Singapore Biennale Symposium
Fri, 7 Feb and Sat, 8 Feb 2014
9am – 6:30pm
Glass Hall, Singapore Art Museum
Tickets available at SAM, SAM at 8Q, Peranakan Museum, National Museum of Singapore and SISTIC. (Ticket price includes morning refreshments and afternoon tea, a Symposium kit, admission to the Singapore Biennale, and a Singapore Biennale Short Guide.)
Programme
Day 1 (Friday 7 Feb)
8:30 Registration and refreshments
9:30 Welcome and overview of symposium
10:00 Keynote Speech |Art In The Global Future | Fumio Nanjo
11:00 Panel Presentations | Biennale Modalities
Moderator: Bala Starr
Presentation 1 | Jogja Biennale | Farah Wardani
Presentation 2 | Asia Pacific Triennial | Russell Storer
Presentation 3 | Setouchi Triennale | Fram Kitagawa
12:30 Q & A
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Presentation | Shifting Gravity – Reflections On The First World Biennial Forum|
Ute Meta Bauer
Q & A
15:30 Presentation | Exhibitionary Mappings of Art in Southeast Asia | Seng Yu Jin
Q&A
16:30 Tea break
17:00 Roundtable | Curating the Singapore Biennale 2013
Moderator: TK Sabapathy
Discussants:
Abraham Garcia Jr., Michelle Ho, Mia Maria, Tan Siuli
18:00 Summation | TK Sabapathy
18:30 End of day’s programme
Day 2 (Saturday 8 Feb)
9:00 Registration and refreshments
10:00 Welcome, summary and comments of preceding day’s discussions, and overview of day’s
proceedings | TK Sabapathy
11:00 Panel Presentations | Collectives and Collectivism
Moderator: Lee Weng Choy
Presentation 1 |Terms of Collectivity: An Account of a Precarious, Difficult and Slippery
History of Coming Together | Simon Soon
Presentation 2 | Collectives and Networks in the Indonesian Art Scene |Ade Darmawan
Presentation 3 |The Individual and the Collective |Lee Wen
12:30 Q&A
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Panel Presentations | Artists Activating Communities & Contexts
Moderator: T. Sasitharan
Presentation 1 | The 31st Century Museum of Contemporary Spirit |Kamin Lertchaipraset Presentation 2 | The AX(iS) Project | Kawayan de Guia
Presentation 3| Kedutaan Masalah Dunia (The Embassy of World Problems) | Tisna Sanjaya
16:00 Q&A
16:30 Tea break
17:00 Roundtable | Making and Unmaking the Contemporary in Southeast Asia
Moderator: Susie Lingham
Discussants:
Ark Fongsmut, Joyce Toh, Tran Luong, Yee I‐Lann
18:00 Summation & closing
18:30 End of day’s programme
For more information and to register, please click here.