Public Power

The first thing that striked me when I read the title was the challenging of authority - public power.

But it is more than just that. It's about audience participation.

Participants can engage with the artwork by rearranging the sculptures according to suit their personal taste.



This colourful piece is artist Twardzik Ching Chor Leng's fifth public installation.



The artist's interest is in exploring how art can exist both within and beyond traditional art spaces. By using elements of contemporary architecture such as stainless steel, and mass-produced industrial and household objects.

Well, "every man is an artist" says German artist/shaman Joseph Beuys.

Neues Bauen International 1927 | 2002

Neues Bauen, or 'New Building', is an international architectural movement towards modernism. Its origins can be traced to Germany in the 1920s as a protest against the imitation of historical styles.

An uprising. A revolution. A big change in architecture.



These architects introduced new building types, materials. construction methods and spatial concepts. This allowed for large windows and open spaces thus bringing more natural light and fresh air into the buildings.



The Neues Bauen (New Building) International 1927 | 2002 exhibition is based on a 1927 exhibition, International Plan and Model Exhibition of New Architecture, that placed architecture in an international context. The International Plan and Model Exhibition of New Architecture toured 17 European cities between 1928 and 1930 demonstrating the similarities and inter-dependance between the modern buildings from the United States of America and Europe.


Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret
Pavillion de L'Espirit Noveau, Exhibition of arts and crafts in Paris
1925


Lloyd Wright
Villa, Millard House 'La Miniatura', Pasadena / USA
1923



A total of 105 projects by 66 architects or groups of architects are showcase. There are 23 architectural models and 236 photographs - all strewn at The Concourse on the ground floor and the Canyon at the basement of the National Museum.

A Day Without A Tree

How would the world be like without without trees, plants and greenery?

Yeo Chee Kiong's work - A Day Without A Tree - paints the scenario from an inside-out view of the nature in the world we live in today building on the theme of 'forest'.



Not sure if the liquid to to reflect the rising sea levels and the melting ice caps but it sure turns the National Museum Rotunda into a personified body. With global warming, the architecture (even the foundation stones of the museum are melting) melts into a white body fluid.



It's neither liquid nor solid or so I think because I didn't touch it. But the purpose is to bring surprising and subverting psychological moments.



The perceived solids are liquefied, and the liquids are solidified.



I also caught a bunch of grapes floating somewhere. Intriguing.