Practice on Curating (1)

Dieter Roth 

This is the day 1 for documenting the research and progress of my project on establishing a curating career from scratch.

Coming back to Asia after finishing my two years of master degree in Edinburgh, I experienced a lot of emotions that I have been prepared for, but still can't handle it very well.

The biggest one is the expectation from family members that was far different than I thought.  As soon as I came back to Taiwan, my relatives started to suggest me to do secretary-like jobs that guarantees me safe incomes and positive social status. My grandmother's biggest wish for me is to get a husband in short coming years also not to travel abroad so much as before.  My mother is hoping me to import luxury brands's products from UK, Europe to sell in Taiwan, or trying to work for any agencies as long as it's from a government organisation.

It is a strange situation that I am in, in the way I am glad that they didn't put too much expectation on the master degree I earned abroad.  What it means is that the sort of jobs that I am looking for, doesn't have to pay me tons of money, they don't expect that I am the one to support the family, but as long as it sounds like a nice job to my future husband's family.
As if to them, the biggest success is to find a good family to marry and to have a good job title.
It is not about my personal satisfaction also they strongly suggested that work isn't suppose to relate to your interest anyway, or it will always end up as a broken dream.

C U R A F I A

This is a game workshop that I put together for the FAIR.  It will happen on 27th February and will be recorded on video. 

Right now I have been more interesting in the idea that I think we don't actually share any common knowledge in contemporary art world, but only mutual knowledge. And I think this is one of the reason that we can't not fully anticipate how to be successful in contemporary art world by following established path. 

The players of the game each held partial information, and they have to made judgement based on partial information otherwise they will be eliminate from the exhibition planning because they construct threat to the curators. 

When artists put themselves in other people's shoes, they also have to anticipate the fact that all the other people but this set of rules can or cannot being operated in a world where rationality isn't necessarily being required to be the prior elements for their social interaction.