SPECIAL EVENT

Special Event: Women of Art and Science

Women of Art and Science is a series of online and in-person programs including: a performance, a film series, virtual tour and much more celebrating some of the wonder women of art and science, such as; Ruth Asawa, Hilma af Klint, Zaha Hadid and more!

At ArtScience Museum, we proudly stand on the shoulders of giantesses.

Often women are referred to by their proximity to men, such as; ‘behind every man’, ‘mother of’ or ‘wife of’. We are stopping that now. Join us to learn about some the grittiest, strongest and trail blazing figures in art and science. These women defied expectations, genres and stomped over the idea of the patriarchal genius.

This event is a part of ArtScience at Home.

ArtScience on Screen

7 - 27 Nov
ArtScience on Screen: New Ways of Seeing

This new series spotlights three artists – Ruth Asawa, Anna Campbell Bliss and Hilma af Klint – who defied categories of gender and genre in their artistic practice. Exploring the fields of art, science, mathematics and technology, their ground-breaking work encourage us to consider new perspectives in the creative possibilities across art and science, and reexamine a canon that often fails to articulate spaces for alternative voices.

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ARC OF LIGHT: A Portrait of Anna Campbell Bliss (2012)

26 min | Dir. Cid Collins Walker

A student at the Bauhaus school and one of the first artists who experimented with computer technology in her work, this documentary traces Anna Campbell Bliss' evolution from ground-breaking architect to the cutting-edge artist who radically applied principles of science and mathematics to the canvas.

Showtimes:

7 – 13 Nov
On the hour from 10am – 6pm
Ruth Asawa: Of Forms and Growth (1977)

25 min | Dir. Robert Snyder

An intimate look at California artist Ruth Asawa, who studied at the famed Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Asawa was known for her intricate and geometric wire sculptures inspired by basket weaving techniques from her time in Mexico, and whose abstract yet organic renderings recalled the language of nature.

Daily showtimes:

14 – 20 Nov
On the hour from 10am – 6pm
Beyond the Visible – Hilma af Klint (2019)
94 min | Dir. Halina Dyrschka

Hilma af Klint – a name which only came to light in the art world nearly 70 years after her death. The story of a visionary artist whose abstract paintings combined aspects of scientific illustration, geometry, and color theory, her work has ignited a debate of who pioneered abstract 20th century art – Klint or Kadinsky?

Showtimes:

21 – 27 Nov
10.30am, 12.45pm, 3pm, 5.15pm

ArtScience Late at Home

19 Nov
ArtScience Late at Home with Tania De Rozario, Marylyn Tan and Natalie Wang

ArtScience Late at Home presents Tania De Rozario, Marylyn Tan and Natalie Wang in a programme of spoken word that gives voice, shape and depth to the contemporary female experience and psyche. Drawing from their writings, their performance works portray the unique experiences of what it means to be a woman today, bringing us into the space where their defiant women exist.

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Tania De Rozario is a writer and visual artist. She is the author of Tender Delirium (Math Paper Press), And The Walls Come Crumbling Down (Math Paper Press /Gaudy Boy), and Somewhere Else, Another You (Math Paper Press). Winner of the 2020 New Ohio Review Nonfiction Contest and the 2011 Golden Point Award for Poetry, her work can be found in journals including The Malahat Review, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner Online Journal, Blue Lyra Review, Carte Blanche, Softblow and subTerrain, among others.
Marylyn Tan is a queer, female, Chinese Singaporean, linguistics graduate, poet, and artist, who has been performing and disappointing since 2014. Her work trades in the conventionally vulgar, radically pleasurable, and unsanctioned, striving to emancipate the marginalised and restore the alienated, endangered body. Marylyn is the first woman to win the Singapore Literature Prize for Poetry in English with her debut volume of poetry, GAZE BACK (Ethos Books). She is also the founder of multidisciplinary arts collective DIS/CONTENT.
Natalie Wang writes about cats, ghosts, and womanhood, and maintains that they are all the same thing. She has been published in Fairy Tale Review, Cordite Poetry Review, Corvid Queen, LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, various editions of the SingPoWriMo anthology and My Lot Is A Sky, an anthology of poetry by Asian women. Her debut poetry collection The Woman Who Turned Into A Vending Machine (Math Paper Press) is a book on metamorphosis and myth.

Make Your Own

13 Nov
Make Your Own: Architecture-Inspired Pop-Up Card

Taking inspiration from architectural designs of an Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid, learn how to create a personalised pop-up card featuring her distinctive style of sweeping contours and circular forms.

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Here are the materials you will need.
Fold paper into half, and draw wavy lines from Point A to Point B.
Cut and fold the wavy lines in and out.
Lift the alternate strips in a criss-cross infinite manner.

Virtual Tour

27 Nov

Virtual Tour: Women of STEAM

Throughout history, women have made huge contributions in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM). Find out more with Marilia as we look at some powerful women whose works had been previously exhibited in the museum. Be inspired to make the littlest change and chase your dreams as we recognise the work of these women.

The official Nobel Prize portrait of Tu Youyou © Nobel Media.

Photo credit: A. Mahmoud

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Nadine, a female humanoid created by Professor Nadia Thalmann.
Photo credit: Institute for Media Innovation (IMI)
Valentina Tereshkova, just before boarding her Vostok 6 capsule in 1963.
Photo credit: Science Source®
Mona Hatoum
Photo credit: The Talks
Monika Lelonek
Photo credit: eu2020.de