RA Forum
We continue the series of events examining the uses and possibilities of memory in art, architecture and visual culture, and the role interventions in those fields play in forming memory in the future.
Future Memory: Mythologies of Re-enactment
Wednesday 5 October
The process of re-enactment – the act of restaging a performance or recreating an object – is central to how the past can be interpreted. Re-enactments transmit memory, yet also inevitably lead to its alteration with the creation and propagation of mythologies. This event examines the implications and possibilities of re-enactment on memory. Read more and book
Monday 17 October
This event examines how digital theory and other contemporary phenomena have revived post-modernism's goals of taking architecture into the realms of taste, popular culture and meaning. Speakers include architects Sean Griffiths, Edouard François, Alejandro Zaera-Polo and critic Charles Jencks. Read more and book
Monday 21 November
In partnership with the British Council, UK designers, Asif Khan and Pernilla Ohrstedt are being commissioned to create a pavilion made of ice and sand to provoke discussion and awareness of issues of land and climate which are intrinsically linked to Singapore’s heritage. A panel of respondents critique and discuss the pavilion. Read more and book
Read more about and watch videos from earlier events in the Future Memory series
