2024 to 2025
Muar & Malacca, Malaysia
The Everyday Museum
The Everyday Museum brings art to everyday lives and demonstrates the possibilities and potential of art and creativity for our society. Siting projects in publicly accessible spaces, these are artworks that will spark curiosity, activate imagination and ignite conversations, transforming everyday experiences into memorable encounters that offer new perspectives on life and society. Dedicated to supporting artistic practice in the public sphere, The Everyday Museum is a platform for creative production and experimentation, where every space is a cultural space, created for and with communities. Its diverse programming creates physical and virtual nodes for engagement and interaction where everyone can participate.
The Everyday Museum is a public art initiative of the Singapore Art Museum and part of the museum’s new direction of infusing meaningful art encounters into the everyday, inspiring change through art and collaborations.
To find out more about the programmes and discover #ArtWhereYouAre, please visit theeverydaymuseum.sg
The Everyday Museum at Tanjong Pagar
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Notable works
Singapore Deviation: Wander with Art Through the Rail Corridor
Experience nature enlivened through art as you go off the beaten track of the iconic Singapore Rail Corridor.
Singapore Deviation is a series of public art commissions exploring the iconic Rail Corridor in Singapore through the works of three artists: Sookoon Ang, Hilmi Johandi, and Tan Pin Pin. Conceived as site-specific installations, each artist offers a unique entry point into the evolving uses of the site, from colonial railway to wildlife corridor and recreational trail.
The public art trail is named after a revised alignment to the original Singapore-Kranji Railway in 1932, which resulted in the present-day 24km track that runs through the north-south axis of Singapore.1 Through its conveyance of passengers and goods between Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia, the railway passage embodies histories that are integral to the city-state’s transformation. It remained a significant means of transportation and communications and operated for decades before the last train from Tanjong Pagar departed in 2011. Since then, it has been repurposed as an urban retreat and community leisure zone.
Singapore Deviation calls attention to the shifting publics and uses of the Rail Corridor. The series sets up an encounter with a range of figures, messages and sensations that constitute the multi-faceted experience of the Rail Corridor. Each artist reanimates the physical site, considering the Rail Corridor not just as a space of transit but as a constantly changing space, with an ambiguous status and uncertain future. These works invite new perspectives on the diverse social, historical, and ecological relationships that determine the continued relevance of this historic railway track.
Singapore Deviation is commissioned by The Everyday Museum, a public art initiative of Singapore Art Museum. It is made possible with the generous support of Sun Venture and in venue partnership with JTC, SBS Transit and Land Transport Authority.
TEM at CBD
Experience nature enlivened through art as you go off the beaten track of the iconic Singapore Rail Corridor.
Singapore Deviation is a series of public art commissions exploring the iconic Rail Corridor in Singapore through the works of three artists: Sookoon Ang, Hilmi Johandi, and Tan Pin Pin. Conceived as site-specific installations, each artist offers a unique entry point into the evolving uses of the site, from colonial railway to wildlife corridor and recreational trail.
The public art trail is named after a revised alignment to the original Singapore-Kranji Railway in 1932, which resulted in the present-day 24km track that runs through the north-south axis of Singapore.1 Through its conveyance of passengers and goods between Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia, the railway passage embodies histories that are integral to the city-state’s transformation. It remained a significant means of transportation and communications and operated for decades before the last train from Tanjong Pagar departed in 2011. Since then, it has been repurposed as an urban retreat and community leisure zone.
Singapore Deviation calls attention to the shifting publics and uses of the Rail Corridor. The series sets up an encounter with a range of figures, messages and sensations that constitute the multi-faceted experience of the Rail Corridor. Each artist reanimates the physical site, considering the Rail Corridor not just as a space of transit but as a constantly changing space, with an ambiguous status and uncertain future. These works invite new perspectives on the diverse social, historical, and ecological relationships that determine the continued relevance of this historic railway track.
Singapore Deviation is commissioned by The Everyday Museum, a public art initiative of Singapore Art Museum. It is made possible with the generous support of Sun Venture and in venue partnership with JTC, SBS Transit and Land Transport Authority.
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Sea of flags
Purchased in 1998 before the area was designated a UNESCO Heritage site, the Dutch-Pernakan Shophouse embodies Shooshie’s own cultural histories
The house is located along the old “entertainment vallay” on Jalan Jawas.
The house is currently being cared for restored by Shooshie and her collaborators, and will be the permanent home to Emotional Library II.
Rattan Eco Sprawl
Built in the 1970s by the then Chief Minister of Muar. The house belongs to Shooshie’s adoptive family.
The house is currently being restored by Shooshie and her team and will be used as the main site for the workshops. In the backyard, construction for a second Rumah Limas is being done by Pak Mann, made from wood salvaged from an old shophouse.
Tokma Homestay
Built by Pak Mann in a typical Rumah Limas style (traditional Malay house). This will be the main accommodation for participants and will also be used as a case study in the programme.
Surau Merlimau
Situated within the compound of a school that Cik Minhad’s father went to, and located between Malacca and Muar, Surau Merlimau was originally built in 1986 by the British for the school as a teacher’s quarters.
With Shooshie as a key collaborator, the entire building was refurbished into its current form, being used for religious teachings with the students of the school.
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