Fri–Sun, 27–28 Jul, 2–4 Aug
Various timings and locations
A Weekend with The Everyday Museum is a series of programmes surrounding our ongoing public art commissions. Expect to encounter everyday sights, sounds and uses of various sites with fresh eyes.
Themed “Embodied Voices”, this edition of A Weekend with The Everyday Museum aims to amplify diverse perspectives on navigating social, built and natural environments. Engage in dynamic conversations and explore different narratives through talks, workshops, and performances. Delve into the multifaceted relationship between humans and nature, art and habitat, and discover their underlying spiritual and material connections.
Be part of an experience where varied voices come together to reimagine being in the world.
Please see full details of each programme below!
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Programmes
Ways of Seeing: A pinhole photography workshop
by Kee Ya Ting and Isabelle Desjeux
Sat–Sun, 27–28 Jul and 4 Aug | Various timings
SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Level 3, Corporate Office, Main Deck
$22 per ticket | Ages 14 and up
Get acquainted with one of the simplest ways to document your environment: a pinhole camera. Make one of your own using an aluminium can, a light-sealed box and photo paper! Rediscover the world around you with the negatives that you capture: observe how light and shadows interact, how perspectives can be widened and time made to stand still.
In this workshop, this no-lens image-making technique is demystified. Participants will make their own pinhole camera from materials found at home, learn how to expose a shot and experience developing their images in a makeshift darkroom.
Sekali Theia: An audio experience by bani haykal and ila
Sat, 27 Jul and 3 Aug | 7–8pm
Meet at Tanglin Halt Market
$10 (refundable, T&Cs apply)
Sekali Theia is a sprawling audio experience that responds to Sookoon Ang’s public art commission, Moonlight. Taking inspiration from the emptied flats of Tanglin Halt and the ghost tracks that run down the Rail Corridor, Sekali Theia explores how different layers of time and space can occur simultaneously and transform the bodies that pass through them.
The audio experience begins with a self-guided walk and ends with a live performance. It is an invitation to listen deeply and be attuned to the fragments of a place, each one displaced or emplaced over time and preceded by the hypothesised collision of Planet Theia into proto-Earth. This single cosmic event, which birthed the moon, seasons and tides, has rippling echoes that continue to unfurl in all matter—environments, flora and fauna—through endless cycles of creation and destruction.
ila and bani haykal will be performing solo live sets on 27 July and 3 August respectively.
Under the Banyan: A storyteller responds
by Kamini Ramachandran with Syafiq Halid and Joseph Nair
Sun, 28 Jul and 4 Aug | 11am–12pm
SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Level 3, Corporate Office, Main Deck
Free with registration
In Malay folklore, the banyan tree is a gateway into other realms and an important source of Indigenous knowledge in contemporary urban life. Inspired by Shooshie Sulaiman’s Kancil Mengadap Beringin and informed by a visit to the Southern Islands where the artwork is sited, oral tradition practitioner Kamini Ramachandran presents a lecture-performance that weaves her personal stories with extracts from the artist’s storybook, which accompanies the artwork. Joined by sound artist Syafiq Halid, with contributions by photographer Joseph Nair, Under the Banyan is an intimate, multi-sensorial experience that uncovers our metaphorical and spiritual connections to the banyan tree as a mediator of worlds, mother of the forest and the tree of life.
This programme is free with registration. Limited seats are available.
Wild Neighbours: Film screening and conversation with Divaagar, Jun Chong and Melody Wu
Fri, 2 Aug | 7–8.30pm
SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Level 3, Corporate Office, Main Deck
Free with registration
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Since April 2023, Divaagar’s Everfowl Estate has been on view at Block 1 Everton Park as part of The Everyday Museum’s public art commissioning series, Port/raits of Tanjong Pagar. This artwork playfully proposes a civilised living environment for the junglefowl that roam around the neighbourhood and suggests the possibility of harmonious living with our nonhuman counterparts. Everfowl Estate examines how city inhabitants engage with public spaces and highlights the urban ecosystems that exist amidst and are affected by constant urban development. Joined by filmmaker Jun Chong, the director of《新民》New Resident, and avian specialist and researcher Melody Wu, this programme invites contemplation on the nuanced dynamics between humans and nature as well as art, science and habitat.
The evening includes a screening of《新民》New Resident, a narrative short film by Chong that spotlights the unlikely relationship between a resident and the wild chickens found at her estate in Sin Ming.