everyone's some island(s)
how does one catch a current, track vanishing shores, and set sail an archipelago?
As a curator and educator, Siddharta Perez negotiates between the exhibitionary and the subjects that elude visual legibility. Recently, she has focused on finding watery ways of thinking with artists, self-identifying islanders, and students from the National University of Singapore. Together with Wong Zihao (artist and academic), Fawzi Nasir (Jong boat maker and island organiser) and Charles Lim (artist), Siddharta considers island knowledge systems and intertidal discourse to test collective learning gatherings.
In this sharing “everyone's some island(s)”, she hopes to listen to dialogues on art and research/ creative methodologies amidst disciplinary boundaries. Siddharta is the Curatorial Lead at the NUS Museum, tending to the Southeast Asia collections and archives and helming the museum's curatorial model “prep-room”. She worked with U5 and Adrianne Wilson for their Crater Studios prep-room (2016–2018) and the 17 Volcanoes (2017–2018) iteration in the NUS Museum.