In this week’s presentation, I received feedback from my tutor and classmates and refined my curatorial project. My tutor noted that the strengths of my proposal lie in calculating artist salaries and exhibition venue rental costs, while the weaknesses require… Continue Reading →

Periphery Future Exhibition Concept Periphery Future explores the central question: With urban expansion and accelerating capital flows, must rural areas exist solely as peripheral spaces to be consumed? It explores this theme through two approaches: “Problem Identification” and “Design Responses.”… Continue Reading →

Through discussions in the Week 5 lecture and tutorial, I realized I needed to select more practical artworks. This means my artists must be students from Edinburgh College of Art, along with other art students and emerging artists. Therefore, I… Continue Reading →

After reading the Week 4 materials and discussing exhibition venues with my tutor, I developed a curatorial concept based on the Introduction//Rural Art is… framework. Although I later asked JL if the exhibition could be held outside Edinburgh, she confirmed… Continue Reading →

Before the third week’s lecture, I read Curating as Ethics and gained an understanding of ethical issues within curatorial practice[1]. A crucial component highlighted was the application of cultural elements[2]. Meanwhile, A Call To Arms: Strategies For Change detailed curators’… Continue Reading →

During the preparatory work and class discussions in the second week, I read the article Mapping the Contexts of Contemporary Curating: The Visual Arts Exhibitionary Complex[1] and clarify the standard categories of art exhibitions (site-specific works, topics originating outside art,… Continue Reading →

Xinger Gao   Week 1 My Exhibition Inspiration I hope my exhibition takes place in so-called “peripheral areas. [1]” While the dichotomy of Center–Periphery may seem outdated, it remains undeniably linked to structural violence. This violence can be revealed through… Continue Reading →