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Saturday, October 19, 2002
The Substation
and Plum Blossoms Gallery
presents
Forum for the Arts 2002
featuring talks by
Mella Jaarsma
Aisyah Hilal
David Chan
C. J. W.-L. Wee
sponsored by
THE SHAW FOUNDATION
Dates & Times:
Mella Jaarsma & Aisyah Hilal / 12 October 2002, Saturday, 2.00pm
David Chan & C. J. W.-L. Wee / 19 October 2002, Saturday, 2.00pm
Venue:
The Guinness Theatre
The Substation
45 Armenian Street
Singapore 179936
tel: 6337 7535 fax: 6337 2729
email: admin@s...
admission is free
Forum for the Arts (FFA) is one of the longest running series of
forums on the visual arts in Singapore. Organised by The Substation
in collaboration with Plum Blossoms Gallery, FFA presents talks by
important or up-and-coming curators, critics, artists and scholars
from Singapore, the region and around the world.
C. J. W.-L. Wee currently teaches literature and cultural theory at
Nanyang Technological University, and was formerly a fellow at the
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, in the Regional Social and
Cultural Studies programme, where he co-edited Sojourn: Journal of
social issues in Southeast Asia. He is the author of Culture, Empire,
and the Question Of Being Modern (forthcoming) and the editor of
Local Cultures And The "New Asia": The State, Culture And Capitalism
In Southeast Asia (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies). His present
research interests include art and cultural production in the context
of the modernisation that has taken place in Singapore in the 1980s
and 1990s. For FFA 2002, C. J. W.-L. Wee's presentation will offer
some historical perspective on the recent developments in the arts in
Singapore.
David Chan is an independent curator based in New York and Hong Kong.
He has a Masters of Arts Degree from the Center for Curatorial
Studies at Bard College, New York. His many exhibitions include "Any
Where", a show about rethinking the meaning of place in the age of
globalisation, which featured the artists Claire Barclay, Louise
Hopkins, Lin Yilin, Ellen Pau, Wong Kar-wai and Zhu Jia. For FFA
2002, David Chan will share some of his observations and reflections
about the recent Documenta 11 exhibition (Kassel, Germany).
Cemeti Art House was founded in Yogyakarta in 1988 by Mella Jaarsma
and Nindityo Adipurnomo. The House presents both Indonesian and
non-Indonesian contemporary artists in a wide range of projects and
activities - including exhibitions, happenings, performances,
residencies, site-specific projects, forums and artists talks. The
building of the Cemeti Art House was designed in 1999 by the
architect Eko Agus Prawoto. Its architectural construction reflects
the many tensions and paradoxes that the Cemeti Art House explores in
its activities: the local vis-à-vis the global, the traditional
vis-à-vis the modern, art vis-à-vis non-art, the individual vis-à-vis
collective, the natural vis-à-vis the manmade, craft vis-à-vis
industry, and convention vis-à-vis innovation. Cemeti Art House has
collaborated with many arts groups from around the region, and
recently participated in the 2002 Gwangju Biennale.
Mella Jaarsma was born in the Netherlands and has been living and
practising art in Indonesia since the mid-1980s. She is a co-founder
and co-director of the Cemeti Art House. She studied arts in the
Netherlands and is also a graduate of the Art Institute of Indonesia,
Yogyakarta in 1986. She has exhibited widely, including the Third
Asia-Pacific Triennial in Brisbane in 1999.
Aisyah Hilal is a programme coordinator with the Cemeti Art
Foundation. The Foundation, established in 1995, operates
independently of the Cemeti Art House. It is a non-commercial
organisation with a six-member board and a staff of five, who focus
on research and documentation, establishing a library, cultural
exchange projects and arts education initiatives. For FFA 2002, Mella
Jaarsma and Aisyah Hilal will discuss their work with the Cemeti Art
House and Cemeti Art Foundation.
The Substation
45 Armenian Street
Singapore 179936
tel (65) 6337 7535
fax (65) 6337 2729
www.substation.org.sg
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