| PROGRAMME OVERVIEW | |
| 2pm – 2.05pm | Welcome and Introduction by Zhang Bao Xin (Senior Curator of Public Programmes at ArtScience Museum) |
| 2.05pm – 2.10pm | Opening Remarks by Honor Harger (Vice President of Attractions and ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands) |
| 2.10pm – 2.35pm | Keynote: Curating Flesh and Bones Speaker: Dr. Monique Kornell (Visiting Associate Professor, Programme in the History of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre, L.A.) In this opening keynote, Dr. Monique Kornell introduces the curatorial foundations of Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy. Drawing on her work at the Getty Research Institute, she traces how anatomy has been studied and represented over time, at the intersections of art, science and education. Rather than presenting anatomy as a settled body of knowledge, the lecture reveals how it has developed through specific institutions, visual traditions and ways of looking at the body. The keynote sets the conceptual ground for the symposium, opening up anatomy as a field that can be rethought and expanded across different cultural and institutional contexts. |
| 2.35pm – 3.35pm | Session 1: Inherited Bodies Speakers: Professor Pang Weng Sun (Clinical Teacher, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University), Eleanor Chua Chih Yin (Head, Centre of Continuing Education, Singapore College of Traditional Chinese Medicine) and Chen Mingyue (Digital Education Technologist, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University) This session examines how anatomical knowledge is inherited, authorised and shaped within medical and cultural contexts in Singapore. Moving beyond anatomy as a neutral scientific discipline, it considers how bodies come to be known through histories of medical education and visual representation. Bringing together perspectives from biomedical ethics, medical illustration and Traditional Chinese Medicine, speakers reflect on how Western anatomical frameworks have been institutionalised while remaining entangled with other ways of apprehending the body through embodied practice and relational diagnosis. Their contributions invite reflection on anatomy as a human and ethical encounter, shaped by assumptions about learning and responsibility that continue to influence how bodies are taught, seen and valued. Professor Pang Weng Sun reflects on anatomy education in Singapore today, tracing its institutional inheritance while examining how ethical frameworks of donation shape how bodies enter medical learning. Eleanor Chua Chih Yin offers a perspective from Traditional Chinese Medicine, sharing how embodied practice, relational diagnosis and care propose different ways of understanding and responding to the body. Chen Mingyue discusses medical illustration as a mediating practice, considering how images translate anatomical knowledge and influence what is made visible or abstracted. |
| 3.35pm – 4pm | Q&A: Practices in Conversation with Dr. Monique Kornell, Professor Pang Weng Sun, Eleanor Chua Chih Yin and Chen Mingyue, moderated by Zhang Bao Xin |
| 4pm – 4.15pm | Break |
4.15pm – 5.45pm |
Session 2: After Anatomy Speakers: Wendi Yan (artist), Chiharu Shiota (artist), Dr. Yanyun Chen (artist) and Woong Soak Teng (artist) This session brings together contemporary artistic practices that reflect on the body beyond systems of classification. It opens with a speculative reflection on how scientific knowledge has been shaped by Enlightenment frameworks, inviting audiences to consider alternative ways of imagining the body and other possible scientific modernities. The session then turns to works that approach the body as lived and felt. Across photography, installation and material-based practices, the body emerges as an archive of experience, holding traces and absences that cannot always be explained through anatomy alone. As the closing conversation of the symposium, it reflects on the limits of anatomical knowledge, and how bodies continue to generate meaning beyond the structures used to define them. Wendi Yan presents Dream of Walnut Palaces as a speculative reimagining of alternative scientific modernities beyond Enlightenment frameworks. Chiharu Shiota reflects on her site-sensitive work The Network Within for the exhibition, considering how materiality and spatial entanglement evoke the body beyond anatomical structure. Dr. Yanyun Chen discusses The Scars That Write Us, exploring scars as inscriptions of memory and lived experience that exceed anatomical explanation. Woong Soak Teng reflects on Rules for Photographing a Scoliotic Patient, examining how photographic protocols and medical imaging impose order on bodies that are vulnerable and resistant to standardisation. |
| 5.45pm – 6.15pm | Q&A: Closing Reflections with Wendi Yan, Chiharu Shiota, Dr. Yanyun Chen and Woong Soak Teng, moderated by Zhang Bao Xin |
Japanese – English interpretation for Chiharu Shiota provided by Mamiko Okada
