Introduction Mending the Mutilated World is an exhibition exploring the relationship between diasporic identity and the physical and conceptual landscapes of artists’ adopted countries. Employing an exhibition, publication, and public programme which includes a music performance and poetry reading, the project seeks to offer intercultural dialogues as an alternative to division resulting from rising anti-immigration […]

Mending the Mutilated World Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Edinburgh, UK June 22-27th, 2026   Curatorial Narrative Text Mending the Mutilated World is a group exhibition that explores the intersection of diasporic identity and the adopted landscape, folklore, and culture of the UK. Amidst tightening restrictions on global mobility and rising anti-immigration sentiments across […]

Peer Review Completed: Saturday, April 18th. Intro Your blog successfully demonstrates how your project has developed throughout the semester, reflecting the influence of independent research, course materials, and the collective on your ISCP. While your engagement with public space and the site of your project is particularly strong, your blog would benefit from clearer structure […]

Floor Plan & Exhibition Design As I have been working out the exhibition design for my project, Formafantasma’s article “On Exhibition Design” in Mousse Magazine has been critical in guiding my thinking about “how exhibition design can articulate a position, rather than simply hosting one” (Formafatasma 2026).    In particular, aspects such as the suspended […]

Finding my title: Mending the Mutilated World Through my research I came across the exhibition The World that Belongs to Us, co-curated by Aziz Sohail and Deborah Robinson at the New Art Gallery Walsall, which explores similar themes to my own project, though looking at identity and belonging through the lens of activism and community […]

Jí Jū Collective: ‘Our Shell’ Last week the Collective installed an exhibition entitled ‘Our Shell’, where we exhibited artworks from members of the collective alongside an installation we collectively created including pairings of images from our adopted home (Edinburgh) and our hometowns, exploring how we seek belonging and create a ‘shell’ in unfamiliar environments. This […]

This past weekend we installed and opened the exhibition a trimmed tree is no place for song birds over 3 days in Summerhall, featuring works by MA CAP artists/students Kato’one Koloamatangi, Mitsuki Nakatani, and Alvi Östgård. This pivotal moment of curating the show alongside Ellie Lodge was highly informative as to how I approach my […]

  artists who read Workshop in Summerhall This week I led an art writing workshop for the artists who read club in the collective space, extending my own personal practice through leading a workshop while also exploring the role of workshops as part of the programming for my ISCP. Whilst the workshop was focused on […]

a trimmed tree is no place for song birds Much of my time this week has been spent preparing the exhibition of CAP students Ellie and I are curating. As such, I have been reflecting on the urge/decision to include ephemera from these artists’ practices. The making visible of this artistic research (including sketches, material studies, […]

Call drawing by Marie Béney, from Bernard, Romane, et. al. “Now Imagine That We Are a Village” in Reckitt, Helena and Richter, Dorothee. eds. ‘Instituting Feminism.’ On Curating 52 (2021), pp 141-145.   This week, I have been thinking about the emphasis on dialogue and community that is so central to the project — and […]

Publication as Practice Intersecting with this week’s lecture theme, a key focus of mine is to flesh out the publication as a curated object to temporally extend and conceptually expand upon the physical project. An initial concept is to publish conversations held between the artists in small zines that are highly distributable and to employ […]

Try to praise the mutilated world (wip title)   My proposed curatorial project will involve an outdoor public art exhibition alongside programming including music performances, a panel discussion, a reading group, and publication. The project offers cross-cultural dialogues to explore the ways in which identity and culture in diasporic experience is enmeshed in the folklore, […]

APTART In further research into curatorial practices this week I came across the APTART “anti-shows” that were put on in the early 80s in Moscow.1 While these were in direct response to a political and art ecosystem that only provided exhibition opportunities for Social Realist works, this self-organizing group reflects the power of alternative exhibition […]

Ji Jū Collective This week we met to draft a mission statement and outline our curatorial ethics manifesto, a practice that highlighted the rich opportunities and difficulties of working in a collective. When faced with differing opinions, such as how we feel about AI usage or artists’ pay, it was at times difficult to reach […]

Following this week’s seminar, I have begun considering how I would define my curatorial ethics. I was really struck by Dr. Meng Shi-Chen’s conclusion in his essay “Ethics of Curating”, that the goal of an ethics of curating may be “to empathetically uncover the hidden knowledge swept under the carpet, making the invisible visible, without […]