What Makes a Book a Book?

Calling all children and families! Join artist-scientist Isabelle Desjeux on an investigative journey to discover what makes a book a book! Must a book be rectangular? Must a book be made of paper? Must a book be bound together? Can a tree be a book? A person a book?

Through the sharing of her rich bookmaking adventures and resource, Isabelle will lead children and families in this exploratory workshop to question what people have forgotten to ask, and to create your own imaginative books!

About Isabelle Desjeux

Isabelle Desjeux is a Singapore-based artist and researcher. Using her training in Molecular Biology, she creates new kinds of scientific method-based artworks. Working closely with scientists, she encourages others to cross the divide and take on the role of scientist in her interventions, whether in a class, during a workshop, or as part of an installation. As such her work has often been labelled as participatory, with “experiment” being a strong part of her practice.

She received her MAFA from Lasalle (2011), was the recipient of the French-Singapore New Generation Artist (2011), and of a Lasalle Research Fellowship (2017). Her work has been exhibited in museums across Singapore, in Japan and USA. She teaches regularly across disciplines from pre-school to post-graduate level, and currently runs a residency space in a pre-school, inviting artists to experiment and let children into their processes.

Date: 23 November, Sat

Time: 11am-1pm

Fees: $30 per participant, 20% off for siblings and groups of 4 pax and above

*Children under 5 must be accompanied by an adult (non-paying)