My First Intern Day

    Doing internship at this arts organisation is one of my luckiest things, and I suppose it will be challenging. Before commencement I had done a little research, including organisation's history and charter, as well as its recent reviews. Today when the curator  (my supervisor) put a stack of material regarding this arts organisation, they are not quite hard to command (of course I could hardly concentrate on them because of this special environment). 

    Today my task was Mail Filing, which is significant to the arts organisation's research and archive. In the beginning, I could not understand clearly the procedure of MF on paper. This was something I had never tried before. After the curator told me how to do it, I asked whether she could show me an example. By her demonstration of MF, I knew that it was a much easier task than I had thought (it is always a good idea to ask). After daily mail about the artist (from galleries, museum,etc) is filtered by KE EMU system, by which whether the artist is already in collection can be checked, the mail is supposed to be in the artist's file. The mail files and the artists' files are both arranged in alphabetical order (their last names). Putting the mail into the corresponding file seemingly was a piece of cake, but actually it was hard to be finished efficiently and can be quite tiring. After finishing Mail Group A, I started to classify the Mail Group B(Group A & B were overwhelming) according to the letters of last names, and then found their file places more quickly. As over 3,000 artists' files on the selves, they were packed like sardines; replacing files after taking them down was a little troublesome (checking the letters made me annoyed), so I came up with an idea that slightly pulling out the file next to the one waiting for be replaced.

    I finished till Mail Group R today; it was very tiring but very rewarding. Filing should be treated seriously for every file is not some paperwork but exactly one artist; each file is responsible for their growth and update, and even part of art history for our generations. More importantly I got to know that every work can be constantly perfected during practice.