In Search of “I”: Slander, watching old local films and night writing

Dear Yale-NUS Community,

We would like to invite you to join us for an afternoon of exhibition show-and-tell, followed by a reading and talk session by award-winning artist Jeremy Sharma.

This event will explore the themes found at SAM Mini Mobile Exhibition: ‘Slander!’, which can be currently found at Level 2 of the Library.

Register here.

We hope to see you there!

About the Talk

Slander! represents an extension of Jeremy Sharma’s research into the films and popular culture of Singapore in the 1950s and 1960s. Its title references the 1959 film Korban Fitnah (Victims of Slander) which was a central feature in his 2017 installation A White, White Day. While A White, White Day was based on the dissolution of the cinematic image, Slander! is an extended inquiry into fiction and visibility in film while linking elements of writing and autobiography is Sharma’s ever-morphing and experimental art practice.

About the Speaker

Jeremy Sharma is an artist and musician. His recent works and experiments look into scenes and places through the lens of modernity, while employing elements of voice, light, atmospheres, film, music, movement and architecture. Sharma also teaches at the McNally School of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts.