History's malcontents : the life and times of S. Raoul / Shubigi Rao ; [contributors: Charles Merewether, June Yap].
Author(s): Merewether, Charles | Yap, June | Rao, Shubigi
Library Item Details
Main Title
History's malcontents : the life and times of S. Raoul
Author(s)
Rao, Shubigi
Merewether, Charles
Yap, June
Merewether, Charles
Yap, June
Publisher
Singapore : Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, 2013.
Collation
97 p. : col. ill.
30 cm.
30 cm.
ISBN
9789810756932
Dewey Class
823.912
Contents
SECTION I. Folly of a Concierge / a foreword by Dr. Charles Merewether -- Being a Biographical Sketch of S. Raoul / Shubigi Rao --
SECTION II. S. Raoul: An Essential Reader. 1. A Foreword in Celebration of Ignorance / S. Raoul -- 2. Damage at the Front / S. Raoul -- 3. On Reading History / S. Raoul -- 4. On Art and Archaeology / S. Raoul ; Between a Rock and a Hard Place -- 5. Singapore: A Prehistory / S. Raoul -- 6. On Archiving / Shubigi Rao -- 7. On Fictive Fact: A Circumambulation / Shubigi Rao -- 8. The Library: A Final Dissolution / Shubigi Rao -- 9. On Biography / S. Raoul and Shubigi Rao -- 10. On Medium: Some Middling Meditations / S. Raoul ; To Cock a Snook, and Steal a Peek ; Pointing out the Pitfalls ; Eating One’s Tail -- 11. A Political Animal / S. Raoul ; The River of Ink, Survivors of ; Mnemonic reconstruction attempt for ‘The Printed Page’ -- 12. Stabbing at Immortality: Building the Turritopsis nutricula / S. Raoul -- 13. On Globalisation and Hybridity / S. Raoul ; Through the Web, Darkly ; The Cards Lay Themselves Out, As A Table --
SECTION III. Appendices and Monographs. I. The Tuning Fork of the Mind: On the Extraordinary Effects of Art on the Wits of the Unwary -- II. Theory of The Tuning Fork of the Mind: Notes, Observations, Records and Musings of a Sundry Nature / S. Raoul -- III. Letters and Ephemera -- IV. Obituaries and News of the Day -- V. The Wiles of Time and Space: In Memoriam S. Raoul / June Yap --
SECTION IV. Postscript. Chronologically Speaking: Being a list of prior exhibitions of the works and publishing of texts.
SECTION II. S. Raoul: An Essential Reader. 1. A Foreword in Celebration of Ignorance / S. Raoul -- 2. Damage at the Front / S. Raoul -- 3. On Reading History / S. Raoul -- 4. On Art and Archaeology / S. Raoul ; Between a Rock and a Hard Place -- 5. Singapore: A Prehistory / S. Raoul -- 6. On Archiving / Shubigi Rao -- 7. On Fictive Fact: A Circumambulation / Shubigi Rao -- 8. The Library: A Final Dissolution / Shubigi Rao -- 9. On Biography / S. Raoul and Shubigi Rao -- 10. On Medium: Some Middling Meditations / S. Raoul ; To Cock a Snook, and Steal a Peek ; Pointing out the Pitfalls ; Eating One’s Tail -- 11. A Political Animal / S. Raoul ; The River of Ink, Survivors of ; Mnemonic reconstruction attempt for ‘The Printed Page’ -- 12. Stabbing at Immortality: Building the Turritopsis nutricula / S. Raoul -- 13. On Globalisation and Hybridity / S. Raoul ; Through the Web, Darkly ; The Cards Lay Themselves Out, As A Table --
SECTION III. Appendices and Monographs. I. The Tuning Fork of the Mind: On the Extraordinary Effects of Art on the Wits of the Unwary -- II. Theory of The Tuning Fork of the Mind: Notes, Observations, Records and Musings of a Sundry Nature / S. Raoul -- III. Letters and Ephemera -- IV. Obituaries and News of the Day -- V. The Wiles of Time and Space: In Memoriam S. Raoul / June Yap --
SECTION IV. Postscript. Chronologically Speaking: Being a list of prior exhibitions of the works and publishing of texts.
Language
English
Subject
Authors -- Fiction -- Exhibitions
Experimental fiction -- Exhibitions
Experimental fiction -- Exhibitions
BRN
6154
Notes
- "This publication coincides with 'The Retrospectacle of S. Raoul, by Shubigi Rao,' an exhibition chronicling 10 years of the labour of S. Raoul, polymathic researcher, archaeologist, inventor and recluse. Organized by Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore at Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore, March 2013."--page 2 of cover.
- Exhibition held in Earl Lu Gallery of the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, March 22-April 11, 2013.
- Accessible online: https://www.lasalle.edu.sg/sites/default/files/2019-05/2013_history-s_malcontents_the_life_and_times_of_s_raoul.pdf
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