CENDANA, in partnership with
Visual Art Programme, Cultural Centre, University of Malaya, will be hosting a public symposium featuring cultural practitioners and tutors from the US, Hong Kong and Singapore. The public symposium called A Country for Outliers is a one-day session for all the arts and cultural practitioners to explore imaginative story-telling as approaches for research.
If you are a community-organiser, independent curator, performance-maker, art / cultural historian, archivist, cultural geographer, festival coordinator and organiser, placemaker, writer, editor, blogger, artist, researcher, critic, museum curator, heritage worker, arts programmer, historian or game designer, this is a symposium you should never miss.
Save the date, join us for a day to be inspired and learn together:-
Date: 3 August 2019, Saturday
Time: 11.00am to 4.00pm
Venue: Ilham Gallery
SPEAKERS- Jo Kukathas, Malaysia’s pre-eminent writer, director and actress
- Dr Atreyee Gupta, Assistant Professor of Global Modern Art, South and Southeast Asian Art in the History of Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley
- Sugata Ray, Associate Professor of South and Southeast Asian art in the History of Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley.
- Cosmin Costinas, Executive Director and Curator of Para Site, Hong Kong
- Inti Guerrero, an art critic and curator based in Hong Kong
- Michelle Kuek, Manager of Education and Outreach in NUS Museum
- Kate Pocklington, a conservator at Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum
- Grace Samboh, curator, researcher for Hyphen, an artist collective based in Jakarta.
AGENDA11.00AM - 1.00PM: Session 1: Roundtable - Learning Through Exhibitions and Collections- Michelle Kuek - Connecting curiosities through the university museum
- Inti Guerrero - Ideas about culture in the Philippines
- Cosmin Costinas - Knowledge and politics of textiles
- Grace Samboh - Curating, archiving and Indonesian social memory
1.00PM - 2.00PM: Lunch
2.00PM - 4.00PM: Session 2: Presentations - Epics, Stories, Myths, Histories- Jo Kukathas - Stories for New Malaysia
- Kate Pocklington - Buaya: Making of a Non-Myth
- Atreyee Gupta - Chandigarh: Dwelling in Abstraction
- Sugata Ray - Eco-cultural History of the Indian Ocean
4.00PM: End of programmeAdmission is FREE. To reserve your seat, please register
hereA Country for Outliers is made possible by Visual Art Programme, Cultural Centre, University of Malaya, Ilham Gallery and Malaysia Design Archive.
*Disclaimer: Topics and speakers are subject to change. All information is correct at the time of printing.