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CURATING LARGE-SCALE
moderated by Chris Sharp

CHRIS SHARP: The large-scale exhibition is an exciting and challenging topic. Some people have a very antagonistic relationship vis-à-vis the large-scale, or perhaps better put, perennial exhibition, seeing in it little more than a prolonged instant of curatorial hubris,

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CURATING NON-PROFIT
moderated by Jason Hwang

JASON HWANG: If museums and galleries are the elephants and crocodiles of art spaces, what kind of animal is your space? And why? KUNSTHALLE LISSABON (Luis Silva and João Mourão): We have to go with the fox. When googling

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CURATING THE INTERNET
moderated by Karen Archey

KAREN ARCHEY: As the verb “to curate” has spilled into popular usage in recent years (“curate your closet!”, etc.), it has become a broader term, a synonym for the action of accumulating things: objects, texts, images, artworks, words,

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CURATING THE GALLERY
moderated by Alessio Ascari

ALESSIO ASCARI: Increasingly, curators are looking back to under-recognized artists from the past — a tendency well exemplified by your work with the gallery, which you described as driven by an attempt to “undermine

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#VOICEOVER: OUT OF SYNC
words by Pablo Larios

Moments before the cut to commercial, the child realizes this cartoon is not actually for him at all. It’s for his parents, or older sister, or perverted uncle. Despite the friendliness of onomatopoetic dings and dongs, and boings and bangs and gongs,

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#VOICEOVER: UNDER THE SKIN
words by Shama Khanna

The memorable reveal of the man behind the curtain twiddling knobs and simulating the booming, god-like voice of Oz by rascally Toto the dog is an apt metaphor for how the authority of the voice-over crumbled towards a post-historical pluralism of voices. The persistence of

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“THE MAKING OF A MUSEUM”
Lars Nittve interviewed by Alessio Ascari

Alessio Ascari: In a recent public talk, you presented a graphic representation of the founding idea for M+ — a spiral with Hong Kong in the

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“THE MAKING OF A MODERNITY”
Cao Fei interviewed by Gavin Wade

Gavin Wade: Your latest work, Haze and Fog, is a new type of zombie movie set in modern Beijing. During the making you mentioned the

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