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Artists are invited to participate in a process-centered fellowship supporting deep inquiry into artistic practice and alternative curatorial models.
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Get matched →Building a "non-institution" institution with Shooshie Sulaiman is a process-centered Fellowship that follows Shooshie's intention to house a second iteration of an earlier work, Emotional Library (2007), in a shophouse based in Malacca. The Fellowship develops Tadika Kura-kura (The Kindergarten of Slow Curating), a "curatorial software" grounded in generating and refining new knowledge systems while building networks that expand the peripheries of artmaking through community and kinships.
Shooshie Sulaiman (b. 1973) is recognized as one of the most important contemporary artists of Southeast Asia. Her practice is characterized by diverse approaches including drawings, collages, installations, and performance that often appropriate natural elements from trees, soil, and water native to the land, informing viewers of the complex relationship between human beings, nature, and art.
Through a series of curatorial labs and programmes in both SAM and sites in Malaysia, the Fellowship incubates alternative curatorial models outside the museum while building critical museology around Shooshie's practice. Processes will be shared on Samplings, SAM's experimental writing platform, followed with a publication to be launched in the later part of 2025.
The fellowship engages with Emotional Library (A House) in Malacca, other related sites in Japan and Sulawesi, and creative centers that engage with Shooshie's practice and the public's encounter with contemporary art.
2024 to 2025
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