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
Singapore Art Museum opened in 1996 as the first art museum in Singapore. Also known as SAM, we present contemporary art from a Southeast Asian perspective for artists, art lovers and the art curious.
SAM is building one of the world's most important public collections of Southeast Asian contemporary art, and as a non-profit arts institution – it is our responsibility to preserve, research, exhibit and connect the art and the artists to the public and future generations through thought-provoking exhibitions and meaningful programmes.
SAM is redefining the idea of the museum by presenting art in multiple spaces, including Tanjong Pagar Distripark and our two heritage buildings: the former St Joseph’s Institution on Bras Basah Road, built in 1855 and now a National Monument; and the former Catholic High School across the road on Queen Street. The heritage buildings are currently closed for redevelopment and will re-open in 2026.
SAM is proud to be the organiser of the Singapore Biennale, a festival that celebrates contemporary art from all over the world across the island-city of Singapore.
