Honor Harger | S5E2

I would like to ask about, well, it seems like there have been lots of assumptions or stereotypes of the work you do, right? And we've been talking about that a bit in this conversation, but is there one about your work that you feel, oh, if only people knew?

I guess it's that being fascinated with science and technology is somehow irrelevant to contemporary art.

And that's a fair assumption, because they seem like completely different topics.

But I think that that's a misconception.

I think that some of the most interesting artists historically and certainly working today have had a deep, deep engagement with the natural world, with physics, with mathematics.

The most obvious example, of course, is Leonardo da Vinci.

But, you know, kind of there are many, many examples that cut through, you know, kind of modern art history and certainly contemporary art kind of that have a deep, deep, you know, kind of engagement with that field.

So I feel like these worlds are not as separate as what people think.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, I hear you.

I mean, sometimes you try to separate them by saying art, science together, but actually it's not that neat a dichotomy, right? It's all kind of mixed together and we're working in the world where everything comes together as well.

Okay.

I mean, now you have futures imagined, you're doing your master's, you are publishing, speaking.

What do you wish to achieve next? What are your next big goals?

Well, I really want to take on a new exhibition project, whether it's Biennale level or place-based.

That gives me an opportunity to think through some of the things I didn't really have an opportunity to do at Art Science Museum or in other contexts yet.

So, so curating is still always, you know, kind of the thing that, you know, kind of gets me out of bed and gets me excited.

And I've got a couple of projects I would love to do if I found the right partner and the right context.

Can't say what just yet,

but, but that's,

Yeah, and there's also some artists that I've always wanted to work with that I haven't had a chance to and some curators that I would love to collaborate with kind of both in Singapore and internationally.

So, yeah, I'm still very motivated to kind of work at scale and I mean, you know, both large scale and small scale, you know, with the format of exhibition.

Yeah, with a bit more freedom, I guess, to make your choices.

Yeah, exactly

I would like to ask about, well, it seems like there have been lots of assumptions or stereotypes of the work you do, right? And we've been talking about that a bit in this conversation, but is there one about your work that you feel, oh, if only people knew?

I guess it's that being fascinated with science and technology is somehow irrelevant to contemporary art.

And that's a fair assumption, because they seem like completely different topics.

But I think that that's a misconception.

I think that some of the most interesting artists historically and certainly working today have had a deep, deep engagement with the natural world, with physics, with mathematics.

The most obvious example, of course, is Leonardo da Vinci.

But, you know, kind of there are many, many examples that cut through, you know, kind of modern art history and certainly contemporary art kind of that have a deep, deep, you know, kind of engagement with that field.

So I feel like these worlds are not as separate as what people think.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, I hear you.

I mean, sometimes you try to separate them by saying art, science together, but actually it's not that neat a dichotomy, right? It's all kind of mixed together and we're working in the world where everything comes together as well.

Okay.

I mean, now you have futures imagined, you're doing your master's, you are publishing, speaking.

What do you wish to achieve next? What are your next big goals?

Well, I really want to take on a new exhibition project, whether it's Biennale level or place-based.

That gives me an opportunity to think through some of the things I didn't really have an opportunity to do at Art Science Museum or in other contexts yet.

So, so curating is still always, you know, kind of the thing that, you know, kind of gets me out of bed and gets me excited.

And I've got a couple of projects I would love to do if I found the right partner and the right context.

Can't say what just yet,

but, but that's,

Yeah, and there's also some artists that I've always wanted to work with that I haven't had a chance to and some curators that I would love to collaborate with kind of both in Singapore and internationally.

So, yeah, I'm still very motivated to kind of work at scale and I mean, you know, both large scale and small scale, you know, with the format of exhibition.

Yeah, with a bit more freedom, I guess, to make your choices.

Yeah, exactly