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All images by the ICZ

 

 

JOurnal & Books

The journals and publications of the ICZ

 

 

The first edition of A Guide to the Flora and Fauna of the World was first published in 1973.
It serves as a medium for original studies based principally upon the collections in the Museum and the research of the Institute.

The current edition features Plates 1 - 55.

More information here

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Initiated by Zhao Renhui

Designed by H55 in Singapore
Published in 2013
Edition of 500
55 plates with documents and booklets contained in a hand crafted archival box
34cm x 24cm x 3cm
Individually signed with a 21cm x 14.8cm issued print certificate

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Mynas

More information here

Images by Robert Zhao Renhui

Designed by H55 in Singapore
Published in 2016 by The Institute of Critical Zoologists
Edition of 400
32 images, 104 pages. Soft Cover with Wrap around.
23cm x 30cm x 0.9cm (Thick)

ISBN: 978-981-09-8310-9

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Christmas Island, Naturally

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Images by Robert Zhao Renhui

Copyediting by Adeline Chia

Designed by H55 in Singapore
Published in 2016 by The Institute of Critical Zoologists
Edition of 450
130 images, 196 pages. Semi-hard Cover, Bounded.
23cm x 30cm x 2cm (Thick)

ISBN: 978-981-09-8638-4

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The whiteness of a whale

Zhao Renhui & Satoshi Kataoka

A project with The Institute of Critical Zoologists

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Text edited by Chia Hui Ting & Dr Yoshio Masui
Conception and Project Management : Zhao Renhui, Satoshi Kataoka
Language and Text Translation : Tom Hayashida (Japanese-English)
Copyright 2010. The Institute of Critical Zoologists

Purchasing a copy of The whiteness of a whale

Edition size: 600 (50 numbered edition with limited edition print)
Format: Soft cover
Size: 17 x 24 cm
Number of pages: 28
Type of printing: Offset/ Lithography
Type of paper: Naturalis, 157gsm
Name of printer: ICZ Press
Number of pictures: 16
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Phylliidae Studie; The Great Pretenders
A Journal of The Phylliidae Study Group of The Institute of Critical Zoologists

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14 images, 44 pages. 29.5cm x 21cm x0.4cm (Thick)

Staple Bound. Edition of 500.

 

Center for Phylliidae Science
The Institute of Critical Zoologists, 9-83, Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Tokyo, 110-8711, Japan

ISSN 1413-118

Abbreviation: PSG

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A Bird in the Hand, Why Look At Birds

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"The work to follow is an exploration of these complexities and reminds us that birds occupy a large and central part of that universe that human beings constantly carve out of nature." Ding Li

“In contemporary society birds are, perhaps, both the most watched and most eaten animal on our planet. They have become a focal point of debates about a 'proper' relationship between humankind and nature, and about definitions of humanity itself.” Naoko Noguchi

Against the very real environmental drama unfolding across the globe, multidisciplinary artist Renhui Zhao presents the exhibition A Bird in the Hand. The exhibition invites viewers to step into the The Institute of Critical Zoologists (ICZ), a multilayered conceit that operates across an array of levels.

"How do we celebrate 150 years of birdwatching?" Kimiya Yui


Essays by Naoko Noguchi, Director of Social Programs, Ding Li, Expert in Bird Ecology and Kimiya Yui.
The catalogue includes a special reprinted poster of Norishige Kanai's celebrated 'Looking at birds' (1957).

Editor: Chia Hui Ting
Editorial Board: Ding Li, Zhao Renhui

Published by The Institute of Critical Zoologists
(The Institute of Critical Zoologists publications are initiated by the Director of The Institute of Critical Zoologists)

Art Director: Tan Boon Hau
Book Design & Creative
Direction: TBH

Published 2011
First Edition (500 copies)
26 images, 28 pages.

17cm x 24cm x 0.4cm (Thick)

 

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Some Kind Of Expedition

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Some kind of expedition is an exhibition at Project Space @ Art Stage 2012, Singapore.

Working closely with The Institute of Critical Zoologists for the last five years, Zhao Renhui has been cataloguing, classifying and creating photographs and objects around the scientific institution.

As an inspiration for the work, the artist spent 6 months at the North pole, which had a significant impact on his practice. 'Some Kind of Expedition' deals with some of the artist's concerns of the natural world, science, photography and beliefs from the last five years. 

 


Essay by Zhao Renhui and Satoshi Kataoka
The catalogue includes a special reprinted poster of important landmarked expeditions by the ICZ since 2001.

SBN: 978-981-07-1212-9

 

25 imags, 48 pages.

20cm x 27cm x 0.5cm (Thick)

 

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Horses and Canaries, 2013

“The Blaenavon Industrial Landscape was awarded World Heritage Site status by UNESCO in November 2000. It is also included in the register of Landscapes of Outstanding Historic Interest in Wales. The “Forgotten Landscapes” describe the area surrounding and including Blaenavon Industrial Landscape World Heritage site in South Wales. This global significant landscape was formed over many centuries through the combined efforts of nature and man.”

Published by Ffotogallery, Wales and Robert Zhao Renhui

16cm x 11cm x 0.6cm

Set of 10 postcards in a sleeve.

Edition of 500.

 

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The Land Archive 2011

The Land Archive (TLA) houses the collective memory of your landscape. TLA manages an extensive archive of documents from private memoirs, historical maps and photographs to oral history interviews and audio-visual materials, some of which date back to the early 19th century.
"What is an archive? To what extent does it serve as a collection that repressents a truthful account of what has happened, of history as distinct from memory? What is the logic of its construction and ordering, how sufficients is it, in whose interests was it founded and by whom?
The Land Archive, as is stated, 'houses the collective memory of your landscape'. There is something here that is heterogeneous to the authroity of the athourized archive. We might add, this is the stuff of folk tales, myths and stories that often becomes the reposity of displaced truth, of experience that are discarded as no longer relevant to the intersts and pragmatic ambitions of today. The consequence of the destructions of a natural enviroment is always belated, too late for the annals of a monumental history being written before time has run its course. This is an archive of which there is no evidence. Perhaps, this is an irony that mimics the kind fo archvie that claims that is is a sufficient authority unto itself. This irony begs the truth of others who make such claims based, as they are, on a wilful absence, if not the erasure of a country's history, written in the ligth of tomorrow, the fictive dream of becoming." (Dr. Charles Merewether)

 

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Edition of 500

24cm x 17cm x 0.4cm

27 images, 49 pages

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Singapore, Very Old Tree 2015

 

Singapore is often known as a Garden City, but this is an impersonal image of anonymous trees and gardeners. Our project aims to boil this generic image down to specifics by exploring the concrete, personal connections that Singaporeans have made with trees. After all, what is loving nature without loving the individual plant?

Through our interviews, we found that people relate to plants in touching and occasionally surprising ways. For example, a group of Buddhists have been circling a rubber tree for an hour a day, for the past few years, as a form of walking meditation and to absorb the tree’s “energy”. A mangosteen tree has been sheltering a man for 20 years, since he saved it from the bulldozers. Another woman cries when her trees don’t fruit.

Besides featuring in individual stories, trees are living, breathing markers of history. The trees in our collection are of different ages. Some are old native species from pre-colonial times, when Singapore was mostly a freshwater swamp forest; others are younger trees that their owners planted from seeds.

The images on show are influenced by vintage hand-tinted Singapore postcards. In fact, Singapore, very old tree is named after the title of one of the oldest postcards in the National Archive, a 1904 picture of an unspecified tree.

 

More information here

 

Inside, you get 30 original postcards of the project by Robert Zhao, a map of interesting trees in Singapore, and a book of write-ups.

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The Bizarre Honour Dossier, 2017

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the bizarre honour dossier

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the bizarre honour dossier

 

the bizarre honour dossier

Image credit: Practice Theory

 

Design: Practice Theory. Click here for more images.

 

23cm x 30cm x 3cm (Thick)

17 set of documents and images including a pull-out poster.

Edition of 500.

 

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New Forest is a new series of books looking at secondary tropical forest ecologies and histories. It is published by The Institute of Critical Zoologists.

The first volume is dedicated to the last cow in Singapore, which died in 2016.

The book contains images of the cow just before it passed away.

 

In 1935, a herd of feral cattle was spotted roaming Singapore. Since then, alleged sightings have been rare. Reports came mainly from Japanese soldiers in World War II and occasionally from local residents. If these reports are true, these cows were confined to the areas of Tampines, Punggol, Sembawang and Pulau Ubin. In 2016, a cow was discovered on Coney Island but died shortly after.

Some believe that wild cows still roam Singapore. 

Conceived by The Institute of Critical Zoologists (ICZ) between 2014 and 2019, this book features images of cows in Singapore from the 1890s to 2016 from ICZ's archive.

Designed by H55 in Singapore
Published in 2020 by Robert Zhao Renhui
Edition of 1000

72 pages, 48 images. Hard Cover.

14.5cm x 20.1cm x 1.5cm (Thick)

ISBN: 978-981-09-8310-9

 

For information of the work, click here.

For information of the book, click here.

 

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For delivery to Singapore, please make a payment of $45 with the message "A History of Cows" and email your delivery name and address to info@criticalzoologists.org & robertys@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Singapore, Very Old Tree 2020, 2nd Edition

 

Singapore is often known as a Garden City, but this is an impersonal image of anonymous trees and gardeners. Our project aims to boil this generic image down to specifics by exploring the concrete, personal connections that Singaporeans have made with trees. After all, what is loving nature without loving the individual plant?

Through our interviews, we found that people relate to plants in touching and occasionally surprising ways. For example, a group of Buddhists have been circling a rubber tree for an hour a day, for the past few years, as a form of walking meditation and to absorb the tree’s “energy”. A mangosteen tree has been sheltering a man for 20 years, since he saved it from the bulldozers. Another woman cries when her trees don’t fruit.

Besides featuring in individual stories, trees are living, breathing markers of history. The trees in our collection are of different ages. Some are old native species from pre-colonial times, when Singapore was mostly a freshwater swamp forest; others are younger trees that their owners planted from seeds.

The images on show are influenced by vintage hand-tinted Singapore postcards. In fact, Singapore, very old tree is named after the title of one of the oldest postcards in the National Archive, a 1904 picture of an unspecified tree.

 

More information of the work, click here.

 

Inside the box, you get a booklet containing the stories of the 30 trees in the project, 30 postcards of the trees, a map of trees of interest in Singapore and poster of one of the trees.

 

Designed by gideon-jamie in Singapore
Published in 2020 by Robert Zhao Renhui
Edition of 1000

Booklet:10.6cm x 15.6cm x 0.5cm (Thick), 76 pages, soft cover, 30 images, 2C (black and silver) offset lithography on kraft paper
Postcards: 30 pieces, 10.6cm x 15.6cm each, Maple Stucco 320gsm with spot UV

Map: 7.7cm x 15.6cm (folded), 59.4cm x 15.6cm (opened)

Poster: 10.6cm x 15cm (folded), 60cm x 42cm (opened), 2C (black and silver) offset lithography on kraft paper

ISBN: 978-981-14-4877-5

 

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Note: The box which houses the contents will be the same packaging used for shipping. There will be no added packaging. The box set was designed to be shipped, reducing the need for more packaging during transit.

 

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For delivery to Singapore, please make a payment of $45 with "Singapore, very old tree" as a message " and email your delivery name and address to info@criticalzoologists.org & robertys@gmail.com

 

For more information of the box set, click here.

More information on the project, click here.

 

 

Singapore, very old tree box set, contents overview, 2nd Edition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Detail of Map

 

Detail of Poster

 

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New Worlds

From the window of my high-rise flat, I can see several green spaces. One of them is a small and lush green island bordered by several roads, and further away, a larger secondary forest. During Singapore's Covid-19 lockdown, I spent a lot of time looking at them.

 

In December 2020, the secondary forest started being cleared. At around the same time, I spotted a wild boar in the green island building a nest, preparing to give birth. She must have been evicted from the secondary forest, and her journey to her new home would have involved crossing several roads. In the end, this mother pig gave birth to six piglets. The secondary forest is now mostly gone. In the green island, I occasionally see the odd wild boar surfacing from the sides of the greenery.

 

Images of deforestation outside my window, with a wild boar giving birth in a nearby forest during the same period. View from my window, December 2020.

Archival images of deforestation in Singapore.

 

Conceived by The Institute of Critical Zoologists (ICZ) between 2014 and 2019, this book features images of cows in Singapore from the 1890s to 2016 from ICZ's archive.

Designed by H55 in Singapore
Published in 2022 by Robert Zhao Renhui
Edition of 500

64 pages, 63 images. Hard Cover.

14.5cm x 18.5cm x 1cm (Thick)

ISBN: 978-981-18-3978-8

 

Click here for more information on the book.

 

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Delivery
We aim to ship all orders on the day when the order is placed. This can be very tough and sometimes we may dispatch your order up to 10 days after the order was placed. All our books are packed well with bubblewrap or foam wrap with a thick corrugated board all around.

 

 

 


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