Singapore Biennale 2006
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Friday, May 23, 2003
CELESTIAL ENCOUNTERS
an exploration of the zodiac by Parvathi Nayar and Jason Wee
Thursday 29th May 2003 7.30 pm
Utterly Art Exhibition Space
208 South Bridge Road 2nd Level, Singapore 058757
Tel: 6226 2605 E-mail: utterlyart@pacific.net.sg
Mon-Sat 11.30 am - 8 pm Sun 12 noon - 5.30 pm
The exhibition runs through to Sunday 8th June 2003.
Fortune-telling – do you really believe in that? Astrology? Humbug! Reading one’s destiny in the stars might seem a trifle anachronistic at the start of a new millennium, but many people continue not to make any major life decisions unless an almanac is consulted or a fengshui master is called in. Even the trendiest magazine has a page devoted to horoscopes so that one can chart one’s future life (or one’s life for that week at any rate) in the comfort of knowing that your fate has been foretold.
Artist and art-writer Parvathi Nayar is aware that her medium of painting is also an ancient and traditional practice – can it also be considered old-fashioned and anachronistic? Like the zodiac, painting is much respected for historical reasons, and present-day artists continue to find relevance in expressing themselves through painting -but how is it to retain its ‘edge’? Enter photographer and poet Jason Wee – his medium is of a much younger vintage, and is today undergoing its own transformation from film to digital imaging. By exhibiting together, both artists seek to create a synergy that will invite relooking and reexamination through contrast and juxtaposition. Parvathi presents the Western zodiac, researched and reinterpreted from a personal perspective. Jason investigates the Chinese zodiac as it wields its influence over man, not from cosmic forces, but from its imposition over our bodies and minds. From the celestial musings of the two artists, we encounter a multimedia and multidisciplinary perspective that reflects the pluralistic outlook of our ambiguous times.
Wednesday, May 21, 2003
Mindscapes
Alliance Française de Singapour
Ten new media pieces from Singaporean conceptual artist Tai Cheng communicate the artist's perspective on sexuality, gender, recreational drugs and the Singapore social condition, by engaging in a dialogue with the audience through three-dimensional representations using twigs, canvas and industrial paint.
Fantasmatic: 9 Chilean Artists
Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay
The show consists of installations, paintings and mixed media works. The touring exhibition presents a rare and insightful glimpse into contemporary Chilean art development, with the nine artists exploring ideas of play, fiction and illusions.
25 May to 22 Jun at Esplanade, Jendela Gallery.
Call 6828-8222 for details.
Configuring the Body: Form & Tenor in Ng Eng Teng's Art
NUS Museums
This is the last of the three donations of more than a thousand pieces of artworks from the late artist comprising 56 sculptures and marquettes, 17 paintings and drawings, and six pottery pieces. The show also includes his last work pieced together from blood-stained cotton swabs used in his dialysis treatment.
The show is on until Dec 2003 at NUS Museums. Call 6874-4081 for details.
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
“Tranquillity” a Solo Exhibition of Paintings by Dok Hi Kim
7 June – 6 July 2003
Wetterling Teo Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition of paintings by Dok Hi Kim together with support from the Australian High Commission.
Dok Hi is an Asian artist who has made Australia her home. She moved in 1980 from Korea to Melbourne and is now making her mark on the Australian art scene.
Light plays a predominant role in her paintings, as does the distinct Australian landscape. She was struck by the enormous amounts of space, the particular natural features and the seemingly endless skies of Australia. All things human become little, insignificant under the vast presence of nature. There may be hints of Buddhist or Animist philosophy here, but they are for the viewers to decide.
Dok Hi Kim’s work is a harmony of colours, dappled surfaces, floating sensations and tranquillity, a gentle cacophony of wax and glazing. Dok Hi is not really a landscape painter. Nor is she an abstractionist. The world of Dok Hi is one of imagination, where a literal source is filtered through extraordinary colouration and texture, where the world we know is becalmed, and we are left floating on a gentle tide.
Dok Hi discards as much work as she exhibits. She proclaims that she is “never satisfied.” Thus the process is an ongoing exploration, a never-ending aesthetic adventure. The artist spends time in the leafy tranquillity of Melbourne’s Botanical Gardens, sketching in a more traditional, figurative, style. But these are no more than notes, secluded in draw for casual reference. Once she is in the studio, Dok Hi looks inward, seeing the shimmer of light on the water as the sun heads into the West, the moment when a breeze passes over the surface of a lake, the second when the half-hidden leaf of a water lily moves gently in accordance with the ebbs and flows of nature. “As human beings we are all part of nature,” she says. “We all have nature inside.”
Stop and look at these paintings and squint against the dazzling flash of light on the water’s surface and, for a moment, be calm. There are no car horns, no advertising, no war in this –
Dok Hi’s world.
(Please see Annex for details on exhibition and the artist will be available for interviews between 4th – 6th June 2003)
For more information on the above, please contact:
Ms Lavina Sham, Client Relations
OR
Ms Sharon Ong, Client/Corporate Relations
Tel: [65] 6738 2872 Fax: [65] 6735 6495
E X H I B I T I O N D E T A I L S
Event
“TRANQUILLITY” BY DOK HI KIM
Venue
Wetterling Teo Gallery
3 Kim Yam Road, Singapore 239321
Exhibition Opening
Friday, 6 June 2003, 6.30pm
[by invitation only]
Guest of Honour
Mr Michael Wood, Deputy Australian High Commissioner
Duration of Exhibition
7 June 2003 – 6 July 2003
Exhibition Hours
10am – 7pm [daily]
Admission
Free
LEA Special Issue: Technology and Difference
Guest Editor: Irina Aristarkhova (uspia@nus.edu.sg)
The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (ISSN No: 1071-4391) is inviting papers that address the complex relationship between technology and difference. Technology is often conceived as an ability to "create", "innovate", "make"; all that which differentiates: 'man' from 'nature'; human from animal. It is seen as a path to 'God(s)' and 'community', sociality, spirituality, and consciousness.
It plays out sexual difference in its separation of human creative ability from 'natural reproduction', though this separation has been radically challenged by the recent reproductive technologies and legal issues associated with the notion of ownership of biological matter.
Cultural differences are enacted in differentiations of 'technologically advanced' from 'technologically backward' cultural traditions, often evidenced in statistics on use and proliferation of such technologies. There are significant differences how cultures approach this question of 'technology' both in art and science, albeit they are rarely presented and poorly understood.
In the past few decades, however, a new optimism has been propagated of a technology that is said to operate as a de-differentiating force: it builds bridges, it unites, it globalizes (for better or for worse), it brings us closer. It goes beyond 'old' differences: ethnic, sexual, cultural, animal, towards 'new' differences between human and (intelligent) machine, human and post-human, human and transgenic or artificial species.
We call for papers that critically address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
-Technology and sexual difference: concepts, history, aesthetics; notion of ownership in reproductive bio-technologies, cultural differences in figurations of gender and technology.
-Technology and animal / species difference: responsibility and bio-technology; animal Otherness and bio-tech research; transgenic aesthetics and definitions of human.
- Technology and cultural / ethnic difference: politics of the local; different cultural approaches to technology; new media art and cultural / geographical specificity.
LEA encourages international artists / academics / researchers / students to submit their proposals for consideration. We particularly encourage authors outside North America and Europe to send proposals for articles/gallery/artists statements.
Proposals should include:
- 300 word abstract / synopsis
- A brief author biography
- Any related URLs
- Contact details
Deadline for proposals: 31 June 2003
Please send proposals to:
Irina Aristarkhova
uspia@nus.edu.sg.
or
Nisar Keshvani
LEA Editor-in-Chief
lea@mitpress.mit.edu
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/LEA/
* Both Irina and Nisar are stationed in Singapore.
What is LEA?
Established in 1993, the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (ISSN No: 1071-4391) is the electronic arm of the world's most prestigious art journal, Leonardo - Journal of Art, Science & Technology.
LEA is jointly produced by Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST) and published under the auspices of MIT Press. Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA), is Leonardo/ISAST and MIT Press' electronic journal dedicated to providing a forum for those who are interested in the realm of where art, science & technology converge.
Content
This peer reviewed e-journal includes Profiles of Media Arts facilities and Projects, Profiles of artists using new media, Feature Articles comprised of theoretical and technical perspectives; the LEA Gallery exhibiting new media artwork by international artists; detailed information about new publications in various media; reviews of publications. events and exhibitions. Material is contributed by artists, scientists, educators and developers of new technological resources in the media arts.
Mission
Since 2002, LEA formed a strategic alliance with fineArt forum - the Internet's longest running arts magazine. Through this partnership, LEA concentrates on adding new scholarship and
critical commentary to the art, science and technology field, with LEA subscribers benefiting from the latest news, announcements, events, and job/educational opportunities through
fAf's online news service.
LEA's mission is to maintain and consolidate its position as a leading online news and trusted information filter whilst critically examining arts/science & technological works catering
to the international CAST (Community of Artists, Scientist &Technologists)
LAUNCH OF ART IN TRANSIT PROGRAMME
The launch of the Art in Transit programme was originally scheduled
to take place on 30 April 2003.
However, due to unforeseen circumstances, the event was postponed.
We are pleased to inform you that we have rescheduled the event to:
Date : Friday, 6th June 2003
Time : 10am - 11.30am
Venue : Farrer Park MRT station (Enter via entrance B facing Blk 681 Race Course Road)
CALL FOR ARTISTAMPS (DESIGNS ON STAMP FORMAT)
DESIGN BRIEF
Background:
At a public forum on stamp design in November 2002, Mr Viswa Sadasivan, Chairman & CEO of The Right Angle, highlighted that our postage stamps have featured largely inanimate objects and less of the intangible such as emotions and values.
Singapore Philatelic Museum picks up on this comment and is preparing an exhibition to explore how the intangible can be captured through design on a stamp.
Details: The Intangible/Read between the Lines
You are encouraged to focus on a significant personal correspondence of the past, recent times or an imagined/fabricated one. The focus of the exhibition is how stamps can capture or reflect the emotions and thoughts that are explicit or implicit in the correspondence of your choice.
There are no constraints on the theme of your correspondence. However, the entire content of the correspondence (actual or imagined) is intended for exhibition together with the stamp design. Therefore, you must be prepared to make public the correspondence for the exhibition and in related publicity.
This is not a competition. Selected designs will be printed as Artistamps for exhibition at Singapore Philatelic Museum in Sep/Oct 2003. A maximum of 30 designs will be selected.
Stamps that are not official postage stamps are referred to as Artistamps. For additional information on Artistamps, please check the following websites:
http://www.artpool.hu/Artistamp/artstamplinks.html
http://www.dragonflydream.com/Artistamps.html
CALL FOR ARTISTAMPS (DESIGNS ON STAMP FORMAT)
DESIGN BRIEF
Background:
At a public forum on stamp design in November 2002, Mr Viswa Sadasivan, Chairman & CEO of The Right Angle, highlighted that our postage stamps have featured largely inanimate objects and less of the intangible such as emotions and values.
Singapore Philatelic Museum picks up on this comment and is preparing an exhibition to explore how the intangible can be captured through design on a stamp.
Details: The Intangible/Read between the Lines
You are encouraged to focus on a significant personal correspondence of the past, recent times or an imagined/fabricated one. The focus of the exhibition is how stamps can capture or reflect the emotions and thoughts that are explicit or implicit in the correspondence of your choice.
There are no constraints on the theme of your correspondence. However, the entire content of the correspondence (actual or imagined) is intended for exhibition together with the stamp design. Therefore, you must be prepared to make public the correspondence for the exhibition and in related publicity.
This is not a competition. Selected designs will be printed as Artistamps for exhibition at Singapore Philatelic Museum in Sep/Oct 2003. A maximum of 30 designs will be selected.
Stamps that are not official postage stamps are referred to as Artistamps. For additional information on Artistamps, please check the following websites:
http://www.artpool.hu/Artistamp/artstamplinks.html
http://www.dragonflydream.com/Artistamps.html
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