The Singapore Art Museum's (SAM) physical doors may be temporarily shuttered for now while it undergoes an extensive refurbishment, but SAM has joined the global #MuseumFromHome movement to bring its art online.
The platform features various ways for you to appreciate art from your home, namely Experience, Discover, Watch, Connect, Learn and Do. With the museum focusing on contemporary art practice in Singapore, Southeast Asia and Asia within the global context, the online platform will be one of the best places to educate yourself about contemporary art in the region. With the help of Google Arts and Culture, you can go on a virtual tour of SAM and discover the museum's permanent art collection ranging from installation to video, to photography, painting, sculpture, and others.
Learn about profound artworks such as Au Sow Yee's The Kris Project, a series of fragmented narratives revolving around historical and well as fictional figures and films from the Golden Age of Southeast Asian cinema; or Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook's Jaonua: The Nothingness (King of Meat: The Nothingness), a five-channel video installation negotiating the expanse of time between life and death.
You can also relive SAM's art events through SAM's #MuseumFromHome playlist. The Singapore Biennale 2019 online symposium, for instance, allows you open access to filmed lectures, written texts and live-audience panels. This brings together artists, curators, critics, historians, advocates and cultural workers.
And if you've previously missed the Biennale Finale, in which local musicians performed to wrap up yet another successful edition of the Singapore Biennale, there's another chance to fix your FOMO. SAM has made the video available on Youtube, so you can tune in at any time.