Artist-Curator Conversation: The Black Dog Which Causes Cholera | Peatixtag:peatix.com,2011:12022-05-09T17:34:18+08:00PeatixObjectifsArtist-Curator Conversation: The Black Dog Which Causes Choleratag:peatix.com,2022:event-32082662022-04-09T16:00:00SGT2022-04-09T16:00:00SGTArtist-Curator Conversation: The Black Dog Which Causes Cholera and the Two Memorials of Plague
Speakers: Jim Lumbera, Joey Singh & Kamiliah Bahdar
Sat 9 Apr, 4pm to 5.30pm
Objectifs Workshop Space
Exhibition Dates: 24 Mar to 30 Apr 2022
Admission is free
Please note that as part of the Vaccination-Differentiated Safe Management Measures, from 1 Feb 2022 all visitors to Objectifs must be fully vaccinated. Attendees' vaccination status will be checked upon arrival at Objectifs for this session. Read more here. *Filmmaking duo Jim Lumbera and Joey Singh from the Philippines present a documentary project tracing an oral account from a colonial archive of a folk belief that "a black dog ran down the street" and caused the great cholera epidemic during the Philippine-American War.From the empty streets of Metro Manila locked down during Covid-19, to the Province of Batangas where the artists bore witness to locals' oral histories and deep memories of plagues past and present, The Black Dog Which Causes Cholera and the Two Memorials of Plague is a visual archive of photographs that sensitively rearticulates local narratives, honouring the illegibility of local knowledge to outsiders through a soft, dreamlike gaze in contrast to the fixed gaze of colonial-era photographs.Join us at Objectifs to hear the artists, recipients of the Objectifs Documentary Award 2021 (Open Category), in conversation with the show's curator Kamiliah Bahdar! Visit https://www.objectifs.com.sg/the-black-dog/ for more details.
*Supported by the Cultural Matching Fund Updatestag:peatix.com,2022-03-30 07:04:392022-03-30 07:04:39The event description was updated. Diff#1197768