Performance Art
Lee Wen has been exploring different strategies of time-based and performance art since 1989. His work has been strongly motivated by social investigations as well as inner psychological directions using art to interrogate stereotypical perceptions of culture and society. He is a contributing factor in The Artists Village alternative in Singapore and had been participating in Black Market international performance collective. He helped initiate and co-organize "Future of Imagination" (2003-), an international performance art event, "R.I.T.E.S.- Rooted In The Ephemeral Speak" (2009-), and Pulau Ubin Artist-in-Residency Program (2011) as vehicles to support and develop alternative art practices, discourse, infrastructure and audiences in Singapore. Artist’s link - http://republicofdaydreams.wordpress.com/
Ben Puah is a new breed of contemporary Asian artists who's made a huge impact with his energy and vision. A self-confessed mentally "乱七八糟" artist of ‘crazy artworks’, Ben creates shocking and powerful works that refuse to fit into the mainstream. Art is very important to Ben because it is a way of expressing oneself and an abstraction of how he feel about life. His works are like in the state of phantasmagoria where there is a mix of real and imagined elements. At the psychological level, he seemed to suffer from paranoid personality disorder and have a negative view about the world, and is quietly frantic at the same time. This resulted in the penetration of unsettled emotions where his art seems temperamental with an erratic behavior that tells the honest truth to his audience. Ben has exhibited his works in Singapore, Australia, Germany, Japan, USA, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Brazil, London, Malaysia, Abu Dhabi and China. His artwork is in the public and private collections in numerous local and international locations. Ben has also conducted workshops in many schools and art institutions. Artist’s link - http://www.benpuah.com/
Liu Wen Chao (b. 1992) is a 3rd Year Fine Arts student majoring in oil painting at NAFA. For him, journeying from China to Singapore has been both an experience of discovery and wandering.In the two years of his time in Singapore, the artist has been studying the works of others and doing performance art. His recent performances include a collaboration with three other students at Bencoolen Street (2011), a performance on school grounds (2012), and participation with four other artists in the festival 'Future of Imagination 8' (2012). In 2013, he assisted the artist Ben Puah with his exhibition in Iran.
“Marla Bendini” was created in 2007 as an amalgamation between art and life, to explore multiple liminal identities and fluidity in perspectives. Her multidisciplinary approach towards this amalgamation has become a signature form of hypervisibilty, using the existing politicized body as a catalyst and vehicle for further discourse. She seeks to both engage and disarm audiences and to bridge the present to what she envisions to be an inevitable trans/post-human condition. Her first self-titled exhibition “Marla.” (2008) was presented in a transsexual bar in Pattaya, Thailand. Sponsored by Fridae.com, Asia’s largest LGBT portal, she presented "Conversations between father and son" (2010), a multimedia installation- performance over 10 days, supported by The Substation Gallery, Singapore. She exhibited and performed in Supermarket 2012, Stockholm Independent Art Fair, sponsored by Riksutställningar / Swedish Exhibition Agency. Artist’s link - www.marlabendini.yolasite.com
Andrée Weschler‘s artistic endeavours focus on using the physical body to explore the boundaries of acceptable social constructs. The performing body is used as a tool for discovery, often becoming material in itself. Her work also attempts to challenge the audience into reading her performance of bodily differences. Born in France, she has been living and practicing her art in Asia for more than 18 years. Her formative visual arts training were in Singapore, Australia and France. Her art practice encompasses Performance Art, Drawing, Video Art, Photography and Installation. At Les Beaux Arts de Paris, she worked in the atelier of Annette Messager. Since 2000, she has been invited to participate in international art events in Asia and Europe. Her exhibition participations include ICASTICA 2013 International Women’s Art Biennale Italy 2013, The 4th Guangzhou Triennal China 2011, The Asian Pulse 10+1 Bangkok Culture & Art Center Bangkok Thailand 2011, The National Review of Live Art Glasgow Scotland 2009, ”The Park---The Contemporary Artists in Asia 2008” Related Art Exhibition of Yokohama Art Triennale Japan 2008, Eros-Arrows by the London Biennale 2004 England, International Eco-Environment Art Exhibition Seoul Arts Centre Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2002.
Syv Bruzeau born in France. After a Master in Russian-English and marketing, Syv came to Asia where she extensively traveled, following her curiosity to experience different cultures. She opened a few restaurants in the region and this passion for providing joy and bonding between people led her to movement therapy. She discovered Butoh while in Japan, and studied it in the Himalayas with Lee Rhizome, in New York City and Japan mainly with Katsura Kan, Eiko and Koma, Natsu Nakajima, Tetsuro Fukuhara. She practiced other movement-based and awareness techniques and is now sharing her experience through her own method. For Syv, Butoh is a creative, self-discovering and healing, process. Butoh is a space of freedom. A space of infinite possibilities and a life style. Syv will be collaborating with 8 dancers in an improvised dance production for The Zentai Art Festival.
Yuzuru Maeda is born in Ogaki, Japan in 1978. She had received a Music BA from the LaSalle Collage of Arts, Singapore in 2009 and currently lives in Singapore. In her daily musical practice, she produces soundtracks, jingles and music compositions for independent films, commercials and her own video works. She performs mainly with the Sanshin (Japanese), Sarod (Indian) and Violin (Classical) with electronic sound compositions. Her musical lineage is La Monte Young and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. She explores music and sound in cross cultural contexts and her musical works are described as ‘Beyond time and space’ which experess about divine energy and spirituality. Besides her musical practices, Yuzuru Maeda has been making video-based works under the title of Zentai Art Project. These video works are visual explorations that are extended from her practice as a contemporary musician. In Zentai Art Project, the artist uses the ‘Zentai’ sub-culture to investigate into the human conditions of identity, spiritual connections with cosmic energy in the universe and as a means to come to terms with one’s living environment. Zentai Art Project www.yuzuru.weebly.com
Eng Kai Er is an independent dance and theatre artist currently based in Singapore. In 2013/2014 Kai is participating in Directors’ Lab, a theatre directing mentorship programme organized by The Substation. Prior to that, Kai was involved in various dance-theatre projects in Sweden / Europe where she lived from 2007 to 2012. In Sweden she initiated the collective The Family, which created several performances/ workshops/ experiments, including “House Hole” (2010), a dance-theatre performance, and “Unmaking House Hole” (2011), an improvisation-based workshop/performance series that attempted to un-create the pre-existing performance. Her other Europe-based works include “fPhD” (2011), a fake thesis defence of a fake PhD degree, and “The Pleasure of Eating Oranges” (2013), a dance-theatre duet about love between two women, performed in Singapore, Toulouse, Berlin, Brussels and Stockholm in 2013. Kai has also created a full-length dance-theatre solo performance, “The Prayer” (2012), commissioned by the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2012. “The Prayer” was subsequently shortlisted for the Outstanding Performance Award at Prague Fringe Festival 2012.
In Singapore, Kai is currently interested in developing projects that investigate society, freedom, independence and HAPPINESS!, so in 2014 Kai started doing dance improvisations on the MRT without anybody’s permission. When Kai is not working on her performance or art projects, her hobbies include artistic inline skating, pole dancing and contact improvisation.
In Singapore, Kai is currently interested in developing projects that investigate society, freedom, independence and HAPPINESS!, so in 2014 Kai started doing dance improvisations on the MRT without anybody’s permission. When Kai is not working on her performance or art projects, her hobbies include artistic inline skating, pole dancing and contact improvisation.
Art Photography
Geraldine Ginanimo Kang, enjoys conversation and establishing earnest connections with people. She has relied onphotography as a means of resolving emotions and unraveling identities within spaces. Geraldine's latest work about Singapore marks a move out of the private domestic sphere into an external one. Through her observations, Geraldine tends to highlight the contradictions of urban living, capturing the mundane and daily findings through her exploration within the city-state, transforming her personal observations The artist had recently exhibited her inaugural solo-exhibition at Grey Projects (2014) Singapore. Artist’s link - http://geraldinekang.weebly.com
Brian Sergio Depending on who you talk to, Brian Sergio is a pervert, a genius, a hack. His photographs and zines have fueled arguments, fired imaginations, and launched careers. His vision blurs the boundaries between the accepted and the profane, a sophisticated sublimity hiding in the garish poses and overexposed lighting that have come to be distinct marks of his work. Brian’s greatest talent lies in his ability to inadvertently charm the viewer despite his initially shocking subject matter. There’s a sense of fun behind his work, which doesn’t ask viewers to take it seriously, even though they are compelled to do so.
Frank Pinckers was born in Belgium on 11 Jan 1957. The artist studied film and photography at the Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium. Trained in Milano, Italy under fashion photographer Nadir, Frank worked as Fashion & Advertising photographer in Brussels until 1993. He is based in Singapore since 1994 as a free-lance commercial photographer who specialises in people, architecture , interior & industrial photography. Besides his commercial work Pinckers continues his passion for analog photography by producing a small body of personal work.
Ana Hupe born in 1983, is an artist who lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and is currently pursuing PHD at School of Fine Arts at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. The artist at present is teaching modeling in Visual Arts at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Her works are composed by written words, photography, videos, actions investigating the invisible and languages of things. Ana was a member of collective Opavivará! (www.opavivara.com.br) from 2009 to 2013. Together with the art collective Opavivará!, Ana had taken part in numerous critical acclaimed exhibitons at MAM-SP, Casa França-Brasil & Museu de Arte do Rio, Brazil. Artist’s link – www.anahupe.com
Dan Yeo
Trained at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Dan Yeo explored human body art in the fields of sculpture, performance art and photography in his early years. In 2007, he began his journey as a professional photographer and founded Nomads’ Studio, specialising in pet photography, while continuing his practice as an artist. He went on to co-found White Room Studio, further exploring his love for the beauty of the human body in dance, performance art and nude portraiture. White Room Studio is presently an established photography studio where Dan continues to work,
Trained at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Dan Yeo explored human body art in the fields of sculpture, performance art and photography in his early years. In 2007, he began his journey as a professional photographer and founded Nomads’ Studio, specialising in pet photography, while continuing his practice as an artist. He went on to co-found White Room Studio, further exploring his love for the beauty of the human body in dance, performance art and nude portraiture. White Room Studio is presently an established photography studio where Dan continues to work,
Ho Zheng Feng (Sg) was born in 1992, raised in Singapore, Zheng Feng is a freelance artist and he is striving to create artworks that are not only visual appealing but also have a good meaning behind it. With a unique eye for details, most of his drawings are filled with lines and wonderful colors. He like taking part in art competitions and has won some awards. Aspiring to be a multi disciplinary artist, he is always striving to create distinctive visuals. Besides drawing and painting, he likes to take photograph in his free time.
On 2013, he bought his first DLSR, as he wants to learn more about photography. With a distinction grade in one of his final year module in digital photography, he hopes that it will be an encouragement to continue and developing his craft in photography. His work, which involves photography and illustration, has been rewarded as the top 5 in Levi’s 501-photo contest. He hopes to do more photography related work to build his photography portfolio. His works has been exhibited in Noise Singapore showcase in 2012.
On 2013, he bought his first DLSR, as he wants to learn more about photography. With a distinction grade in one of his final year module in digital photography, he hopes that it will be an encouragement to continue and developing his craft in photography. His work, which involves photography and illustration, has been rewarded as the top 5 in Levi’s 501-photo contest. He hopes to do more photography related work to build his photography portfolio. His works has been exhibited in Noise Singapore showcase in 2012.
Linda Sim Solay is a Swedish-Austrian artist, currently living in Jerusalem, Israel. Her practice in fine art photography and installation focuses on psychological and philosophical evolutionary thematics and contemporary science. Her work is orientated around shaping audience-internal atmosphere, spiritual proximation and potential for perceptive immersion.
After earning her BA in Media Arts from RMIT University Melbourne in 2005 majoring in Fine Art Photography under Dr. Les Walkling, she completed in 2012 her MA at Goldsmiths College London/Lasalle College of the Arts Singapore, of which her research on the use of scent in contemporary art has earned her the Golden Key Asia-Pacific Postgraduate Award as well as the Lasalle Scholarship. Furthermore she was award twice the GK Visual & Performing Arts Achievement Award; once for the installation "Timensions" which thematically explores current models in Quantum Physics and String Theory; developed in collaboration with Dario Lombardi and the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the University of Singapore, and secondly for her multi-sensory installation "Continuum of Consciousness" centred around sentient awareness of perpetual reality, exhibited at the Institut Francais Bandung, Indonesia. Linda has exhibited extensively both in Europe and Australia in over 30 solo, collaborative and group exhibitions, and has undergone artist residencies and extensive travels to over 30 countries.
After earning her BA in Media Arts from RMIT University Melbourne in 2005 majoring in Fine Art Photography under Dr. Les Walkling, she completed in 2012 her MA at Goldsmiths College London/Lasalle College of the Arts Singapore, of which her research on the use of scent in contemporary art has earned her the Golden Key Asia-Pacific Postgraduate Award as well as the Lasalle Scholarship. Furthermore she was award twice the GK Visual & Performing Arts Achievement Award; once for the installation "Timensions" which thematically explores current models in Quantum Physics and String Theory; developed in collaboration with Dario Lombardi and the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the University of Singapore, and secondly for her multi-sensory installation "Continuum of Consciousness" centred around sentient awareness of perpetual reality, exhibited at the Institut Francais Bandung, Indonesia. Linda has exhibited extensively both in Europe and Australia in over 30 solo, collaborative and group exhibitions, and has undergone artist residencies and extensive travels to over 30 countries.
Installation and Mixed Media Art
Justin Lee was awarded Mont Blanc Young Artist World Patronage Project 2006, Hamburg, German. He was also awarded the NAFA Scholarship for his BA degree course in Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore in 2005 and the National Art Council, Georgette-Chen Arts Scholarship for his Diploma in Fine Arts from the Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore which he completed in 1999.
In 2000, he was selected to complete a 6-months intensive training programme at the Tyler Print Workshop in New York, under Mr. Ken Tyler’s supervision. He returns and worked as an apprentice with the Singapore Tyler Institute for two years. Justin has also participle in several exhibitions in Singapore and his first solo art exhibition “Double Happiness, a Fantasy in Red” (2003) and second solo “Toy Nation” (2003). His 3rd Solo Exhibited at Esplanade Tunnel, and level 3 Community Wall (April/July2005), and also has been invited to participate in the Singapore Art Festival in Japan (24 July 05, Aoyama kottou douri, Tokyo), Gwang Ju National Museum and Okgwa Museum in Korea, “6th Culture and Art Festival of Songzhuang” in Beijing, Bangkok (BACC), Taipei- Taiwan, “CausewayEXchange-2011” in Kuala Lumpur-Malaysia and current works “Art Garden” at Singapore Art Museum-2011 & 2012, Singapore National Museum and “Life after Death” at Asia Civilizations Museum, Singapore (2011) and Japan “Itoshima Arts Farm” (2012). His up current experimental short video work is show casing in Singapore Art Museum, Panorama: Recent Art from Contemporary Asia, starting now till 25 December 2012.
In 2000, he was selected to complete a 6-months intensive training programme at the Tyler Print Workshop in New York, under Mr. Ken Tyler’s supervision. He returns and worked as an apprentice with the Singapore Tyler Institute for two years. Justin has also participle in several exhibitions in Singapore and his first solo art exhibition “Double Happiness, a Fantasy in Red” (2003) and second solo “Toy Nation” (2003). His 3rd Solo Exhibited at Esplanade Tunnel, and level 3 Community Wall (April/July2005), and also has been invited to participate in the Singapore Art Festival in Japan (24 July 05, Aoyama kottou douri, Tokyo), Gwang Ju National Museum and Okgwa Museum in Korea, “6th Culture and Art Festival of Songzhuang” in Beijing, Bangkok (BACC), Taipei- Taiwan, “CausewayEXchange-2011” in Kuala Lumpur-Malaysia and current works “Art Garden” at Singapore Art Museum-2011 & 2012, Singapore National Museum and “Life after Death” at Asia Civilizations Museum, Singapore (2011) and Japan “Itoshima Arts Farm” (2012). His up current experimental short video work is show casing in Singapore Art Museum, Panorama: Recent Art from Contemporary Asia, starting now till 25 December 2012.
Han Fei (Sg) Chen Han Fei is currently a year 2 visual arts major (BFA) in Emily Carr University of art and design located in Vancouver, Canada. Prior to this, he graduated from Singapore Polytechnic with a diploma in media and communications. Born and raised in Singapore, Han is influenced by politics surrounding the country and the need to illuminate societal issues that arises on a day-to day basis. His mother has been a great influence in his art as well, often dedicating his pieces to her. He is currently majoring in visual arts with a concentration in sculpture and has made more than 10 contemporary sculptures/installations throughout his first year at Emily Carr. Three of his works has been exhibited in the 2014 Emily Carr foundation show and two out of these three were handpicked by university professors, Mimi Gellman (MOMA) & Henry Tsang to be in the curated section of the show. Han usually employs the use of lights and shadows in many of them. The medium he uses ranges from photography to film, plaster, wood, ready-mades, mirrors and glass. Aside from conceptual art, Han has been an independent photographer and filmmaker since 2009. He has made more than 5 short films (screened in 2 festivals and Singapore’s old school Sinema).
Bruce Quek (b.1986) is an interdisciplinary artist well-versed in installation art, sound art as well as photography. Having received a Diploma in Fine Arts (Sculpture) from LASALLE-SIA in 2006, Bruce went beyond the conventions of traditional mediums to work on installation and performance pieces from as early as 2004 at 37 In The Bar to 2008 where he exhibited solo at Post-Museum and finally to 2010 where he participated in a group exhibition, B.E.A.U.T.Y. Show in Copenhagen, Denmark. His experiences range from collaborating on a music project with Shazanah Hassan to working as both photographer and videographer for The Artists’ Village and AHPY. The diversity of his mediums belie the various concerns of his work, which include; the distribution and dissemination of information, as well as other conceptual investigations, which range from critiques of artistic infrastructure to studies of various pathologies and emergences. One of his interests in the representation and speculation of koan- a concept of Zen Buddhism- beyond its form of a story but at a given place and time in one’s life.
Artist’s link - http://www.contemporaryart.sg/bruce-quek/
Artist’s link - http://www.contemporaryart.sg/bruce-quek/
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Tan Ai Khim is a multi-disciplinary artist, design, educator and trainer. She had won the hearts of Singaporeans with her “OrchidStar” logo for NDP 2012. Her artistic interest lies in “relationships” and “emotions”. There are multiple levels of emotional aspect in a relationship. And she feels that art can interpret the complexity and fragility of the both.
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Nigel Tan
Nigel is a composer, sound and video artist who works with various mediums bearing the weight of unorthodox structure with the blend of electroacoustic aberrant sounds. He explores the basis of music through different styles and history bearing in mind the importance of the process within layers of texture. Influenced by experimentalist of film and music from both the eastern and western culture, the pieces churned out are intertwined randomly to reflect change which in turn motivates a purpose. He also engages in various forms of mixed media, primarily in the film and visual aspect marrying sight with sound through the blend of the abstract and narrative.
Nigel graduated with a diploma in Film, Sound and Video from Singapore’s Ngee Ann Polytechnic in 2009 and is currently in his final year pursuing his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Contemporary Music majoring in Interactive Composition from University Of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts. His work includes site specific and audiovisual installations that have been shown at galleries including Ian Potter Museum of Art, Instinc Gallery Singapore and a work in progress for The Arts Centre Melbourne as well as George Paton Gallery. In addition to this, he actively writes music for film/television, mixed media and performance art.
Nigel is a composer, sound and video artist who works with various mediums bearing the weight of unorthodox structure with the blend of electroacoustic aberrant sounds. He explores the basis of music through different styles and history bearing in mind the importance of the process within layers of texture. Influenced by experimentalist of film and music from both the eastern and western culture, the pieces churned out are intertwined randomly to reflect change which in turn motivates a purpose. He also engages in various forms of mixed media, primarily in the film and visual aspect marrying sight with sound through the blend of the abstract and narrative.
Nigel graduated with a diploma in Film, Sound and Video from Singapore’s Ngee Ann Polytechnic in 2009 and is currently in his final year pursuing his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Contemporary Music majoring in Interactive Composition from University Of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts. His work includes site specific and audiovisual installations that have been shown at galleries including Ian Potter Museum of Art, Instinc Gallery Singapore and a work in progress for The Arts Centre Melbourne as well as George Paton Gallery. In addition to this, he actively writes music for film/television, mixed media and performance art.
Xuyen Ho was born in 1989 and raised in a little town in the Mékong River Delta région of Vietnam. She currently lives in Bali and works at an architectural office. Living and breathing art, Xuyen enjoys painting, science, architecture, interior design and spirituality. Her artwork represents a silent, subconscious rebellion, striving to break the narrow bounds of imagination imposed by language
Xuyen's work breaks genres, incorporating randomness such as the shape of water stains, wood texture, or a little velvet voice during her meditation practice.
http://xuyenhomy.crevado.com
Xuyen's work breaks genres, incorporating randomness such as the shape of water stains, wood texture, or a little velvet voice during her meditation practice.
http://xuyenhomy.crevado.com
Film and Moving Images
Hashiguchi Ryosuke’s wonderfully subversive comedy is in six chapters. The first four show same-sex groups in conversation; they invite us to guess which participant is a secret zentai fetishist. The last two are set in a karaoke bar, with a zentai group in one room and a group of housewives next door. You’ll be shopping for Spandex the moment it’s over. “Zentai” film trailer link - http://youtu.be/yRRk3tYwGZg
Screening Film: “Zentai”
(Japan, 2013, 61 mins, HDCAM)
Director: Hashiguchi Ryosuke
Cast: Shinohara Atsushi, Iwasaki Noriko, Ellen, Yamashita Koji, Matsushita Sadaharu, Ito Koichi
Screening: Hashiguchi Ryosuke, Camera: Ueno Shogo, Edit: Ono Hitoshi, Music: Akaboshi
Production Company: "Zentai" Production Partners
“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement in our own skins,” said Tennessee Williams. But zentai—full-body-suit fetishists—have found a get-out clause. Ordinary people, such as amateur baseball players, promotional models, beer drinkers and supermarket cashiers, have discovered that they can lose inhibitions, erase their character flaws, even blur their sexual preferences when they don full body suits.
Screening Film: “Zentai”
(Japan, 2013, 61 mins, HDCAM)
Director: Hashiguchi Ryosuke
Cast: Shinohara Atsushi, Iwasaki Noriko, Ellen, Yamashita Koji, Matsushita Sadaharu, Ito Koichi
Screening: Hashiguchi Ryosuke, Camera: Ueno Shogo, Edit: Ono Hitoshi, Music: Akaboshi
Production Company: "Zentai" Production Partners
“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement in our own skins,” said Tennessee Williams. But zentai—full-body-suit fetishists—have found a get-out clause. Ordinary people, such as amateur baseball players, promotional models, beer drinkers and supermarket cashiers, have discovered that they can lose inhibitions, erase their character flaws, even blur their sexual preferences when they don full body suits.
