This SG HeritageFest, The Everyday Museum—a public art initiative by Singapore Art Museum—presents an engaging pop-up exhibition across two venues in Tanjong Pagar and Harbourfront. Exploring the cultural pastimes of 1950s and 1960s Singapore, the exhibition offers an alternative look into the lesser-known or often-overlooked social practices and oral traditions, reflecting on art’s longstanding role in examining and shaping everyday life.
Visitors can experience a rich selection of materials from the National Library Board 's visual archives along with literary submissions curated by the editorial team behind creative practice journal PR&TA. On select weekends, look forward to programmes that will explore vernacular histories—including communal practices and visual language—and their traces in the present, as further activations of the pop-up exhibitions. For the full line-up of programmes, please visit this link: https://www.theeverydaymuseum.sg/event/speaking-of-which-shf.
The pop-up exhibitions extend from The Everyday Museum’s Speaking of which, a self-guided audio trail series that invites renewed readings of the places we inhabit through archival records, oral interviews, and commissioned audio works. Visitors will encounter excerpts from the episodes onsite; for the full audio trail experience, please visit the Speaking of which webpage on The Everyday Museum’s website: https://www.theeverydaymuseum.sg/project/speaking-of-which/.
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Speaking of which – A pop-up activation is presented in collaboration with National Library Board, supported by Guoco Tower and HarbourFront Centre, held in conjunction with Singapore Heritage Festival.
Research and Archive
Singapore Art Museum
National Library Board
Exhibition Design and Production
The Merry Men Works
Editorial
Alvin Pang
Hong Xinyi
Melizarani T. Selva
Mohamed Shaker
Theophilus Kwek
Edited by PR&TA (www.pratajournal.com)
Artists
Critical Craft Collective
Wong Lip Chin
Venue Partners
Guoco Tower
HarbourFront Centre
With special thanks to Chong Li-Chuan, Ang Kia Yee, Jessica Heng, Lynette Quek and Bambby Cheuk for their contributions to the original episodes of Speaking of which.
