Conversation: The Making of the Singapore Pavilion 2022

Artist Shubigi Rao, curator Ute Meta Bauer, exhibition designer Laura Miotto and Vice-President of ArtScience Museum and Attractions, Honor Harger, will discuss the making of the Singapore Pavilion at the Biennale Arte 2022 and the exhibition in Singapore.

Free. Limited capacity.

Pulp III: A Short Biography of the Banished Book

6–24 January 2023 | ArtScience Museum, Singapore

Commissioned by the National Arts Council, Singapore, for the Singapore Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Pulp III: A Short Biography of the Banished Book by artist Shubigi Rao and curated by Ute Meta Bauer, will be presented at the ArtScience Museum. Pulp III marks the midpoint of Rao’s ongoing decade-long project Pulp, which explores the history of book destruction and its impact on the futures of knowledge. The exhibition features her film, Talking Leaves, through daily screenings at ArtScience Cinema, and presents her book, Pulp III: An Intimate Inventory of the Banished Book, Volume III of V (Pulp Vol. III), as well as Being a Brief Guide of the Banished Book, a drawing of a phylogenetic tree.

Filmed over five years in various locations including Venice and Singapore, Talking Leaves highlights the tales of those at the forefront of the effort to save books and libraries through personal confidences and elegiac reflections, as well as incendiary documentary and mytho-poetic languages.

Housed in an abstract studiolo, copies of Rao’s book, Pulp Vol. III, are arranged in a way that speaks of the monumentality of its format as a container of knowledge and progenitor of change. This installation of books will change in form as they are dispersed into the world over the course of the exhibition. For Rao, each book is a messenger, a time-traveller, the embodiment of our need to communicate, and a rallying call to action.

The Singapore Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (Biennale Arte 2022) is commissioned by the National Arts Council, Singapore. Part of Singapore Art Week 2023.

Daily 6-24 January 2023 | Screenings: Talking Leaves

11.00am, 1.00pm, 3.00pm* (except on 10 and 13 January), 5.00pm (except on 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 17 January)

ArtScience Museum, L4, 6 Bayfront Ave, Singapore 018974

Exhibition Hours: Daily 10am - 7pm, open on Public Holidays

For more information, please visit pulp-iii.com.