Name: [Community-led Tours] Flashes of Memory
Start: 2026-01-30T14:00:00+08:00
End: 2026-03-04T15:00:00+08:00
Location: NUS Museum

The tour considers how one may construe the afterlives of a collaboration, performance or exhibition while exploring archival traces.
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Flashes of Memory: An Archival Tour

Conceptualised by student interns Lex Lee (College of Humanities and Sciences (CHS), Year 3) and Zoe Zou (CHS, Year 3), Flashes of Memory approaches archival materials as contingent and subjective practices of remembrance. The tour considers how one may construe the afterlives of a collaboration, performance or exhibition, while exploring archival traces, impulses, and materials that surface within NUS Museum.

The tour asks: What is the “archival”? How might we recognise an “archival impulse” in the broad range of materials that document, speculate, or remember?

Across the tour, the archives take shape as a field of nested narratives: books leading into other books, brochures opening onto exhibitions, photographs extending into performances, and fragments unfolding into speculative histories. Each stop offers a way of approaching the archive not as a closed or factual record, but as something shaped by and shaping the subjectivities of artists, writers, as well as by Lex and Zoe themselves, as they read, narrate, and relay the archives.

Disclaimer

This run of the tour is open only to NUS students, staff, and alumni. Please stay tuned for future runs of the tour that will be available for the public.

To ensure a safe and respectful experience for all, we ask participants to remain with the group throughout the tour and to refrain from straying from the route. The tour will proceed as scheduled, and we are unable to wait for latecomers or those who step away midway.

By joining the tour, you agree to uphold an environment of mutual respect and care for our student guides, organisers, and fellow participants. Disruptive or disrespectful behaviour will not be tolerated, and the Museum reserves the right to ask any participant to leave if such behaviour occurs to protect the well-being of others and the integrity of the programme.