[prep-room] Yang tidak lupa

Yang tidak lupa (“The one who did not forget”) introduces a prep-room project initially exploring the multiple ways of tracing feminine identities in Malaya and Singapore’s art world, from the 1960s to the 1990s. It inquires further on methods of (re)reading the “feminine body” through their visual depictions and/or embodied realities, all deeply subjective and relational – while also holding space for future feminist interventions in Singapore’s histories of art.

Yang tidak lupa is a prep-room project initiated by Nurul Kaiyisah, the NUS Museum’s inaugural Young Museum Professional Trainee (YMPT).

As the Museum’s YMPT, she works closely with the curatorial team in assisting other prep-room projects such as Intimate Landscapes, facilitating Outreach programmes that activates the exhibition space and producing curated material as guides for the Museum’s permanent exhibition, Radio Malaya: Abridged Conversations About Art. Having graduated from the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences’ (FASS) History department, Kaiyisah’s interests lie in examining possible interventions in canonical histories, within the intersectional, contemporary lens of gender and museology. prep-room Yang tidak lupa is the final stage of her YMPT journey that observes the interaction between her research interests and engagement with the Museum’s collections, as informed by her traineeship at the Museum.

Further reading:
Curatorial essay
Archival Blog
DIY your own feminist interventions zine