Guided Tour with curator Jiaxing Chao

Curator Jiaxing Chao will guide you through the exhibition The Back of the Treasure – On the Epistemology of the Cabinet of Curiosities, offering her curatorial concept through the 3D-scanned model of the so-called Treasure, the Throne of the Grand Mogul at the Grünes Gewölbe in Dresden, presented at the exhibition’s entrance as the entry point.

Following Jiaxing Chao’s long-term exploration of ritual as a method in contemporary art practice, she will discuss her strategy of distancing the artifact from its original state into the context of the fracture of the mechanical worldview driven by early modernization. This provides a comparative perspective for looking back at the emergence of cybernetics in the 20th century and the technological state two hundred years ago. It highlights the shift toward the decline of the hidden complexity of craftsmanship, accompanied by a technique determined by the dominance of encyclopedic thinking, as introduced by the philosophy of technology.

The tour will be held in English.