Exhibition (de)Tour: The Life of Memory by Xiaolu Guo
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About this event
Co-presented with NTU School of Humanities and the Asia Creative Writing Programme.
In Trinh T. Minh-ha’s newest work What About China? (Part I of II), Guo reads from her memoir Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China (2017) as a voice-over. Reflecting on her childhood, her early career in the Beijing art world, and her current life in Europe, aspects of which are chronicled in her films and novels as well as her memoir, this (de)Tour focuses on the relationship between memories and art practice.
BIOGRAPHY
Xiaolu Guo (China/United Kingdom) is a novelist, essayist and filmmaker. She is currently a Visiting Professor at Columbia University in New York. Her most recent novel is A Lover’s Discourse (2020).
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Organiser NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
Organiser of Exhibition (de)Tour: The Life of Memory by Xiaolu Guo
Located in Gillman Barracks, the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore) is a national research centre of Nanyang Technological University and is supported by a grant from the Economic Development Board, Singapore. The Centre is unique in its threefold constellation of exhibitions, residencies, research and academic education, engaging in knowledge production and dissemination.
Since the Centre’s inauguration in October 2013, the NTU CCA Singapore has featured leading artists presenting their work for the first time in Southeast Asia, making it one of the few spaces in Singapore to present contemporary art from around the globe.
