Curator/Coordinator
01/2022
Co-Curator
To highlight a social and economic gap in a neighborhood,
we chose two venues that are very different but situated next to each other:
a fancy white box gallery and a chaotic outdoor food market.
We invited our artists to live and integrate into the environment,
then make interventions with their bodies and art.
Collaborated with X Space and UP-ON Performance Art Archive, we brought
together senior artists and nurtured emerging performance artists from mostly Chengdu and Chongqing to revitalize what had been put out by the Covid for several years–a live art festival
08~09/2021
Exhibition Coordinator
The Annual Project for “Community Curators” in Review
As a curator assistant and coordinator, I participated in an annual community project with four
themes: space, relationship, story, and aesthetics. We invited artists, curators, publishers,
documentarians, scholars, social workers, and residents to share their observations and actions in the
community.
At the end of the year, we’ve hosted 30 workshops with 6 mentors, 4 academic observers, 13 guest
speakers, 19 volunteers, and 4 cultural and arts organizations. We had around 529 participants and built
4 study groups and 1 “community curation” group. Along the way, we mentored over 20 community
resident curators who will continue their curating journey in this community.
06~08/2021
Curatorial Team
XIONG WENYUN:
RE-COVER
The word “Re-cover”（Xiang Lai）in Chinese folds different dimensions of time. It means the past, the future, the persistent thing and the momentary thing. Only in the overall context can it obtain its semantic meaning. But when used alone, it is a kind of reverberation with a lot of temporal and epochal voice parts stacked inside, or it is piled up arrows seemly with references or crosses.
