THE 1ST PSA EMERGING CURATORS PROGRAM

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From their perspectives, it expects to showcase young Chinese artists’ latest visual art achievements as well as improve the ecological environment for China’s contemporary art. The program solicits curatorial plans through online contributions, and after PSA’s Academic Committee picks the top three winning plans, they will be given financial aids so that these plans can be turned into reality at PSA’s exhibition halls.

Launched in Feb, 2014, the first “Emerging Curators Program” has run for five months to date. After a fair, free and open two rounds of voting, the three winning individuals / teams were announced on July 3rd:

1. Chen Yun - Dinghaiqiao: An Art Practice into History

2. Hong PU, Wang Fei - Another Leap

3. Open Matter Research Institute (Liu Tian, Li Shengzhao), Song Zhenxi, Lu Ruiyang - Memorandum for Gaia

Dinghai Qiao: Art Practice into History

Dinghai Qiao locates at the north east of Shanghai, edge of the historical industrial area since late 19th century. It is a leftover of the proud, the stress and the depression of the Shanghai workers, not yet dislocated but economically deprived and psychologically neglected by time and history. Constructed by generations of migrants who escaped the crisis in rural China for work in Shanghai, Dinghai Qiao has been growing on colonial and socialist housing, as well as legal/illegal housing constructed with their own hands. When a history that was said to be made by the workers is now lost in myth, to re-imagine a past thus to make a move into a future (although in most cases, a borrowed capitalist future), becomes an unconscious current undergoing their lives.