Centre for Urban Mythologies

The Centre for Urban Mythologies (CUM) is a research studio and platform excavating the im/material detritus of [Capital]* across the contested geographies of the [Global South]*. Drawn to the failures and fissures of contemporary spatial and visual cultures, CUM aims to instigate justices, solidarities, and pleasures.

Programmes

Soft Country

Featuring Works by

Tiyan Baker
Lêna Bùi
Prapat Jiwarangsan
Russell Morton
John Torres

23 Nov 2023

HOME/LAND
Recent Moving Images from Southeast Asia

Featuring Works by

Robert Zhao Renhui
Zarina Muhammad & Zachary Chan,
Shireen Seno
Prapat Jiwarangsan
Tuân Mami
Lêna Bùi
Lim Sokchanlina
Riar Rizaldi
Russell Morton
Tiyan Baker
Phạm Ngọc Lân
Nadiah Bamadhaj.

5 – 8 Oct 2023

EPISTOLARISTICS

Featuring Works by

Tiyan Baker
Albert Bansa
Jesse Joy
Mariane
Ashly Nandong & Charles Rentap McLean

30 Apr – 5 Jun 2022

PARAFICTIONS

Featuring Works by

Nguyễn Trinh Thi
John Torres
Shubigi Rao
Shireen Seno
Sompot Chidgasornpongse
Harryaldi Kurniawan

27 Nov – 5 Dec 2021