For 2020, Curatography has invited an editorial team consisting of Taiwanese curators Manray Hsu, Hongjohn Lin, Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo, and I-Wen Chang. We have further called upon a group of important international cultural practitioners, curators, artists, and scholars, who will contribute as writers, including Raqs Media Collective (India), Ade Darmawan and Mirwan Andan / Ruangrupa (Indonesia), the curatorial team of the 15th Kassel Documenta Exhibition (2022), Sophie Goltz, assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University, Yoann Gourmel, curator at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, independent curator and art critic Jau-lan Guo (Taiwan), curator Pawit Mahasarinand (Thailand), Eileen Legaspi Ramirez, scholar from the Philippines, Elodie Royer, institutional curator at KADIST, and Berlin based curator and researcher Miya Yoshida .
Commissioned by Taiwan’s National Culture and Arts Foundation and run by the Curating Asia International (CAI), Curatography was created in Taiwan with the aim of building connections within and between Asia’s international curatorial networks. Published in both Chinese and English, the e-journal will invite international curators, artists, and cultural researchers to engage in inter-cultural dialogue through publication of essays, and more broadly build a framework for publishing, lectures, symposia and curatorial praxis. The e-journal’s first issue includes essays by Palais de Tokyo curator Yoann Gourmel and KADIST curator Elodie Royer, Filipina art researcher Eileen Legaspi Ramirez, and Taiwanese curator Hongjohn Lin.
The purpose of Curatography as a collective writing project is to reflect on curation, to encourage the construction of interdisciplinary knowledge on contemporary Asia, and to pull together writings on the most influential curatorial practices now guiding cultural production. “Curatography,” or the science of curation, is not only a response to the different dynamics of curation, but also a study of its historical significance, fixed or fluid, and an attempt to define its relative discursive positions today. As the etymology of the words for “curator”, “curation” and so on derive from Latin roots meaning “treatment” or “care,” the neologism “curatography” further implies “the production of texts as a means of care or therapy.”
