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Presenting ongoing inquiries by SAM artists and curators in residence, In Conversation offers a glimpse into studio-based methods, visualities and propositions to think through burgeoning concerns across a range of disciplines.
From Primate to Primate details Curatorial & Research Resident Arianna Mercado’s explorations into the Orang Utan as a symbol, icon, and catalyst, constellating their relationship to food security, knowledge production, labor, and liberation, and its relationship with Southeast Asian imaginaries.
a lot of nothing is two-part presentation of Artist Resident Chok Si Xuan’s project, questioning cybernetic systems and contemporary society’s material relationship with machines and futurism. By engaging with the body-massager, she seeks to offer new insights into the wholeness of being in the notion of becoming-machines.
Museum Chapalang is a series of actions taking place in October by Museum Justice Movement, a long-term project by Community & Education Resident Johanna Palmeyro. While it may look messy, it offers to present another way of order—through finding meaning and making sense as they occur, in action and dialogue with others. Can museums become tools for social transformation?
Magic is in the hills, Trauma is the wild thing, Tropics is an illness is a reimagination undertaken by Artist Resident Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn, which investigates the complex relationship between the archive and the politics of memory from the vantage of Southeast Asia, and the figure of Dr Ivan Polunin, a man who amassed one of Singapore’s most important visual archives of 16mm color film footage.
