Catch two contrasting takes on After Paradie Lost #1, the winning artwork of this year's Signature Art Prize People's Choice Award. Produced and presented in partnership with The Arts and Culture Management Programme, at The Singapore Management University School of Social Sciences, this series juxtaposes a student's perspective against an expert professional from a non-arts sector, to provoke thought on the multiple ways to approach and relate to an artwork.

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SPEAKERS' PROFILES

Dr. Nazry Bahrawi is a lecturer at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He specialises in the study of world literature, literary and critical theory as well as Islam and culture between Southeast Asia and the Middle East. He is also a literary translator and founding member of Bras Basah Open School of Theory and Philosophy, a collective aiming to discuss, converse and share the humanities in an atmosphere of peer-learning.

Sarah Goh graduated from School of the Arts (SOTA), Singapore in 2014, and is pursuing a degree in Social Sciences at the Singapore Management University (SMU) now. With training in ballet and contemporary dance, Sarah hopes to learn and share the symbiotic beauty of art with those around her whilst foraying into multidisciplinary works. She is one of four selected students participating in this programme, which is co-produced and co-presented by Assistant Professor Hoe Su Fern, as part of SMU’s Arts and Culture Management (ACM) Programme. The ACM Programme provides an inter-disciplinary blend of theoretical and skills-based learning to equip students with the foundational knowledges, critical awareness, managerial aptitude and strategic reflexivity for entry into the arts and cultural industries.