The UOB Southeast Asia Gallery is temporarily closed and will reopen in late 2027. In the meantime, works from the National Collection remain exhibited across the Gallery. 

Join Singaporean multidisciplinary artist and poet nor for G(LISTEN): Remix, Renew, Reunion! a writing workshop held in conjunction with GLISTEN, Lisa Reihana’s kinetic sculpture and the seventh edition of the Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission.

In this two-day workshop, participants will use a song with ecological imagery in its lyrics as a starting point and craft new writings in response. They will then collaborate with a fellow participant whose work resonates with them, weaving together a shared composition.

This workshop invites participants to reconsider what defines tradition, explore the significance of renewal as a strategy and discover the power of collaboration in a world that too often rushes forward and eagerly neglects the lessons of its past.

 

  • When: Sat 19 & Sun 20 Apr 2025, 5pm- 7.30pm
  • Suitable For: Adults, Students and Educators
  • Where: National Gallery Singapore, City Hall Wing, Level 5, Rooftop studios 1 & 2
  • Free, registration required

About the Artist

nor’s artistic practice hopes to situate belonging and community within speculative timelines. Their works span the disciplines of photography, film, video, performance, text and spoken word poetry to engage with ideas of belonging and identity through frameworks of gender performance, ethnographic portraits and transnational histories.

They presented a solo exhibition In Love at Coda Culture (2018, Singapore) and has shown at group exhibitions including An Exercise of Meaning in a Glitch Season at National Gallery Singapore (2020–2021), Dream of the Day at Ilham Gallery, Kuala Lumpur (2022–2023) and Archipelago: Paradise Revisit at Three Shadows Gallery in Xiamen, China (2023–2024). nor's writings have been published in Singa Pura-Pura: Malay Speculative Fiction from Singapore, Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore as well as Brown is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapore.