Curating Contemporary Art (MA)
Lenette Lua
So remember the liquid ground is conceived as a programme of meditative and sensorial experiences across the digital, physical and spiritual realms. The immersive programme features newly commissioned live sound streaming, moving images and performances, contributed by Soundcamp collective, Myriam Lefkowitz and Julie Laporte, Zoë Marden, Eduardo Navarro, Anna Nazo, Himali Singh Soin and Linda Stupart.
Responding to and expanding from the forgotten social histories and ecologies of Vauxhall in London, the programme has been inspired by the secret and suppressed River Effra, which flows underneath the area. The river acts as a way to re-imagine, navigate, feel, and find ways in which we connect and synchronise with our surroundings.
The programme also includes a Reading Room that acts as a circadian space for collective imagining and reflection on the body beyond authoritative representation, with contributions from Clay AD, Chus Martínez, Helga Schmid, Ignota, PaperWork Magazine and NXS.
So remember the liquid ground is curated by Benjamin Darby, Yoojin Kang, Akis Kokkinos, Angelina Li, Lenette Lua, Louise Nason as part of the MA Curating Contemporary Art Programme Graduate Projects 2020, Royal College of Art in partnership with Gasworks.
It is also generously supported by Vauxhall One.
A physical iteration of the programme will be presented in Autumn 2020 in the wider area of Vauxhall.
Featured Image: Linda Stupart, WATERSHED, 2020, video
Lenette Lua is a curator, researcher and translator. Inspired by Chinese philosophies such as Daoism and Confucianism, she is interested in the socio-political impact of art especially around the discourses of education and ecology. Her dissertation examines the institutional practice of Grizedale Arts through a Confucian-Daoist lens and argues curating is a practice of mediation and reconciliation that can provide a discursive place to appreciate art
Her curatorial interests are reflected in her graduate project So remember the liquid ground that is inspired by the secret and suppressed River Effra which flows underneath South London. The sensorial programme reconsiders the possibilities of online platforms in facilitating interpersonal relationships and explores new ways of being together.
During her study at the RCA, she has initiated a cross-disciplinary collective Transparent Domain and the long-term curatorial project Fungi Initiative that focuses on process and participation rather than outcome and products. She has curated a series of artist-led workshops in collaboration with LSE, SOAS and Barbican Centre in London. The project is supported by Arts Council England.
She has spoken at international conferences at the University of Warwick and University of South Wales. Supported by National Arts Council Singapore, she has presented her research Fungi Initiative: Building a Collaborative System for a More Balanced Education System as part of the 16th ELIA Biennial Conference at Zurich University of the Arts.
