"OS2.1_Knowledge Systems features artists and thinkers that navigate, recontextualize, and problematize known historical and traditional epistemologies framing culture, knowledge production, and how we organize ourselves as a society. The chapter investigates various modes of transmission, including language(s) such as poetry, myths and fables and their connection to indigenous and spiritual knowledge systems. The preservation and transmission of knowledge across generations has shaped our cultural identity and the works included explore how narratives can be reimagined and how symbols and meaning can be created and recreated anew."
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"Junklord Hikayat is a work that unpacks the epistemology of fables through a remediation and reformatting of its structures, affects, and legacies, into a contemporaneous context. The work tells the story of art handler Bintang789 who finds himself lost and shifting between space, time, and theory. As he contends with what it means to exist simultaneously in multiple realities, he must sift through folklore, memory, and jargon-laden academic speculation in order to find for himself the place where he needs to be. In the work, lore becomes speculative narratives that perpetually evolve, reckoning with the inherently shifting nature of cultural narratives."
Online exhibition by Singapore Art Museum (SAM) runs from 1 - 31 Jan 2025.
