T is for Tiger

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What happens when forest surveyors collide with a Malayan tiger in the middle of a Singaporean jungle in 1835? Tracing Malayan cosmological beliefs about tigers embodying ancestral spirits, and other layers of intersecting histories, the artist deconstructed a 19th century drawing by Heinrich Leutemann “Unterbrochene Straßenmessung auf Singapore (Interrupted Road Surveying Singapore)”, to open up a swarm of stories about human-animal relationships, the politics of colonial surveys, and the organization of convict labor in the British Settlements.

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