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[Speaker Series] Present Past: a speaker series on heritage conservation22 April, 5 and 20 May, and 3 June4.00pm - 5.15pmOnline SeriesAll talks will be conducted via Zoom Webinar. Please register your attendance on Peatix to receive further details and your Zoom Webinar link.About the Present Past series:Addressing the often-had impression of heritage conservation being oppositional to modernity and progress, this speaker series investigates the many ways in which the past and present form a dialectical relationship, creating new significances within public and personal memory. Policy, participation, documentation, and art function as lenses which unveil the economies of heritage conservation and management and their impacts on the individual and their communities. Through observations, case studies and cross-references of heritage in Singapore and Southeast Asia, the series meanders through topics that eventually lead us to think: what is heritage, and what could it become?1: Sense of Place: The Intersection between Built Heritage and Intangible Cultural Heritage in SingaporeThursday, 22 April 2021Built heritage in Singapore is safeguarded through two legal regimes, one relating to national monuments, and the other relating to conservation areas declared under planning law. In contrast, no particular legal protection exists for intangible cultural heritage. Considering examples such as tomb inscriptions and rituals for honouring the deceased at Bukit Brown Cemetery, this talk will explore how built heritage can be secured and enriched by giving greater recognition and protection in international and domestic law to the intangible cultural heritage associated with it. There is also scope for built heritage to be used as a means of protecting intangible cultural heritage.Talk: 4pm – 4.50pmQ&A: 4.50pm – 5.15pmZoom opens 10 minutes before talk beginsAbout the speakerDr Jack Tsen-Ta Lee is an Expert Member of the International Scientific Committee for Legal, Administrative and Financial Issues (ICLAFI) of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS); a member of ICOMOS Singapore; and President of the Singapore Heritage Society since 2017. Previously a legal academic between 2008 and 2017, he maintains research interests in constitutional and administrative law, media law, and heritage law. Jack is also a member of the National Collection Advisory Panel (since 2013) and the Archaeology Advisory Panel (since 2019) of the National Heritage Board; and the Heritage and Identity Partnership of the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore (since 2018).2: Rethinking heritage but from below: Lessons from a cultural living museumThursday, 6 May 2021 Talk is rescheduled to Wednesday, 5 May 2021 This presentation will lay out my research agenda on what is referred to as 'critical heritage from below'. This pertains to a much-needed scholarly pivot from emphases on dominant or state heritage making practices to the different ways in which ordinary actors too - such as heritage consumers or heritage labour - may hold and produce their own ideas of how tangible and intangible cultural heritage should be interpreted and crafted. Focussing on the specific case study of the Sarawak Cultural Village in East Malaysia, the presentation will highlight the merits of using such a broader lens to understand how heritage is made, unmade or remade within the living museum. At the same time, it will renege against romanticising these instances of heritage from below (vis-a-vis heritage from above), arguing instead the necessity to keep our critical caps on given that all forms of heritage practices do not exist a priori; rather, they are merely pasts as presenced today but by someone else.Talk: 4pm – 4.50pmQ&A: 4.50pm – 5.15pmZoom opens 10 minutes before talk beginsAbout the speakerDr Hamzah Muzaini is a cultural geographer at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, NUS. His primary work explores the politics of remembering and forgetting particularly as this intersects with issues of heritage, landscape and postcoloniality. He is co-author of Contested Memoryscapes: the Politics of Second World War Commemoration in Singapore (2016, Routledge, with Brenda Yeoh) and co-editor of After Heritage: Critical Issues of Heritage from Below (2018, Edward Elgar, with Claudio Minca). 3: An Archaeology of the Present | Seeing the Unseen: a photographic language for "Transient Landscapes" Thursday, 20 May 2021Talk: 4pm – 4.50pmQ&A: 4.50pm – 5.15pmZoom opens 10 minutes before talk beginsIt was during Attali’s long involvement in the documentation of excavation sites and in heritage conservation as an archaeological/landscape photographer that she compiled a distinct visual vocabulary, which reads structures as inseparable components of a site. In this talk, Attali focuses on relations between architecture and its continually shifting environment. Architecture in her work is used as a lens that reflects, filters and translates the landscape; at the same time, however, human constructs are treated as “found objects” that have surrendered to nature, leading the photographer’s gaze to explore and rethink the world. Architecture, unlike its photographic avatars, does not seem to be permanent in any way; countless human geographies have come and gone, dotting natural landscapes with ruins as they follow an inevitable cycle of decay and renewal. Materials age and wither; plant life grows to reclaim any space bereft of human activity. It is the mediated icons of singularity and permanence which acknowledge neither temporal variation nor situated context. While the image enjoys autonomy and can be evaluated as a stand-alone object, the reality of architecture is a messy network of dependencies, which change through time and without which we cannot have a complete understanding of built space. An awareness of that context does not only provide us with a better understanding of the architecture being photographed; it also offers a glimpse into the natural processes that act on it and, conceivably, shaped its original conception.About the speakerDr. Erieta Attali (Tel Aviv) is a Landscape & Architectural photographer with photographic work expanding from Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. She studied Photography at Goldsmiths, University of London, and completed her PhD at the School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Attali is recipient of several prestigious awards and fellowships in the US, Japan, Denmark, and Chile amongst others. Her photographic work has toured globally, featured by elite publishing houses and international design periodicals. She has taught architectural photography at GSAPP, Columbia University between 2003 - 2018 and has lectured in several universities internationally, also becoming Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore since January 2021. She is the editor and co-author together with Kengo Kuma of the monograph: "Glass | Wood Erieta Attali on Kengo Kuma" by Hatje Cantz (Berlin, 2015) as well as the editor and co-author of "Marc Mimram: Structure | Light, Landscapes of Gravity Through the Lens of Erieta Attali" by Hatje Cantz (Berlin, 2019). Attali's photography monograph " Periphery | Archaeology of Light" by Hatje Cantz is the winner of the prestigious German photo book prize 19|20 under the category Conceptual Fine Art Photography. 4: Automation, Memory, and Recording: Thinking about Haw Par Villa through Digital Folklore and PhotogrammetryThursday, 3 June 2021Talk: 4pm – 4.50pmQ&A: 4.50pm – 5.15pmZoom opens 10 minutes before talk beginsIn this talk I ask how digital technologies preserve tangible heritage and attempt to interrogate the idea of preservation in digital heritage. As an illustration, I consider Haw Par Villa, formerly known as the Tiger Balm Garden, through two methods—digital lore and photogrammetry—in order to reflect on digital heritage beyond preservation, recollection, and agency. I will describe interdisciplinary work I have conducted at the Asia Research Institute into “digital folklore”, an art-philosophy dialogue with French new media artist, Olivier Perriquet, in which we reterritorialize Haw Par Villa as a photogrammetrical object, and technological innovations in digital and virtual heritage. Finally, I consider these two projects in relation to memory, recording, digitalization, and recreation.About the speakerDr. Eric Kerr is a Lecturer at the National University of Singapore. Having originally trained as a lawyer in Scotland, he moved into philosophy and today writes on how technologies organize our everyday lives, beliefs, and experiences. He has published in venues such as First Monday, Information, Communication and Society, The Information Society, Philosophy & Technology, Society + Space, East Asian Science, Technology and Society, Philosophical Issues and The Conversation. Eric is Associate Editor at Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy.-

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