PRESS
“…Theater of Energies, an exhibition that, to me, is itself a work of art that is simultaneously an assemblage of artworks, a strategy of display that choreographs a space of philosophy in Jean-François Lyotard’s legacy.
…Theatre of Energies can be anything but a white-box exhibition.”
—Elia Longyu Zhang, Artefuse
“From the cosmic life in the first Act, to the desires in the second Act, to the creation in the third Act, "Theater of Energies" employs a unique curatorial method of a three-act play to narrate how energy begins, evolves, and transforms.”
—Feng-Yi Chu, Whitehot Magazine
“3AM Provocations is an ode to the curator as artist. It clears the smoke from the room and illuminates the relationships between the artist, artwork, curator, and institution.”
—Grace Meinzer, Impulse Magazine
“It’s a delicate balance for the curator; weaving a thread between artworks without binding them so tightly as to cut off their circulation. In such an unyielding model, curators are sometimes reduced to the role of translator for a language that isn’t necessarily asking for a translation in the first place.
In response to some of these chafing standards, gaoyuan has found a way to sneak out after dark.”
—Grace Meinzer, Impulse Magazine
“‘Can we draw a Trinity with Poetry, Art, and Philosophy, with art right in the middle bridging the other two?’ Curator gaoyuan wrote on the back of a bar receipt, which she later published in the book 3 A.M. Provocations: In Lieu of a Curatorial Statement.”
Since we met in a Beijing siheyuan years ago, I have always listened to her evolving idea about curating an exhibition in a poetic manner, echoing what Heidegger said that art is poetry.”
—Elia Longyu Zhang, Artefuse
“…Can non-physical, non-chemical, or even non-observable internal changes—such as feelings, psychological states, spirituality, mentality, attitudes, or public opinions and orientations—be viewed as a cause of a certain type of energy?
This is the significance of the curatorial approach in the recent exhibition "Theater of Energies" curated by the Beijing-born curator Gao Yuan (gaoyuan).”
—Feng-Yi Chu, Whitehot Magazine
“The new, alternative interpretation and imagination of energy proposed by the exhibition serves as a metaphor for the unknown domain. In other words, this exhibition suggests that artistic creation and curation can be vital ways to explore and experience the unknown.”
—Feng-Yi Chu, Whitehot Magazine