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Cu(rate) : examining the power of curatorship and viewership processes involved in exhibitions in Singapore museums
Author
Pereira, Karen Louise
Supervisor
Presser, Lutz
Abstract
This paper calls to question the role curators play in contemporary museums in Singapore play in the setting up of exhibitions. The decisions they make in presenting art objects within gallery walls will consciously and unconsciously affect how the general public views them. This in turn affects how visitors perceive the museum to be i.e a public educational institution in which its authority is seldom, if at all, questioned.
This paper will challenge the theory that Singapore museums and their exhibitions are intended for a general audience to enjoy or appreciate. I will also point out the fallibility of curatorial decisions in the presentation of paintings and other pieces of art, in artist representation, use of text etc in five contemporary exhibitions held within 1999 to 2000.
Curatorial interventions have been present since the times of the Wunderkammer or cabinet of curiosities, where viewership was exclusively the right of the educated upper-classes. This paper will point out that the same still occurs today.
This paper will challenge the theory that Singapore museums and their exhibitions are intended for a general audience to enjoy or appreciate. I will also point out the fallibility of curatorial decisions in the presentation of paintings and other pieces of art, in artist representation, use of text etc in five contemporary exhibitions held within 1999 to 2000.
Curatorial interventions have been present since the times of the Wunderkammer or cabinet of curiosities, where viewership was exclusively the right of the educated upper-classes. This paper will point out that the same still occurs today.
Date Issued
2001
Call Number
AM101.S55 Per
Date Submitted
2001