Jiang Shan - the selected young curator for McaM curator-in-residency program (Open Call for McaM Curator-in-residence Programme 2018) - will be the first one to develop her research plan in Shanghai and other cities from March to May.
Jiang Shan:
Jiang Shan is a young curator and writer whose curatorial research focuses on the human condition under the influence of technology and media. Having received training in classic literature and philosophy, her current practice departs from Jacque Derrida’s Acts of Literature, envisioning an exhibition program to be a fictive institution that allows audiences to have dialogues, an institution which tends to overflow the institution. She has graduated from Chelsea College of Arts last year. Her past projects include: “The Tempting Lines, the Realm of Lin Guocheng’s Ink Drawings”, Interlab, Southern University of Science and Technology, 2019 (exhibition curator); “//”, The Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, 2018 (exhibition co-curator); “Jocelyn Herbert and David Storey”, National Theater Archive, 2018 (exhibition curator); Climate, Peking University Press, 2016 (executive editor); “Ten Exhibitions”, Inside-Out Museum, 2014 (exhibition assistant curator).
Ming contemporary art museum also wishes to take the opportunity to strengthen the connection between residence curator and the local community. McaM will arrange and create a series of talk, conversation, workshop or other activities which beyond traditional formats for on-site production and output, based on each curator’s phasic research results, focused subject or discussion that they want to trigger.
On 18 May, Jiang Shan will host the first conversation session during her residence in McaM, and would like to have an open call to her potential interlocutors.
//, The Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts (2018.9), Installation shot
Curator’s open call statement:
“Curating is like writing a novel in many ways”
My curatorial practice focuses on how fiction as a method is used by the artists to explain, intervene, and try to dissolve the boundaries formed in the capitalist, colonialist, and gendered economies. I will present my previous practice and have a conversation with emerging practitioners about a possible relation between curators and artists in exhibition making.
Here we’d like to make an open call to emerging practitioners in curating, exhibition making, or fictional writing to join the conversation. The interlocutors are expected to bring a piece of fictional writing to share with the audiences, and through its lens talking about alternative trajectories for exhibition making and viewing, and art writing.
If you are interested to be part of the conversation, please send email to both shanny430@foxmail.com and qianshiyi@mcam.iobefore 5 May, with a brief introduction to yourself and your practice, and the reason why you want to be part of this conversation; you are also welcomed to share with us links to your works. We will contact you if your practice fits into our discourse.
//, The CookhouseGallery, Chelsea College of Arts (2018.9), Opening Performance|Photo credit: Cheryl Guo
McaM will compliment the selected interlocutor with a McaM's catalog,
we look forward to your participation in production !
Related Reading:
Open Call for McaM Curator-in-residence Programme 2018
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