Radical Imaginations - New Eden Opening Symposium (Part 1)

21 October 2023 (Saturday) | 2pm - 6pm

The opening symposium of New Eden: Science Fiction Mythologies Transformed invited attendees to envision speculative futures and inhabit new worlds informed by Asian mythologies and science fiction.

Following opening remarks contributed by Honor Harger (Vice President, Attractions and ArtScience Museum), Gail Chin (Exhibition Producer, ArtScience Museum), Joel Chin (Supervisor, Art Handling and Logistics) and Jerome Chee (Curator, Moving Image and Emerging Media) gave a joint presentation on the exhibition-making and curatorial narratives of New Eden. Through the collection of artefacts on loan from Asian Civilisations Museum, Darryl Lim (Assistant Curator, Asian Civilisations Museum) offered insights into perspectives of Asian spiritual philosophies.

The first panel of talks, New Worlds, looked into speculative futures and suggested there are more ways we can walk through the world. Chok Si Xuan (Singapore sculptor and installation-based artist) explored cybernetic systems, the hybridity of machines, and nature within speculative futures in her artwork latent, while Debbie Ding (Singapore visual artist and technologist) drew an alternate reality of Singapore in her project Data Mining Jurong where the past and present of Jurong collided.

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Timeline:
00:00 Opening Remarks by Honor Harger (Vice President, Attractions and ArtScience Museum)
09:54 Gail Chin (Exhibition Producer, ArtScience Museum), Joel Chin (Supervisor, Art Handling and Logistics) and Jerome Chee (Curator, Moving Image and Emerging Media) gave a joint presentation on the exhibition-making and curatorial narratives of New Eden
30:24 Darryl Lim (Assistant Curator, Asian Civilisations Museum) offered insights into perspectives of Asian spiritual philosophies
47:37 Chok Si Xuan (Singapore sculptor and installation-based artist) explores cybernetic systems and plausible scenarios in which technological nature replaces nature with her artwork latent
59:44 Debbie Ding (Singapore visual artist and technologist) draws an alternate reality of Singapore in her project Data Mining Jurong where the past and present of Jurong collide
1:17:39 Q&A moderated by Adrian George (Director, Programmes, Exhibitions & Museum Services at ArtScience Museum)