Japanese Language Tour at the NUS Baba House​

Date: Saturday, 17 September
Time: 10am - 11am
Venue: NUS Baba House
Free with registration
Registration link: https://nus_jss_sept.eventbrite.sg

This programme is open only to NUS students and staff. Please sign up with your NUS email for us to verify your status.

華やかなNUSババ・ハウスをご紹介する１時間のガイドツアーに参加されませんか？

1920年代の裕福なプラナカン・チャイニーズのお宅をご案内します。

この家の所有者であったウィーさんご家族、また寄贈をして下さった方々から受け継がれた家宝の品々をご覧いただけます。NUSババ・ハウスの収蔵品は、当時の生活様式を再現して展示されています。一例として、赤と金色の婚礼ベッド一式が完全な状態で残されています。

建物の三階は、プラナカン文化と現代のつながり、NUSババ・ハウスの建物の歴史や建築について理解を深めるための展示会や企画展などを行うためのギャラリーに改築されました。学術研究者やアーティスト達が招かれ、地域社会や近隣において、異なった視点からの研究や作品の発表の場にもなっています。

1回あたりのガイドツアーのご参加者は、現在13名までとさせて頂いております。

Arounf the Tok Panjang: A Guided Tour on Women and the Baba House

Date: Wednesday, 21 September
Timeslots: 10am - 12pm &  2pm - 4pm
Venue: NUS Baba House
Free with registration
Registration link: https://bhtokpanjang_sept22.eventbrite.sg
 

This programme is open only to NUS students and staff. Please sign up with your NUS email for us to verify your status.

Around the Tok Panjang is a series of programmes organised by the NUS Baba House in collaboration with GEN, which will run from August to December 2022. The Tok Panjang (long table in Baba Malay) is an important feature in the Straits Chinese home. It has become a symbol of celebrations and more importantly, conversations in the Straits Chinese household. Join us for a two-hour programme as we seek to open up conversations surrounding gendered norms and practices in the Straits Chinese culture. The programme consists of a guided tour on Women and the Baba house, followed by a participatory discussion facilitated by NUS students designed around the tour content, using GEN's Generally Speaking Cards.

Film Club: Wayfinding in immiscible times

Date: Saturday, 24 September
Time: 4.30pm - 6.30pm
Venue: NUS Museum
Speakers: Zarina Muhammad & Siddharta Perez
Moderator: Mary Ann Lim
Registration link: https://wtc-nusm-4.eventbrite.sg

As a final note to the film programme Worlding Through Cinema, this Film Club explores a reframing of our perspectives on worlding by looking to nonhuman ways of life and diverse co-habitation. With Island of the Hungry Ghosts and another short film screened within the Film Club as starting points, the discussion takes root in ethnography informed by multiple unfolding temporal realities and being attendant to spaces where humans and non-humans move. Through cinema and artistic practice, the conversation intimates immiscible time, strives to tell the difference between myth and knowledge systems while considering cultural translation and the axis of living between inland and island, thereby negotiating our multidimensional relations to find a shared point of encounter.
 

The NUS Museum Film Club encourages active participation from audiences, and the programme is crafted to allow generative dialogue between speakers and participants. As such, to make full use of the Film Club, please note that an experience with the film Island of the Hungry Ghosts is highly encouraged, and participants will also be sent some prompts and readings to consider before attending the session.

Conversation: My Body is My Home

Date: Friday, 23 September
Time: 7.30pm - 9pm
Venue: NUS Museum​
Speakers: ila, Dr Kamalini Ramdas​ (Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and Social Science, NUS)
Moderator: Nurul Kaiyisah
Registration link: https://wtc-nusm-3.eventbrite.sg
 

Taking its cue from dancer Rianto’s articulation that “my body is my home”, this conversation explores the body as a space of becoming. Weaving through examples of performance art and embodied work as acts to reframe the body, the conversation will locate the body between memory and history, gendered identity and representations, as well as its current subjectivities and external incursions. In so doing, further potentialities of what the body can be are unpacked, settling into the final inquiry: who do bodies belong to, and who should they belong to?

This conversation triangulates between the screening ‘Memories of My Body” by Garin Nugroho on 14 September, as well as the NUS Museum prep-room Yang tidak lupa. Prior experience of both the film and the prep-room are not necessary to attend this event, but is encouraged.

Lost World (2018) | Dir. Kalyanee Mam​

As Singapore dredges sand out from beneath Cambodia's mangrove forests, an ecosystem, a communal way of life, and one woman's relationship to her beloved home are faced with the threat of erasure.​
 

Notes From the Periphery (2021) | PG | Dir. Tulapop Saenjaroen​

Shot in the peripheral areas of Laem Chabang port this film interrogates the notion of territoriality, globalised networks, and ownership through fragmented relations of the affected sites and communities nearby, shipping containers that become a policing tool, and barnacles.​
 

Lemongrass Girl (2021) | PG | Dir. Pom Bunsermvicha​

An ancient, yet still-common Thai superstition is the basis for this subtle reflection on power relations and sexism. Fiction and making-of are joined virtually seamlessly: Thai filmset as an allegory for society.​