Curatorship | Exhibition Proposal (Distributed Authorship, A Selection of Performance Art Relics)

Listed Below are two proposals for potential exhibition narratives developed from the “fugitive object”.

Distributed Authorship: re-considering labour as (a form of) Art and Time (as a measure) of Currency.

This exhibition presents a series of three contemplative art objects co-authored, co-produced and co-owned by more than one hundred “artists” in a model of art production that distribute­d authorship over a duration of one month. The curated display is an attempt to piece together statistical representations of the labour hours put in and time taken to produce the art objects, as one reconsiders labour as (a form of) Art and Time (as a measure) of Currency.

A Selection of Performance Art Relics: [No. 203 (2.03 %), 3 Hours and 27 minutes].

This exhibition presents a selection of performance art relics from performances that had taken place in Your Mother Gallery, Singapore. The performance art relic is a term used for objects, which are results of the transformation from states of “mere” material to “autonomous” artworks created or used during performance art. The curated display attempts to give the performance art relic an aura beyond the connections with their situational taxonomy, “labour hours” put in and the time taken to make.