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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 and will be placed on a waitlist – we will contact you when a slot opens up.
This workshop with Dr Parashar Kulkarni applies working inquires to his ongoing project Idol in the Museum, delineating what idols are, their religious and secular purposes, and finally how idols can help us rethink religion. As a preliminary activation of the prep-room, the programme will unfold through a talk by Dr Kulkarni that investigates the contemporary relevance of idols, and its relationship with notions of creativity, infinity and the socio-political, followed by a curatorial tour of the NUS Museum’s display and collections of various idols, before finally tracing the discursive threads in a group activity that allows participants to relate idols back to their own personal and aspirational contexts and practices.
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.
Image (left to right):
Sculpture of Uma-Maheshvara (Shiva and Parvati) seated on Nandi, Gray Sandstone, 65 x 57 x 18 cm
Nataraja, Bronze, 7.8 x 15.3 x 51.cm
Durga, Sandstone, 57 x 40 x 16 cm
Collection of the NUS Museum.