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…
Workers of the art-world, unite! You have nothing else to love but your supply chains!
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…
Zoned Out at the Singapore Biennale 2016
By Jay Mar Albaos, Antonín Brinda, Petros Konnaris, Ray Langenbach, Jamie MacDonald, Harriet Rabe, Jolijn de Wolf (4350 words, 40-minute read) Institution ° Preparations are ongoing. An assistant paints the white wall a bit whiter. Spelling mistakes in the text on…
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…
Artists reclaim Southeast Asia’s history at the Singapore Biennale
Breaching through the pitch-black wall behind them, three ancient warships emerge into pools of muddled light. Astride their decks, a trio of titanic cowled figures stand in expectation, their hollow robes of gold plate giving stern shape to the empty…
The Curatorial Complex: A Roundtable on the Singapore Biennale
By Elaine Chiew, Luke Chua, Usha Chandradas, Candice Li Liting, Eunice Paola Ramos Lacaste, Teng Yen Hui and Seng Yu Jin (3392 words, 30 minute read) Seng Yu Jin: Our roundtable comprises students from the MA in Asian Art…
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…
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…
Singapore Biennale 2016: The Performative Curator
By Eunice Lacaste, Finalist, The Best Essay by an Emerging Art Writer Competition* (2900 words, 30-minute read) 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…