Contemporary Curation

Our photographic show is a Party Photography show, the theme is about parties such as concerts, music festivals, parties and clubbing nightlife.
Here are some Party Photography Pictures I found online.

 

Image one, Party Photography 1:  http://weheartit.com/entry/10330200

 

Image two, Party Photography 2:  http://favim.com/image/43564/ 

Party Photography is called nightlife photography as well; photographs of how much fun people have in the parties. So this is our gallery's theme, we will be showing Nightlife Photography in our gallery, check it out.

There are 5 of us in our group to design our own gallery, we decided to go with a Party Photography show; think about parties, how glamorous it could be, or how creative it could be, so I just went crazy and had several ideas to share with my team mates.

My 1st idea, A big disco ball in the middle of the gallery. which represents this show is a  party photography show.

My 2nd idea, "PARTY" mannequins wear the photographs on the neck. And will be randomly put in the gallery; "PARTY" mannequins have no heads but sexy bodies, their head would be a big sign with "PARTY" on both sides.

 

 http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/que-houxo#

My 3rd idea, Black light art. Show's name and introduction on one of the walls in the gallery.

My 4th idea, Play with different kinds of party lights in the gallery. which will be a "club" style gallery. 

 

My 5th idea, Play with different kinds of party light. in the gallery to make it feel like a party

My last idea is A giant bottle with the photographs inside. which will be bigger and taller than human bodies.

Then my team mates and I sat together and shared our different ideas, a few of my ideas were used in our party photographic show.

 

Our final decision

Let's start from the entrance,  the entrance will be a hall way-enter, and in this hall way, there will be big printed images the same height as human height which are about the beginning of the parties, such as people drinking beers, socializing, or even making out.

The big printed images are for viewers to optically think they are walking into a party, and to inform them that this is a show about parties; and showing the beginning of the party is to give this gallery a time line, and to create a good beginning of the show.

  

Then when you walk into the gallery, you will see a wall in the middle way, with black light art on the wall, which is the show's name, and introductions

Black light are used in nightlife clubs and some parties quite often, which represents the show theme. 

On the left side, there's a stereo shows the videos of the different parties, like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRjaluBTYHc and Future Music Festival in Malaysia, or some reference official videos, the sound of the videos will be played out, just to give the show a bit back ground music and add more atmosphere in the gallery; which is not going to be as loud as the parties, not to disturb the viewers mood.

We used one of my ideas for our curation, "PARTY" mannequins wear the photographs on the neck; it's a little bit changed though, we are going with the "PARTY" mannequins with LED screens on their chest and back to show the images, which will be played in order.

We will put several "PARTY" mannequins randomly in the gallery. Galleries usually show the artworks on the walls, we want it to be unique, so we decided to show most of the images in the middle of the gallery instead of the walls.

If you turn right at the black light art wall, you will see a giant vodka bottle bigger and taller than humans; which shows some of the photographs inside the bottle, so people have to walk around the giant bottle to view the photographs. (which is one of my ideas)

In the middle of the gallery, there's a big square glassed floor with photographs under the glass, and take a bow, you will see the photographs under your feet.

And in the middle of the square glassed floor, there's a 360 panorama picture showing in the middle, which will be a 360 degree view of the bar, and it will be a big printed image ans shown in a circle, as big as a real bar size, to make it look more realistic; 

 Will put high chairs around the 360 degree image, for viewer to have a rest in the middle and look at the images under the glass; and it makes the 360 panorama image more realistic.

Then we keep walking in the gallery, at the left corner, there's a giant disco ball showing the photographs as well; which gives it more party atmosphere; viewers have to walk around the ball to view the image. 

This is actually Shyam's idea, that is similar to my idea but better.

At the right corner, there will be a photo booth for the viewers to capture themselves in the show, and the photos will be printed with the show's name as the photo frames; to remember such an awesome show.

What will be on the walls since we are showing all the photographs in the middle of the gallery? We will put some bottle collections and several images on the walls.

The last one is connected to the entrance, it's also a timeline hall way-out of the show, and the same, big printed images at the hall way, but about the end of the parties, like people vomiting and big mess.

I think our contemporary curation is decently fine, we combined everybody's ideas together, and came up with this. Some of my ideas were not used, like playing with different kinds of party lights; because it will disturb the viewer's view to see the photographs.