Getting more out of the Guggenheim Exhibition at Gillman Barracks
PUBLISHED June 10th, 2014 11:17 am | UPDATED January 20th, 2016 05:10 am
Listen up Art-fans! Being the creative animal that you are, you’ve probably already swung by the Centre for Contemporary Arts at Gillman Barracks to check out the monumental Guggenheim exhibition “No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia in Singapore”. If you haven’t however, fret not, the exhibition is still running strong from now until the 20th July so you still have time to go check it out.
However, if you’d like to get more out of it than simply viewing and analysing some superb regional art, you may want to book a place at some of the very interest lectures that will be happening over the exhibition. To keep things simple, we’ve narrowed it down to the three that we think sounds the most worthwhile seeing.
1) Ashish Rajadhyaksha – Lecture: A Tour of Indian Independent Documentary and Video
Saturday, June 14, 3pm – 5pm
Ashish Rajadhyaksha is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society in Bangalore. Having been widely published on Indian cinema, India’s cultural policy, and on the visual arts, he has even curated a number of film and art events, including Bombay/Mumbai 1991–2001 for Tate Modern, (2002, with Geeta Kapur). Ashish Rajadhyaksha is currently a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Cultural Studies in Asia Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, NUS.
2) The Otolith Group  – Artists’ Programme
Tuesday, June 24, 6:30 pm – 9pm
Artists Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar of The Otolith Group speak about their films, installations and performances. They will discuss their frequent reworking of archival and contemporary images and the way in which it straddles the border between truth and fiction, complicating divisions between poetry, history, the real, and the imagined.
3) Ahmad Mashadi – The Curator’s Talk
Friday, July 18, 7:30 pm
Ahmad Mashadi is Head of the National University of Singapore Museum. His recently curated exhibitions include Camping and Tramping Through the Colonial Archive: the Museum in Malaya (2011), which traced the museological imaginary of colonial Malaya, and Heman Chong: Calendars 2020–2096 (2011), which featured a new series of the artist’s photographs. In 2012, Ahmad initiated Curating Lab, a curatorial intensive and internship programme for Singapore students and recent graduates.
If you can’t make it down for some of these, be sure to check out http://gillmanbarracks.com/CCA to see the other lectures and workshops happening. And if you can find the time to book, you can book a guided tour through the exhibit from now until the end of the exhibition (July 20th) Wednesdays – Saturdays. For more information, visit: http://gillmanbarracks.com/cca
