'Artist as curator' is a term which is based on curating from an artists' perspective. As Liu Ding indicated in symposium called "Artist as Curator", "My artistic curation include both my artwork and the shows I've curated." First, I got this idea from my last and the first personal exhibition that I found myself as an exhibition organizer. In this sense, I started to look how I see things around me and started to catch the point of relation between my works and the space. I started to think about relation between each artworks to the relationship with the space that artworks already exist in. After this exhibition, the question that comes to my mind was 'why artists need a curator?' Are there any differences between artist curating the exhibition or curator organize the exhibition? According to Becky Shaw, there are multifunctional role of the curator who decide the artworks and also the artists that participated in exhibition and where the works should exist and create a dialog between artists and the institution for developing new projects. Artists acting as curators make sense for artists to provide a part of the process in an experimental way. Becky Shaws said that "Artists' function as curators in an attempt to gain visibility for practices they respect, including their own. It is an attempt to own the process of distribution rather than be subject to it." When artists organize exhibition as curators, it is possible to experience the process and 'the process' can become a part of the exhibition and the space used as a tool or a medium. Using a space as a medium and the narrative before the works arrived in exhibition space can change through the way of display. Space can change the meaning of an artwork.

locational identites, production of space, exhibition making, display as a practice, process, memories of an artist as curator

Keywords: undefined places/spaces, exhibition space, site-related, site-determined, site-referenced, site- responsive, memory of places/spaces/artworks, site-specific

Keywords: space artist, curator space, artist as curator, curator as artist, curator as space creator/ architect, Marcel Duchamp

Undefined places

Unfinished artworks

Is it possible to call a space, an exhibition space without an artwork in it? Is it possible to redefine a completed artwork when it is in its exhibition space. Exhibition space as a result of its natural aspects need artwork(s) to become art space. Perception of the artwork takes form according to art space. In that context when space and the artworks collide a new visual language may emerge and both of them may complete each other.

Can artworks that produced in a non-exhibition space alter when they start to exist in the space they are supposed to be exhibited? How do space and the artwork responses to each other? Within that frame work, where does the integrity of the artworks that I have been producing start and/or end.

The artist acting like a curator, even if she get involved in curatorial mode of practice, is essentially an 'artist'. According to Elena Filipovic, the relation between artist and curatorial practice commenced at Duchamp' s studio in New York. A friend of him, who was a writer, Henri Pierre Roche, took Marcel Duchamp' s studio photographs between 1916-1918. These photographs indicate that Duchamp' s studio (also his home) was a type of exhibition space. When we looking at images of Marcel Duchamp' s studio we can see that how the objects suspended from the ceiling and hanged on a wall carefully. The 'everyday objects' lost their usefulness and became a part of the space. Elena Flipovic stated that, Helen Molesworth calls objects 'readymades' which the objects lost their meanings and interpreted as an artifact that indicate something else. Flipovic added that Duchamp' s studio was the first 'readymade' exhibition space that partially but not entirely open space for the people. It was an exhibition space which was different from other institutions in a way of exhibiting in that time. Duchamp continued his position to against the exhibitions in museums or galleries although he had been in some exhibitions in these kind of spaces. (Flipovic, 2009) What was the motivation of Marcel Duchamp' s to act without awareness as a curator?