In the Shape of a Square

Curated by Clifford Loh

Artists: Post Museum (Singapore), Super Critical Mass (Australia/United States) and Eating in Public (United States)

April and May 2021 

In the Shape of a Square is a series of temporary site-specific interventions around New York City that attempts to trace the contours of social relations in public space. Envisioning the curatorial as an infrastructural method, works by Post Museum (Singapore), Super Critical Mass (Australia/United States) and Eating in Public (United States) serve as open proposals to the public and will unfold organically and in a manner that is not predetermined. In a time of global political and social uncertainty, during which COVID-19 precautionary measures continue to limit intimacy and direct exchange, In the Shape of a Square speaks to human vulnerability and the effects of the virus on both a personal and global scale. What is art’s capacity to activate a democratic effect in the complex composite situation of public space, to produce space while questioning its becoming?