Capturing the Straits | Painting and Postcard Views from the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

[Charles Dyce, The River from Monkey Bridge, 1842- 1843. Watercolour & Ink on paper]

Date: 9 February 2012 – 31 October 2012

Venue: NUS Baba House, 157 Neil Road

Visits to the exhibition are By Appointment Only.

Please contact 6227 5731 or email babahouse@nus.edu.sg

This exhibition brings together paintings of the Straits Settlements by Charles Dyce who was a resident of Singapore in the 1840s, and postcard views of Malacca dating to the early half of the 20th century. As visual sources, they collectively provide a window into the production and reception of landscapes in colonial Malaya, underpinned by new encounters, negotiations with pictorial conventions, and evolving regard of Malaya as a transformative space. 

Presented at the NUS Baba House, a residential unit built and actively inhabited in the colonial period, the exhibition also provides glimpses into the nature of urban transformations in the Straits Settlements. 

Diary of an NUS Museum Intern: Li Yixuan

Note: Diary of an NUS Museum Intern is a series of blog posts written by our interns about their experiences during the course of their internships. Besides working hard and fast in their cubicles, our interns have travelled to Bandung and Malacca, organised symposiums, waded through tons of historical research and pitched in during exhibition installations. At NUS Museum, each internship is as different from the last. If you would like to become our next intern, visit our internship page for more information!

For the month of January, we will be publishing a special edition of Diary of an NUS Museum Intern. The museum is currently hosting 5 interns as part of Temasek Junior College's WOW! 2012 Attachment Programme where the students are given the opportunity to engage in real world situations and to provide insights or solutions. Each week, each student will take it in turns to blog about their experience and give us a little glimpse into their world.

This week, Li Yixuan shares with us her experience of her time at the Museum.

Down the Grand Canal | Singapore at the Venice Biennale, 3 February 2012, 6.30pm, NUS MUSEUM

A talk by June Yap, Independent Curator, Singapore

Ho Tzu Nyen, The Cloud of Unknowing, 2011,
Installation with single-channel HD projection, multi-channel,
audio, lighting,smoke machines and show control system.



The Singapore Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, presenting The Cloud of Unknowing by Ho Tzu Nyen, is Singapore's 6th participation at the international exhibition. Down the Grand Canal: Singapore at the Venice Biennale looks at the history of Singapore's participation at what is considered one of the most significant biennales internationally. Generally spoken of in terms of national representation, the discussion focuses on the issues, anxieties, implications and expectations in imagining and representing art practices and
developments from Singapore.

Curating Nation

In recent years, the idea of the nation has been studied not merely as a site of economic, political or geographic persuasions but also as a cultural object of analysis. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Camping and Tramping Through the Colonial Archive | The Museum in Malaya, this talk series brings together leading practitioners from Southeast Asia in an attempt at discerning the complexities involved in curating aspects of the nation within museological or gallery settings. Ranging from the deployment of exhibitions as a mode of cultural production, to the play of cosmopolitan identities at international biennales, curating nation is conceived as a platform for the interdisciplinary discussion of memory, object and practice.

Speakers

14 October 2011, 6.30 pm

Curating Nation: Reflections on SUSURMASA

Zanita Anuar (Director of Museum Innovation, Malaysia Museums Department)

2 December 2011, 6.30 pm

Filipiniana: Collecting Culture in the Philippines

Patrick D. Flores (Professor of Art Studies at the Department of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines)

19 January 2012, 6.00 pm

China, India and the Role of Art in the Asian Century 

Prasenjit Duara (Raffles Professor of Humanities, National University of Singapore)

3 February 2012, 6.30 pm

Down the Grand Canal: Singapore at the Venice Biennale

June Yap (Independent Curator, Singapore) 

16 Feb 2012, 6.30 pm

Curating the Singapore Architecture Pavilion at the 11th Venice Biennale

Lilian Chee (Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture School of Design and Environment, NUS) and Peter Sim (Architect and co-founder of WORK, FARM Architecture and Interior Design) 

1 March 2012, 6.30 pm

Singapore Pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo 2010

Kay Ngee Tan (Principal Architect, Kay Ngee Tan Architects) 

12 April 2012, 6.30 pm

Guerrilla Archaeologists and the Singapore Story

John Miksic (Associate Professor, Southeast Asian Studies Programme, NUS)

20 April 2012, 6.30 pm

Travelling Without Moving: Thai Contemporary Art Historicised

David Teh (Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, NUS)

 

UMAC 2012 SINGAPORE | CALL FOR PAPERS

University Museums & Collections Conference 

Date: 10 – 12 October 2012

Venue: NUS Museum, National University of Singapore

CALL FOR PAPERS

Date: 29 February - 1 May 2012 

Please click here for details on the submission of abstracts.

Publication: Family Intimacies | Anderson & Low

Contents

Foreword | Ahmad Mashadi | Head, NUS Museum

Curatorial: “Unpacking the Family Tree”| Nurul Huda B. A. Rashid | Assistant Curator

Essay: “A Journey towards Family Intimacy” | Edwin Low of Anderson & Low

Diary of an NUS Museum Intern: Vanessa Teo

Note: Diary of an NUS Museum Intern is a series of blog posts written by our interns about their experiences during the course of their internships. Besides working hard and fast in their cubicles, our interns have travelled to Bandung and Malacca, organised symposiums, waded through tons of historical research and pitched in during exhibition installations. At NUS Museum, each internship is as different from the last. If you would like to become our next intern, visit our internship page for more information!

For the month of January, we will be publishing a special edition of Diary of an NUS Museum Intern. The museum is currently hosting 5 interns as part of Temasek Junior College's WOW! 2012 Attachment Programme where the students are given the opportunity to engage in real world situations and to provide insights or solutions. Each week, each student will take it in turns to blog about their experience and give us a little glimpse into their world.


This week, we hand the baton over to Vanessa to share their day to day challenges and their visit to the NUS Baba House. (Image: Vanessa is second from the left.)

Diary of an NUS Museum Intern: Ng Ling Shan (TJC)

Note: Diary of an NUS Museum Intern is a series of blog posts written by our interns about their experiences during the course of their internships. Besides working hard and fast in their cubicles, our interns have travelled to Bandung and Malacca, organised symposiums, waded through tons of historical research and pitched in during exhibition installations. At NUS Museum, each internship is as different from the last. If you would like to become our next intern, visit our internship page for more information!

For the month of January, we will be publishing a special edition of Diary of an NUS Museum Intern. The museum is currently hosting 5 interns as part of Temasek Junior College's WOW! 2012 Attachment Programme where the students are given the opportunity to engage in real world situations and to provide insights or solutions. Each week, each student will take it in turns to blog about their experience and give us a little glimpse into their world.

Ng Ling Shan kicks off this special mini-series with her impressions of her first week on the job.

Diary of an NUS Museum Intern: Chiam Zhi Quan

Note: Diary of an NUS Museum Intern is a series of blog posts written by our interns about their experiences during the course of their internships. Besides working hard and fast in their cubicles, our interns have travelled to Bandung and Malacca, organised symposiums, waded through tons of historical research and pitched in during exhibition installations. At NUS Museum, each internship is as different from the last. If you would like to become our next intern, visit our internship page for more information!

Chiam Zhi Quan is a first-year student at the School of Design and Environment, majoring in Project and Facilities Managment. Zhi Quan joined us as a Collections Management intern and had the opportunity to be part of the day-to-day work of how our Collections team manages our four collections and prepare artworks for installations.

Manga Dreams: Anderson & Low

A Talk by UK-Based Photographers, Jonathan Anderson and Edwin Low

Manga Dreams, by artists Anderson & Low, is a photographic series that revisits recurring themes of Identity, Costume, Persona, and Performance through the genre of Manga. The project presents a hybrid art form that blurs the distinction between photography, portraiture, graphics, calligraphy, and cyber-culture; posited as a reaction to the current ubiquitous influence of Manga, Asian graphic novels, and animation on youth culture. The result is a photographic series of images that move between worlds of the real and the fantastical, inviting us to reconsider representations of the different themes and ideas embedded within.

Diary of an NUS Museum Intern: Eddie Koh

Note: Diary of an NUS Museum Intern is a series of blog posts written by our interns about their experiences during the course of their internships. Besides working hard and fast in their cubicles, our interns have travelled to Bandung and Malacca, organised symposiums, waded through tons of historical research and pitched in during exhibition installations. It was definitely no ordinary internship for them! If you would like to become our next intern, visit our internship page for more information!

Eddie Koh is a fourth-year History major from the Faculty of Arts and Social Science at NUS. Eddie's first internship with the NUS Museum ran from May-July 2010, where his research centred upon important figures in the Museum's history. Eddie joined us once again for the summer of 2011 for a second round to delve into the history of the NUS Museum. During this second internship stint, Eddie has taken to keeping a diary, meticulously recording his thoughts and impressions as he engages with research on William Willets, the museum's second curator . Let's all take a little peek into his notes and find out what he thinks of Willets.

Family Intimacies: Anderson & Low

click here to view gallery impressions

Date: 19 January - 8 April 2012
Venue: NUS Museum

Free Admission