ExxonMobil Campus Concerts | |
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Miniatures 2012 Free Admission. Tickets available at the door (on a first-come-first-served basis) 1 hour before showtime. The audience capacity for UCC Theatre is 400. |
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Raising the curtain for the 2nd half of the season, Miniatures 2012 offers an eclectic evening of chamber music. From the measured rhythms of the Baroque era to the teasing syncopations of contemporary composers performed in a mix of instrument combinations, the smaller chamber groups of the orchestra will bring freshness to the familiar.
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Friday the 13th Free Admission. “You are about to enter another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination.” – Introduction to The Twilight Zone, Season 1
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Welcome to the dark obscure edges of music in Friday the 13th as EML explore other dimensions through not-so-secret experiments with electronic music which will reach into hitherto secret recesses of your consciousness. Taking a stab at creating new sounds, NUS EML’s showcase of new works will whet your appetite for The Hive, their presentation at this year’s NUS Arts Festival in March. | |
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Norwegian Tales of Adventures Free Admission. Tickets available at the door (on a first-come-first-served basis) 1 hour before showtime. The audience capacity for UCC Theatre is 400. |
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Presenting a night of award-winning animated films from Norway. Traditional tales typically recounted to children in Norwegian homes are transposed into a modern context. Using a range of animation techniques, from stop motion animation, claymation to traditional animation, the quirky line up of endearing monsters and grumpy characters will light up the screens with laughter and leave you wanting for more. In partnership with
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The Story of Man.....Through A String Instrument Collection
Please sign up for the sessions here. Seats available on first-come-first serve basis. Free admission with registration for NUS students, faculty and staff. $10 for members of public. For enquiries, email CFASpeakers@nus.edu.sg. |
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'In silvis viva silui; canora jam mortua cano'. - Dictionary of Phrases and Fables, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 Every piece of violin or cello in our collection has a unique history and a story to tell. In this session, in this session, Dr Goh shares some interesting facts of some pieces in his private collection. Some of the instruments to be discussed include a 1711 Antonio Stradivari violin, a 1730 David Tecchler cello, a 1759 Paolo Antonio Testore violin. Brendan Goh, son of Dr Goh will perform the Bach Cello Suites with the collection during the talk. About Dr Goh
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Exhibitions at NUS Museum | |
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Family Intimacies Till 8 April 2012
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Family Intimacies by photographers Anderson & Low is a visual documentation of Edwin Low’s global family. While the project serves as a tribute to the Low “Lau” family, it brings into light the different themes of memory, place, and identity.
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Calendars 2020-2096 Till 12 Feb 2012
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Calendars (2020-2096) comprises of 1,001 images of deserted public interiors in Singapore photographed over a span of 7 years (2004-2010). It signals specific concerns of Heman Chong's practice, one that can be located in the intersection between time, space and situation. The 'archive' of images, set within the premise of how one marks time, generates an imaginary meandering within the interiors of Singapore, a city that is constantly being remade, often appropriating signs and styles from a wide spectrum of influences. Based on a series of revisitations to the public spaces that Chong has a prior relationship to - shopping centers, museums, MRT stations, schools - the artist carefully frames the spaces without attempting to add any new meaning to the space. No permission was requested for any of the photographs captured, nor any prior arrangement was made to have it devoid of people. Thus, the photographs veer less towards the staged, but rather can be seen as ready-mades. Yet this appropriation very quickly transmutes into another creature: one of fiction and narrative. The project can be viewed in its entirety as a novel about interior spaces, as well as, a historical (also a kind of imaginary fiction) document of interior spaces. | |
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Writing Power: Zulkifli Yusoff Till 19 Feb 2012
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Regarded as a pioneer of installation art in Malaysia, Zulkifli Yusoff’s Writing Power looks at how historical texts affect cultural memory and understandings of nationhood. Exploring how history can be made relevant to contemporary times, Zulkifili’s artistic renditions draw upon the fascinating and complex relationship between the visual and the written - leading his audiences to ponder, if it matters not-knowing what art means, who made it, when, what’s it called, or how to approach it? [Image: Zulkifili Yusoff, Pelayaran Munsyi Abdullah (detail), 2003, Mixed Media. Aliya and Farouk Khan Collection] | |
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Camping and Tramping Through the Colonial Archive: Till 2 Dec 2012
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The term Camping and Tramping is inspired by a lesser known 19th century document compiled by a British officer describing the field work and travails of his time with the colonial office in Malaya. Documents such as these, along with colonial institutions, sought to fill a void in terms of Orientalist knowledge available for a colonist or itinerant audience interested in the region. Aggregating such texts which make up the colonial archive, this exhibition traces the rise of the Museum in British Malaya not just as an indicator of power over what was gazed upon as the exotic but by acknowledging that the very advent of the Museum resulted in a staging ground for a project of accumulation and the ordering of knowledge. Mobilizing artefacts from the Raffles Museum and Library (established 1874) and the University Art Museum, Malaya (established 1955), the exhibition offers the question of the Museum in Malaya as evolving propositions expressed through shifting concepts of colonial knowledge, its responses to emerging contingencies of colonial politics and eventual decolonisation, and changing regard for its publics and their aspirations. Collecting, documenting, ordering, preserving and displaying - functions declared and sustained - are tasks made complex by such contexts. Birth, transformation and end of institutions render collections and documents as dynamic sets of archives that are mobile and regenerative, opened to newer meanings and claims. The exhibition is divided into the following sections: • The Museum as Idea As reminders of how individuals in the region have laid claim to the colonial archive, the gallery also sites the practices of two post-colonial figures, Mohammad Din Mohammad and Dr. Ivan Polunin. Mohammad Din was a Singapore artist, traditional healer and collector who held that his works contained talismanic potentials. Arriving in Malaya from England in 1948, Dr. Polunin taught Social Medicine at the then University of Malaya. In an adventurous career that began with the filmic documentation of tropical diseases, Dr. Polunin’s ethnographies grew to encompass hundreds of hours of film footage on Malaya’s eclectic sociocultural practices and its rich biodiversity. Writings and artefacts have been mobilized from the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research (NUS), NUS Museum, Asian Civilizations Museum, National Museum of Singapore, National Library Board Singapore, Singapore Press Holdings, Singapore National Archives, and the Ivan Polunin and Mohammad Din Mohammad collections. [Image credit: Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research Collection. Photo by Nurul Huda] | |
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The Sufi and the Bearded Man: Till April 2012
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This exhibition re-members the keramat of a 19th century Sufi traveler from the Middle East who lives on in contemporary Singapore through her miracles and her shrine which was recently removed. Re-membering the keramat has involved a two-year long project of collaborating with Ali, an intermediary of the Sufi and custodian of the masoleum referred to by fellow devotees as "the bearded man". These conversations culminated in the keramat and its life-worlds entering a museum, a transition animated by the display of photographic evidence, material remains or artifacts, anecdotal histories and related documents. Considering alternative ways to recount and understand heritage, The Sufi and the Bearded Man, calls attention to devotional culture, lesser-heard narratives and esotericism in Singapore. [Image credit: Nurul Huda, Singapore 2010] | |
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Sculpting Life: The Ng Eng Teng Collection Ongoing
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Ng Eng Teng (1934 – 2001) was a painter and potter by training but is most recognised for his sculptural pieces featuring humanist themes. A beneficiary of the artist's generous donations, NUS Museum has over 1,000 of Ng's works including sketches, paintings, maquettes, sculptures, figurines and pottery. An archival display-cum-exhibition, the presentation is divided into three sections – The Formative Years, Body/Form/Perspectives, Materials/Processes/Public Works – exploring a range of biographical, stylistic and thematic interests. The presentation surveys the breadth and depth of Ng’s oeuvre and encourages further research and dialogue on the artist, his productions and facets of the era in which he lived and worked. [Image: Ng Eng Teng, Acrobat, 1988, Ciment fondu, paint] Click here for the exhibition brochure in PDF format. | |
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Ways of Seeing Chinese Art Ongoing
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Ways of Seeing Chinese Art features over 200 objects including ceramics, jades and bronzes from the Lee Kong Chian Collection. The exhibition presents a comprehensive history of Chinese ceramic art with more than 100 ceramic pieces dating from prehistory to the early 20th century, representing wares produced by major kilns in China. [Image: Polychrome Jar with Floral Motif, Late Ming (17th C), Jingdezhen Ware, Jiangxi] Click here for the exhibition brochure in PDF format. | |
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NUS Baba House Ongoing Visits are by appointment only.
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Baba House is a heritage house which facilitates research and learning about the Peranakan community and its evolution. It exhibits the community’s material culture in a domestic context, providing the unique experience of visiting a Straits Chinese family home dating back to the early 20th century. The Baba House aims to promote a wider appreciation of the Peranakan identity, history and culture, as well as architectural traditions and conservation efforts in Singapore. The Gallery on the third floor hosts temporary exhibitions featuring various Peranakan themes. | |
