This week Lisa Logotheti and Hao Long chat to Jacqueline, curator at UAL’s Archives & Special Collections Centre. 

We discuss how Ballets Russes: Concealed Histories shifted online and the story behind the costumes. 

We explore her experience working with the MACC team on Ballets Russes: Concealed Histories, how the current climate and the new measures have shaped her practice, online education, and her future plans.



Guest: Jacqueline Winston-Silk

Hosts: Lisa Logotheti, Hao Long

Producer: Hao Long

Ep.02 An Interview with Jacqueline Winston-Silk

This week we bring you a discussion among four curators of the Ballets Russes: Concealed Histories exhibition, Sam Marshall, Conor Smyth, Weirui Liu and Jiaying Gao.


We discuss Sam and Conor's essays which explore the concept of hauntology and examine how creative curatorial practices of contemporary fashion exhibitions effect audiences.
   
'Between The Living and The Dead' by Sam Marshall explores Freud's theory of the uncanny and relates psychoanalytical ideas within the field of hauntology studies. Sam examines how utilising this spectral approach can inform our understanding of the Ballets Russes archive.
In 'The Enchanting Spectacle: Creative Practices of Contemporary Fashion Curation' by Conor Smyth the focus is on the work of the Victoria & Albert Museum who have pushed the boundaries of creative fashion display. Conor explores the rising popularity of fashion exhibitions and creative curatorial practices around the contemporary display of fashion within the museum.

Guests:  Sam Marshall, Conor Smyth, Weirui Liu
Host: Jiaying Gao

Producer: Long Hao

Ep.03 Panel Discussion | Hauntology studies and creative contemporary fashion curation

This week we bring you a discussion between four curators of the Ballets Russes: Concealed Histories exhibition, Bilal A, Jiashu Zou, Hao Long, and Sara Ann Barber.

We look at Orientalism of Ballets Russes Company production, as a non-exceptional case of capitalized Orientalism, it reflects the broader market demand at that time. What problems are those examples demonstrate in the history and even in today’s global society, as Bilal explored, “Orientalism acted as the precursor to the neo-orientalism that is so prevalent in Western societies to this day.” In his essay ‘Orientalism, Neo-Orientalism & the Fetishization of the ‘Other’’.

As Sara said in her essay ‘The Ballet Russes and the 1918 Pandemic’, “It seemed as time has repeated itself”. We look at the Otherness in the 1918 Pandemic and the Global Pandemic we experiencing now. From the comparison between the past and the present, we focus on what has not changed, what has allowed history to repeat itself? 
  
Follow what Sara questioned in the Provocation, in the end, we also discussed the new challenges and possibilities of the exhibition based on historical objects in the network era.

Guests: Bilal A, Sara Ann Barber.
Hosts: Jiashu Zou, Hao Long.

Producer: Hao Long

Guests: Bilal A, Sara Ann Barber.
Hosts: Jiashu Zou, Hao Long.

Producer: Hao Long

Ep.04 Panel Discussion ｜Ballets Russes, Orientalism and 1918 Pandemic

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