tag:peatix.com,2011:1 2021-07-03T15:34:38+08:00 Peatix Singapore Art Museum tag:peatix.com,2021:event-1897634 2021-05-08T13:00:00SGT 2021-05-08T13:00:00SGT

Wikicliki: Collecting Habits on an Earth Filled with Smartphones features six artists whose modes of working showcase a new development in contemporary art. As the audience for art shifts its attention from the gallery space to the smartphone, how do artists stand at the centre of new technologies of image circulation? Open to all audience, find out more through the talks and workshops for the exhibition. Register your interest in the links of the respective programme.TALKS Data Entries – Heman Chong in Conversation with Selene Yap | 8 May 2021, 1 pm - 2 pm A Freeze-Frame of the Sea – Charles Lim Yi Yong in Conversation with Kenneth Tay | 22 May 2021, 1 pm – 2 pm | Postponed until further notice. Wikicliki – Debbie Ding in Conversation with Shabbir Hussain Mustafa | 29 May 2021, 1 pm – 2 pm Electric Intimacies: Machines / Sensing / Bodies – bani haykal in Conversation with Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol | 5 June 2021, 1 pm – 2 pm Paradise – Chua Chye Teck in Conversation with Cheng Jia Yun | 12 June 2021, 1 pm – 2 pm Image as Craft – Chua Chye Teck in Conversation with Lo Yuet Keung | 19 June 2021, 1 pm – 2 pm Singirl: Let's Gather – Amanda Heng in Conversation with Teng Yen Hui | 26 June 2021, 1 pm – 2 pm WORKSHOPS The Legend of Debbie Ding: A Workshop Facilitated by Debbie Ding | 6 June 2021, 2 pm – 3:30 pm Bread & Butter in a Field of Dreams: A Workshop Facilitated by Debbie Ding | 3 July 2021, 2 pm – 3:30 pm ABOUT THE EXHIBITIONSingapore Art Museum PresentsWikicliki: Collecting Habits on an Earth Filled with Smartphones22 Apr to 11 Jul 2021 | 10am - 7pm daily | City Hall Wing, Level B1, The Ngee Ann Kongsi Concourse Gallery, National Gallery Singapore Can the museum engage artists in a discussion about what it means to collect their works?Wikicliki explores this question through a survey of six artists whose modes of working provide unique but interrelated entry points into a range of issues confronting contemporary practitioners in Singapore today.The exhibition is titled after the constantly evolving work, http://dbbd.sg/wiki, by artist Debbie Ding. Maintained since 2008, Ding’s work traces emerging issues around society’s use of the internet, technology, design, architecture, linguistics and varied cultural topics. Could the museum endeavour to collect such an artwork that expands and grows with time? This exhibition takes its cue from the newer modes of creating and presenting art showcased here, gleaning strategies necessary for the collection of contemporary art today. The six artists featured in this exhibition exemplify this new development in contemporary art referred to as the “aggregate,” a qualitative approach to collecting, organising and interpreting the frenzied array of images and data that increasingly govern our everyday lives. Their works activate anachronisms, fictions, improvisations, and sympathies that articulate the predicaments of our current times. As the audience for art shifts its attention from the gallery space to the smartphone, these six artists stand at the centre of these new technologies of image circulation, highlighting the multi-faceted experience of Singapore’s industrial present and technological future. Conversations around these concerns will be driven through a series of public outreach programmes developed by the artists in collaboration with the exhibition’s curators. More details: bit.ly/Wikicliki