Friday, July 17, 2009

Documents from the past. :) Found this on a DVD-rom. SEriously, organise stuff and looking back make sense. somehow, like piecing things together after a while.

Below is Errata pproject press release. Also, this is an example of the kind of press release we were writing for this show. Useful reference for some. So would share this with everyone.

For Immediate Release

Organizer / Venue:
p-10
10, Perumal Road, Singapore 218777
www.p-10.org
Contact Persons / Co-curators:
Jennifer Teo ++ Dennis Tan (Dennis was helping out as a volunteer and also paid for part time work with this project during that time)
9xx xxx ++ 9xxxxx
jennifer@p-1???org ++ dennis@p????g

Details, images and interviews available on demand.

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Errata: Page 71, Plate 47. Image caption. Change Year: 1950 to Year 1959;
Reported September 2004 by Koh Nguang How
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Step into the shoes of a researcher
A 1-month interactive exhibition from 15 September to 14 October 2004
Errata is essentially an exhibition that centres on Koh Nquang How (b. 1963), the researcher/artist and what he uncovers.

Koh is, the man himself a legend because his, is a path less trodden. He is now known as an independent researcher on Singapore Art but that has not always been so.

The title is bestowed upon him not through Academia; it has only become more formal after his appointment as Researcher-in-residence at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan (1999). However, he has for a longer time been always known affectionately as our very own street aural historian because he is always compelled to narrate to younger artists our history in lively anecdotes. He is also always seen at art happenings with his handy camera, which has led him to document so much that he became 'the archivist' by proxy.
Koh has this non-academic methodology, which is really his habit of meticulously chronicling and analyzing Singapore art history.
What he has uncovered could be considered by some, even those in the arts, trivial but it is his persistence and consistency on the intricate trivialities that enables the completion of history construction; he understands that none of these pieces of the puzzle is too small to be insignificant.

Before Errata, the pieces of relics and images he has collected and their stories are almost incomprehensible to others, because he is the only thread that binds these objects together into a cohesive narrative.
Meanwhile, with tremendous effort in Errata, Koh's narration and his collection of evidence are translated and designed in a way which enables the public to approach them and discover a piece of history in the way he constructed it.

Come, be in his shoes and experience the journey to discovery.

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