THE WEDDING GUEST’S TALE by Shelly Quick (Canada | Singapore)
PUBLISHED November 14th, 2014 06:58 am | UPDATED May 9th, 2018 03:13 am
14 – 25 January 2015, 10am – 8pm
The Concourse, Level 1
National Museum of Singapore
Admission is free
Asian Premiere
‘The Wedding Guest’s Tale’ is a multi-sensory, interactive installation that interrogates how we construct home, family and community. It consists of nests/imagined dwellings of various dimensions knitted out of found materials, mostly discarded and deemed no longer useful.
Alongside the nests will be assemblages of objects/artefacts associated with marriage and domesticity throughout South East Asia. Whilst functional, necessary and useful for daily tasks, many common domestic tools also hold the potential of threat and violence, mirroring the ambiguity that sits at the heart of our constructs of home and community.
‘The Wedding Guest’s Tale’ explores the duality of our desire to build and belong to community, and the fear of losing that belonging. As part of the experience of the installation, viewers or ‘guests’ are invited to knit available materials, or materials they bring to the museum, into the installation.
A soundscape will also be developed around the nests, including stories by Singaporeans and their experience of family and community. As guests knit and listen to the stories, each day of ‘The Wedding Guest’s Tale’ becomes a unique opportunity for inclusion, the growing number of nests evidence of a new, if fleeting, kind of community.
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