One Day We’ll Understand Performative Reading by Sim Chi Yin (Singapore), Artist-in-Residence]]> History]]> Postcolonialism]]>
[content warning] The programme includes images that may be disturbing to some viewers. Viewer discretion is advised.

This event is part of Residencies OPEN, 22 & 23 January 2021.]]>
Sim Chi Yin]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Artistic Research]]>
Featuring Artists-in-Residence:

Kin Chui (Singapore), ila (Singapore), Sim Chi Yin (Singapore/United Kingdom), Marvin Tang (Singapore), Boedi Widjaja (Indonesia/Singapore), and Green Zeng (Singapore).

Also joining Residencies OPEN is Beatrice Glow (United States) thanks to a new partnership between the Centre and the Yale-NUS College Artist-in-Residence Programme. For more info, refer to https://artsandhumanities.yale-nus.edu.sg/artists-in-residence/about/.]]>
Kin Chui]]> Sim Chi Yin]]> Marvin Tang]]> Boedi Widjaja]]> Green Zeng]]> Beatrice Glow]]> ila]]> Southeast Asia]]>
History]]> Migration]]> The period between 1948 and 1960 witnessed the forced exodus of over 35,000 Malayan leftists to Southern China, including the artist’s own grandfather. Expanding on her long-term research project which excavates overlooked and contested histories of the Malayan anti-colonial war and her own family histories, Sim Chi Yin intends to trace the trajectories of the Malayan deportees, excavating both their individual experiences and the institutional circumstances which lead to their disappearance from collective memory. With the ports of Singapore being both sites of transit and origins of deportation, during the residency Sim will further her investigation through archival research and oral history interviews working towards the development of a new work. Often evoking a sense of spatial haunting, her aesthetic approach consistently slips away from the documentary into the realm of the affective, the imaginary, and the spectral.]]> ]]> Sim Chi Yin]]> Asia]]> Europe]]> History]]> Migration]]> Sim Chi Yin]]> Asia]]> Europe]]>