Research-Based Exhibitions: Between Curatorial Spatiality and Space as Method

Author(s)

Yizhuo Li

Abstract

Analyzing the exhibition “Archiving the Spaces of Anxiety” as an exemplary response to the OCAT Institute’s call for research-based curatorial projects, this essay compares the curator Chen Shuyu’s proposition of “curatorial spatiality,” situated in the lineage of artistic research, with the historiography of experimental Chinese art from the 1980s. The latter has been studied extensively by art historian Wu Hung, who also serves as OCAT’s Director, and explains research-based exhibitions evoking his own curatorial endeavors on Chinese art. This juxtaposition of interpretative frameworks aims to reveal the shared questions of space and approaches toward totality, despite diverging historical and artistic contexts. Besides the two directions focused on, this essay also considers the plurality of knowledge systems, experimental methods, and archival potentials by examining the relationship between research and exhibition.

Organisation(s)

Department of East Asian Studies

Journal

PARSE

ISSN

2002-0511

Publication date

09-2021

Peer reviewed

Yes

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

604019 Art history

Keywords

Portal url

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/researchbased-exhibitions-between-curatorial-spatiality-and-space-as-method(74af583f-dd47-40a9-8e00-c58a1478eedf).html