Afterimages - Strands of modern art in Singapore

Master'sMASTER OF ART

Ventriloquizing archives = 檔案庫的腹語術與何子彦對談

From the idea of the Archive and the State to Remembering and Forgetting, and from celluloid image to the architectural object, we define our protagonist: a combination of historian, performer, urban denizen and spy. Urban spaces define our publicness, but they also create covert private knowledges and specialized ways of navigating the city and its archive. This workshop explores what Leo Ou-Fan Lee, describing Shanghai, once named \u27the urban uncanny\u27, and brings together into the city what artist Ho Tzu Nyen has named a dictionary that maps \u27narratives of shape-shifting and amorphous characters, ideas and genres\u27. Such a dictionary defining the covert modern is a crucial project for all forms of engagement with the Asian archives, since the challenge of history-writing in these regions has often involved devising new and innovative ways – of fabrication, of working with fictions, of speculative connections and of overinterpretations – of working with archives that hide, as often and as much as they reveal

‘Follow the Practice’ : Tracing Formations of Culture & Knowledge in Asia : Day 2 : Roundtable

How do cultural practices continue to move in forgotten circuits of conflict and connection, in ways erased by our current maps of meaning? With an interest in investigating and reactivating the deep histories of mobility that underlie our interpretive frames of contemporary Asia, ‘Follow the Practice’ opens a space of inquiry into events and engagements excluded from dominant ideological frames of globalization within and beyond Asia. The workshop proposes the modality of ‘following the practice’, identifying specific negotiations of culture that unsettle the geographies and histories of knowledge fixed by Cold War scholarship. At this interdisciplinary forum, scholars and practitioners present their respective projects towards a collaborative aim of reconfiguring themes of mobilities/migration, globalization, and cultural practice from various ‘Asias’ (South, East, Southeast)