Tanoto Art Foundation One-Day Symposium: Soul Song of a New Organisation

Synopsis

The Tanoto Art Foundation (TAF) will be launching during SAW with the inaugural edition of the TAF Symposium taking place on 14 January 2025. TAF is a Singapore-based not-for-profit foundation dedicated to nurturing dialogues around the experience of contemporary art in Southeast Asia.

The one-day TAF Symposium will be bringing together leading international artists, art historians, curators, and institution builders, to collectively reflect on ideas of creativity, identity, and authenticity, and explore what it means to create and nurture an “organisation with a soul”. Composed of artists, art historians, curators, and institution builders, the minds gathered here each contribute to the composition of the soul song in their unique ways. Their thinking and practice expand our imagination of different aspects of creating an organisation, from ideas on how and why different kinds of collections – museum, knowledge, personal items, memories – are assembled, to the various challenges and rewards of inventing something new and thinking out of the box, and the history and future modes of collaborations and exchanges, especially the ones from South-to-South and previously under-recognised.