Singapore - case study 1 新加坡 - 個案研究 1
Really Really Free Store
Initiated by Post-Museum
Since 2009
Singapore
Renew Earth Sweat Shop
Initiated by Post-Museum
2020-2021
Singapore
Really Really Free Store
Initiated by Post-Museum
Since 2009
Singapore
Renew Earth Sweat Shop
Initiated by Post-Museum
2020-2021
Singapore
Really Really Free Store
Initiated by Post-Museum
Since 2009
Singapore
Really Really Free Store (RRFS) is an extension of the Really Really Free Market (RRFM) series. RRFS is a free store that occupies a floor area of 1 by 1 meter. Some of the items from previous RRFM sessions are shipped from Singapore to ‘launch’ the store. The public can gift their items and add an info tag to the item they are gifting (materials provided).
The RRFM Series is part of a social movement where communities bond and grow through sharing of resources in temporary autonomous zones. Post-Museum works with communities in various cities to create the local chapters. These local chapters hold markets where goods and services are given out for free, based on the ideas of self-organisation and “give what you can, take what you need”. When the opportunity arises, a free store is set up with the same principles for a longer period of time. This Series includes Singapore, Brooklyn, Chiang Mai, Fukuoka, Jakarta, London, Tokyo, and Worcester.
Post-Museum has been organising Really Really Free Market series (RRFM) since February 2009 in Singapore. RRFM was inspired by the global Really Really Free Market social movement where non-hierarchical collectives of individuals form a temporary market based on an alternative gift economy where no money is used, but people offer goods and services.
photos of Jakarta Really Really Free Market at Jakarta Biennale 2015. Photo by Woon Tien Wei. Courtesy of Post-Museum
Really Really Free Store set up at HKBU. Courtesy of AVA, HKBU.
Renew Earth Sweat Shop
Initiated by Post-Museum
2020-2021
Singapore
Renew Earth Sweat Shop is is a community and participatory art project reacting to the environmental impact and labour conditions linked to the global fashion industry.
The story of clothes is a big part of the globalised economy that has a myriad of issues that reveal the dark side of globalisation. With each stop in the global life cycle of clothes, there appears to have little or no relationship with other phases of this cycle. How can we start to solve a global problem locally?
The everyday action of clothing oneself is not only an action of utility or style. The act – that choice – connects us to a larger often invisible world of people who make the clothes, who distributes the clothes, who collects the clothes at the end of its life cycle and who must deal with the discarded clothes as an unrelenting monstrous whole resulting from all everyday actions.
Image of Renew Earth Sweat Shop. photo by Woon Tien Wei. Courtesy of Post-Museum.
Post-Museum is an independent cultural and social space in Singapore which aims to encourage and support a thinking and pro-active community. It is an open platform for examining contemporary life, promoting the arts and connecting people. In addition to their events and projects, they also curate, research and collaborate with a network of social actors and cultural workers.
For Bukit Brown Index (2014-) is an ongoing project which indexes the case of Bukit Brown Cemetery. The struggle to conserve Bukit Brown is not read as a sentimental conservation but a struggle over Singapore’s Soul. Part of a worldwide movement, part social experiment, Post-Musem’s Really Really Free Market (2009-) form a temporary ‘free’ market zone based on alternative gift economy. The project creates a temporal physical manifestation of a micro-utopia where the fundamental economic structure is altered with a structured that value acts of ‘giving, sharing and caring heart’.
Currently operating nomadically, they continue to organise and host various events and activities in different spaces.