Delighted to be presenting the opening keynote for LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore) moderated by the inimitable Venka Purushothaman (Provost, LASALLE), an award-winning art writer and academic with a distinguished career in the arts and creative industries in Singapore.
‘Practising art that imagines new collectives poses a peculiar challenge in a time when constitutional certainties are pulverised. How do we imagine art as a collectivising force when dissent faces threats around the world? How do we resist new collectivising forces in a world of dizzying biennales, shape-shifting art fairs, migrating museum heads, defunct culture ministries, and private capital? Are values of bonding, locality, and commitment still valid? Through my recent works, I will discuss the idea of imagining ‘relational-collectives’, those that get formed through acts of invitation, volunteering, casting, signing contracts, ones that alter social temporalities, ones that insist on creating alternate relations.’
