Week 13 Project Finalisation
🐄Poster & Lead Image Deisgn
I designed two posters for Endless Circulation, using stills from the video work Circulations, the film artwork from the exhibition which documenting every circle the artist encounters in a single day — as the central imagery. This video also inspired the workshop Mapping My Circles, making it a fitting visual anchor for the posters. Both posters designed with bold white typography on a black background, with exhibition information arranged along curved text paths that spiral around the circular imagery. This layout choice mirrors the exhibition’s theme: the typography itself becomes an act of circulation, inviting viewers to engage with the information in a non-linear, cyclical way.
(Endless Circulation Exhibition Poster. Designed by Xiaobao Ye, 2026)
🌈Finalisation
After the workshop redesign in Week 12, the final structure of Endless Circulation has been resolved. The exhibition is set in The Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh, structured around a one-way circular route using translucent curtain installations to guide visitors through six artworks. The spiral layout mirrors the exhibition’s central question: are we progressing, or simply circulating? The workshop and interaction area (Site 7) is positioned near the entrance, where visitors can engage with prompts, paper, and selected workshop outcomes. This space invites visitors to pause and reflect — drawing on Nietzsche’s concept of eternal recurrence, which asks whether we would choose to live the same life endlessly, the interaction area encourages audiences to consider their own relationship with cycles of consumption, repetition, and meaning (Nietzsche, 1882).
🌷 Exhibition Budget
The finalised budget
(Exhibition budget for Endless Circulation. Designed by Xiaobao Ye)
Since the draft budget in Week 10, I added a line for workshop materials (£60) to cover paper, pens, prompts, and the message board for the “Mapping My Circles” activity, which was finalised after the workshop redesign in Week 12. The fundraising amount was adjusted accordingly to keep the budget balanced. Artist fees follow the Scottish Artists’ Union’s Recommended Rates of Pay guidelines. The budget remains balanced between income and expenditure, with funding sourced from university grants and a Creative Scotland Open Fund application.
References
Nietzsche, F. (1882) The Gay Science. Translated by W. Kaufmann. New York: Vintage Books, 1974.
