March 23, 2018
Diary of an NUS Museum Intern is a series of blog posts written by our interns about their experiences during the course of their internships. Working alongside their mentors, our interns have waded through tons of historical research, assisted in curatorial work, pitched in during exhibition installations and organised outreach events! If you would like to become our next intern, visit NUS Museum’s student development page for more information.
Sara Lau is a third-year Sociology student at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, with a second major in Southeast Asia Studies. As our Programming and Exhibition Management Intern, Sara assisted her supervisor, Siddharta Perez, in exhibitions and curatorial projects.
Venturing into the NUS Museum and this internship, I sought to reconfigure my modes of understanding and obtaining knowledge, giving attention to phenomenological experiences alongside the readings of text. I wanted to build visual and spatial literacy, to learn how space can work with objects and text to create different textures in an exhibition, and the dynamism that comes with the dialogue between different mediums. The NUS Museum was the perfect space for these encounters, considering how the museum plays heavily on the absence and presence of text in the construction of exhibitions and prep-rooms.
Radio Malaya: Abridged Conversations about Art