[𝗦𝗕𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸] 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙒𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩’𝙨 𝙐𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝗯𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁

Описание: 𝘼 𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙗𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙤𝙧.
𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙖 𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙤𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙥𝙨𝙚𝙨?

Curatorial Contributor of Singapore Biennale 2025, The Packet, presented a talk in conjunction with their multimedia installation, Water Under The Bridge / A Bridge Under Water. Using the image of the bridge as a starting point, they will delve into the convergence of hydrology, developmental forecasting, and the residual Y2K optimism. The Packet will reflect on the slow violence of what refuses to be forgotten, sharing how their hyper-local, collaborative practice challenges and maps a stratified world.

Panel Speakers: Mayun Kaluthantri (The Packet), Abdul Halik Azeez (The Packet), Imaad Majeed (The Packet), Alana Hunt (Artist), Chu Hao Pei (Artist)

Moderator: SB2025 Curator Selene Yap.

This programme was held in conjunction with 𝙎𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱: 𝙥𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 on 1 November 2025 at Singapore Art Museum.

Image Caption: Part of the unfinished highway, Cape Town, South Africa
𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘢𝘶𝘭 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘹 (𝘞𝘪𝘬𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴)

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿
The Packet (established in 2019) is made up of a group of artists from Sri Lanka. With a particular focus on hyper-locality, collaborative processes and conversation, it grew out of 8 artists coming together to realize an artist publication entitled The Packet. While a core group of members continue to drive its work, The Packet functions as a collaborative platform that has embraced the work of 19 young artists in Sri Lanka to date. They work across print and digital mediums, with site-specific interventions that respond to a stratified world, exploring what it looks like ‘to do thinking in public’. Their work has been featured in the Serendipity Arts Festival (2019, 2020), the Goethe Institut’s Day-Afterthoughts project (2020), among others.

The Packet's curatorial contribution, 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘜𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘨𝘦/𝘈 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳, is a multimedia installation which mirrors the form of an internet café, featuring a collection of artworks from various artists such as Alana Hunt and Chu Hao Pei. The installation can be viewed at Far East Shopping Centre, #01-10.


𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿
Selene Yap is a Curator at SAM and is part of the curatorial team for Singapore Biennale 2025: pure intention. Yap previously held research positions at the Future Cities Laboratory and Singapore University of Technology and Design. She was also Programme Manager for Visual Arts at The Substation where she provided research and curatorial support for the exhibitions. She also previously co-curated several exhibitions as an independent curator. For the Biennale, she is interested in the discussions that challenge the notions of placing and belonging and call to attention the constitutive aspect of absence, dislocation and distancing in the subjective experience of landscape.