Singapore Biennale 2006
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Friday, April 16, 2004
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION TO SCHOOLS AND CENTRES (1st session 2004)
The first session 2004 of the UNESCO Young Digital Creators (YDC) is to be launched soon with the following three programmes:
26 April 2004
The Sound of our Water
Youth Creating and Communicating on HIV/AIDS
4 May 2004
Scenes and Sound of my City
The Sound of our Water
Creating water soundscapes with digital sound.
http://unesco.uiah.fi/water
Youth Creating and Communicating on HIV/AIDS
Expressing oneself and reacting to HIV/AIDS issues via multimedia.
http://digiarts-hiv-unesco.org/
Scenes and Sounds of my City
Digitally audio-visualizing the past, present and future of urban environment.
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php@URL_ID=16923&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
How to participate
In order to participate in the YDC 1st Session 2004, there are certain rules of participation and requirements that should be fulfilled:
Rules of Participation
1.Participants
10–20 participating students (12-18 years old) per school/centre
1-2 teachers/local moderators with basic computer skills and dealing with the subjects of art, music, natural sciences, languages, history, geography, philosophy or ethics, etc
2. Basic equipment
2-5 computers per school/centre with internet connection
Registration
The school/centre will have to send the Registration Form (please send back to us separate registration forms for each programme you would like to take part in) before 19 April 2004 to:
Doyun Lee (UNESCO YDC coordinator)
digiarts@unesco.org
tel: 33 1 45 68 43 72
fax: 33 1 45 68 55 89
Session Agenda
The three programmes, led by a highly-experienced international moderator, are to be followed by step-by-step lessons of:
- Teacher training session (3-4 weeks)
- Sessions for students (6-8 weeks)
Presentation of Artworks
The artworks, created by the young participants during the 1st session, are to be exhibited and performed through international events such as:
- Competition “Young Digital Creators Prize” at Computer Space (October 2004, Sofia, Bulgaria)
- Ars Electronica (2 - 7 September 2004, Linz, Austria)
These programmes have been tested and evaluated from September 2003 - February 2004 with a selection of UNESCO Associated schools, clubs, centres and have been presented at the World Summit on Information Society (Geneva, 10-12 December 2003). You will be able to find the results of the initial session on the respective websites.
LOTS of Brilliant updates for the CREATIVE HANDS members & loyal customers!
Do check out these 2 Workshops coming up!
Have fun!
The Creative Hands Team
#04-20B/C Ngee Ann City
Tel: 67381690
Fax:67335875
www.creativehands.com.sg
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ART WORKSHOP @ REFLECTIONS AT BUKIT CHANDU
BACK TO ART with MAGIE
Conducted in a historical black & white bunglow that commemorates
the heroism of the Malay Regiment soldiers during WWII, this 10 weeks
art workshop is designed to nurture the specific creative requirements
of individuals using the fundamental principles of fine art, as well as,
to reflect on the connections betweeen our past,present and future.
Magie Traynor is a professional Scottish artist, with over 20 years
experience as an art illustrator in advertising, a painter & mural designer.
Date: Every Sat 2.30pm - 4.30pm (commencing 24 April 2004)
Every Fri 9.30am - 11.30am (commencing 30 April 2004)
Venue: Rflections at Bukit Chandu, 31K Pepys Rd (off Pasir Panjang)
Course fee: $50 per session Age: 16 years old & above
For more information, please contact:
Wendy Chan 63327900
Eileen Ng 63327973
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PAINTING IN WATERCOLOUR
A 2-days Art Enrichment Workshop with reknown Singaporean Watercolour Artist
Mr. Ong Kim Seng
Date: 20-21st July 2004
Time: 9.30am - 4pm
9.00am registration
Venue: The Pines, Boardroom
30 Stevens Road
Fee: $260 (members)
$280 (non-members)
inclusive of 2 coffee breaks and buffet
"What is a Lithograph?"
A talk and slide presentation by Mr. John Hutcheson
Master Printer, STPI
Date: 24 April 2004 Saturday
Time: 2.30pm
Venue: STPI Gallery
Mr. John Hutcheson, STPI's own Master Printer, will share his knowledge and experience of 40 years of printmaking in lithography discussing works of Modern and Contemporary artists.
Mr. Hutcheson started his journey with printmaking is 1965 at his father's workshop, Hutcheson & Co. in Boston. In 1970, he went to work at Impressions Workshop in Boston as an apprentice in stone lithography. Having earned a Master Printer diploma from the renown Tamarind Institute, he has since worked in many workshops including, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Tyler Workshop (in Bedford Village), Petersburg Press in NYC, Palisades Press in New Jersey, Rutgers University (New Jersey), Tyler Graphics (in Mt. Kisco), and now STPI. He has collaborated with many celebrated artists such as Pacita Abad, Francesco Clemente, Chua Ek Kay, Helen Frankenthaler, David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, Ong Kim Seng, Frank Stella, Donald Sultan,Tan Swie Hian, and Zhu Wei.
Thursday, April 15, 2004
Infiltrate
17 April – 5 May 2004 · An exhibition by Earl Lu Gallery of LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts
at Plastique Kinetic Worms
NEWS RELEASE
International artists investigate systems and structures of today’s art world
Thursday, 15 April 2004
infiltrate presents a group of seven international artists whose works investigate the networks, structures and spaces of the art ‘world’. By uncovering the codes and conventions framed by the institutions, histories and politics of art, the artists invent singular and often humorous alternative realities. Adopting a certain mock-serious tone, they attempt to straddle insider-outsider positions within specified institutional and cultural morphologies, while seeking to infiltrate, reactivate and occasionally corrupt or infect existing systems and operations.
In her recent work artist Manuela Ribadeneira, for example, has been strategically making ‘products’ to stock the ultimate art supplies store that aims to provide artists with the tools needed to survive in the cultural jungle (guide books on how to find a dealer or talk to curators, a case containing road markings to be used to define space and direction for art activity, stickers to establish public and personal relations between things and people, and so on). In a more personal vein Lucy Harvey has been working towards compiling a comprehensive yet modest gesamtwerk (complete works) – her ‘Guide to Life’ is intended, somewhat idealistically, to fulfil all her philosophical, personal, intellectual and practical needs as an individual and an artist. History is utilised as a toolkit from which to construct operative microtopias. Dane Mitchell has been adopting the tools of (for example) anthropology, archaeology, forensic science and microbiology in a dogged attempt to unearth and schematise the machinations of art’s institutions through its by-products or residue (dust, rubbish, cast-offs, rejected material etc.). Over the past ten years or so, Peter Robinson has been posing as (variously) a bargain basement real-estate agent, a primitivist, a corporate strategist, a formalist, and a bastard offspring of selected revered artists whilst working through a range of concerns to do with trade, commerce, translation, the corporate world, mediated manifestations of identity and the constraining terms of mobility within local and international art arenas. Heman Chong works as an obsessive archivist ranging across continents and moving between cities as he programmatically (and ironically) replays art’s too-easy love affair with mobility and translatability, while constructing his own versions of art networks so he no longer has to move further afield. Christian Jankowski creates juxtapositions arising from witty linguistic and visual transformations, translating one or more cultural frame or context to another, from art to religion through TV for example, or from TV to superstition via magic back to the artwork. The International Necronautical Society is a pseudo-bureaucratic construct that appropriates and re-performs the modes and procedures of early twentieth-century avant-gardes (the manifesto, committees and sub-committees, autocratic top-down management etc) in a variety of media and with a network of collaborators.
Said curator Louise Garrett: “As a curator coming from the Antipodes (and clearly this notion is not limited to that territory), one finds oneself intensely aware of the condition of ‘infiltration’ (in the scientific sense) – of being filtered through a wider concern, most clearly that of ‘empire’; of being somehow in the interstices, passing through the pores of a distant body, being at once both coloniser and colonised, European and ‘other’, not wholly exotic but by no means unexotic, being of both the centre and the periphery, both and neither – either/and.
“This very sense of instability, of insecurity, seems to reflect a wider contemporary condition evident in contemporary critical art production and reception in which open-ended structures, the search for new models or rediscovery of old ones in which to play out discursive encounters, are sought, while attempts are made to dissolve or reconfigure more apparently rigid traditional structures.”
The exhibition preview will be held on Friday, 16 April, from 7pm-9pm at Plastique Kinetic Worms, 63 Kerbau Road, Singapore 219185.
INTERVIEWS with the curator, Louise Garrett, can be arranged between 12th and 19th April 2004
Participating Artists
Heman CHONG
Lucy HARVEY
Christian JANKOWSKI
The International Necronautical Society
Dane MITCHELL
Manuela RIBADANEIRA
Peter ROBINSON
Curator
Louise Garrett
Infiltrate is presented in co-operation with:
Goethe Institut Singapore
British Council
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise
Plastique Kinetic Worms
Event Information
Title
Infiltrate
Exhibition Preview
16 April 2004, 7pm-9pm
Exhibition Period
17 April – 5 May 2004
Venue
Plastique Kinetic Worms
63 Kerbau Road
Singapore 219185
Viewing Hours
11am – 6pm, Tues to Sat
Closed on Mon and Public Holidays
Media Enquiries
Avis Fontaine
Director Division of Marketing
LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts
Tel: (65) 6340 9124 (DID)/Fax: (65) 6346 5708
Stephanie Goh Corporate Communications Executive Division of Marketing LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts
Tel: (65) 6340 9125 (DID)/Fax: (65) 6346 5708
Note on the College name
Artists’ Information
Heman Chong (b. Singapore, lives in Berlin) presents The Social Seduction – a single take of an interview between artist Heman Chong and curator Gretchen Lee discussing the possibility of meaningful artistic collective activity. Emptied of all meaning, we recognise Lee’s comments as pure ‘art-speak’, over-rehearsed to saturation point.
Lucy Harvey (b. UK, lives in Dusseldorf) has been working towards compiling a comprehensive yet modest gesamtwerk (complete works) – her ‘Guide to Life’ is a work in its own right as well as a structure within which every other work is contained. Dido’s Death from ‘Dido and Aeneas’ by Henry Purcell (Guide to Life) sees the artist lying on the floor with speakers by her ears playing a recording of the aria ‘Dido’s Death’ by Henry Purcell. Absorbing the music, she produces her own version in a modest, reedy voice.
Christian Jankowski (b. Germany, lives in Berlin) creates juxtapositions arising from witty linguistic and visual transformations, translating one or more cultural frame or context to another. Jankowski presents a new work for infiltrate, which literally infiltrates infiltrate.
The International Necronautical Society is a pseudo-bureaucratic construct that appropriates and re-performs the modes and procedures of early twentieth-century avant-gardes (the manifesto, committees and sub-committees, autocratic top-down management etc) in a variety of media and with a network of collaborators. Infiltrate presents archives from the INS Transmission Room – a temporary broadcasting unit set up by the INS Communications and Encodings Subcommittee at the ICA in London in April 2004. (Press service: www.vargas.org.uk/press).
Dane Mitchell (b. NZ, lives in Auckland) adopts the tools of (for example) anthropology, archaeology, forensic science and microbiology in a dogged attempt to unearth and schematise the machinations of art’s institutions through its by-products or residue (dust, rubbish, cast-offs, rejected or suppressed material etc). infiltrate presents work from his Dust archives series, in which dust samples from museums around the world were collected and analysed by a microbiologist, and cultures were grown from the collected sediment.
You are cordially invited to:
"Honoursly Speaking..."
The BA Honours Show 2004
Details of the show are as follows:
Official Opening:
23rd of April (Friday) 2004, 6.00 pm.
Guest of Honor:
A/P Quek Jin Jong, Dean Academic, National Institute of Education
Venue:
The Art Gallery, National Institute of Education - Nanyang Technological University. 1, Nanyang Walk, Singapore 637616.
Duration:
23rd of April 2004 to 7th of May 2004
Gallery hours are from 10am to 5pm on weekdays and 10am to 1pm on Saturdays. The gallery will be closed on Sundays and public holidays.
More details at: http://www.gleefullyeclectic.com/ba_hons_ex.htm
You are cordially invited to this exhibition of fun, innovative & witty kitchenware by British designers, including unusual suspects like well-known fashion designer Paul Smith, organised by Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay and the British Council. There will also be exhibits by two Singaporean designers, Terence Chan and Lee Tet Keong. More details are attached and can also be found on pages 4 & 5 of our latest BConnected.
The exhibition will be opening at 6.30 pm today, and here is the order of
events:
6.30pm: Arrival of Guests & Media
7.15pm: Arrival of Guest-of-Honour, architect Mr Richard Ho
7.30pm: Commencement of Event
-Keynote address by Guest-of-Honour
-Reception
Exhibition (which will be on until 30 May 2004).
British Council, 30 Napier Road, Singapore 258509
T +65 6470 7147, F +65 6472 1010
hello friends!
join me in your living rooms on thursday (15th april) at 10pm on Arts Central (Channel 12) for a recently completed H55 short film: SSSShhhhh!, done in collaboration with VHQ.
as part of a series of short films by various creatives, film directors, artists, designers, the various contributions are bound together by a common brief: 'to do a film about the old parliament house'.
mmmmm ... did i have fun with the brief, or for that matter, get censored? watch to find out.
hanson ho
H55
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
Dear friend,
We will be having Art networking potluck this Wednesday 14th April. Jason Lim and Ping Lee will talk at p-10 on clay. Start 7.30pm.
www.p-10.org
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts cordially invites you to the official
> opening of
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> Travelogue
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> The Winston Oh Travel Award Drawing Exhibition
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> Featuring the artworks of Aiman Hakim Bin Mohd Amin, Nicholas Chai,
> Sylvia Haliman, Jolene Lai and Muhammed Nazri Bin Mokhtar, Travelogue
> is an annual exhibition of exploratory drawings inspired by travels
> within Asia. Works are by Fine Arts students who received the Winston
> Oh Travel Award. The Award recognises the importance of travelling as
> a stimulus for students' artistic practice. The exhibition also
> showcases other forms of visual documentation as a result of their travels.
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> Opening Reception
> Thursday, 15 April 2004, 7pm
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> Earl Lu Gallery II
> LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts
> 90 Goodman Road
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> RSVP
> Email grace.ng@lasallesia.edu.sg or call 63409156
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> Exhibition continues until 27 April 2004 (10am - 6pm daily).
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> LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts
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> ASIA PACIFIC'S LEADING ARTS INSTITUTION
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> 90 Goodman Road, Singapore 439053 * Tel: 6344 4300 * Fax: 6346 5708 *
> www.lasallesia.edu.sg
"Movement of Forms"
Visual Exhibition by Gee Michaud & Sham
15 April to 21 April 2004
SG Private Banking Gallery, Alliance Francaise de Singapour
1 Sarkies Road, Singapore 258130
OPENING: Wednesday, 14 April 2004 @ 7:00pm
Public Viewing: Monday to Saturday, 11am - 7:30pm; Sunday, 2 - 5pm.
Exhibiting for the second time at the Alliance Francaise de Singapour, Gee Michaud, painter and sculptor, takes us on a fabulous journey through the intensity of forms and movement on canvas and her three dimensional sculptures. Gee is proud to exhibit along with her brother, Sham, who has been robbed of a normal life due to a severe dose of viral encephalitis that left him with learning difficulties and speech impediment. Though challenged by the fast moving pace of the society, Sham has discovered a medium through which to express his views, hopes and frustrations.
Movement of Forms is kindly sponsored by SG Private Banking (Asia Pacific)
Monday, April 12, 2004
Everything but...
UK, Singapore
When: 15 Apr 2004 (Thu), 11.00 AM - 30 May 2004 (Sun), 8.30 PM at the Jendela, Esplanade
Artists : Rupert Spira, Takeshi Yasuda, Julian Stair, Walter Keeler, Edmund de Waal, Andrew Wicks, Hanne Rysgaard, Helen Harrison, Robert Dawson, Suck UK, Nick Munro, Richard Slee, Sue Pryke, Anne Kari Ramberg Marshall, Bodo Sperlein, Jhan Stanley, Geraldine McGloi
A kitchen full of unusual and quirky design works by 30 of the UK’s most interesting contemporary designers, and an architect and artist from Singapore.
Everything but... takes a light-hearted look at some of the most innovative and witty kitchenware designs being produced in the UK, alongside more traditional ceramic pieces by established potters and designers who you would not normally associate with kitchenware, like fashion designer Paul Smith.
Set within a living space environment, this ingenious spirit is extended to the living and dining area by our local architect/designer Terence Chan and artist Leong Tet Keong. The furniture pieces flaunt a clever marriage of form and function with a dashing touch.
Another Esplanade Presents Exhibition
Free Admission.
Mobile 1, 2 & 3
Tay Chee Toh
Singapore
When: 01 Apr 2004 (Thu), 10.00 AM - 30 Jun 2004 (Wed), 11.00 PM at the Theatre Street Cones, Esplanade
This exuberant display of hanging mobiles sees Tay combining his work in primary colours with the irregularly shaped flattened plates suspended by metal rods and their spatial arrangement. The resulting mobiles recall the works of the American sculptor Alexandra Calder.
Another Esplanade Presents Exhibition
Free Admission
Do Not Touch!
Heleston Chew
Singapore
When: 01 Apr 2004 (Thu), 10.00 AM - 30 Jun 2004 (Wed), 11.00 PM at the Concourse
This artwork is an interactive piece that explores the relationship of our two senses: sight and touch. Usually, we perceive something visually first then proceed to touch it if it appears to be ‘touch friendly’ or when the visual information is not enough. By using a combination of fluid form and highly textured surface, this artwork is designed specifically to attract curious hands to investigate further, but… you have been warned!
Another Esplanade Presents Exhibition
Free Admission
Sunday, April 11, 2004
Work submitted by an anonymous Singaporean artist
Banana Erotics, 30 inches x 40 inches, drawing
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