In “A workshop on facilitating (art) and trusting the people,” the participants are asked to think about how self-organization offers innovative ways of working with history and contemporary civic needs in the worlds their practices circulate. The workshop is interested in reflecting the current infrastructures of art practice, and the futures they are shaping. How do we witness, address and work with one another as artists, curators and teachers? As civilians, what are the encounters of varied cultural infrastructure in societies that reject or insist on our participation? The workshop will be facilitated through the participants’ reflection on these questions and continues the propositions that emerge from the talk that regards societies being shaped by art. It intends to wrap up, together with the workshop’s participants, with new models of manifesting and intersecting practices.

This event is part of WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO GROWS, a talk and workshop with Siddharta Perez, whose current Phnom Penh research trip is around topics of revisiting histories that are re-performed for new contemporary perspectives. She is a curator at NUS Museum, focusing on developing exhibitions and programs around the museum’s South & Southeast Asian Collection. Currently, she is also facilitating the prep-room project “Of Place and A Paradox” with Patani Artspace and Zulfadhli Hilmi. In 2016, she staged a moving image exhibition speculating on substitutions of scenography and histories in the Philippines and Vietnam during the American wars in the Pacific titled “Double Vision.” This was enacted into another exhibition titled “Unsettled Assignments” with Vuth Lyno for the Singapore International Festival of the Arts 2017.