# Why is there no goose meat in Singapore? / 为什么新加坡吃不到鹅肉？ — Hu Chao 胡超

Source: https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/bali-island/research/goose-and-archives/

## English

[Selected curatorial projects](https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/) / [Bali Island](https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/bali-island/)

[Exhibition](https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/bali-island/)[Research notes](https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/bali-island/research/)[International symposium](https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/bali-island/symposium/)[Selected works](https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/bali-island/works/)[Installation views](https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/bali-island/gallery/)[Full introduction](https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/bali-island/introduction/)[Catalogue & sources](https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/bali-island/resources/)

BALI ISLAND / CURATORIAL RESEARCH

# Why is there no goose meat in Singapore?

An installation brings performance archives into a question about food, farming and the regulation of an island-state.

Koh Nguang How · archives · food and borders

For this exhibition, Koh Nguang How returned to photographs of Tang Da Wu’s goose-burial performance and recombined archival material with contemporary images and objects. The resulting installation, Why There Is No Goose Meat in Singapore?, was made in 2026.

The catalogue reads the work through a collision between Cantonese and Teochew food traditions, the retreat of farming, quarantine rules and the regulation of imports. A question about something absent from the table becomes a way to examine cultural life within the structures of an island-state. The installation also shows how an archive can generate a new work and a new public question.

[

Image: Koh Nguang How, Why There Is No Goose Meat in Singapore?, 2026 / 许元豪，为什么新加坡吃不到鹅肉？，2026

](https://www.huchaocurator.com/assets/bali-exhibition/koh-goose.webp)

Koh Nguang How, Why There Is No Goose Meat in Singapore?, 2026Photographs, documents and mixed media on canvasImage / collection: Exhibition catalogue

CATALOGUE SOURCE

Bali Island: Art and the World Beyond the Rainforest, 2026. Catalogue text by Hu Chao. PDF pages 57.

[About the catalogue and sources](https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/bali-island/resources/)

CONNECTED RESEARCH

[Returning to Bali, forty-nine years later](https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/bali-island/research/bali-project-2001/)[A woodcut looks beyond the tropical view](https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/bali-island/research/woodcuts-and-social-life/)

EXHIBITION RECORD & RELATED CHANNELS

[GAFA Art Museum · official exhibition page](https://artmuseum.gzarts.edu.cn/info/1249/9719.htm)[GAFA Art Museum · e-flux announcement](https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/6787417/bali-island-art-and-the-world-beyond-the-rainforest)[Catalogue, credits & sources](https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/bali-island/resources/)

×

---

## 中文

[主要策展](https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/) / [巴厘岛](https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/bali-island/)

[展览详情](https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/bali-island/)[图册中的研究线索](https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/bali-island/research/)[国际研讨会](https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/bali-island/symposium/)[精选作品](https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/bali-island/works/)[展览现场](https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/bali-island/gallery/)[完整介绍](https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/bali-island/introduction/)[图册与相关发布](https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/bali-island/resources/)

巴厘岛 / 策展研究

# 为什么新加坡吃不到鹅肉？

一件装置把行为艺术档案，带入食物、养殖与岛国管理的问题之中。

许元豪 · 档案再激活 · 食物与边界

许元豪为本次展览重新选取唐大雾“埋葬鹅”行为艺术的摄影文献，并与当代图像、物件组合，形成2026年的装置《为什么新加坡吃不到鹅肉？》。

图册从粤、潮饮食传统、农业养殖的退场、检疫制度与进口管理之间的碰撞来解释这件作品。餐桌上缺少的一道食物，成为观察岛国制度与文化生活关系的入口。装置也呈现了档案如何被重新激活，生成一件新作品和一个新的公共问题。

[

Image: Koh Nguang How, Why There Is No Goose Meat in Singapore?, 2026 / 许元豪，为什么新加坡吃不到鹅肉？，2026

](https://www.huchaocurator.com/assets/bali-exhibition/koh-goose.webp)

许元豪，为什么新加坡吃不到鹅肉？，2026摄影、文献与帆布综合装置图片／收藏：展览图册

图册来源

《巴厘岛：雨林外的艺术与世界》，2026年。图册撰文：胡超。PDF第57页。

[关于图册与资料来源](https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/bali-island/resources/)

继续探索

[四十九年后，重新走进巴厘岛的图像](https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/bali-island/research/bali-project-2001/)[雨林之外，木刻中的社会生活](https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/bali-island/research/woodcuts-and-social-life/)

展览记录与相关发布

[广州美术学院美术馆 · 官方展览页](https://artmuseum.gzarts.edu.cn/info/1249/9719.htm)[广州美术学院美术馆 · e-flux发布](https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/6787417/bali-island-art-and-the-world-beyond-the-rainforest)[图册、致谢与资料来源](https://www.huchaocurator.com/exhibitions/bali-island/resources/)

×