[spectre] Fwd: CONF: Worlds Apart, Strangers Together (Singapore, 23-24 Mar 24)

[Andreas Broeckmann LEU]

From: National Gallery Singapore
Date: Mar 13, 2024
Subject: CONF: Worlds Apart, Strangers Together (Singapore, 23-24 Mar 24)

National Gallery Singapore, City Hall Wing, Level B1, The Ngee Ann 
Kongsi Auditorium and Auditorium Foyer, Mar 23–24, 2024

Held alongside the exhibition 'Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and 
Latin America', “Worlds Apart, Strangers Together” is a two-day 
symposium that expresses South-South solidarities and reconsiders the 
conception of the “Global South,” both within the legacies of modernism 
and in light of post-colonial debates.

The programme includes a diverse range of lectures, screenings, 
performances, talks and dialogues, featuring artists, thinkers, and art 
historians including Manthia Diawara, Solange Farkas, Atreyee Gupta, 
Yuki Kihara, Partha Mitter, Eisa Jocson and Venuri Perera.

Programme:

Sat 23 Mar 2024

11 am, Partha Mitter on Reimagining Modernism: Picasso Manqué Syndrome 
and the Virtual Cosmopolitan.
In this keynote lecture, Professor Partha Mitter will address the 
asymmetrical relationship between the centre and periphery and propose 
strategies for decentring the dominant Western canon.
Free, registration required: 
https://web.nationalgallery.sg/#/detail?id=294408&type=product.

2 pm, In Dialogue with Yuki Kihara and Patrick Flores.
This dialogue between Yuki Kihara and Patrick Flores will delve into the 
colonial legacies in Oceania, as well as the complexities inherent in 
the primitivist gaze and its transformation in contemporary art.
Free, registration required: 
https://web.nationalgallery.sg/#/detail?id=294378&type=product.

4.30 pm, Screening: "Maison Tropicale".
Departing from artist Ângela Ferreira’s project at the 2007 Venice 
Biennale, Manthia Diawara’s film 'Maison Tropicale' (2008) probes the 
complex interrelationship between modernism, colonialism, and 
architecture in the Republic of Congo and Nige, shedding light on issues 
surrounding cultural heritage in a post-colonial environment.
Free, registration required: 
https://web.nationalgallery.sg/#/detail?id=294383&type=product.

Sun 24 Mar 2024

11 am, Solange Farkas on Transcultural Curation.
Hear from Solange Farkas as she shares about how to curate exhibitions 
involving different art ecologies and geopoetic conditions.
Free, registration required: 
https://web.nationalgallery.sg/#/detail?id=294406&type=product.

2 pm, Atreyee Gupta on The Non-Aligned Movement.
Drawing from an elucidation of Octavio Paz in the context of South Asia, 
Professor Atreyee Gupta will unravel the intricate connections and 
solidarities between Asia and Latin America.
Free, registration required: 
https://web.nationalgallery.sg/#/detail?id=294387&type=product.

4.30 pm, "Magic Maids", a work-in-progress sharing by Eisa Jocson and 
Venuri Perera.
Magic Maids is a work-in-progress sharing by artists Eisa Jocson and 
Venuri Perera, featuring excerpts of their research into the circulation 
of foreign migrant labour.
Free, no registration required.

https://www.nationalgallery.sg/see-do/programme-detail/978830422/tropical--worlds-apart-strangers-together

Reference / Quellennachweis:
CONF: Worlds Apart, Strangers Together (Singapore, 23-24 Mar 24). In: 
ArtHist.net, Mar 13, 2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/41434>.