Boxes, Borders, Biji, Cipta
March 22, 2026
Engine Room, SAM
A conversation prompted by CAMP's Metabolic Container at the Singapore Biennale.
What do seven hundred boxes moving between Batam and Singapore carry, beyond their contents? Prompted by CAMP's work: Metabolic Container at the Singapore Biennale, Boxes, Borders, Biji, Cipta takes a single 20-foot, half-imaginary container as a starting point for a conversation about trade and invention, food and language, and the short stretch of water that both connects and divides.
This event opens outward to the broader Malay world that Singapore sits within, to food as material history, informal trade and shared memory, and to the border as a cut in film: something that shapes appetite and story as much as it regulates it.
With:
Ashok Sukumaran (Artist, CAMP)
Sumit Mandal (Indian Ocean historian, chair of Arabia Asia Studies at ARI)
Farhan Idris (Critic and researcher across Buddhist, Feminist, Art- and Food-related thought)
Sharmini Pereira (Curator, MMCA Sri Lanka)
Selene Yap (Curator, SAM)
Shabbir Hussain Mustafa (Curator, SAM)
