Image courtesy of Fulford PR and the Singapore Art Museum: ‘Two Planets – Manet’s luncheon on the grass’ by Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
The Singapore Art Museum (SAM) and Centre Pompidou are proud to present Video, an Art, a History 1965 – 2010. A Selection from the Centre Pompidou and Singapore Art Museum Collections. The exhibition is part of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) both parties signed last year, building on a wider government-to- government framework agreement between Singapore and France, to enhance the development and showcase of contemporary art.
The international survey exhibition recounts the history and evolution of the video art genre from 1965 to 2010 through 50 key video works and installations drawn from the collections of both museums. A major collaboration between the two institutions, this exhibition builds on the blockbuster new media travelling show developed by Centre Pompidou that has toured various venues in Europe, Australia and Taiwan. In this expanded version, Centre Pompidou will feature 38 works from its New Media Collection. Supplementing the show with a Southeast Asian perspective, the exhibition incorporates key works from the SAM collection to parallel developments from this part of the world. Twelve video works by prominent regional artists will introduce Southeast Asian video art practices to the collective documentation of the history of contemporary video art form and serve as a strong counterpoint to Centre Pompidou’s well-known international collection.
The exhibition, which took close to two years to develop, is a valuable opportunity to showcase the works of Southeast Asian artists such as Lee Wen, Dinh Q Lê and Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, alongside internationally renowned artists like Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, Bruce Nauman, Jean-Luc Godard, Pierre Huyghe and Isaac Julien.
Divided into six main sections, Video, an Art, a History fans out across the museum’s two buildings along a thematic path. Historical works created in the context of television as laboratory, or critical works preface the exhibition in the first section ‘Utopia and Critique of Television’. Housed in SAM, this section features artists such as Nam June Paik and Bill Viola. The next section, ‘Identity Issues’, with works by artists like Tony Oursler and Lee Wen examines investigations on the representation of self and the other, and the documentation of performance through video. In ‘From Videotape to Installation’ at SAM and SAM at 8Q, works by Samuel Beckett and Martial Raysse amongst others, invites the visitor to experiment with the relation between the videotape and installation in space. Next, ‘Landscape Dreams’ sees artists including Toshio Matsumoto, Thierry Kuntzel and The Propeller Group explore landscape as a metaphor, re-transcribed in a spatiotemporal installation.
Over in the nearby SAM at 8Q building, the exhibition continues with the fifth section ‘Memory: Between Myth & Reality’ which features the likes of Chris Marker, Liu Wei, Dinh Q Lêand Trinh T Minh-ha, survey geopolitical questions, history, memory and archive. Finally, with works by Jean-Luc Godard and Tun Win Aung and Wah Nu as a departure point, the last section ‘Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Narratives’ focuses on the deconstruction of the narrative, as well as the attempts at fiction by certain contemporary artists.
Video, an Art, a History 1965 – 2010. A Selection from the Centre Pompidou and Singapore Art Museum Collections is curated by Centre Pompidou’s Ms. Van Assche and co-curated by SAM assistant curator Ms. Patricia Levasseur de la Motte. As part of the museum’s outreach efforts, a curator’s tour led by Ms. de la Motte will be held along with a series of Meet the Artist sessions. A special series of films and talks by British film and installation artist Isaac Julien has also been organised and will include a post-screening discussion with the artist himself. Another series, featuring films notable for their unique takes on the themes of home movies, amateur film, and found footage, will also be shown at the Moving Image Gallery. In addition, engaging tours and craft activities in conjunction with the exhibition will be organised as part of the museum’s Family Sunday.
This exhibition was made possible by presenting sponsor Credit Suisse as part of the Innovation in Art series and is supported by the Embassy of France. It will run from 10 June till 18 September 2011.
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