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This programme prioritises NUS students and faculty. To verify your status as an NUS student/faculty, please register using your NUS email account. Interested members of the public may register but will be placed on a waitlist – we will contact you when a slot opens up.
This workshop with Tan Li-Jen invites participants to reacquaint themselves with the book and see it anew through the visual lens of book covers. Drawing on a selection of book covers and books from a library’s collection, the first part of the workshop will make a quick foray into book history and explore the materiality of books, while examining book cover design as exercises in visual storytelling. The second part of the workshop will transition to an activity inspired by Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style in which a story is retold 99 times in different ways. Participants will be invited to create variations of the same subject using textual and visual elements, and in the process, explore the possibilities of language and communication styles.
This programme is part of the prep-room OPEN upcoming at the NX3 Gallery. The prep-room OPEN brings together ongoing projects worked on by researchers and faculty based in the NUS campus. Interests and investigations recall iconographic studies of Southeast Asia icons and idols, thinking through resources in libraries and museums and ecologies of loss in indigenous architecture.