十方青年策展人計劃｜DAC Emerging Curator Program（DECP）：

自2013年成立以來，十方藝術中心不斷的以開放的態度探索扎根中國現場的工作方法，並嘗試與各方聯動，共促良好的學術生態。從2014年持續至今的十方國際藝術駐留計劃（DAIR）很好的踐行了這一點。經過半年的籌備，我們於2018年啓動了十方青年策展人計劃。十方青年策展人實踐計劃包含「策展人駐留招募」和「青年策展人展覽實踐」兩部分。

「策展人駐留招募」與原有的國際駐留計劃相疊加，通過駐留平台的公開招募，吸納國內外的青年策展人前來駐留，以異地視角來開展在地實踐。給本土藝術群體帶來開闊的視野和不一樣的策展工作方法。

「青年策展人展覽實踐」以十方國際藝術駐留計劃為平台實踐起始，在駐留展覽框架和社會實踐現場下，為青年策展人提供學術性展覽策劃實踐機會。在本計劃中，青年策展人從自身學術角度出發，以藝術家駐留創作為樣本案例，以「執行策展人」或「策展人」的身份，進行藝術家駐留展覽的策劃實踐。青年策展人通過面對不同類型藝術家和藝術展覽，共同直面社會現場與在地文化脈絡，進行跨領域、跨媒介、跨學科研究實踐和知識積累，進而促進其自身學術理論、社會認識、策展實踐能力的綜合性提升。

藝術展覽作為藝術公共性呈現的載體，策展人重點在於如何有效的建立公共交流語境和藝術內容的公共性轉化，從而搭建藝術與公眾對話的橋梁。通常成熟策展人具備獨立完整的多學科理論體系與廣域社會現場的認知。

十方駐留藝術家在本計劃中呈現出其藝術發展經歷、駐留計劃主題與思路、在地調研與創作等完整的創作脈絡。青年策展人可以此為研究主體，在藝術家交流中以尊重藝術家自身創作脈絡為前提，結合當下時代與在地現場語境，對藝術家駐地創作進行理論梳理和學術昇華，建立相對明確的策展思路。

青年策展人在建立藝術公共交流語境的同時，對藝術內容進行公共化轉譯，思考和建立藝術與社會的對話路徑，引導公眾的觀看意識，進而實現其情感和認識的交互與其藝術理念和價值觀的傳達。為此，在本計劃將涉及以下工作內容，青年策展人可根據自身情況選擇性參與或完整參與：

•   主題策劃：展覽內容和學術理論梳理，策展思路建立，展覽主題確定；
•   內容宣傳：宣傳策略擬定、介紹文案編寫、現場主持與互動；
•   作品展示：展覽場地、展示結構與作品陳列方式的規劃；

最後，青年策展人根據具體實施步驟與時間規劃，進行有序的策展實施。本機構在相關資源與協作團隊匹配的同時，機構藝術總監、機構策展人、項目負責人、展覽落地統籌會與青年策展人同步參與，並相應進行學術理論與策展實踐的協助與指導。

Since its establishment in 2013, Dimensions Art Center has continuously explored working methods rooted in Chinese society with an open attitude and tried to interact with all social sectors and promote a great academic ecology. DAC Artists In Residency (DAIR), which lasted from 2014 to the present, has realized the above ideology very well. After half a year of preparation, we launched DAC Emerging Curator Program（DECP） in 2018. The DECP includes two parts: “Recruitment of Curators in Residency” and “Emerging Young Curator for Exhibition Practice”.

The “Recruitment of Curators in Residency” was implemented jointly with the DAC Artists In Residency (DAIR) through the open recruitment of the residency platform to attract young curators from home and abroad to reside in and carry out the local on-site practice, to bring a broad vision and unique curatorial work methods to the local art community.

The “Emerging Young Curator for Exhibition Practice” started with the DAC Artists In Residency (DAIR) practice platform. Under the framework of the residency exhibition and social practice, it provides young curators with academic exhibition curation opportunities. In this project, young curators, starting from their academic perspective, take artist-in-residence creations as sample cases, and carry out the planning and practice of exhibitions as “executive curators” or “curators.” Young curators will face different types of artists and art exhibitions, face society and local culture together, conduct cross-field, cross-media, and cross-disciplinary research practice and knowledge accumulation, and then promote their academic theories and social cognition. 

As the carrier of the public presentation of art, art exhibitions focus on effectively establishing the context of public communication and the public transformation of art content, to build a bridge between art and the public. Usually, mature curator exhibitors have an independent and complete multi-disciplinary theoretical system and wide-area social field knowledge.

DAC resident artists present a complete creative methodology in this project, including their artistic development experience, themes, and ideas of the residency plan, local research, and art creation. Young curators can use this as the main body of research. In the exchange of artists, respect the artist’s creative methodology as the prerequisite, combine the current era, and the local social environment to conduct theoretical combing and academic research on artist-in-residence creation. 

While establishing the context of the public art communication, young curators are translating the art content to the public, thinking and establishing a dialogue between art and society, guiding the public to understand the content presented and then realizing the interaction of their emotions and cognition and their artistic concepts and values of communication. To this end, this project will involve the following work content, and young curators can participate selectively or fully according to their circumstances:

• Theme planning: preparing exhibition content and forming academic theories, establishing curatorial ideas, and determining the theme of the Exhibition;
• Content promotion: media strategy formulation, article writing, exhibition hosting and interaction;
• Exhibition of works: planning of exhibition venues, display plan and display methods of works;

Finally, the young curators implement the curatorial plan in an orderly manner according to the specific implementation plan. While the organization provides resources and team support, the art director, curator, project leader, and other staff will simultaneously participate with young curators and provide corresponding assistance and guidance in academic theory and curatorial practice.