Post-Museum (2007, )

Biography

Post-Museum is an independent cultural and social space in Singapore which aims to encourage and support a thinking and pro-active community. It is an open platform for examining contemporary life, promoting the arts and connecting people. In addition to their events and projects, they also curate, research and collaborate with a network of social actors and cultural workers.

For Bukit Brown Index (2014-) is an ongoing project which indexes the case of Bukit Brown Cemetery. The struggle to conserve Bukit Brown is not read as a sentimental conservation but a struggle over Singapore’s Soul. Part of a worldwide movement, part social experiment, Post-Musem’s Really Really Free Market (2009-) form a temporary ‘free’ market zone based on alternative gift economy. The project creates a temporal physical manifestation of a micro-utopia where the fundamental economic structure is altered with a structured that value acts of ‘giving, sharing and caring heart’.

Currently operating nomadically, they continue to organise and host various events and activities in different spaces.

Education and Professional Experience

2013- Present Co-founded Awaken the Dragon Festival • An art project inspired by the last 2 remaining Dragon Kilns in Singapore. • Clay workshop for 5,000 members of the public. • Event organising for the 3 day festival at Jalan Bahar.

2011-Present Community Service • Maintain an interest in the development of civil society movements in Singapore. • Co-founded SOS Bukit Brown and involved with the campaign to preserve Bukit Brown Cemetery. • Co-founded The Soup Kitchen Project Singapore programme which distributes food once a week to the needy in Little India area.

2007 - Present Founded Post-Museum • Managed and operated an independent cultural and social space in Singapore, serving as an open platform for examining contemporary life, promoting the arts and connecting people. • Managed and operated an art project / Restaurant / Bar called Food #03. • As of mid-Aug 2011, Post-Museum has moved out of its Rowell Rd premises and is currently nomadic. • Experience in organising activities for different communities like art, environment, human rights and workshops.

Publications

2019 Woon, T. W. (2019). On Being In-curatable: Between Nations. In Art You have to lose your way to find yourself in the right place. (pp. 8-9). Singapore: NUS MUSEUM.

Woon, T. W. (2019). ’s Independent Archive. In ArtAsiaPacific Blog. http://artasiapacific.com/Blog/LeeWensIndependentArchive

2018 Woon, T. W., & Teo, J. (2018). On being un-institutional: why independent art spaces should still pop up. In U. Meta Bauer & A. Rujoiu (Eds.), Place.Labour.Capital. (pp. 58-63). Singapore: NTU CCA Singapore & Mousse Publishing.

2017 Woon, T. W., & Teo, J. (2017). The Collective Moment: Post-Museum’s Rowell Road Period In J. Luger & J. Ren (Eds.), Critical Artscapes / Resilient Artists: Worlding the Discussion on Art and Space. London: Routledge.

Woon, T. W. (2017). Still Here Somehow: Artists and Cultural Activism in Singapore's Renaissance. [Online Journal]. Oncurating(35), 140.

2016 Woon, T. W., & Teo, J. (2016). Post-Museum in conversation with Susanne Bosch. In S. Bosch & H. B. Mendolicchio (Eds.), Transactions in the Field: Goethe Institute.

2012 Woon, T. W. (2012). Art in Knowledge-based Economy: Artist/Cultural activist strategies in Singapore's Renaissance. (Doctorate of Creative Arts Thesis), Curtin University of Technology, Perth http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=188635&local_base=GEN01-ERA02

2010 Czegledy, N., & Woon, T. W. (2010). Nina Czegledy and Woon Tien Wei. In S. Cook, B. Graham, V. Gfader & A. Lapp (Eds.), A Brief History of Working with New Media Art: Conversations with Artists (pp. 165-180). London: The Green Box.

Selected Group Shows

2020 Renew Earth Sweatshop, Various sites around Singapore, Singapore Ghost Story Campfire Night 4 (Love Edition), , 2019, Singapore

2019 Every Step in The Right Direction, Gillman Barracks, Singapore Biennale 2019, Singapore Worcester Really Really Free Market, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, USA Singapore Utopia, Chan+Hori Contemporary, Singapore Food, Lions and Zombies, Yeo Workshop, Singapore Master Tools, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands Madou Sugar Industry Art Triennial, Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center-Sugarfield, Madou Sugar Industry Art Triennale, Tainan, Taiwan UenoYes Ballon Days #3 , Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan

2018 Deathsong, Substation, Singapore Artist Residency , Zhongshan Building, Singapore Leaving Room, Your Mother Gallery, Singapore Your Mother Gallery Garage Sale, Your Mother Gallery, Singapore

2017 The Village (is) Kitchen, Dameisha Village, 7th Bi-City Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB), Shenzhen, China Meta-graphy, Deck, Singapore Meta-graphy, Meme Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan Tokyo Really Really Free Market, Musashino Library, Tokyo, Japan Guerilla Art Hunt, Sungei Road Market, Singapore CITIES FOR PEOPLE NTU CCA Ideas Fest 2016/17, NTU-CCA, Singapore

2016 SURVEY: SPACE, SHARING, HAUNTING, , Singapore The Kula Ring, 72-13, Singapore International Festival of Arts, Singapore Der Kula Ring, Galerie Eigenheim, Weimar, Germany Public Art Festival, Singapore Art Club at Gillman Barracks, Singapore

2015 Jakarta Biennale 2015, Gudang Sarinah & Rusun Marunda, Jakarta, Indonesia M.E.L.T.ING Project: Reviving from Melting and Ashes, Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan CULTUREHACKSG 1.0, NUS , Singapore Art Week 2015, Singapore Awaken the Dragon 2014 Exhibition, The Agora, Singapore

2014 Unearthed, , Singapore Awaken the Dragon Festival 2014, Various sites around Singapore, Singapore More than [show] business: Post-Pop Up, Contemporary Center of Art, Singapore

2013 Awaken the Dragon Festival 2013, Various sites around Singapore, Singapore Untitled II (Dawu) , Show, Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore, Singapore Dialogue the Promise, Chiang Mai University Arts Centre, Chiang Mai, Thailand

2012 Untitled (Lions' Dream), Artist's Caravan, Singapore

2011 Activist Care Centre, Post-Museum, Singapore Server Foundation: Indexes, Online Project

2010 Structural Integrity, Arts House Meat Market, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, Australia

2009 Live and Let Live: Creators of Tomorrow, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (FAAM), 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka, Japan

2008 Local_local , Castlefield Gallery , Asian Art Triennial Manchester, Manchester, UK

Reviews and writings on Our work

2016 The Business Times Feb 6, 2016, Picture perfect picnics by Rachel Loi and Tan Teck Heng http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/lifestyle/food-drink/picture-perfect-picnics

This is Singapore, TV programme, Channel U / Toggle http://video.toggle.sg/en/series/this-is-singapore/ep4/359253

2009 Fukuoka Now Sept 2009, Fukuoka Now Ltd. All Rights Reserved

Talks and Conferences

2020 Space, Spaces, Spacing, Substation, Singapore Working in the Realm of the Dead and the Undead: Land Contestation in Singapore, Yale-Nus, Singapore Substation: A Case for Cultural Heritage, Substation, Singapore Salvage Stories in Art & Ecology: Public Talk, Esplanade, Singapore

2019 The Political Agency of Art with Post-Museum, NTU-CCA, Singapore Artist Talk, Madou Sugar Industry Art Triennial, Tainan, Taiwan Working in the Realm of the Dead and the Undead: Land Contestation in Singapore, Yale-Nus, Singapore

2018 Art and Action: Contemporary Art and Discourse in Southeast Asia conference, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore Practices of Alternative Art Spaces and Transitional Politics in Asia, Asia Research Institute, 8Q Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Contemporary Art and the Everyday Panel Discussion, M1 Fringe Festival Panel , , Singapore Cultural Industries and Intellectual Property in Southeast Asia, Applied Research for Intellectual Assets and the Law in Asia, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore

2017 The Art of Conviviality: Tools for Shared Values & Communities, Brack, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore CIMAM 2017 Annual Conference, CiMAM, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore Community Arts Roundtable, Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Remapping Arts, Heritage, and Cultural Production, Asia Research Institute, Singapore Public Summit: Modalities of Exchange, Ideas Fest Cities For People, NTU-CCA, Singapore

2016 ANCER Research Camp: Collective Creative Practices in Southeast Asia, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore Memes, Schemes and Dreams: Imagining Singapore Urban Futures, NTU, Singapore One By One Metre Space Rough Tours, Flanuer Gallery, Singapore Guest Speaker for Spaces of the Curatorial. Printed Matter(s), Workshop led Regina Maria Moeller Guest Speaker for Professional Practice Module, Lasalle BA Fine Art, Singapore

2015 BICARA TITIAN BUDAYA, Forum on Engaging Singapore-Malaysia Artistic & Cultural Communities, Black Box, Publika, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2014 Curatorial Roundtable Public Talk Series, Curating Lab, Singapore