Public Forum-Plenary Speaker: "Riff, Reprise, Replica: Re-enacting Exhibitions in Southeast Asia", public forum at LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore, 9 September 2019.

Department of Fine Art

Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public lecture/debate/seminar

Description

While exhibition histories have been gaining attention as a field of study and research in recent years, there has been a been a concurrent interest in the re-enactments of exhibitions in curatorial practice. Reesa Greenberg focused on three forms of remembering exhibitions that she calls riff, reprise and replica. Using Greenberg’s ideas as a starting point, this forum will consider how these forms of remembering or re-enactments have been manifested in the context of exhibition-making in Southeast Asia. Questions relating to the curatorial premise, canon formation and the archiving of exhibitions will be explored. In the process, issues that are specific to the regional context might emerge.

Period	9 Sep 2019
Held at	LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
Degree of Recognition	International

Keywords

exhibition histories
southeast asian contemporary art
southeast asian exhibitions

Documents & Links

MA Asian Art Histories Forum: Riff, Reprise, Replica: Re-enacting Exhibitions in Southeast Asia Category - forums MA Asian Art Histories Forum: Riff, Reprise, Replica: Re-enacting Exhibitions in Southeast Asia Speakers Charmaine Toh Dr Michelle Antoinette Dr Seng Yu Jin Moderator Jeffrey Say Monday,9 Sept 2019,7:00pm – 9:00pm Lecture Theatre, Block F Level 2 #F202, LASALLE. Free admission. RSVP: nurdiana.rahmat@mylasalle.edu.sg While exhibition histories have been gaining attention as a field of study and research in recent years, there has been a been a concurrent interest in the re-enactments of exhibitions in curatorial practice. Reesa Greenberg focused on three forms of remembering exhibitions that she calls riff, reprise and replica. Using Greenberg’s ideas as a starting point, this forum will consider how these forms of remembering or re-enactments have been manifested in the context of exhibition-making in Southeast Asia. Questions relating to the curatorial premise, canon formation and the archiving of exhibitions will be explored. In the process, issues that are specific to the regional context might emerge. Michelle Antoinette is a researcher of modern and contemporary Asian art with a particular focus on Southeast Asian art histories. She is currently an ARC DECRA Research Fellow, and Lecturer in Art History and Theory at Monash University Art, Design and Architecture (MADA), Melbourne; she joined MADA in 2017. She is the author of Reworlding Art History: Encounters with Contemporary Southeast Asian Art after 1990 (Brill | Rodopi, 2015) and the co-‐editor with Caroline Turner for Contemporary Asian Art and Exhibitions: Connectivities and World-‐making (ANU Press, 2014). Charmaine Toh is a curator at National Gallery Singapore where she worked on exhibitions such as Siapa Nama Kamu: Art in Singapore since the 19th century, Earthwork 1979 and Danh Vo. She was one of the co-‐curators of the 2013 Singapore Biennale. Charmaine is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, researching pictorial photography in Singapore from the 1950s to 1970s. Seng Yu Jin is a senior curatorat The National Gallery Singapore. He was previously a Lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts in the MA Asian Art Histories and BA Fine Arts programmes. Seng’s research interests cover regional art histories focusing on Southeast Asian art in relation to the history of exhibitions and artist collectives in Southeast Asia. He recently co-‐edited Histories, Practices, Interventions: A Reader in Singapore Contemporary Art and has published in journals and art magazines including Art Review Asia and the Journal of Taipei Fine Arts Museum. He holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne.