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The invitation to the press conference on March 24,
2006 was laid out like a top-secret document to correspond with the “official” character
of the site of the event. The City Hall, erected in the 1920s, long
housed Singapore’s central municipal administration and facilities
of its Supreme Court. Here Japan signed the capitulation in 1945: here
Lee Kuan Yew proclaimed Singapore’s internal autonomy in 1959;
and here in this building, in 1965, the first government of the completely
independent city-state was sworn in.
But now the building is mostly empty; it is to be remodeled into
the National Art Gallery by 2010. For now, however, it is one of the
settings of the Singapore Biennial, and some artists are creating installations
in courtrooms and official offices that are still furnished.
In this venerable building, the organizers and the artistic director
announced the now almost complete list of artists, the diverse exhibition
sites, parts of the accompanying program, and other details of the
first Singapore Biennial. After this brief overture, the audience rode
buses through the city past some of the stations of the biennial course
to Tanglin Camp. The press conference continued after a short viewing
of the military camp, which was set up in the colonial period, now
lies amid burgeoning tropical vegetation, and is one of the primary
exhibition sites.
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City Hall und
Tanglin Camp
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