Singapore Art Museum: After Utopia
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Singapore Art Museum (SAM) is a contemporary art museum which focuses on art-making and art thinking in Singapore, Southeast Asia and Asia, encompassing a worldwide perspective on contemporary art practice. SAM advocates and makes accessible interdisciplinary contemporary art through research-led and evolving curatorial practice. Since it opened in January 1996, SAM has built up one of the most important collections of contemporary art from the region. It seeks to seed and nourish a stimulating and creative space in Singapore through exhibitions and public programmes, and to deepen every visitor’s experience. These include outreach and education, research and publications, as well as cross-disciplinary residencies and exchanges.
SAM occupies two buildings: the old St Joseph’s Institution on Bras Basah Road, built in 1855 and now a National Monument; and SAM at 8Q, a conservation building across the road on Queen Street that was the old Catholic High.
In 2011, SAM was the venue organiser of the Singapore Biennale, becoming the main organiser in 2013. SAM was incorporated as a Company Limited by Guarantee on 13 November 2013, operating under the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth. It is no longer part of the National Heritage Board.
After Utopia: Revisiting the Ideal in Asian Contemporary Art
In naming his fictional island ‘Utopia’, writer Thomas More conjoined the Greek words for ‘good place’ and ‘no place’ – a reminder that the idealised society he conjured was fundamentally phantasmal. And yet, the search and yearning for Utopia is a ceaseless humanist endeavor. Predicated on possibility and hope, utopian principles and models of worlds better than our own have been perpetually re-imagined, and through the centuries, continue to haunt our consciousness.
Drawing largely from SAM’s permanent collection, as well as artists’ collections and new commissions, After Utopia seeks to ask where have we located our Utopias, and how we have tried to bring into being the utopias we have aspired to. By turns, these manifestations serve as mirrors to both our innermost yearnings as well as to our contemporary realities – that gnawing sense that this world is not enough.
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ADMISSION
Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents - Free
Adults - S$10
Foreign Students and Senior Citizens 60 years and above - S$5
CONCESSION
- Groups of 20 persons or more enjoy 20% off adult admission fee
Visitors can also enjoy free admission to SAM every Friday from 6pm to 9pm and on Open House days.
TICKETING
Tickets are available at SAM or via SISTIC. For enquiries, please call +65 6589 9580 / +65 6589 9550. Or, log on towww.singaporemuseum.sg for more information.
MUSEUM TOURS AT SAM
Guided tours conducted in English, Mandarin and Japanese are available. Log on tohttp://www.singaporeartmuseum.sg/visitus/tour.html for more details.
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