Practical Biology (Not a Biology Practical) / Joshua Kon

8.3 x 11.7 inches, 28 pages,

Self-published 2023

Edition of 30

As an extension of the artist’s previous investigations into Singapore’s holistic and secular Sexuality Education curriculum, Practical Biology (not a Biology practical) places the delivery (or exclusion) of key information about our bodies and sexuality via the Science and Biology syllabus under the microscope of inquiry. The work manifests in the form of a student’s worst nightmare - An exam they did not study for. Questions, language and anatomy diagrams appropriated from local secondary 2,3 and 4 assessment papers and previous GCE ‘O’ level exams press the reader for practical day-to-day knowledge on top of academic concepts. It offers a glimpse of knowledge the artist wishes were imparted to him in a scholastic context.