METROPOLIS STRIP(P)ED Symposium
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Sunday, May 01, 2005
Dream Catcher presents a season of odds, bringing into play ideas of the peculiar, strange and mystifying in the form of dreams and tales and desires. The season also coincides with Esplanade’s Flipside festival (27 May – 19 June 05), presenting edgy and adventurous performances for everyone, in conjunction with the Singapore Arts Festival.
P L A S M A S
1 Apr - 10 Jul (Fri - Sun)
When myths and reality collide
By Ridzuan Saari
Singapore
Since his childhood days, Ridzuan has been fascinated with myths and stories associated with the deep blue. An avid diver and artist, he combines the spectacular sights and wonders witnessed during his diving expeditions and voyages into an animated montage, evoking a magical journey of when myths and reality collide.
1 Apr - 10 Jul (Fri - Sun)
SLIDESHOW
By Aidah Dolrahim, Esther Yee, Melanie Tham, Ruby Seng, Sean Lee and Wilfred Siow
Singapore
This collection of pictures illustrates the brute in mankind and reflects the dark recesses of the human mind. SLIDESHOW is a visual treat of photo documentation by local aspiring photographers. Their artistic explorations will inject fresh interests and define new meanings in today's contemporary photography practices.
1 Apr - 10 Jul (Fri - Sun)
Organs for Trade & Fruit of Knowledge
By Daphne Chan
Singapore
"Organs For Trade" explores human's search for perfection and identity.
WHAT UTOPIA CAN TECHNOLOGY BRING? (Part 1)
It's the story about a journey taken by three hideous puppets, who are stricken by poverty and diseases. Plagued by the costs of war and the perils of nuclear power, they are determined to set themselves free from the sufferings, which they have endured for years.
WHAT UTOPIA CAN TECHNOLOGY BRING? (Part 2)
The tale of The Fruit of Knowledge speaks of the relationships between an anthropomorphised machine and the human body. It is a continuation of Organs for Trade. The story presents itself into two levels of interpretations:
Contact And Destruction and Birth And Resurrection.
1 Apr - 10 Jul (Fri - Sun)
My drawings
By Jonathan Lim Tee Kiang
Singapore
An exploration of the techniques used in a two-dimensional drawn animation. Lim, who majors in animation, injects wits and humour into this experimental piece.
In collaboration with the Faculty of Media Arts, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts.
J E N D E L A ( V I S U A L A R T S S P A C E )
6 May - 12 Jun (Fri - Sun)
Stranger than Dreams
By Hyun-Mi Yoo
Korea
Depicting a scene from an abstruse poem, shared by a dream, in which float sculptures featuring the likeness of supernatural creatures, Hyun-Mi Yoo's work is a conscious exploration of the unconscious, airy realm of desire. Symbolising desires of all sorts, from the exquisite lightness of a giant feathered dress and chairs to a torso-like birdcage, Yoo's 'bodies' levitate before our eyes.
Supported by the Korea Culture & Arts Foundation
18 Jun - 12 Jul (Sat - Tue)
Asian Traffic
By Koky Saly, Leung Mee Ping, Michael Shaowanasai, Renee So, Owen Leong, Manit Sriwanichpoom, Sangeeta Sandrasegar, Mahmoud Yekta, Emily Chua and Michael Lee Hong Hwee
Cambodia, Thailand, china, Iran, India, Taiwan, Singapore and Autralia
Like a traffic jam in any Asian metropolis, this exhibition illustrates the destiny and extent of contemporary art that is being produced today. Through its mix of artists from the region, Asian Traffic is a showcase of Asian culture and thought as contemporary, diverse and in a constant state of evolution.
The Asian Traffic stopover in Singapore and its subsequent tour to different cities in China incorporates key strategies that aim to further extend the Asian Traffic exhibition concept. At each international venue that the exhibition travels to, a local component will be injected.
Asian Traffic is an ambitious and innovative programme of contemporary Asian art instigated by the Asia-Australia Arts Centre Sydney and presented as an official parallel event of the 2004 Biennale of Sydney.
Supported by the Australia International Cultural Council, an initiative of the Department of Foreign affairs and Trade
C O N C O U R S E ( S T E P S )
28 Apr - 10 Jul (Fri - Sun)
Puzzled Cloud
By Hyun-Mi Yoo
Korea
Reality and dream, or the conscious and the unconscious, are not opposites like the front and the back or the real and the unreal. Crossing between the worlds of reality and dreams, the conscious and the unconscious, the past and the present, form and the formless, disintegration and integration, and structure and images, Hyun-Mi's Puzzled Cloud presents a monologue of this chaotic process.
Supported by the Korea Culture & Arts Foundation.
U P P E R C O N C O U R S E ( P I L L A R S )
19 May - 10 Jul (Thu - Sun)
Ephemeral Homes
By Terence Lin and Chai Chee Seam
Singapore
Ephemeral Homes was conceived to transform the Concourse Pillars into a metaphorical urbanscape of imaginative buildings with interior spaces that bear a resemblance to our local public housing. A peek into these embroidered "open" windows of different colours and motifs will reveal our shared aspiration for a "perfect home" through good times and bad. It offers a glimpse into some of these beautiful homes, imagined and reconstructed.
U P P E R C O N C O U R S E
9 Jun - 28 Aug (Thu - Sun)
Don't Let Sleeping Androids Lie
By Lulu Ong, Damien Lock, Brian Gothong Tan, Gary Lim and Kennth Chee
Singapore
This work for Sculpture Square's 6th Anniversary Exhibition, seeks to question the level of interactivity between spectator and art. Aiming to reduce that distanced monologue, the public is encouraged to undertake a proactive role when interacting with art, through various electronic art installations, including the development of responsive environments and the head-mounted display. The exhibition is part of the Singapore Arts Festival and will also feature a collaboration with the Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore.
C O N E S
5 Apr - 12 Jun (Tue - Sun)
Floating Dream
By Hyun-Mi Yoo
Korea Everyone dreams of flying, but few dream as specifically, and as intensely, of flight as Hyun-Mi Yoo. Ever since childhood, her nocturnal fantasies have revolved around flying; weightless like a balloon, the artist finds herself floating up near the ceiling, like those silver pillows in the famous pop-artist Andy Warhol's Silver Clouds.
Supported by the Korea Culture & Arts Foundation.
14 Jun - 10 Jul (Tue - Sun)
Frames - Within and Without
By Chng Seok tin
Singapore
Chng Seok Tin’s work mirrors the framework constructed by rules and regulations existing in politics, religion and culture. It is a theme and social commentary that Seok Tin has reiterated numerous times throughout her artistic practice. Her figures dart in and out of the restraints containing them; they fly, swing, sit, balance and hang, depicting diverse individuals fighting for their own space in our swarming metropolis bound by conventional and contemporary values.
T U N N E L
14 Apr - 10 Jul (Thu - Sun)
Our people, Our lifestyle
By Justin Lee
Singapore
A new series presenting a different interpretation of today's Singapore society and lifestyle in a montage blend of fantasy and yesterday's photographs left by Lee’s late grandfather. These fantasies revolve around aspects of a modern urban lifestyle, education and materialism. He also seeks to record everyday lifestyles - based on his cultural and immediate social environment - through his inimitable way of provoking his audience to doubt and question appearances.
C O M M U N I T Y W A L L ( L E V E L 3 )
7 Apr - 10 Jul (Fri - Sun)
Read me under the light, not the Sun!
By Justin Lee
Singapore
Read me under the light, not under the Sun! is a commentary on the unnatural living patterns we have adopted in our lives today. An era flooded with technological advancements and digitalisation, Justin speaks of virtual images that only exist and survive in the world of artificial lighting.
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