15 August to 5 October 2008

The Artists Village: 20 years On addresses many issues concerning the history, or rather, memories of TAV. History encompasses verifiable events and accounts of those events. The reciprocal relationship between memory, forgetting, and history questions and reveals how remembering and forgetting alters our perception of historical experience and the production of discourses. The dynamics of individual and collective social memories of TAV artists during the Ulu Sembawang period and the Post-Ulu periods offer multiple entry points to our understanding of TAV. Other forms of memories such as memories that have been written and archived brings to the fore the role of infrastructural memory in the form of museums, archives, monuments and other sites of memories in the construction of historical narratives.

A Chronology of The Artists Village Please click to download.

Exhibition Process

Tang Da Wu at the Heritage Conservation Centre

Tang Da Wu with conservators from the Heritage Conservation Centre in preparation for The Artists Village Show. This is part of the conservation process for his installation work titled Under the Table: All going in one direction.

Amanda Heng at the Heritage Conservation Centre

Amanda Heng with conservators from the Heritage Conservation Centre in preparation for The Artists Village Show. This is part of the conservation process for his installation work titled Missing.

The first TAV Show Roundtable discussion

The first TAV show roundtable discussion at the Post Museum. Woon-Tien, Kai Lam and Yu Jin presented the curatorial concept to TAV members.