'Emerging from an ongoing discussion between NUS Museum curators and artist Erika Tan since 2009 about the heterogeneous potentials of the museum object, the colloquially titled "Come Cannibalise Us, Why Don’t You?" is an artist-installation that re-visits and adapts artefacts and writings from the exhibition "Camping and Tramping through the Colonial Archive: The Museum in Malaya" (2011-2013) alongside newer artworks developed by the artist that include film, sculpture and works on paper. The guiding principle being a form of aesthetic cannibalism, speculative in its method and oscillating between formats, the site-specific installation reveals the contingent rules and contextual considerations of the colonial museum in Malaya as it came to be framed in the 19th century and the particular interpretative technologies and translationary mediums that continue to murmur a discourse in the contemporary postcolonial present.' - from museum's website
Includes a conversation between Erika Tan and Shabbir Hussain Mustafa. With biographies of artist and contributors.
Sila Mengakanibalkan Kami, Mahu Tak?
Onsite
English
2014
177
9789810791285
1
artist monograph,
catalogue
Re/View
The Un/Desirable Guest: Hospitality, Effective History and the (Post) Colonial Archive - Wenny TEO
Babel of Yam - Adele TAN
'Repatriating the Object with No Shadow' - Kenneth TAY
Works
Come Cannibalise Us, Why Don't You? / Sila Mengakanibalkan Kami, Mahu Tak? - Erika TAN, 陳麗
The Moral Green Interweb - Shabbir Hussain MUSTAFA, Erika TAN, 陳麗
Vocationem Universalem / Universal Call - Erika TAN, 陳麗
Repatriating the Object with No Shadow: Along, Against, Within and Through - Erika TAN, 陳麗
Jungles are Shot Against Blue - Martin CONSTABLE, Erika TAN, 陳麗
Re/Collections from the Archives
Phantom Expedition and Fishy Histories - Janice LOO
Colonial Animism: Stuffed, Skinned, Pickled and Some Even Alive! - Fiona TAN
The Prince's Gift - Erika TAN, 陳麗
Curious Texts / Telling Images: Excerpts from the Malaya-Borneo Exhibition and British Empire Exhibition - WONG Leemin
Malay Pavilion 1924/25: Performing Artefacts - Erika TAN, 陳麗
The Malay House: A Representational Trope - Erika TAN, 陳麗
Repetition, Rehearsal, Remake
Rumah Rok Su: Virtual Reconstructions - Nasrita IBRAHIM
Mirage: Re-Using and Re-Phrasing the Malay House - Erika TAN, 陳麗
Upsetting Postcards of the Malay House - W. Patrick WADE
Rehabilitating the Colonial Collection - David HENKEL
The Perak Regalia: Replicas and Originals - Mulaika HIJJAS
Malay Manuscripts - Farouk YAHYA
Ancestral Figures / Collection, Acquistion, Access, Play. Three Approaches to Display - Clement ONN, Shabbir Hussain MUSTAFA, Erika TAN, 陳麗
Din, Based on My Thoughts; with Some Notes to Erika Tan about the Non-Western Object Based on Our Conversations, c.2008-13 - Shabbir Hussain MUSTAFA
Ghost: (Re) Searching for the Doctor - Christina CHUA
The Library of the Possible - Masturah ALATAS
Re/Visiting, Re/Thinking, Re/Writing
Cannibalising History, or the Un/Incorporation of the Past (with the Voices and Articulations of Others) - Kevin CHUA, Erika TAN, 陳麗
Come Cannibalise Us Why Don't You?
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