Centred around the notion of the bibliographical, OPEN EXCESS is an ongoing prep-room project that...
As a means to contextualise the anticipated changes to the project OPEN EXCESS, this site will mark and record through fragments such as notes, images, quotations and conversations that revolve around the materials in the room. It's also, I suppose, a first of my own attempts at long-term exhibitionary projects (approximately two years). But these are not meant merely to incubate in a given space (since such a metaphor seems a little inadequate); rather, they would also calibrate themselves according to their immediate settings over time (i.e. other exhibitions in proximity). In any case, the exhibition will feature materials donated to the NUS Museum by art historian T.K. Sabapathy and also an ongoing "curatorial essay" situated on site.