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Panel Discussion: Art as Historical Method in Southeast Asia
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Panel Discussion: Art as Historical Method in Southeast Asia
How can contemporary art create new ways of understanding the past?
This panel explored the turn toward history in Southeast Asian contemporary art practice, how it offers models for the ways in which we understand the past and the work that history can do in the world. Panellists Dương Mạnh Hùng, Goh Sze Ying, Issa Yi Xian Sng, Mark Philip Bradley and Seng Yu Jin discussed works by Dinh Q. Lê, Yee I-Lann and Ho Tzu Nyen, whose practices draw upon historical photographs, cultural artefacts, collage, video and performance to consider the roles of history and memory in the making of social experiences in colonial and postcolonial Southeast Asia.
This discussion was moderated by Patrick Flores, Deputy Director of Curatorial & Research at National Gallery Singapore.
This panel discussion took place at National Gallery Singapore on 25 February 2023 as part of “Art as Historical Method,” a collaborative project between the National Gallery Singapore and The American Historical Review.
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About the Panellists
Dương Mạnh Hùng is an independent translator, writer and curator. Their practice weaves together textual intricacy with visual subtlety to deliver responses and raise questions about art and society. Hùng's deep-seated fascination with the dynamics of translation in art is informed by their close observations of global and Southeast Asian socio-political and ecological histories. They are perpetually intrigued by moments of sublimation and serendipitous interstices within and between different artforms.
Goh Sze Ying is a Curator at National Gallery Singapore. She has worked on various exhibitions, including Something New Must Turn Up: Six Singaporean Artists After 1965 (2021), Singapore Biennale 2019: Every Step in the Right Direction (2019), Minimalism: Space. Light. Object. (2018), Lim Cheng Hoe: Painting Singapore (2018), and Listening to Architecture: The Gallery’s Histories and Transformation (2017).
Issa Yi Xian Sng is a Researcher at the National Heritage Board Singapore. Beyond her work in heritage preservation, she pursues research, writing, and creative projects such as the independent online publication of “Bagyi Aung Soe (1923–1990): Juggling Paradoxes in the Here & the Now,” the curatorial essay for the 2021 exhibition Bagyi Aung Soe (1923–1990) at Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Mark Philip Bradley is the Bernadotte E. Schmidt Distinguished Service Professor of History at the University of Chicago and Editor of the American Historical Review. He is the author of The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (2016), Vietnam at War (2009) and Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam (2000), which won the Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies. His current project, a cultural and intellectual history of the Global South, is supported by a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
Seng Yu Jin is Senior Curator at National Gallery Singapore. He was previously a Lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts in the MA Asian Art Histories and BA Fine Arts programmes. He currently lectures in the Minor in Art History at the National University of Singapore. His research interests cover regional art histories, with a focus on exhibition histories and collectivism in Southeast Asia.
Patrick Flores is Deputy Director of Curatorial & Research at National Gallery Singapore. Up till 2022, he was Professor of Art History and Criticism at the Department of Art Studies, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, which he chaired from 1997 to 2003. He was also concurrently the curator of the Jorge B. Vargas Museum. In 2015, he curated the Philippine Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. In 2022, he was the Convenor of Forums for the Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
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Disclaimer
This video has been edited for clarity and concision. The opinions expressed in this video may not represent the views of National Gallery Singapore or the American Historical Review. Every effort has been made to obtain permission for the material in this video. Copyright within this video belongs to its respective owners and shall not be reproduced without permission.
#NationalGallerySingapore #LetArtSurpriseYou #ArtasHistoricalMethod
How can contemporary art create new ways of understanding the past?
This panel explored the turn toward history in Southeast Asian contemporary art practice, how it offers models for the ways in which we understand the past and the work that history can do in the world. Panellists Dương Mạnh Hùng, Goh Sze Ying, Issa Yi Xian Sng, Mark Philip Bradley and Seng Yu Jin discussed works by Dinh Q. Lê, Yee I-Lann and Ho Tzu Nyen, whose practices draw upon historical photographs, cultural artefacts, collage, video and performance to consider the roles of history and memory in the making of social experiences in colonial and postcolonial Southeast Asia.
This discussion was moderated by Patrick Flores, Deputy Director of Curatorial & Research at National Gallery Singapore.
This panel discussion took place at National Gallery Singapore on 25 February 2023 as part of “Art as Historical Method,” a collaborative project between the National Gallery Singapore and The American Historical Review.
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About the Panellists
Dương Mạnh Hùng is an independent translator, writer and curator. Their practice weaves together textual intricacy with visual subtlety to deliver responses and raise questions about art and society. Hùng's deep-seated fascination with the dynamics of translation in art is informed by their close observations of global and Southeast Asian socio-political and ecological histories. They are perpetually intrigued by moments of sublimation and serendipitous interstices within and between different artforms.
Goh Sze Ying is a Curator at National Gallery Singapore. She has worked on various exhibitions, including Something New Must Turn Up: Six Singaporean Artists After 1965 (2021), Singapore Biennale 2019: Every Step in the Right Direction (2019), Minimalism: Space. Light. Object. (2018), Lim Cheng Hoe: Painting Singapore (2018), and Listening to Architecture: The Gallery’s Histories and Transformation (2017).
Issa Yi Xian Sng is a Researcher at the National Heritage Board Singapore. Beyond her work in heritage preservation, she pursues research, writing, and creative projects such as the independent online publication of “Bagyi Aung Soe (1923–1990): Juggling Paradoxes in the Here & the Now,” the curatorial essay for the 2021 exhibition Bagyi Aung Soe (1923–1990) at Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Mark Philip Bradley is the Bernadotte E. Schmidt Distinguished Service Professor of History at the University of Chicago and Editor of the American Historical Review. He is the author of The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (2016), Vietnam at War (2009) and Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam (2000), which won the Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies. His current project, a cultural and intellectual history of the Global South, is supported by a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
Seng Yu Jin is Senior Curator at National Gallery Singapore. He was previously a Lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts in the MA Asian Art Histories and BA Fine Arts programmes. He currently lectures in the Minor in Art History at the National University of Singapore. His research interests cover regional art histories, with a focus on exhibition histories and collectivism in Southeast Asia.
Patrick Flores is Deputy Director of Curatorial & Research at National Gallery Singapore. Up till 2022, he was Professor of Art History and Criticism at the Department of Art Studies, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, which he chaired from 1997 to 2003. He was also concurrently the curator of the Jorge B. Vargas Museum. In 2015, he curated the Philippine Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. In 2022, he was the Convenor of Forums for the Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
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Disclaimer
This video has been edited for clarity and concision. The opinions expressed in this video may not represent the views of National Gallery Singapore or the American Historical Review. Every effort has been made to obtain permission for the material in this video. Copyright within this video belongs to its respective owners and shall not be reproduced without permission.
#NationalGallerySingapore #LetArtSurpriseYou #ArtasHistoricalMethod
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