Join us on Saturday 5 April at our partner venue Dorich House Museum for Erika Tan’s Barang-Barang book launch. Book FREE tickets for the event here.
From 11am Barang-Barang: Spectural Entanglements (23 mins) film screened throughout the day in the Museum’s Modelling Studio
2-3pm Talk with Erika Tan, Rebecca Fortnum, Fiona Fisher and Lucy Reynolds
From 3pm Drinks reception
As an extension to the intergenerational transnational connections and conversations made within Tan’s Stanley Picker Fellowship project Barang-Barang, Erika Tan has on the occasion of her artist publication book launch invited Fiona Fisher, Rebecca Fortnum and Lucy Reynolds to be in-conversation. Together, these four artist, curators, researchers and academics will unpick and share some of their approaches to impacting historical amnesias, through creative practices and centring the work of women.
Barang-Barang publication (Limited Edition of 50) Available to purchase after the event.
Features written texts by Kathleen Ditzig, curator at the National Gallery Singapore, and Wenny Teo, Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Designed and made by graphic designer Alex Stillwell, Kingston School of Art graduate of BA Graphic Design.
At Stanley Picker Gallery in 2022, Tan’s Barang-Barang exhibition was a multi-faceted installation containing collected objects, materials and moving-image works. The project explored the value and relevance given to the material traces and afterlives of objects made, collected, discarded or valued by others, responding to local specificities, personal collections and historical connections that the artist encountered, from coconut coir mills in Kingston upon Thames to the speculative entanglements that she weaves between different events, places and people, including that of her mother Fay Tan and the legacies of four female artists – Dora Gordine, Georgette Chen and Kim Lim – who are brought together in filmic space to explore aspects of their lives. The main moving image work for the exhibition Barang-Barang: Spectural Entanglements (2022) was filmed on location at Dorich House Museum, the former studio-home designed by Gordine herself in the 1930s.
Why not combine your visit and join us at Stanley Picker Gallery from 11am-1pm to meet Stanley Picker Fellow Débora Delmar and see her solo exhibition Trust.
Biography
Erika Tan is an artist whose practice has evolved from an interest in received narratives, contested heritage, subjugated voices and the transnational movements of ideas, people, and things. Her work arising out of processes of research and responses to the unravelling of facts, fictions, and encounters related to events, locations, audiences, and specifics that may already exist. Tan has been commissioned and exhibited internationally including Jakarta Biennale; Singapore Biennale; Busan Biennale; Times Museum Guangdong; The Diaspora Pavilion, Venice Biennale; National Gallery Singapore; LABoral, Spain; ZKM, Germany; South London Gallery; Stanley Picker Gallery London. Her work is included in the Kadist Foundation, British Council, Arts Council England, Newnham College Cambridge, He Xiang Ning Museum, Shenzhen, and NUS Museum Singapore. She is currently a Reader of Contemporary Art Practice and Course Leader of the MA Fine Art in Central Saint Martins and a research member of Circumambulating Objects: on Paradigms of Restitution of Southeast Asian Art (CO-OP), SOAS, London.
Fiona Fisher is the curator of Dorich House Museum, the 1930s former studio home of the artist Dora Gordine and her husband Richard Hare and is a member of Kingston University’s Modern Interiors Research Centre. Her research interests include 20th century British domestic design in relation to suburban modernity, and the design of the modern public house in England. Her current research explores the interior design of the postwar care home. Her publications include Designing the British Post-War Home: Kenneth Wood, 1948–1968 (2015) and the edited collections The Routledge Companion to Design Studies (2016) and British Design: Tradition & Modernity after 1948 (2015). She is a contributor to the recent volume The Senses in Interior Design: Sensorial Expression and Experiences (2024) and is a co-editor of Exhibition as Interior, Interior as Exhibition (forthcoming, 2025).
Rebecca Fortnum is an artist, writer and academic. She is currently Associate Dean of Research at Central St Martins, University of the Arts. She has been Professor of Fine Art at The Glasgow School of Art, the Royal College of Art and Middlesex University as well as Visiting Research Fellow in Creative Arts at Merton College, Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at the Henry Moore Institute. Her books include Contemporary British Women Artists: In Their Own Words (2007), On Not Knowing: How Artists Think (2013) and A Companion to Contemporary Drawing (2020). She has exhibited paintings at Freud Museum, the Young V&A’s Museum, London and Compton Verney. Her solo show, Les Praticiennes exploring work by the women sculptors of the Paris Belle Epoque took place at the Henry Moore Institute in 2023.
Lucy Reynolds is a researcher, curator and artist, whose research focuses on questions of the moving image, feminism, political space and collective practice. She has published widely and lectures on creative research at the University of Westminster. She is editor of the anthology Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image and the co-editor of the Moving Image Review and Art Journal (MIRAJ). As an artist, her ongoing sound work A Feminist Chorus has been heard at the Glasgow International Festival, the Wysing Arts Centre, Grand Union galleries, Birmingham and Swedenborg Hall. Recent curatorial projects include the film and video exhibits in ‘Women in Revolt: Art and Activism in the UK 1970 – 1990’ at Tate Britain, and the accompanying film series ‘Through a Radical Lens’.
