Certainly we don’t have to expect any serious understanding of the exhibition title, since it’s actually a title of a publication. In the process of making the publication of “Prattle”, writer Wu, Sih-chin analyzed artist Liu, Yu’s drive to create. We thus generate a possibility to make an exhibition and also the way to reverse it.

According to Wu, Liu, Yu’s artworks are surrounded with a cipher which does not exist in the artworks. Even the artist herself is not aware of it. The drive actually came from the reference to the Real. The operations brought out the reality, instead of using many actual stories to conclude into a final status of “Impossible-real”.

Meanwhile, through the example of libido which Liu, Yu provides, we can thus reverse the operations. Or we can say that it is a prescription we need to take the other way round! We consequently start to imagine another kind of exhibition: An exhibition operation generated from a publication. In this case, a publication is not merely a supporting role to the show. It has become an implication of alibi. We use experimental dialogues in the publication, and we also apply the same “publication-making” concept to the exhibition as criteria. In the aspect of knowledge creating, we also try to blur the roles played by the art publication and exhibition.

7 artists generated 4 relationship diagrams of 21 artworks on different basis. We randomly picked up one diagram and apply it into the actual planning of the venue. The show display would be completed gradually, just like the title of the publication: Prattle. We certainly have a prospect of “Prattle” as a paper-curator rather than simply a publication of art issues.