Singapore Biennale to explore changing face of Southeast Asia this year
The Singapore Biennale is back for its fourth edition and will begin on Saturday until February 16.
This year's theme, "If The World Changed", invites artists to respond to and reconsider the worlds we live in and the worlds we want to live in, against the backdrop of a changing Southeast Asia.
Some 90 per cent of this year's artists hail from the region.
Visitors can expect a visual treat from contemporary art works and the chance to interact with more than 80 artists from 13 countries.
And instead of just one curator, this year there will be a team of 27 curators from the region.
Tan Boon Hui, curator and project director of Singapore Biennale 2013, said: "What this allows us that we could never do before, in a sense, is to tap the richness of knowledge and skills that curators have from the region.
"It also allows us to bring in artists that normally people do not see outside of their country, so the biennale becomes very fresh and it has a creative energy.
“And you don't feel almost as if it's a textbook list of artists, and the works also would be very new, so I think it would be very interesting and provocative for many of our audiences."
Dr Susie Lingham, director of Singapore Art Museum, said: "This time, together with this new platform, with the Singapore Biennale this year, we decided to do something different -- don't just feature international works, do the circuit.
“Instead we actually went into the heartlands of Southeast Asia, worked with different regions, worked with co-curators, so Singapore Art Museum curators work with co-curators, putting together works where a good 90 per cent of them, you've never seen before."
~News courtesy of Channel Newsasia~
The Singapore Biennale is back for its fourth edition and will begin on Saturday until February 16.
This year's theme, "If The World Changed", invites artists to respond to and reconsider the worlds we live in and the worlds we want to live in, against the backdrop of a changing Southeast Asia.
Some 90 per cent of this year's artists hail from the region.
Visitors can expect a visual treat from contemporary art works and the chance to interact with more than 80 artists from 13 countries.
And instead of just one curator, this year there will be a team of 27 curators from the region.
Tan Boon Hui, curator and project director of Singapore Biennale 2013, said: "What this allows us that we could never do before, in a sense, is to tap the richness of knowledge and skills that curators have from the region.
"It also allows us to bring in artists that normally people do not see outside of their country, so the biennale becomes very fresh and it has a creative energy.
“And you don't feel almost as if it's a textbook list of artists, and the works also would be very new, so I think it would be very interesting and provocative for many of our audiences."
Dr Susie Lingham, director of Singapore Art Museum, said: "This time, together with this new platform, with the Singapore Biennale this year, we decided to do something different -- don't just feature international works, do the circuit.
“Instead we actually went into the heartlands of Southeast Asia, worked with different regions, worked with co-curators, so Singapore Art Museum curators work with co-curators, putting together works where a good 90 per cent of them, you've never seen before."
~News courtesy of Channel Newsasia~
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