unlock art：where are the women？

Case Study：The Battle of Orgreave Archive

The Battle of Orgreave Archive (An Injury to One is an Injury to All) is an installation comprising original archive, re-enaction videos, interviews,images to reveal the reality of the strike event which was distorted by the government.

 

New statement

I am interested the institutional critique, especially explore the gap between the reality and the ideology in the museum.

The museum is a site to shape our knowledge about history through arranging the collections, however, when the reality is arranged, the alienation take place. There are some parts of history unspoken and hidden behind the main stories.

Meantime, the collections also distorts our view in a subtle way. People confirm the authority of the museum, so we readily accept all the information in an unconscious way.

I want to critique the authority of the museum, to challenge the people’s perception of the museum. My work is based on the mythologies and the death of the author of Roland Barthes. He has demystified the culture and attempts to create a system which enables to deconstruct the situation in order to understand the value system behind it.

experiment~

1. Authority

Anamorphic museum is an idea to critique the authority of the institutions. I am curious the authenticity of the meaning. 


Experiment 1

It is an investigation that I will invite visitors to interpret the object or collection.

I was refused for several times. Initially, I want to interview visitors when they haven't
read the museum interpretation. However, the main reason they refuse me is that they haven't seen this before, they don't understand it well enough. This experience has shown people carefully express their own ideas in the professional space---museum.  I want to break the hierarchy of the museum.

Visitors as readers, their reading is kind of creative process.

In this experiment, the idea of Anamorphic museum is full of interpretation and representation,including the official one. It is hardly to define what it is because no one can represent it。

Reference

<<The death of the author>> 

<<Bouvard and Pecuchet >>

An unusual exihibition

Recently, Sarah Elson opened her private house for one week to display the German artist Suse Weber's  work. It is quite strange and special experience because you will have a tour of a stranger's house not the gallery and museum.

I have the opportunity to talk with Suse. I am curious about what is the difference between her work display in private space and her previous work in public space.
She told me the space has a different interpretation in Eastern Europe and London.
The public space means the space control by the government, however, people live in London who believe they can have the private space in public space. Her explanations  inspire me to think my project:

Can we have private space in the museum?
Can we uncontrolled generate our own point of view in the museum?

This is a sketch of her previous work
She cut them down because she think it
 is a special condition because people
always see the final work rather than the sketch

Sculpture on the wall

She also tells us her interest in picture language and explain the stories behind the material, image and pattern and also the interesting story about dragons.