spaces. In 2023 and 2024, I visited Parkview Green in Beijing several times. What stayed […]
1.A Shift from Conceptual Framing to Operational Thinking This week marked a decisive shift in my curatorial approach, moving from conceptual framing towards operational thinking. While I did not conduct fieldwork, James Clegg’s workshop functioned as a form of situated knowledge production, grounding earlier theoretical discussions in the realities of curatorial practice. Rather than introducing […]
1.From Scale to Infrastructure Building on Week 1’s attention to institutional scale, this week I reframed “scale” as an infrastructural condition rather than a purely spatial or visual attribute. Terry Smith’s account of the Visual Arts Exhibitionary Complex (VAEC) is helpful because it maps contemporary curating across interrelated contexts and platforms, where exhibitions circulate through […]
1.Exhibition Scale as a Curatorial Condition Over the past few years, I have encountered exhibitions operating at radically different institutional scales, ranging from Huang Yuxing’s solo exhibition Under the Vault of Heaven at Long Museum West Bund to the materially modest and process-oriented exhibition paper trails at & gallery. These encounters prompted me to reflect not on artistic […]
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