From Eryao to multi-scale power This week, my research has become more structured, focusing on myth and power, starting with Eryao’s “Wishing your child becomes a dragon”. In this work, the function of “dragon” is as an everyday myth embedded in the family structure. Drawing lessons from Roland Barthes, I understand myth as a communicationContinue reading Week 6 | Mythical Animals and Power Structures

Project Overview This curatorial project explores how traditional mythological imagery can operate within contemporary exhibition frameworks—not as preserved heritage, but as an active narrative structure that continues to organise perception, identity, and social expectation. Drawing from Roland Barthes’s proposition that “myth is not a story, but a system of communication,” the exhibition approaches myth not as narrative content,Continue reading Curatorial Pitch

From “tradition” to “language”: the turn of curatorial problems This week, my curatorial research shifted from the analysis of theoretical texts to direct dialogue with the artist Eryao, which not only deepened my understanding of the works but also prompted me to rethink the position of “tradition” in contemporary art.   Contemporary expression and displayContinue reading Reading week | Understanding Tradition in Dialogue: An Artist Interview

Shadow puppetry as a time medium From the translation of traditional media to the reactivation of historical works in the contemporary context, and then to myth as a narrative structure that is constantly restated. Along with this clue, the research object gradually converges from generalised traditional images to mythical images and then further focuses onContinue reading Week 5 | Shadow puppetry, Images and Dragon Myth

Why shift from history to myth? In the previous weeks, I focused on how to translate traditional media or reactive historical works to address contemporary issues. However, this week marks a shift to “myth” as a curatorial approach. This transition is an extension. If historical works provide specific contexts, then myth operates at the levelContinue reading Week 4 | From Myth to Method

From viewing experience to ethical issues of curation This week, I visited The Children are Now, an exhibition in Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh, and watched Children’s Rights: What’s Right? The video prompted reflections on curatorial ethics. In the work, a boy makes a discriminatory remark about a Chinese person in a school setting. AlthoughContinue reading Week 3 | Audience in curatorial ethics

From “Translation of Traditional Media” to “Collocation of Time” Curating does not change the traditional media itself but, through the reorganising of space, narrative, and viewing mode, makes historical works enter contemporary perception. This idea mainly discusses how the media can be reorganised. However, the core question is, why can some historical works or historicalContinue reading Week 2 | How Historical Works Become Contemporary Art

The traditional turn in contemporary art In the context of contemporary art, “tradition” is no longer just an object to be preserved or inherited but gradually becomes a resource that can be reactivated and translated. More and more artists are no longer satisfied with the continuation of tradition but actively put it into the contemporaryContinue reading Week 1 | Translation of traditional media