DEC 2016
THE SURROUNDING CITY
Lower Gallery
By bilingual theatre company, Toy Factory Productions:. A heritage city awaiting demolition within PRISM, a play by award winning playwright, Goh Boon Teck. The exhibition serves as a pre-show exploration before the staging of the play, and seeks to begin conversations about the relationship between spaces, things and how we are eroding our culture, heritage and memories for the future’s dream.
SEP 2016
THE WEIGHT OF AIR
Lower Gallery
In the midst of Iceland’s geologically active landscape, photographer Ng Hui Hsien was led to contemplate her personal relationships and her connection to the environment. The result is an exhibition and a photo book that documents a search for stillness and a particular mode of engagement with a place.
AUG-SEP 2016
GHOST ON THE WIRE 2
Chapel Gallery
The title, Ghost On the Wire, is a borrowing from how the philosopher Gilbert Ryle described the mind as ‘the Ghost in the Machine.’, with a theme of mediated communication. The ‘wire’ can be seen as our channel for communication – the human voice, the gaze, language, books, a telephone cable, satellite signal, Skype, the computer screen, CCTV, recorded forest sounds, text, email. The ‘ghost’ might take many forms: the misunderstanding of a word or a look, an error in translation, a technical glitch, interference in transmission, or the barriers created by time and loss. The ways in which communication can successfully be accomplished, or can falter and fail, are both the same and different according to the means by which they take place. Participating artists: Emma Charles, Sarah Choo, Debbie Ding, Suzanne de Emmony, Camilla Greenwell, Daniel Kok, Andy Lacey, Joo Choon Lin, Lynn Lu, Manu Luksch, Gavin Maughfling, Mukul Patel, Shubigi Rao, Anne Robinson, Tania De Rozario, Emma Talbot, Min-Wei Ting, Zai Tang. Cuated by Gavin Maughfling and Suzanne de Emmony (DEM Projects).
© Sherman Tham
AUG 2016
THE YOUTH OF SHOOTING HOME
Library@Orchard
The Youth of Shooting Home celebrates the works of 10 young photographers who are alumni of the Shooting Home Youth Awards, a platform for students to develop their photographic skills and ambitions. Featuring Aidan Mock, Joel Lim, Tan Wei, Donn Tan, Jamie Chan, Kimverlyn Lim, Sherman Tham, Lim Chien Her, Beaunice Toh and Dara Ong.
AUG 2016
FILM/MUSIC/BARTER MARKET
Courtyard
While the evening away this Singapore Night Festival to the ambient tunes of sound artist Wu Jun Han as he creates an aural response to super8 short films by Gözde and Russel Zehnder. Film x Music aims to blur the lines between both mediums, drawing them together in a relaxed synergy for a unique visual and musical experience. You can also engage in some old fashioned bartering with some friendly vendors at the Barter Market, organised by Indigoism.
JUL 2016
TWO WAY MIRROR
Chapel Gallery
This exhibition presents and delves deeper into the frequent custom among performance artists to take photographs of fellow performance artists whilst the latter are performing. Two-way Mirror is not merely an occasion to present striking images from performance art, but is an encouragement directed to each artist to reflect on the diverse approaches they have towards photography, and an offering to the public to engage in the discussion. Led by Daniela Beltrani.
© Logue
JUN-JUL 2016
SUPERHERO ME: PLANET OF POSSIBILITY
Chapel Gallery
Superhero Me: The Special Edition presents Planet of Possibility, an experiential art show for children and the young-at-heart to make a stand for a more inclusive Singapore through socially engaged art. Superhero Me is a values-based community arts movement that empowers children to develop a stronger sense of self and discover creative confidence.
The art show involves more than 60 children and youths aged 4 – 21 years old. They include the first batch of graduates from Lien Foundation’s Circle of Care Programme, students from Pathlight School’s Artist Development Programme, preschoolers from AWWA Kindle Garden (Singapore’s first inclusive preschool), Cerebral Palsy Alliance Singapore School and MINDS Lee Kong Chian Gardens School. During the period of the exhibition, there will be a series of crafting workshops, puppetry sessions, and storytelling sessions for all children to enjoy.
APR-MAY 2016
FOODCINE.MA
Chapel Gallery
From the creators of A Design Film Festival, FoodCine.ma features a curated selection of films on food and its subcultures, satellite screenings with a film-inspired menu, a special presentation examining the relationship of food, film and design, and two exhibitions on food culture by Atelier HOKO (A Dozen Eggs) and In Plain Words (Eating Together: The Design of Sharing Food).
© Christophe Jacrot
MAY 2016
SINGAPORE AND WATER
Lower Gallery
Le Petit Journal.com presents an exhibition featuring the finalists of “Singapore and Water”, a photography contest themed around Singapore and its relationship with water. This exhibition will also showcase the works of the contest jury members, Christophe Jacrot, Edwin Koo, Gilles Massot and Imran Ahmad. Organised as part of the Voilah festival.
©Alecia Neo
MAR 2016
UNSEEN: CONSTELLATIONS
Chapel Gallery
A two-year long project initiated by artist Alecia Neo, Unseen: Constellations provides a platform for seven youths from Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary School – Dallon Au, John Danesh, Goh Wei Bin, Adelyn Koh, Nurul Natasya, Neo Kah Wee and Claire Teo – who live with visual-impairment to explore their self-identities and dreams through art. Through a creative process led by the artist, students and collaborators, the project will be presented as a large-scale multi-sensory installation ranging from music to film to audio story.
© Marina Zuccarelli
MAR 2016
DOUBLE VISION
Lower Gallery
Playing on the definition of ‘double vision’ as “the simultaneous perception of two images, usually overlapping, of a single scene or object”, Marina Zuccarelli and Junie Tang, present two distinct bodies of work connected by, and embodying, this very definition. Zuccarelli explores the theme of memories by using technology to juxtapose current day images with superimposed images from the past; whereas Tang’s vision is to blur the boundaries of art and design through images produced with the effect of double exposures with the use of a basic analogue tool (Holga camera).
© Boedi Widjaja
JAN 2016
Imaginary Homeland: 我是不是該安静地走開
Lower Gallery
The exhibition looks at photographic imagery, and its impact in our remembering and re-forming of personal narratives. The process started with the artist drawing negative images of reportage photographs of Indonesian politics across a 30-year period, from its independence in 1945 through a period of transition of Soekarno’s National Independence to Soeharto’s New Order. The viewer is invited to use his/her mobile device, with invert settings turned on, to see the positive image. Shifting between the modality of drawing and photography, Boedi Widjaja reflects viscerally upon the imagery of his personal history, seeking agency. Part of Singapore Art Week 2016.