1.Introduction: From Looking to Perceiving At the beginning of this semester, my understanding of the countermeasure exhibition is mainly at the level of visual arrangement: selecting works, placing them in space, and creating meaning through sorting. This assumption began to shift during a visit to the SSA 127th Annual Exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy, where […]

  AWARENESS THROUGH MATERIALITY Custom Lane, Edinburgh, UK June 15-22, 2026   1. Curatorial Narrative: In contemporary urban life in pursuit of efficiency, matter is often simplified into functional tools. The materiality of perception in this exhibition refuses to regard perception as abstract psychological comfort, and reshapes it into a concrete viewing practice. By considering […]

Han Qiu’s blog represents a sophisticated evolution from an art history student to a critical curator. Her work is characterized by a rigorous synthesis of sociopolitical theory and digital ethics,  treats the exhibition space as a site for urgent socio-political inquiry.   1.Strengths:  Professional Operationality : The Week 6 Pitch is a standout. Including a detailed budgetand a […]

1.SICP Synthesis: Awareness and Material Agency This thirteen-week journey has transformed my curatorial focus from the authority of grand institutions to the care for microscopic material tensions. My individual project, Awareness Through Materiality, successfully weaves together the works of Jiang Miao, Suyon Huh, and Guo Puyi. I have realized that a curator is not merely […]

1.Material Agency and the Logic of Awareness In Week 12, my work transitions from gathering observations toward the deliberate planning of my final Curatorial Project report. This stage is not to draw conclusions, but to plan how to implement the research within a professional framework. By finalizing the selection of Jiang Miao, Suyon Huh, and […]

1.Reflecting on Ji Ju: Flawed Cohesion After the exhibition at Summerhall, my understanding of the curator’s role shifted from a controller to a mediator. Our Shell is not a perfect white box exhibition. It is full of friction and understanding between different sounds. However, this flawed cohesion gave the exhibition its vitality. I realized that […]

The culmination of Week 10 saw the opening of Our Shell at Summerhall, Edinburgh, a group exhibition curated by and featuring the Ji Ju Collective. Moving beyond a mere display of objects, the project functioned as a critical inquiry into the hermit crab condition: the constant negotiation of identity, memory, and domesticity within the precarious shells […]

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. Negotiation in Collective Collaboration 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 […]

1. Objects as Narrators This week, the Ji Ju collective transitioned into a substantive material phase. We are not in a hurry to determine a grand curatoral theme, but choose to start with the objects brought by individuals. Some people brought amulets, and some people shared old photos. These objects are not just souvenirs, they […]

1.Ji Ju Collective: Physical Mapping at Summerhall This week, the Ji Ju Collective conducted site testing at the Summerhall exhibition space. At this time, we have not yet determined the final curatorial theme, but focus on understanding the physical limitations of the venue. We used tape to mark the potential audience movement on the ground, […]

Title: Awareness Through Materiality Venue: Custom Lane, Edinburgh 1. Curatorial Narrative This group exhibition will take awareness as a specific viewing practice, not an abstract psychotherapy. In urban life that pursues speed and efficiency, materials are often simplified into tools. This exhibition regards daily materials as weighted existences, explores how we treat objects, and then […]

1.The Evolution of a Curatorial Pitch During Reading Week, I grounded my individual curatorial project in the theme of Awareness. This is not an abstract spiritual slogan, but a concrete effort to detect how inertial gaze shapes our relationship with objects and ourselves. I chose to cooperate with the artist Guo Puyi and had an […]

1.CAP Workshop: From Jargon to Memory After observing Contemporary Art Practice (CAP) classmates present their work, I recognized that artistic vitality stems from personal background, cultural memory, and lived experience rather than abstract jargon. This discovery makes my project goal clearer: I hope to plan an exhibition to help the audience understand the work through […]

1. Parkview Green Beijing During my visits to Parkview Green Beijing in 2023 and 2024, I observed art integrated into corridors and atriums. I was impressed by the curation here: works of art are scattered in corridors, atriums and public areas, not confined to closed galleries. This layout allows the audience to meet art naturally when […]

1.From Conceptual Framing to Operational Reality Through James Clegg’s workshop this week, my curatoral perspective has shifted from purely conceptual conception to concrete operational thinking. Curation is not a simple translation of ideas, but a process of continuous weighing under the constraints of reality such as budget, collaboration and institutional environment. Clegg’s presentation highlighted the […]

1.From Scale to Infrastructure In this week’s study, I extended the first week’s focus on the size of the institution to the discussion of infrastructure conditions. The scale of the curation is not only the size of the physical space, but also a set of operating systems. Following Terry Smith’s account of the Visual Arts […]

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 style, […]