Museological Mediums and Cannibalistic Methods / Symposium & Book Launch
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MUSEOLOGICAL MEDIUMS AND CANNIBALISTIC METHODS
SOUTHEASTASIA+ (Networking Event) / SYMPOSIUM / BOOK LAUNCH
19 February 2016, Room C303 Kings Cross Campus. Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London.
SOUTHEASTASIA+ / 2pm
Please note: SOUTHEASTASIA+ is an invitation only networking event focusing on researchers, artists, curators, and writers whose practices engage with Southeast Asian contexts. Please get in contact directly with e.tan@csm.arts.ac.uk to register an interest.
SYMPOSIUM / 3.15pm - 6.45
In conjunction with the UK book launch of the artist’s book Come Cannibalise Us, Why Don't You? / Sila Mengkanibalkan Kami Mahu Tak? (Erika Tan, 2014) an afternoon programme of talks and discussions will be held which brings together current projects and research that expand on ideas in the book: historical revisiting, post-colonial museology, and exhibitionary practices - within/from/about Southeast Asia.
Participants: Pamela N. Corey, Judy Freya Sibayan, Alison Green, Piers Masterson, Marian Pastor Roces & Erika Tan.
BOOK LAUNCH / 6.45pm – 8pm
Come and join us for the launch of the artist’s book project Come Cannibalise Us, Why Don’t You? Sila Mengkanibalkan Kami MahuTak?, Erika Tan 2014.
Produced as an extension to the exhibition Come Cannibalise Us, Why Don’t You? (NUS Museum, Singapore, August 2013-May 2014) the book extends the ideas within the exhibition around the possibilities and problematics of aesthetic cannibalism in relation to the historic and displaced object. Digital repatriation as artistic gesture, active readership of historic/received narratives and museological issues around interpretation, performing artefacts, and exhibitionary tropes are encountered through the specificity of the Malayan museum and its post-colonial afterlife. Through the incorporation of multiple voices, locations and positions, the book also speaks across and through these specifics to notions of the copy, the remake, revisiting, re-use and to approaches which seek to re-question the museological and anthropological notions of ‘source community’ and ‘local informant’ through the voice of the artist and audience.
Contributors: Masturah Alatas, Christina Chua, Dr Kevin Chua, Martin Constable, Lucy Davis, Grieve Perspective, Amanda Heng, David A. Henkel, Mulaika Hijjas, Ho Tzu Nyen, Nazrita Ibrahim, Zai Kuning, Charles Lim Yi Yong, Janice Loo, Ahmad Bin Mashadi, Clement Onn, Shubigi Rao, Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, Adele Tan, Fiona Tan, Kenneth Tay, Wenny Teo, W. Patrick Wade, Wen Lee, Lee Min Wong, Ming Wong, Farouk Yahya, Robert Zhao Renhui.
The events are supported by the BA Fine Art Programme, Central Saint Martins and hosted by Erika Tan.
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The room has a limited capacity, so if you are unable to attend, please do let us know so we can pass this onto someone else. Additionally, if you are only coming for one part of the afternoon, then let us know.
