tag:peatix.com,2011:1 2019-05-03T21:03:22+08:00 Peatix NUS Museum tag:peatix.com,2019:event-651739 2019-05-02T19:00:00SGT 2019-05-02T19:00:00SGT

[Book Launch] CrossingsThursday, 2 May 20197pm - 9pmArchaeology Libary, NUS Museum “If an image can say a thousand words, where did those words come from?”Taking the exhibition Crossings as both anchor and point of departure, this publication echoes and finds new ways to see the aspirations, anxieties and inquiries that coalesced around the project. More a literary reader than an exhibition guide, the text weaves between letters and essays, poetry and prose. It features interlocutors from the MOVE Workshop that was organised around the exhibition, as well as various other artists, curators and academics. Contributors include Julmar Carcedo, Dhwani Dholakia, Dr. Fang-Tze Hsu, Chrystal Ho, Dr. Olivier Krischer, Sze Ching Lam, Joshua Lim, Siddharta Perez, Wern Hao See, Li-Jen Tan, Lisabelle Tan, Wei Leng Tay, and Lawrence Ypil. The text is a conscious untangling and reconsideration of the discourses of migration through notions of movement, documentation, representation, temporality, and fragmentation.   The book launch, which marks the closing of Crossings at the NUS Museum, will bring together Wei Leng Tay, Siddharta Perez and Lawrence Ypil for one final conversation to reflect on and respond to the transformations and evolutions of Crossings across its four iterations. By using the reader as an access point, the discussion locates the ways in which the installation’s mercurial narratives could evolve a broader narrative circulating the questions of movement and moving. The publication will be sold during the event.About the exhibitionCrossings, an exhibition of photography, installation and video, takes as a departure point ideas of diaspora and identity that emerged in Wei Leng Tay’s previous exhibition Discordant Symmetries (2010) in NUS Baba House. This is a four-part exhibition of Tay’s research from 2014-2018 that spans stories of lived and inherited migration of individuals from different generations and backgrounds in Pakistan, Hong Kong and Singapore. Through a process that begins with interviews and continues with a formal interrogation of the image and voice as document, ideas of agency, relationships and nation implicit to moving between places of home are elaborated. Ongoing iteration The final iteration of Crossings returns audiences’ focus to you think it over slowly, slowly choose…. First appearing at the launch of this exhibition as 650 tissue prints of re-photographs taken of the artist’s grandaunt’s existing pictures placed in the trough of sherds within the Archaeology Library, this work considers the entangled circumstances that affect familial and state-driven relationships through the dispossession of the artist’s grandaunt who crossed into Singapore in 1955 and remained stateless till her death in 2004. For this last iteration, the spectral nature of the subject is further manifested as video and texts emerge in place of the tissue prints. These new works overlay internalised values with social constructs imposed through relationships implicit in the self, family and the state.Image : Installation view of Wei Leng Tay's you think it over slowly, slowly choose..., 2018. Photo by Hoong Wei Long for NUS Museum.