Picturing Conflict in Southeast Asia: History, Memory and Ecology explores the powerful and often contested relationship between conflict and art. It brings together curators, artists, and scholars to consider how conflict is remembered, represented, and debated. The symposium also examines how its effects extend far beyond the battlefield into landscapes, environments, technologies, and infrastructures.
This symposium is presented in collaboration with The Australian National University, with support from the Australian Research Council Linkage Grant.
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This single-session ticket is for Session 2.
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When: 3 Oct 2026, 10am – 12.15pm - Suitable For: Adults, Families, Visitors with accessibility needs, Students and Educators
- Where: National Gallery Singapore, City Hall Wing, Level B1, The Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium
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Ticket information:
Full Symposium Pass: $30 (Standard), $25 (Concession and Gallery Insider)
Single Session: $12 (Standard), $10 (Concession and Gallery Insider)
Programme Outline
10am | Registration
10.30am | Opening Remarks
10.45am | War Paintings as a “Critical Heritage”: A User’s Guide
What happens when images created as wartime propaganda enter the museum? In this lecture, Suzuki Katsuo examines Japanese war paintings as “critical heritage”, tracing their origins, complex postwar histories, and continuing presence within the museum. Drawing on The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo’s approaches to exhibiting its collection, he considers how media literacy and careful curatorial framing can reveal the workings of propaganda, engage with difficult histories, and open possibilities for more polyphonic memories of war.
Keynote Lecture by Suzuki Katsuo
Chief Curator, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Presentation by Horikawa Lisa
Director, Curatorial & Collections, and Senior Curator, National Gallery Singapore
Moderated by Dr Hsu Fang-Tze
Curator and Head of Interpretation & Publishing, Singapore Art Museum
12.15pm | Lunch
Catering provided
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