Odyssey: Navigating Nameless Seas Educators' Tour
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About the event
Odyssey: Navigating Nameless Seas Educators' Tour
Join SAM curator Andrea Fam and educator Shirley Khng as they share more about the ideas and concepts behind the artworks in Odyssey: Navigating Nameless Seas. Each educator will be given a copy of the education resource. This session will help prepare educators who are planning to bring their students for a visit to the exhibition.
Date: 1 July 2016, Friday
Time: 4pm - 530pm
Venue: SAM Lobby
Registration fee: Free*
*Note: Tour will not proceed if total sign-up rate is below minimum number of participants.
This event is exclusive to teachers only. Registration opens till one day before the event.
About the exhibition
Odyssey: Navigating Nameless Seas
Featuring commissioned artworks, artist loans and works from the Singapore Art Museum collection, Odyssey: Navigating Nameless Seas invites visitors into Earth’s watery realms, as seen through the eyes of contemporary artists. Through the centuries, over numerous expeditions, and with ever-increasing sophistication in science and technology, humankind has sailed the seven seas and plunged into the very depths of oceanic trenches. Yet there remains much to be discovered of this alien world.
Odyssey: Navigating Nameless Seas is where artists delve into the unfathomable depths of the ocean’s mysteries, and also think through the tempests that batter our sails on this journey through life. Riddled with twists and turns, where will our explorations take us? While we seem to know more and more about the world around us, to what extent does it give us insights into human nature? To what ends our endless discoveries?
Date: 4 June - 28 August 2016
Venue: SAM Galleries
Organiser Singapore Art Museum
Organiser of Odyssey: Navigating Nameless Seas Educators' Tour
The Singapore Art Museum opened its doors in 1996 as the first fully dedicated visual arts museum in Singapore. Since then, we have built one of the world’s most important collections of contemporary art by artists from Singapore, Southeast Asia and Asia. We are committed to creating meaningful encounters with art for all our visitors, through our exhibitions, research, publications, public and educational outreach.
In 2019, our two museum sites – the former St. Joseph’s Institution on Bras Basah Road and Catholic High School on Queen Street – closed for a building redevelopment. With the aim to create an architectural landmark for contemporary art in Singapore, this major undertaking includes the preservation of the buildings’ heritage architecture, thoughtfully blending the old and the new. When SAM re-opens, visitors can look forward to an iconic museum space where the public can experience and engage with art.
During this period, we will continue to hold exhibitions and events at partner venues and spaces like the Regional Libraries of Tampines, Woodlands and Jurong. Please visit www.singaporeartmuseum.sg or follow us on Facebook and Instagram for the latest information about our building works and museum programming.
