No Matter What The Show Is, It Will End That Way.
Social Series
Event Art, 2022
Invited artists, Posters, A curated show with no artworks
The starting point of this series is my feelings and thinking about "artist socialization".
Similar to many social and professional identities, artists also need to expand their personal networks and exposure through social behaviour. Similarly, exhibitions are also a work activity that spreads artists and their works through exhibition and display. If there is no team, the artists themself need to have the awareness of publicity and public relations to help their careers grow. So, "socializing" is often considered part of an artist's work.
However, when the social gradually formed a fixed circle, the content of the conversation gradually shifted from work to private life. During the opening ceremonies of some exhibitions or preview activities, the friends who know each other will start some daily conversations. Whatever the work on a show that day, it seems that the focus will be on "socializing". Artists, as well as art practitioners, seem to grab the viewer's attention more than works.
The form of this work is presented as an exhibition, and as the creator of this work, my role is the curator.
I invited 7 artists and 1 curator to participate in this work, let them be the exhibits of this exhibition, and collected personal information from them to make exhibition signatures, including name, size and introduction. At the scene, they are all in fixed and divided exhibition positions. In addition to the exhibition sign, there is also the food or drink I asked for and prepared in advance for them to distribute to the audience, which is of active social significance. Viewers, on the other hand, held stickers with red dots, and they were allowed to apply stickers to the stickers of their favorite "exhibits."