For exhibition review

Hello everyone.

I have missed two group meetings but I am trying to catch up with you. I just read the reminder that we have to push our conversation online by monday when Shefali edit the conversation for us. So I'm just uploading my thoughts in order to increase the critical discussion here.

My understanding so far is.. So we started from completely irrelevant words form art, which can be read in a various way, " After a long time of waiting in anxious expectation - out popped a mouse!", as a some kind of container in order to facilitate our differences of interests. The sentence suggests that the big expectation end with mere performative acts, which led to the idea of mirror reflection. We have got two identicfal rooms for exhibition and our concern is how suprising, disruptive and abused changes we could create between these two spaces.

As to how curating functions, I think it is good to refer to the exhibition essay Altermodern by Nicolas Bourriaud. I'm just gonna quote some of his words:

"Keeping the ball in the air and the game alive: that is the function of the critic or the curator"

"It seems to me that that the fundamental question that exhibitions ought to be repeatedly asking concerns the interpretation of forms: What is the messge they convey today? What is the narrative that drives them? We have an ethical duty not to let signs and images vanish into the abyss of indifference or commercial oblivion, to find words to animate them as something other than products destined for financial speculation or mere amusement."

He talks about "collective exhibtion".

We started from differences and we have been trying to find the way our works can be co-exist in the same space. Is this collective or not? In this collectiveness, there is a multitude of possibilities, and we think it possitively that these chaos and complexity can open up the potential space and can be crystalized into one solid exhibition that indivudual alone cannot achieve.

We have been using blog as a method of construcing the spacial unity. I just found magazine and there is Paul O'Kane article! He says in the article called "Inside Outsider Art":

"Web began to provide an alternative model of the world, presenting us with a non-hierachical model of inexhaustible exchange. On this continuous interface, with neither and inside nor an outside, everyone and everything have been deterritorialising apace."



We have been very much doing good so far I think. Using the sentence as a devise out of which we can take a lot of posstibities, relating them to the "actual space" we are allocated, and using the blog as to create our "metaphisical space" in which we communicate. We are curating the both spaces in that way.  

Tomo