Familiar Spaces Untold Stories | Encounters with Ipoh
Date: 22 July to 26 August 2012
Venue: NUS Museum
This exhibition arises from a two week long trip to the West Malaysian
town of Ipoh by twenty students from the University
of Malaya (UM) and the National University of Singapore (NUS). They conducted
studies of the city’s heritage, assessed its current state of development, and
carried out detailed investigations on four shophouses – a trade house, a
Sinhalese bar, a charcoal vendor’s shop and a seamstress’ modern shophouse. The
cultural and social fabric of this former ‘Tin Capital of the World’ and its
architectural heritage are exhibited in the form of sketches, drawings,
photographs and models.
This is a project from the UM-NUS
Joint Studio Programme started in 2005 in conjunction with the centenary
celebrations of the two Universities. The first exhibition entitled
‘Re:Claiming Heritage’ was presented at NUS Museum in 2009. This was followed
by Tracing Taiping (2010) and Narrating Muar (2011).
Since its inception, the programme
has been funded by the Tan Chin Tuan Foundation.
See previous exhibitions in the series:
- Re:claiming Heritage: Shophouses and Historic Districts in Kuching and Kuala Terengganu (2009)
- Tracing Taiping (2010)
- Narrating Muar (2011)
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