Sim Chi Yin
@chiyin_sim
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Artist | Singapore | New York | Berlin | Whitney Museum Independent Study Program | Phd researcher @KingsCollegeLon | #artistmum | Instagram @chiyin_sim
New York
Joined June 2009
Moved and grateful for a kindred read on my on-going project on the anti-colonial war in Malaya by Tash Aw in the art issue of @nybooks, focused on my last solo show and the first of four books I'm making from the project.
nybooks.com
Visiting the photographer Sim Chi Yinโs show in Berlin was, for me, an exercise in keeping focus. My instinct was to look away. Too many of the faces
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Itโs getting real: just got the catalogue from @PenguinBooks for the September launch of my book on counter-history in China with a snazzy cover by @aiww The catalogue cover features the late great Wang Xiaobo, whose essays are finally appearing in English!
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Blue Trees by @ninamingya is a poetic response to Autograph's commission by artist @chiyin_sim In a series of poems, Powles emphasises the collective legacies imbued in the uncanny experience of people and place as simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar https://t.co/BkYeUO2FOc
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Art Talk in Brooklyn Heights: ๐จTonight I was so happy to be in conversation with artist @chiyin_sim and her powerful meditation on colonial intimacies, family silences, British Malaya, and China. @AsiaArtArchive it was recorded ICYMI.
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In a new blogpost, artist @chiyin_sim discusses her commission with curators Renรฉe Mussai and Bindi Vora and using the archive as a site for photographic time travel to explore issues of childhood, trauma, futurity and the legacies of colonial violence https://t.co/8mLeBzUols
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NEW COMMISSIONS ๐ท Critical Times: Dialogues in Contemporary Photography Sim Chi Yin, Reena Saini Kallat and Laura El-Tantawy were selected by Autograph and @BagriFoundation to create work responding to critical geopolitics of our time through photography https://t.co/AmnNbpht28
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A new episode is in your podfeed. The British Empire had a trick of calling some of their wars 'emergencies' instead of wars, really quite the euphemism for eg the Malayan Emergency which was a 12-year conflict. @chiyin_sim and @lottelydia explain why
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When is a war not a war? When the British Empire called it an 'emergency' so they didn't have to abide by wartime rules or lose their insurance payouts. Artist and journalist Sim Chi Yin reflects on...
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Sim Chi Yin (@chiyin_sim) presents the land as an archive for conflict and memory. Surreal, blurred images document isolated sites in Malaysia and Thailand. Represented by FOST Gallery, Singapore, @ArtBasel Hong Kong. Opening today: https://t.co/mdAk6W1bXs
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Pleased to be showing my โRemnantsโ series in a solo booth at @ArtBasel HK next week with Fost Gallery. https://t.co/LgycjbLd8p
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China is one of Russiaโs closest partners, but supporting the invasion would damage Beijingโs ties with wealthy democracies and alienate many Chinese citizens, writes @iandenisjohnson and Kathy Huang.
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How has China responded to Russiaโs invasion of Ukraine? The invasion has put China in an awkward position. China and Russia have close economic ties, but a pillar of Chinese foreign policy is...
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Nuclear history comes back to bite usโฆ Russian forces are battling Ukrainians in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, risking damaging the cement-encased reactor. Consequences will be felt from farโฆ These images I made in 2017 are from a U.S. facility built during the Cold War.
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Beijing: For many years basements beneath the city have been #home to #lowearners in #Bejing. @chiyin_sim has created portraits of the residents over four years. Find the #photography series as well as an #interview in our new issue! To order: https://t.co/ZyM2iptvwo
#housing
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Happy new year from Brooklyn! After an intense two years with a dozen exhibitions, a new book, a baby and moving across continents in a pandemic, weโve relocated here with our toddler and will be based between New York and Berlin over the next two years. Instagram @chiyin_sim
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My conversation with @MaazaMengiste on post-colonial trauma, grief, absence, recovery and intervening in the colonial archive is now out on @OculaArt.
ocula.com
Artist Sim Chi Yin and writer Maaza Mengiste share their approaches to intervening in colonial archives.
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Spoke with @rajandatar on the Malayan Emergency, my research, art and book-making on the topic on @bbcworldservice The Forum, w Rachel Leow and Show Ying Xin.
bbc.co.uk
One of the earliest Cold War conflicts in Asia
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On Thurs 28 Oct, I will be in conversation with Leopold Lambert @TheFunambulist_ on State(s) of Emergency -- on my work on British Malaya and his work on the colonial continuum in French use of emergency law. Join us on Zoom: https://t.co/mBNRl5ocCk
@ZilbermanGaleri @warstudies
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My new solo show opens in Berlin tomorrow, at @ZilbermanGaleri, with a conversation with @MaazaMengiste at 12pm! https://t.co/Ie0QzZz7j5
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Iโll be doing a talk with @MaazaMengiste this Saturday 12pm at Zilberman Gallery Berlin on our mutual work on colonial and vernacular archives - to mark to opening of my solo show looking at the anti-colonial war in British Malaya and my interventions in the colonial archive.
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Happy to be part of this group show in the Philippines
๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ก๐๐๐จ๐ฐ: ๐๐๐ซ๐จ-๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ง ๐๐๐๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฌ UP Vargas Museum 24 September 2021 - 15 January 2022 Visit the exhibition's Facebook event page to know more about the exhibition: https://t.co/ZezXRpQlTm.
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The 'Malayan Emergency Case Study' is now live on the COTCA Digital Archive, with a digital map of the Emergency resettlement programmes, compiled by Dr David Baillargeon, available and fully Open Access: https://t.co/hiOM9gYEZK
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