I am currently working on a public program with Para Site. It is one of the video highlight tours of the current exhibition Garden of Six Seasons. Below is my original script writing and the video(updated 29/8), talking about Citra Sasmita's Work 'The Habor of Restless Spirits' in terms of mythology, narratives of history and… Continue reading Gender Construct and Creation Myth (with video)
(The Chinese version was published on Stand News https://thestandnews.com/art/%E8%A6%AA%E6%84%9B%E7%9A%84d-%E6%83%85%E6%9B%B8%E6%BC%94%E5%8C%96%E8%AB%96/#.XBn1XXP3OXY.facebook) In the book Love Letters: 2000 Years of Romance, Andrea Clarke suggested “Love letters are an expression of intimacy; their words allow us insight into the private relationships of people down the ages.” Here I am, looking at the private thoughts of an anonymous admirer on… Continue reading Dear D: The Evolution of Love Letters
This is an essay talking about women and fiction based on Virginia Woolf's lecture in 1928. It shows me a deep insight of the struggles and invisible cages that professional women were facing through the history. I am glad that I am in a generation which awareness on sexual equality is raised, and though the… Continue reading A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
We visited the British Museum Prints and Drawings study room. It was an excited experience to see the real drawing and sketch of the old masters. It was ashamed we only have around an hour to do sketching. After lunch I went to the Grant Museum of Zoology. It was a small museum with many… Continue reading British Museum Study Room and the Grant Museum of Zoology
During the trip, we visited different museum including Museum of Science History, Museum of Natural History and Pitt Rivers Museum. All these museums exhibit a lot of objects and specimen. This makes me feel more interested in exploring the relationship between an object, collection and museum. The most interesting museum is Pitt Rivers Museum, it collected… Continue reading Oxford School Trip
Novelty Automation is an interesting little shop owned by Tim Hunkin, it has different funny coin-operated machines. These machines is somehow sarcastic on life, environment or politics. To me, it seems like a museum more than a shop, and these machines are more like art exhibits. Later in the school library, I was reading a book… Continue reading Novelty Automation
