Change in 7 Days at Singapore Biennale 2013

Ready to contribute in our project? Give us a photograph of Singapore, or two, or four, seven is good too – and we depict tales of a city at Singapore Biennale 2013

Send us your view!

• Post yours through email at submit.komvni@gmail.com OR tweet#komunichange OR FB page
• The images should be 15 x 10 cm, 150dpi. Please includes name/date taken/place taken.
• You may submit as much as you like, no restriction applied.
• The images will be use solely for our project at Singapore Biennale 2013 purpose. No commercial value applied.

The submission is open from now until February 14th, 2014 (end of biennale).

What we do

With your help, we want to wake up the archives of the city, the city of Singapore. The archive, then, will be turned into a library of visual memory of an ever-changing city, rapid but meandering changes. We want to collect and show the good, the bad & the ugly, the delicious and wreckage, the uncanny and repressed, happiness and joy of you, you and you too, and us as well.

Archival materials are re-animated, opened-up partially, given a second life in our library change in 7 days at the National Library of Singapore during Singapore Biennale 2013 (and perhaps long after there or elsewhere when we are no longer present). Visual materials are retrieved from the city’s multiple archives to give you a chance to connect and re-connect, browse through, borrow memories, point out to one and another stories thought long lost and recount them anew.

Moreover, we will respond in individual, artistic ways to a selection we each make of the visual materials salvaged from the archives and the images you kindly submitted. In so doing, we weave our threads into this city, your city as our temporary base, a brief home from which we return with memories, our memento mori on our homecoming to Bandung, a city with a different beat.

Cities, certainly, are only built metaphorically in 7 days. However, 7 days is ample time to spectacularly wipe out an entire metropolis with its sinners, specters and samurais of the face of the earth. 7 days is also plentiful of time to alter our imagined city. Images can move us – move us to built a city, multiple cities out of our memory to remember, to be committed to, jointly…