Title: A Meditation on the Oblique

Keynote Speaker: Susie Lingham (Interdisciplinary Artist and Curator, Visiting Professor at National Taiwan University of Arts)

May 29 (Friday) 10:00-11:00

Resources Promotion Room, NTUE Library, 4th Floor

Art interrogates the world as perceived, experienced, presented, and represented, as well as relentlessly questions its own means of perceiving, representing and presenting the world as experience. Constantly shapeshifting, change in contemporary art is accelerated, doubted, or re-routed by its own catalytic forces, heuristic and haptic processes, and tacit knowledge. And even as it subverts and coalesces, redistributes, shapes and skews perspectives, art intends attention. The intent shepherds attention, and amplifies and magnifies what might otherwise be overlooked, unobserved, imperceptible, unimagined.

Something astir in the zeitgeist: the art object is replaced with art objectives. Intangibles take form in time and process as experience. What forms do these possible experiences take? Who, or what, takes us by the hand, prompts us to feel round the back of the mere object, behind appearances, to sense peripheries, and intuit what might be the whole as it unfolds implicitly?

About the Keynote Speaker

Susie Lingham is an interdisciplinary thinker, writer, artist, curator and educator. With a focus on the nature of mind, her work synthesizes ideas across different fields, from the humanities to the sciences. Susie was Creative Director of the Singapore Biennale 2016, An Atlas of Mirrors, and from 2013 to 2016, was the Director of the Singapore Art Museum, where she oversaw the development, organization, and curating of 13 exhibitions, including After Utopia: Revisiting the Ideal in Asian Contemporary Art (2015) and 5 Stars: Art Reflects on Peace, Justice, Equality, Democracy and Progress (2015/16). Prior to these appointments, she was Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education/NTU, Singapore (2009-2013).

Susie has a DPhil in Literature, Religion and Philosophy (University of Sussex, U.K.), and has taught at universities and art colleges in Australia, Singapore and the U.K. Conferred the Distinguished Alumni Medal 2014 by the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore, Susie is currently appointed as visiting professor at the National Taiwan University of Arts.

 

 

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