Conference: Encounters with Southeast Asian Modernism - Curating Modernities

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Conference: Encounters with Southeast Asian Modernism - Curating Modernities

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30 Nov 2019, Sat 12:00 PM - 06:00 PM
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

The starting point of the curators, artists, architects and scholars involved was to question culturally established narratives about modernity and to develop alternative perspectives. The curatorial approaches often went beyond current forms of mediating knowledge and stimulated emancipative learning processes. Thus the exhibitions were interwoven with process-based participation projects.

In Phnom Penh, the architecture lab, a two-month public architecture and research studio, was integral part of the exhibition Folding Concrete by Lyno Vuth and Sereypagna Pen. Pwint, co-curator of the SEAM Space Yangon investigates the relationship between Modernism and architecture education in Myanmar. The exhibition Occupying Modernism, curated by Setiadi Sopandi and Avianti Armand, commissioned artists, authors and designers to appropriate the narrations of architectural icons in Jakarta with their personal means. In turn, the audience was invited to occupy the exhibition site itself. The seminar series From, by, and for whom?initiated by Grace Samboh and ruangrupa was based on an archive exhibition about the national narrative represented in dioramas. The podcasts developed in workshops by students of the gudskul resist this official narration and contextualize it with current political and private events.

This leads to the question, if modernist architecture and art, which was highly embedded in national and global political agendas of the last century, can be re-justified by curatorial means? And finally the question of how can we narrate the history of modernity in such a way that it remains fruitful for today and the future.

Folding Concrete: Architecture Lab
Sereypagna Pen, Executive Director, The Vann Molyvann Project

Synthesis of Myanmar Modernity
Pwint, Professor, Department of Architecture, Yangon Technological University

Occupying Modernism
Avianti Armand, architect and curator, Avianti Armand Studio

(Re)Producing fear and joy: From, by and for whom?
Grace Samboh, Co-Founder, Hyphen

Moderated by Christian Hiller, curator and editor, ARCH+ Magazine for Architecture and Urbanism

Date

2019-11-30

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The starting point of the curators, artists, architects and scholars involved was to question culturally established narratives about modernity and to develop alternative perspectives.

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General
Professional

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Onsite (CCA)

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No

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No

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“Conference: Encounters with Southeast Asian Modernism - Curating Modernities,” NTU CCA Singapore Digital Archive, accessed March 29, 2024, https://ntuccasingapore.omeka.net/items/show/2598.