Archival urgencies in art and curating

Lost & Found: Assembly brings together diverse practices to challenge what an archive is and how it speaks.

Across two days, artists, curators, and thinkers engage in conversations, screenings, lecture performances, and tastings to examine how the archive shapes creative practice today. The Assembly also addresses the urgency of stories under threat by contemporary geopolitical crises.

Archives are complex entities, serving as houses of ancestral knowledge, living repositories of meaning, and ongoing sites of contestation. At its root, the archive is a place of dwelling, not a passive store of the past. It is a site where memory is actively produced. In this Assembly too, the archive is approached as a dynamic, embodied force shaped through lived actions.

The Assembly is part of Lost & Found, a multi-chapter curatorial initiative by Singapore Art Museum. Working with artists who collect what seems uncollectable, assemble what resists assembly, and refuse stable forms of capture, the project challenges how archives are constructed, and whose histories they serve. Lost & Found culminates in an exhibition at Singapore Art Museum, opening this November.

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*Programmes may be subject to change without prior notice. Information accurate at time of publishing.