Episode5
12-Hour Performance, Sound and Video
Festival
Performance, sound and video art,
visits to artists’ studios,
and a trip to Little India, all happening
on the final day of the year.
Episode5 12-Hour Performance, Sound
and Video Festival – marks the
closing of another eventful year and
welcomes the next – it features
Singaporean and international contemporary
artists, contemporary that spells
out the current, the in-existence,
and the present.
Episode5 is the fifth year-end show
organized by The Artists Village,
which aims to create a platform for
interaction, movement and exchanges
in art practices today. Notable artists
involved in past shows include Lee
Wen, Tang Dawu and Chng Seok Tin.
Witness, experience and get close
to contemporary art works and performances
within the city-centre intimate interior
spaces, occupied by some of Singapore’s
artists. Episode5 brings the audience
to view art presented in the artist-run-spaces
and studios, situated in one of Singapore’s
culturally rich districts.
Official
Website
http://www.tav2006episode5.blogspot.com/
Don’t miss the show –
one day only.
31st December 2006
12noon to 12midnight
Various venues at Little India:
1. Donna Ong’s studio
12 noon to 3pm
15C Mayo Street
2. Your MOTHER gallery
4 to 5pm
91A Hindoo Road
3. The Other House
8 pm onwards
66 Rowell Road
World Aids Day Performance
by Sabrina Koh & Natasha Wei
Title: Silent Dialogue With Bottles
II
Date: 1st December 2006, Friday
Venue: Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
(Campus 1, Foyer)
Time: 6:30pm
AIDS sloughs one's physical body off
and leaves behind physical remains
which the soul is not attached to.
Ultimately, the spirit of the soul
should be the one that overcomes this
terminal illness. In conjunction with
the World Aids Day and a continuation
of last year's, this performance by
two female artists in this silent
constructed time and space, enable
them to look into the subsistence
of our souls in one's living and hopefully
get in touch with the community by
increasing awareness of this illness
that feeds the soul when one is alive.
“Evolution of Kim-chiam:
From Dried Lily Bud to “Rolling
Red Dust” (1980-2006)”
Venue: TKS Gallery
(Telok Kurau Studios)
91 Lorong J Telok Kurau, Singapore,
425985
Tel: 65 348 0535
Dates: 7 July to 16 July
2006
Time: 11am to 7pm
Opening Ceremony: 7 July
2006, 7pm
Guest of Honour: Ms Ann Wang
Jing Rui , President of Lions Club
of Singapore Oriental
Supported by: Lions Club
of Singapore Oriental, p-10, Printmaking
Society (Singapore), Sculpture Society
(Singapore), The Artists Village and
Very Special Arts Singapore
An exhibition of prints, sculptures,
mixed-medias and installations by
Chng Seok Tin, which are based on
25 years of development of her works
known as “Kim-chiam Series”.
Since being awarded the Cultural
Medallion in 2005, Chng Seok Tin first
offered the public an opportunity
to view the archives of materials
related to her ideas and practices
in art through the exhibition entitled
“Blossoming of the Pomegranate:
Documenting 30 Years of Chng Seok
Tin's Art”, curated by p-10
and Koh Nguang How, from 22 October
2005 to 5 Jan 2006. (http://www.p-10.org/pomegranate/index.html)
This year Chng Seok Tin will present
a major series of her artistic works
which spanned a quarter of a century.
This series called the “Kim-chiam
Series” started from her observations
of interesting effects from lights
falling onto a food ingredient-the
Kim-chiam (in her Hokkien dialect),
which is the dried lily bud or “golden
needle”, in her kitchen while
studying for her advanced course in
printmaking in Hornsey College of
Art in UK. From photography, drawing,
printmaking, sculpture to installation,
she developed interesting works based
on her imaginations of the kim-chiam
as human figures. This exhibition
will see a major installation work
“Rolling Red Dust” as
a finale to the series. Selected works
(about 30 pieces) from the series
including photography, drawing, print,
mixed media and sculpture will be
exhibited.
Besides the two and three dimensional
works, Chng Seok Tin is inviting dancers
and musicians to respond to the installation
“Rolling Red Dust”- inspired
by the famous poem “The Eight
Winds Cannot Move Me” by poet
Su Dongpo from the Song Dynasty of
China.
(http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/2375.html)
She will also be conducting gallery
talk and workshop (dates to be decided
later) on printmaking with Kim-chiam
and other found objects.
Future Of Imagination 3
10th-14th April 2006
The Substation
“Future of Imagination 3”
intends to cross-examine performance
and live art practice within the international
context. Featured this year are guests
artists from Germany, United States
of America, Canada, Finland, Switzerland,
Japan, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia,
The Philippines, Malaysia, and Turkey
as well as Singapore artists.
It is a curated performance art gathering
of artists whose work has questioned
or attempt to share a continuing interest
in the cultural constructs of identity
in the global situation and current
trends of contemporary art practice.
In the present age of intense globalisation
we as artists organizers sincerely
believe that such an event will help
increase international cultural exchange
and understanding as well as being
an accentuation of our artistic practice,
research and development.
The artists will make live presentations
each evening to articulate ideas and
engage the audience in a sincere,
revelatory and immediate form. We
also hope to stimulate discussion
by holding forums to question the
status of performance art in our rapidly
changing society.
Fetterfield
10th-14th April 2006
Site-specific Performance
Art Event
Following the footsteps of a highly
critical work by Tang Da Wu entitled
Tiger’s Whip, which sees the
artist holding court with a crowd
of curious onlookers and unassuming
passers bys in the busy street in
Chinatown and performing with his
installation, highlighting the issue
of a controversial traditional medicine.
FETTER FIELD hopes to produce a series
of performance art works dealing with
public space/alternative sites with
the possibility of creating site-specific
works.
“FETTER literally means a chain,
a shackle for the ankles, a bond or
anything that confines or restrains;
a restraint and FIELD means an enclosed
area of open ground esp. for pasture
or cultivation.”
This event hopes to showcase the
performance art practice of Singapore
and Singapore base artists. Since
the lifting of a ban on public funding
of Performance Art in Singapore in
2003, we have seen the success of
the International Performance Art
Event: Future Of Imagination (FOI)
in 2003 and 2004. FETTER FIELD was
inspired by FOI but differs in its
aims to become its localized counterpart.
While FOI invited well-known practitioners
from all over the world, who have
years of experience and exposure in
this form of art, FETTER FIELD have
chosen 10 young Singapore and Singapore
based Artists who have shown great
enthusiasm and energy in this field,
having showcased previously in other
group exhibitions or during their
studies at local art colleges.
FETTER FIELD aims to be a platform
for exposing and nurturing upcoming
practitioners alongside the well-known
and experienced artists. FETTER FIELD
is also a public art event. This event
aims to contribute alongside the many
public art events and public art that
is being produced in Singapore.
Artistic Directors
Jeremy Hiah & Lina Adam
Assistant Artistic Directors
Natasha Wei & Muhd Harezam
Artists
Agnes Yit
Chua Chin Chin
Ezzam
Cheng Guang Feng
Isabelle Park
Jeremy Hiah
Krist Quck
Natasha Wei & Juliana Yasin
Sabrina Koh
Lina Adam
I M BREATHER
I M BREATHER is planned as a series
of activities surrounding the artistiic
practice of Jeremy Hiah since 1995.
I M BREATHER includes several exhibition
parts, talks, discussions and a compilation
of materials which will be published
at the end of the project.
Exhibition till 9th April
url: www.p-10.org/breather
Venue:
p-10
10 Perumal Road
Singapore 218777
Tel: +65 6294 0041
Email: admin@p-10.org
&
Your MOTHER Gallery
91A Hindoo Road
Singapore 209126
tel: +65 9787 7874
Email: yourmothergallery@gmail.com
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