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Hashtag
Hashtag
Exhibition
2017
Hashtag
Exhibition
2017
A playful exhibition that shows its presence in both a physical space and an online URL
Hashtag takes inspiration from the metadata tagging system that is used on social media for sharing and cross-referencing topics. The exhibition took place both in a physical space and an interactive website. The hashtag taggings work not only as labels of categorized information, but also as embodiment of interactions between the digital and the real. This has inspired the exhibition to reconfigure the roles of art museums, artists, and visitors, by inviting all parties to step out of their long-established identities.
Hashtag was awarded the 2017 Emerging Curators Project of Power Station of Art, the first public modern art museum in mainland China. The exhibition was presented at PSA’s iconic building on the west bank of the Huangpu River, Shanghai, which was renovated from an old power station.
Hashtag was awarded the 2017 Emerging Curators Project of Power Station of Art, the first public modern art museum in mainland China. The exhibition was presented at PSA’s iconic building on the west bank of the Huangpu River, Shanghai, which was renovated from an old power station.
The gallery walls are designed to be reconfigurable. They can be stored inside a data cabinet, which represents the data collecting and archiving process of every piece of information; They can also be scattered around the space, which represents the transmission and exchange of information. The reconfigurable settings is a metaphor for the internet and showcases its process in an analog way.
We invited everyone: artists, curators, visitors, critics, volunteers, builders, art handlers, museum guards, ..., to physically kick off this exhibition. The actual layout of the exhibition was an collectual output by many minds and many hands. We also have a miniature model of the entire gallery space in our exhibition. This helps everyone to understand the underlying mechanism of this exhibition, and allows further interactions among a larger group.
We invite everyone to share their thoughts on the exhibition and the artworks. We have a cloud-base social platform which allows everyone to post comments through their smartphones. Each piece of artwork is associated with a QR code, which leads to a database that collects the user-generated comments about the artwork. We also have a printer that enables visitors to print out their comments and take them away as a gift.
*Artists: Tiger Chengliang Cai, Baoyang Chen, Feifei Feng, Yulu Ge, Ronghua Lei, Wan Li, Weiyi Li, Shiyuan Liu, Xiaonan Wang, Caison Wang, Zigeng Wang, Yifei Wu, Weiwei Zhang
*Co-curator: Ivy Lixing Feng
*Photo by courtesy of Power Station of Art
Client
Power Station of Art
Timeline
2017
Power Station of Art
Timeline
2017
Location
Shanghai, China
Status
Complete
Shanghai, China
Status
Complete
Service
Exhibition Curation
Exhibition Design
Graphics Design
Website Design
Exhibition Curation
Exhibition Design
Graphics Design
Website Design
