Singapore Biennale Archives

Singapore Biennale 2019: Interview with artistic director and curators

Contemporary visual art exhibition the Singapore Biennale 2019 will return on 22 November with Every Step In The Right Direction, featuring artworks by over 70 artists from Singapore, Southeast Asia and beyond. In the lead-up to the opening of the sixth edition, Lee Weng Choy speaks with artistic director Patrick Flores, and curators Andrea Fam, …

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Room of Receipts: The Biennale of 2022

AICA Singapore Biennale 2016 Roundtable 3: Maybe it’s better this way, We’d hurt each other with the things we want to say [1] “Tell me about the biennale you want to see”, was the question posed to the writers engaged in the third AICA roundtable on the Singapore Biennale, convened by Qinyi Lim. The result …

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Workers of the art-world, unite! You have nothing else to love but your supply chains!

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Zoned Out at the Singapore Biennale 2016

Institution ° Preparations are ongoing. An assistant paints the white wall a bit whiter. Spelling mistakes in the text on the wall are corrected. The white cube divided into nine zones is ready for visitors. Everything looks smooth and polished: the space, the artworks, and the people. ¶ In Singapore the concept of being “gardened” …

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Winner, Singapore Biennale 2016 Essay Writing Competition: To-Do List for the End of the World

Congratulations to Marcus Yee for winning AICA + ArtsEquator’s Inaugural Best Essay on the Singapore Biennale 2016 by an Emerging Art Writer Competition with this essay. By Marcus Yee, (3040 words, 30-minute read) “A map of the world that does not include utopia is not worth glancing at.” — Oscar Wilde [1] 1. Find escape …

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The Curatorial Complex: A Roundtable on the Singapore Biennale

Seng Yu Jin: Our roundtable comprises students from the MA in Asian Art Histories programme at LASALLE College of the Arts, and we are looking at the Singapore Biennale 2016 – An Atlas of Mirrors, henceforth SB2016, as a case study of the “curatorial complex”. If I may start with a summary of ideas about …

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Singapore Biennale 2016: A/political Performance – Atlas of Mirrors in Context

By Wei Er Xun, Finalist, Best Essay by an Emerging Art Writer Competition* (2700 words, 30-minute read) Introduction The stakes of exhibitions have always been high. Before the advent of the cinema, television and other mass media, large-scale exhibitions and world expos were primary sites for cultural exchange. As Maria Lind explains in a text …

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Singapore Biennale 2016: The Myth, the Mirror and the Map

By Elaine Chiew, Finalist, Best Essay by an Emerging Art Writer Competition (2996 words, 30-minute read) Much of our ideas about maps today are reduced to their function: their ability to tell us where we are and how to get somewhere. However, maps as art inquire what a map is rather than what it does. …

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Singapore Biennale 2016: The Performative Curator

By Eunice Lacaste, Finalist, The Best Essay by an Emerging Art Writer Competition* Introduction Entering the Singapore Art Museum[1] during the media preview of the Singapore Biennale 2016[2], we could barely disregard the museum staff installing wall text decals. Other artworks were still being shifted around. Some of the art viewers did not mind this. …

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