An Uncommon History of the Common Fence

An Uncommon History of the Common Fence is part performance-lecture, part spiraling conversation, & part research installation. It that suggests that the common fence—used as a protective safety urban device or as a boundary marker demarcating permissible and non-permissible movement—has had an uncommon history within the biography of island Singapore.

So commonplace within the urban environment that the fence recedes from active vision, and yet the common fence has been a participant in key events in the history of Singapore: as a witness to history, as a site of its making and as its casualty. In these ways, the fence, as an urban design element, has enacted and ruptured key dimensions of citizenship and belonging within this city.

Sewn-bound paperback
60 pages