In conjunction with the exhibition and accompanying publication, we will be hosting a special in-depth talk on Heman Chong’s practice, featuring Professor Bill Sherman from The Warburg Institute with his pioneering work on marginalia and the history of libraries

Programme Schedule:
2–2.15pm: Introduction by exhibition curators, June Yap & Kathleen Ditzig
2.15–3.15pm: Keynote Lecture by Professor Bill Sherman 
3.15–4.30pm: Refreshments and Book Launch 

This programme is presented in conjunction with the exhibition, This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.

About the Speaker

Bill Sherman is Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of Cultural History in the University of London’s School of Advanced Study.  Before moving to the Warburg Institute he served as Director of Research and Collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Director of the Centre for Renaissance & Early Modern Studies at the University of York. A committed crosser of disciplines, periods and professional sectors, he has worked on Renaissance readers, modern artists and many things in-between. He is currently completing a monograph on visual marginalia called The Reader’s Eye, a book based on his 2021 Wells Lectures (Oxford) on The Cryptographic Renaissance and an edited anthology of Aby Warburg’s essential writings. 

Exhibition Curators

June Yap is Director of Curatorial & Research at Singapore Art Museum, where she oversees content and research development. Amongst exhibitions she has curated are: Heman Chong: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness; Yee I-Lann: Mansau-Ansau; the Singapore Biennale 2022 named Natasha; The Gift as part of Collecting Entanglements and Embodied Histories; No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia for the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative; Ho Tzu Nyen’s The Cloud of Unknowing at the 54th Venice Biennale. She is the author of Retrospective: A Historiographical Aesthetic in Contemporary Singapore and Malaysia (2016).

Kathleen Ditzig is Curator at National Gallery Singapore. She received a PhD from Nanyang Technological University with a dissertation titled, “Exhibiting Southeast Asia in the Cultural Cold War: Geopolitics of Regional Art Exhibitions (1940s–1980s).” She obtained her MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. Inspired by her experience in cultural policy, Ditzig studies modern and contemporary Southeast Asian art in relation to global histories of capitalism, technology and international relations. As a curator and researcher, she is invested in advancing and interrogating art as an exceptional site and system of speaking to power. She won an IMPART Curatorial Award in 2021. Her writing has been published by Southeast of Now (NUS Press), Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia (NUS Press), Afterall (University of the Arts London), post: Notes on art in a global context (MoMA), Art Agenda and Art Forum, among others.

About the Publication

Title: Heman Chong: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness

Retail price: SGD55.00 incl. GST

ISBN: 978-981-17596-5-9

A key artist in Singapore’s art history, Heman Chong’s multi-faceted practice dates back to the early 2000s. This publication accompanies a survey exhibition of the same name, which presents recent artworks including new commissions that reconsider canonical pieces from his oeuvre. Known for his acerbic wit, Chong’s art addresses contemporary geopolitics and the infrastructural ironies of our data-driven and networked society. Heman Chong: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness surveys the artist’s practice, with essays by international curators who have collaborated with him throughout his career.

Click here to purchase the book online.