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Date: 24 February 2021
Time: 7PM - 8.30PM
Registration link: https://sstnusm.eventbrite.sg
What do curators do? Why are 4000-year-old objects important? How do museums collect their artefacts? There’s an art museum on campus?! If you're a NUS student or staff curious about art and our campus museum, come join us for a reprise of our semesterly Student Tours at the NUS Museum on 24 February 2022, 7-8.30PM for a guided tour with our curators and interns as they answer your questions and bring you through the rich collections of the NUS Museum spanning over 10,000 works. Listen to intimations about the landscape as told through the eyes and contemporary worksof four Architecture graduate students, explore the convergences between the deep histories of ancient Chinese ceramics and mental wellness that our interns have found, and traverse through the many readings - feminist, speculative, aspirational - of our vast South and Southeast Asian collection.
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This tour is for NUS students and staff only. Please be reminded to sign up with your NUS email so that we can verify with your identity. Non-NUS students and individuals who do not sign up with a NUS email will be placed on a temporary waitlist, and your attendance will be confirmed closer to the tour date.
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Advisory
- Please note that tour slots are limited due to COVID-19 restrictions. As such, we would like to request that you confirm your availability before signing up for the tour. If you are unable to be present for the tour after you have registered, please be considerate and let us know in advance, so that we can open your slot up for other guests who may be interested.
- All entrants to the Museum are required to fulfil one of these: full vaccination status*, recovered from COVID-19,medically ineligible, or children aged 12 years and below. There is no longer a concession for unvaccinated individuals to perform PET to enter the Museum. We reserve the right to turn away any individuals who are unable to produce any one of these requirements on their TraceTogether app (and uNivUS app for NUS students or staff).
*Booster shot must be taken within 270 days of last primary vaccination series. For more information please refer to: https://www.moh.gov.sg/covid-19/vaccination/faqs---post-vaccination-matters
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Date: 22 February 2022
Time: 1PM - 4.30PM
Registration link: https://sstbh.eventbrite.sg
Come take a breather with us during recess week by joining us on special tours of a 20th century Straits Chinese Heritage House - the NUS Baba House! Choose from two kinds of tours offered on 22 February:
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A Heritage Home - What's in a Name?
Time slots: 1PM, 2PM, 3.30PM, 4.30PM (each tour is 1 hour in total)
What is a heritage home and why is that different from a Museum? And why does NUS own a Straits Chinese home with furnishings styled to the early 20th century? Walk through the gilded halls of the Baba House and view first-hand the intricacies of the many artefacts that adorn the NUS Baba House as our team explains the rich significance that NUS Baba House holds in our research on Straits Chinese culture, hybridity, history, and more.
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A Living House - Conservation and Restoration
Time slots: 1PM, 2PM, 3.30PM, 4.30PM (each tour is 1 hour in total)
The NUS Baba House is one of the last remaining intact Peranakan homes in Singapore that retains many of its original and unique architectural features. Conservation and restoration work is an ongoing process, while study and research on the many features and craftsmanship is continuous. From limewash experiments and figuring out the right pigment of blue for the house, to bats dwelling on the rooftops and incomplete images, come view the NUS Baba House through new lenses as we tackle the efforts required to sustain this living, breathing house.
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The tours are for NUS students and staff only. Please be reminded to sign up with your NUS email so that we can verify with your identity. Non-NUS students and individuals who do not sign up with a NUS email will be placed on a temporary waitlist, and your attendance will be confirmed closer to the tour date.
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Advisory
-Please note that tour slots are limited to 5 pax each due to COVID-19 restrictions. As such, we would like to request that you confirm your availability before signing up for the tour. If you are unable to be present for the tour after you have registered, please be considerate and let us know in advance, so that we can open your slot up for other guest swho may be interested.
- All entrants to the Baba House are required to fulfil one of these: full vaccination status*, recovered from COVID-19, medically ineligible, or children aged 12 years and below. There is no longer a concession for unvaccinated individuals to perform PET to enter the Museum. We reserve the right to turn away any individuals who are unable to produce any one of these requirements on their TraceTogether app (and uNivUS app for NUS students or staff).
*Booster shot must be taken within 270 days of last primary vaccination series. For more information please refer to: https://www.moh.gov.sg/covid-19/vaccination/faqs---post-vaccination-matters
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[prep-room] Intimate Landscapes
Top Level, NUS Museum
Intimate Landscapes is a curated discussion on methods: how does one survey, document, map, draw, represent, write, collect, picture, archive, or narrate a landscape? Taking the format of the prep-room, the exhibition is a studio-in-process that will develop and evolve over the span of a year, where three M.Arch graduates from NUS’ Department of Architecture (Lin Derong, 2018; Ian Mun, 2020; Goi Yong Chern, 2021) revisit their thesis archives, while a fourth who is presently undertaking a doctoral study at the Department (Wong Zi Hao, PhD candidate 2019—2023) assembles a new drawing archive.
Images by Ian Mun
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Archival Site
Titled Field Notes – Intimate Landscapes, the archival site is a repository for all materials gathered by the curators, Siddharta Perez and Nurul Kaiyisah (Kai), inspired from conversations with the artists themselves. These resources are from both the artistic explorations of the 4 artists and also, arising from the tangents explored by the curators themselves.
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Spotlight Article:
Beyond the Field: Notes from a curatorial trainee for prep-room Intimate Landscapes
Our Young Museum Professional, Nurul Kaiyisah shares with us her experience and reflections of her process as curatorial trainee for prep-room Intimate Landscapes in this Spotlight article.
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