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VIDEO: A curator's perspective

As part of her studies at the University of Queensland (UQ), Aoi Saito recently participated in a QAGOMA placement project, considering ways to deepen the Gallery's digital engagement with its younger audiences. Now graduated with a Master of Museum Studies, Aoi has shared the project's outcome with Collection Online: a video interview with Reuben Keehan (Curator, Asian and Pacific Art).

Filmed on site at QAGOMA, the video focuses on the behind-the-scenes story of the 2022 exhibition 'Chiharu Shiota: The Soul Trembles' and Shiota's major new installation, A question of perspective 2022.

 

 

Aoi Saito holds a Master's Degree in Museum Studies from the University of Queensland, along with a Bachelor of Arts (UQ) majoring in Film and TV Studies. With a background in filmmaking through programs in NYC, Tokyo and Brisbane, she contributed to a 2022 placement program at QAGOMA to produce a video interview with ‘Chiharu Shiota: A Soul Trembles’ curator Reuben Keehan. Aoi shares her filmmaking work on Instagram at @_ast_1997a_.


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An installation view of a work that fills a whole room; at the centre, a desk and empty chair have thousands of papers appearing to fly off of them in a spiral. Suspended around this scene is a web of black threads.
A QUESTION OF PERSPECTIVE

The presence of absence

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A shoulders-up view of a woman standing in front of her installed artwork, which is in shadow; she has long dark hair and wears dark clothing.
A QUESTION OF PERSPECTIVE

VIDEO: Shiota introduces her work

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An detail view of a room-filling installation: seen through what appears as a curtain of black threads, a desk and empty chair have thousands of papers appearing to fly off of them in a tornado-like spiral. In the background, the exit from the gallery space is lit in pink.
A QUESTION OF PERSPECTIVE

SHIOTA: Installation views

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A QUESTION OF PERSPECTIVE

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A shoulders-up view of a woman standing in front of her installed artwork, which is in shadow; she has long dark hair and wears dark clothing.
A QUESTION OF PERSPECTIVE

VIDEO: Shiota introduces her work

Read digital story
An installation view of a work that fills a whole room; at the centre, a desk and empty chair have thousands of papers appearing to fly off of them in a spiral. Suspended around this scene is a web of black threads.
A QUESTION OF PERSPECTIVE

The presence of absence

Read ESSAY
An installation view of a room completely webbed in bright red thread, some of which is tied down to metal boat structures on the gallery floor. A visitor walks through this red space.
A QUESTION OF PERSPECTIVE

VIDEO: A curator's perspective

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An detail view of a room-filling installation: seen through what appears as a curtain of black threads, a desk and empty chair have thousands of papers appearing to fly off of them in a tornado-like spiral. In the background, the exit from the gallery space is lit in pink.
A QUESTION OF PERSPECTIVE

SHIOTA: Installation views

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An installation team moves a large sculpture in a bright gallery space
BEHIND THE SCENES

MEET THE EXPERTS

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