Exhibition Histories Museums To Biennales

AY2024/2025 Semester 1

This upper-level seminar is intended as an introduction to the histories and concepts of the multi-faceted practice of displaying art. It encompasses a range of material from Euro-American museological traditions, to the current blockbuster biennial format, to the expansion of exhibiting beyond the parameters of the white cube. This course also taps on the wide breadth of visual resources available in Singapore today. Theoretical ideas, texts and class discussions will be supplemented by off-campus trips to various exhibitions in both public institutions and independent spaces, orienting what is otherwise a Western-centric discourse towards the reality of localized articulations, and the socio-cultural nuances of twenty-first century Singapore. Classes are structured as upper-level seminars, with lecture components; students are expected to be familiar with the rudiments of Western art history.