Curators' Talk: Zoe Butt and June Yap
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Curators' Talk: Zoe Butt and June Yap
Description
11 Jul 2014, Fri 7:30pm - 9:00pm
The title of No Country draws from the opening line of a poem by William Butler Yeats, “Sailing to Byzantium” (1928), which was adapted into a contemporary thriller by Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men (2005), and presented in filmic form by the Coen Brothers (2007). No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia appropriates the historical, geographic and intertextual traversal of Irish poem, American novel and film to an exhibition on Asia, and in so doing references the traces and overlaps in the exchanges and adaptations that are characteristic of the histories and cultures of the South and Southeast Asia. While appearing as if a negation of country and nation, No Country rather gestures to an exploration of the problematic nature of the cartography of nation and culture. In this talk, No Country curator June Yap and Zoe Butt from Sàn Art, explore curatorial strategies in negotiating contemporary mappings and representations of Asia today.
This curators' talk is a public programme of No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia.
The title of No Country draws from the opening line of a poem by William Butler Yeats, “Sailing to Byzantium” (1928), which was adapted into a contemporary thriller by Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men (2005), and presented in filmic form by the Coen Brothers (2007). No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia appropriates the historical, geographic and intertextual traversal of Irish poem, American novel and film to an exhibition on Asia, and in so doing references the traces and overlaps in the exchanges and adaptations that are characteristic of the histories and cultures of the South and Southeast Asia. While appearing as if a negation of country and nation, No Country rather gestures to an exploration of the problematic nature of the cartography of nation and culture. In this talk, No Country curator June Yap and Zoe Butt from Sàn Art, explore curatorial strategies in negotiating contemporary mappings and representations of Asia today.
This curators' talk is a public programme of No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia.
Date
2014-07-11
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Short Description
In this talk, No Country curator June Yap and Zoe Butt from Sàn Art, explore curatorial strategies in negotiating contemporary mappings and representations of Asia today.
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General
Location
Onsite (CCA)
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No
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No
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No
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Citation
“Curators' Talk: Zoe Butt and June Yap,” NTU CCA Singapore Digital Archive, accessed April 19, 2024, https://ntuccasingapore.omeka.net/items/show/2097.
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| This Item | Is Part Of | Item: No country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia |
| Item: Zoe Butt | Is Part Of | This Item |
| Item: June Yap | Is Part Of | This Item |