Dear Singapore Art Museum Acquisition Committee
Research project, installation, performance-lecture
Singapore Art Museum residency / Singapore Art Week, 2022
Do social forms of art inherently resist collection by institutions? How are these process-oriented and ephemeral works defined, conserved and valued within the contemporary art institution? In collaboration with Shayus Sharif (Bras Basah Open, Singapore Art Museum artist-in-residence), Salty Xi Jie Ng presents her research, based on interviews with Singapore Art Museum (SAM) directors, curators, and fellow artists. She will present recommended methods for collecting social forms of art, ask how SAM can acquire and re-activate artist ila's work on sexual assault There can be no touching here, as well as propose that SAM acquires artist Zarina Muhammad’s recently formalised work on the spiritual and energetic lives of art spaces, titled 9 Questions as Instructions to Construct Pragmatic Prayers for Peculiar Habitats. The SAM Acquisition Committee is cordially invited to attend.
Performance-lecture
by Singapore Art Museum Acquisition Sub Committee Advisory Task Force Coalition (SAMASCATF)
(Salty Xi Jie Ng and Shayus Sharif)
featuring SAMASCATF's private collection
Full video - link here
Art & Market essay on the performance-lecture - link here
Singapore Art Museum residency / Singapore Art Week, 2022
Do social forms of art inherently resist collection by institutions? How are these process-oriented and ephemeral works defined, conserved and valued within the contemporary art institution? In collaboration with Shayus Sharif (Bras Basah Open, Singapore Art Museum artist-in-residence), Salty Xi Jie Ng presents her research, based on interviews with Singapore Art Museum (SAM) directors, curators, and fellow artists. She will present recommended methods for collecting social forms of art, ask how SAM can acquire and re-activate artist ila's work on sexual assault There can be no touching here, as well as propose that SAM acquires artist Zarina Muhammad’s recently formalised work on the spiritual and energetic lives of art spaces, titled 9 Questions as Instructions to Construct Pragmatic Prayers for Peculiar Habitats. The SAM Acquisition Committee is cordially invited to attend.
Performance-lecture
by Singapore Art Museum Acquisition Sub Committee Advisory Task Force Coalition (SAMASCATF)
(Salty Xi Jie Ng and Shayus Sharif)
featuring SAMASCATF's private collection
Full video - link here
Art & Market essay on the performance-lecture - link here
Further developments: see Sheralynne
Big thanks to Zarina Muhammad, ila, Alecia Neo, Shaiful Risan, anGie seah, Post-Museum, Han Xuemei, Alfian Sa'at, Vithya Subramaniam, Kok Heng Leun, Li Xie. As well as the directors, curators, collection development and Acquisition Committee members from Singapore Art Museum.