Speaker

Nie Xiaoyi

Host

Lu Jie

Introduction

How did ‘curating’ emerge in London in the 1990s? What different needs were the curatorial departments of Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art created to address? What was the state of China’s curatorial experiments at the turn of the millennium? What kind of connection has there been between the two? What does this have to do with our current situation, especially the curatorial courses we are currently in? Nie Xiaoyi’s doctoral research for ‘Long March: A Walking Visual Display’ (2002) examined the relationship between art ecology and practice in different regions. In this lecture we hope to apply elements of the past to a discussion and exchange of our respective work and the problems we face today.