icas guide (oct - nov 2011)

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ICAS GUIDEOctober - November 2011

ICAS, LASALLE College o the Arts, Singapore


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OCTOBER

Ian Woo: A Review, 1995 - 201123 September - 30 October 2011, ICA Gallery 1

The exhibition presents a review o Ian Woos paintings and works onpaper. Produced over the past seventeen years since his graduation,it oers insight into the development o his practice as an artist. Thisis the rst review o a major artist and painter in Singapore and in Asiatoday.

Throughout his practice, we see the exploration o space and colourthat seems to dey gravity and challenge the borders o the canvasitsel by turning inward or a movement o expansion that seems tobeckon the space beyond the rame. We can come back time andagain to discover a hitherto unseen dimension emerging out o themulti-layered suraces. In such terms, we are witness to an unremittingintensity o engagement that demands o a viewer an equal intensityo response over time.

Curated by Charles Merewether

IanWoo,JazzRockSpe

cial(2008)


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Tropical Lab 5: Masak masak24 September - 7 October 2011, ICA Gallery 2

Tropical Lab is an annual International Art Workshop where student-artists rom dierent cultural backgrounds and countries gather toresearch, experiment and collaborate in order to create contemporaryart. The Lab explores the blurring polarities o the urban and non-urban by drawing upon the geo-political dierences o the countries.It serves as a means to stimulate innovation and experimentation. This

year eatured 16 student artists rom 8 countries who explored thetheme omasak-masak a Malay term or make-believe cooking andchilds play which is comparable to the process o art-making. Fromthe preparation to the consumption o ood as a basic need or survivalor or pleasure, masak-masakoregrounds the desire to experiment inpreparation and presentation.

Organised by the Faculty o Fine Arts at LASALLE, this is the 5th

edition o an intensive and highly engaging ten-day event. TROPICALLAB 5 will include a series o workshops, talks and seminarsculminating in an exhibition curated by Charles Merewether, Directoro the ICAS.

Presented by the Faculty o Fine Arts, LASALLE College o the Arts.

Coordinated by Milenko Prvacki, Senior Fellow at LASALLE College o

the Arts.

CharlotteDore,Closeyoureye

sanddreamwithme(2011)


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Foris

5 - 16 October 2011, Earl Lu Gallery

Based on prepared mechanical systemsand using simple structures and

commonplace materials like wood andnylon, Foris opens up both imaginaryand allegorical dimensions o theoutdoors in sound, sculpture and space.This exhibition invites the audience toparticipate in an acoustic experience.This collaboration between Fine Arts and

Media Arts sta and students explores therelationships between the articial and theorganic.

10 Participating artists: Riduan Mohamad, Jessica Gabrielli, Low HanYuan, Andreas Schlegel, Lim Hong Zeng, Chen Kerui, Jeremy Sharma,Foo Hui Ping Lucinda, Ngiam Shi Xiong, Wong Sze Wei Fredrik

Coordinated by Jeremy Sharma o the Faculty o Fine Arts andAndreas Schlegal o the Faculty o Media Arts, LASALLE College o theArts.

The exhibition Catching the High Tide eatures a selection ogroundbreaking positions o video art rom Indonesia and covers

ten years o artistic production in the eld. The use o video orartistic purposes in Indonesia dates back to the early nineties whenthe pioneers Krisna Murti, Teguh Ostentrik and Heri Dono began toexperiment with video in order to expand the scope o their artisticcreations. Ater the downall o Suhartos regime (also known as EraReformasi) in 1998 and thanks to the reedom o opinion, a morepersonal and playul work succeeded the socially oriented ocus o theprevious years. This second and younger generation o video makersgrew up with both television and internet, music videos and the use omobile devices.

12 Participating artists: Wimo Ambala Bayang, Reza Asung Asina,Muhammad Akbar, Nala Atmowiloto, Ariani Darmawan, Yusu Ismail,Krisna Murti, Anggun Priambodo, Ari Satria Darma, Prilla Tania, WokThe Rock and Tintin Wulia

Guest Curated by Katerina Valdivia Bruch

Catching the HighTide: Video Art fromIndonesia.29 September - 16October 2011, BrotherJoseph McNally Gallery

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Looking In, Looking Atoers a rst andintimate glimpse o the nal major project

development by the BA (Hons) FashionCommunication students o LASALLECollege o the Arts. The exhibition revolvesaround the exploration and experimentationby students as they envision and realisetheir concepts with the use o mediumssuch as photography, videography andillustration. By ocusing on social, politicalor cultural agendas, their projects exploreand investigate various innovative ways ocommunicating ideas and concepts through the language o ashion.

The Fashion Communication students are an irrepressible group oyoung-at-hearts who live and breathe ashion everyday. Dippinginto their wealth o ashion knowledge gained rom having consumed

various media such as lm, music, magazines, these studentsmaniest their ideas and concepts through exciting new orms ocommunication.

Presented by the Faculty o Design (Fashion communication), LASALLECollege o the Arts.

Looking In, Looking At7 - 12 October 2011, Praxis Space

A graduate o LASALLE College o the Arts,Ava Tan engages in the subject o womenand the etishisation o their bodies. Shemoulds the body o a woman into a ridiculous

homonculus o an over-sexed emininitythat is ubiquitous across the landscapeo contemporary society. Reduced to herarchetypal erogenous centres, the emalebody remains pliant and yielding as the paintthat orms her skin, rozen in a moment oimagined perection. The artist, too, is entirelyaware o her own commodication and the

demand that seems almost outside o hercontrol.

With her rst Trispace exhibit, Ava continues her explorations opornography and those who trade in sex as a refection upon her ownexperience o modern lie. She sees it as a constant struggle betweenthe will to maintain ones identity and expectations borne out osurvival and instinct.

Ava Tan: Woman, Body, Fetish29 September - 19 October 2011, TriSpace

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The ICAS presents a sampling o projectsdeveloped by the students o the Faculty

o Fine Arts. The subject was the objettrouv or Found Object, a term usedto denote the idea o ordinary object/stransormed into an art object. Thisconcept was developed by the Frenchartist Marcel Duchamp in the rst twodecades o the 20th century and has hadan extraordinary infuence on the courseo Twentieth Century art. More thanthat, Duchamp along with others o hisgeneration, opened up the eld o art toa direct engagement with everyday lie.Even now the concept o the ound object resonates in contemporaryart and continues to produce a wonderul amalgam o the ordinaryeveryday objects and debris or, the o-cast o everyday lie and

materials. We present here a ew examples to capture the creative andexperimental spirit o this project.

Presented by the Institute o Contemporary Arts Singapore

Found Object7 - 16 October 2011, Project Space

NanakiSingh,FoundObject,

FlashlightsandExplosions(2011)

Ya-ad

28 October - 17 November 2010, TrispaceAter nishing his MA at LASALLE College o theArts, Rajinder moved to London. His ocus is onmaking works that are ragile; which are on theverge o something perched on a precipice.Rajinders new installations are vulnerable tothe slightest alteration o space around them.The smallest movement can cause the works toalter. They sit quietly, subtly in anticipation. Thematerial, the positioning and the viewers sensesare vital. Whether the viewer chooses to or not,i they are even aware, the viewers movements can and do disruptthe work.

Rajinders background in philosophy and mathematics is the drivingorce behind his art practice. He is interested in the possibilities oknowledge outside the domain o traditional paradigms. Rajindersresearch today is based on sculptural interventions situatedsomewhere between the architectural space and the materials heuses to shape it.

Opening reception: 27 October 2011, 6.30pm

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The Green Room15 October - 9 November 2011, ICA Gallery 2

A space or perormers to relaxand rehearse beore or ater

going on stage. One stage, oneelectric guitar, one microphoneand one perormeryou. Thepromise o ame and adorationawaits. All is, however, not,what it seems. Initially the visualspectacle o the stage will call

you like a moth to a candle, butit will soon become apparentthat something is amiss. Thisstage only operates i you have a ew riends or ellow visitors who arewilling to assist your rise to the top. The Green Room is an interactivespace, meant or hanging out and trying it out, whatever it may be.Dont orget to eat a healthy breakastthe crowd wants energy! -

Vincent Twardzik Ching

Opening reception: 14 October 2011, 6.30pm

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Sonorous Duration Festival20 October 5 November 2011, Earl Lu Gallery, Project

Space, Praxis Space and Brother Joseph McNally GallerySonorous Duration is a estival o crossart-orm collaboration and experimentalmusic rom Singapore, Southeast Asiaand beyond. Featuring perormances andinstallation projects, the estival seeks toarticulate a common ground shared by

contemporary sonic and visual art practice.Drawing on the parallel orendering(something) visible and rendering aduration sonorous, the estival proposes a withdrawal romthe obvious distinctions between representation/techniqueand eect in both areas. It presents works that are based oncontrary technical backgrounds which, simultaneously occupy

shared expressive outcomes or aects. During the exhibition,talks by visiting artists will be held.

Co-presented by the ICAS and the School o ContemporaryMusic, LASALLE College o the Arts.

See overleaf for programme line-up.


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Sonorous Duration: Programme Line-upEarl Lu Gallery, Project Space, Praxis Space and BrotherJoseph McNally Gallery

Installation Programme

Thursday, 20 October Sunday, 23 OctoberProject Space: Andreas Schlegel and Design students (LASALLEalumni)Praxis Space: Sachiko M, Yan JunThursday, 27 October Sunday, 30 OctoberProject Space: Andreas Schlegel and Design students (LASALLE

alumni)Praxis Space: Goh Lee Kwang, Robbie Avenaim / Timothy ODwyerThursday 20 October Saturday, 5 NovemberEarl Lu Gallery: Silica Variations by Brian OReilly and VladimirTodorovicSilica Variations is a multichannel audio-visual installation that exploressynthetic aesthetics with the use o generative visuals and analogue

soundscapes. Even though these audio-visual orms look like theyare not coming rom this world; and even though they are generatedby various technologies including computer code and analoguesynthesisers, these abstract instances have loose connections to thelie on earth. They represent variations on something that we cannoteasily see with naked eye, something that comes rom silica, a rawelement and principal constituent o sand and some rocks

Brother Joseph McNally Gallery: Interstices by Black Zenith (BrianOReilly and Darren Moore)Black Zenith presents Interstices - a series o three installation workswhich explore the space between sound and visuals. Drawing as muchinfuence rom noise, music and the electroacoustic music traditionas they do rom the oundations o abstract video art, their worksexplore dense sonic textures that generate live visuals through the

transormation o audio signals into images and video eedback.Perormance ProgrammeFor details o nightly weekend perormances, please check http://www.lasalle.edu.sg/index.php/news-and-events/events/2011/838

Public Programme: Artist Talk

Saturday, 22 October

Brother Joseph McNally Gallery2pm: Rully Shabara & Wukir Suryadi3.30pm: Yan JunSaturday, 29 OctoberBrother Joseph McNally Gallery2pm: Goh Lee Kwang3.30pm: Robbie Avenaim


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NOVEMBER

Expressions of Humanity

Deploying Passages

17 November 7 December,

Brother Joseph McNally Gallery

24 November 14 December, Earl Lu GalleryA collaboration amongst 6 third-yearstudents, this project takes individualsituations that stimulate each o theirpractices, transorming them into a physicallanguage. By using the physical presenceo individuals as orce, the works explorethe possibilities o a collective language,deploying passages in both video andlive perormance or individuality to bothemerge and submerge. Reacting to the

possibilities o this collaboration, theyrespond to each others practice and to locate themselves in multiplesituations. The video medium serves as a means to create non-sensicalexperiences through the methods o assemblage while, the liveperormances respond to the video and demonstrate to the audiencethe collaboration process.

Opening reception and perormance: 23 November 2011, 6.30pm

AttaKim,MuseumProject

#001(1995)Expressions of Humanityexplores the

concept o the human orm as theartists endeavour to search issues opersonal identity, governmental controland spiritual dialogue. This secondexhibition o the LASALLE permanent collection continues to explore

the diversity o the collection, here narrated through pivotal momentso gurative art.

Highlighted in this exhibition are two photography artists, Atta Kimand Manit Sriwanichpoom, whose work explores radically dierentaspects o modern society through the use o the human gure. AttaKim, rom South Korea, photographs the subjects o his MuseumProject series at their most vulnerable naked yet conned to a

glass box and placed in archetypal settings - providing a mechanismto chronicle the search or human sel-discovery and the meaningo existence. The series Horror in Pink, by the Thai artist ManitSriwanichpoom, oers a ar more sinister perspective o modernsociety and human nature. His works recollect disturbing, yet pivotalpast events re-cast through a contemporary lens by the presence othe enigmatically garish gure o the Pink Man.


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Cover Stories

12 November - 7 December, Project Space

Cover Stories presents theimaginative sketches andillustrations by a group o youngstudent artists rom LASALLEsAnimation Art (Faculty o MediaArts) and Design Communication(Faculty o Design) programmes.

These were produced underthe guidance o aculty lecturers

and in collaboration with Moleskine Asia. Each student was providedMoleskine notebooks and asked to design a series o potentialillustrations and covers. The resulting designs were then submittedto the online worldwide gallery o Moleskine, centered in Milan,Italy. Some o the artists will have their designs incorporated into the

companys Cover Art Collection or mass circulation.O the participating LASALLE students, 11 come rom theAnimation Art programme and 18 were in their nal year o theDesign Communication programme. The ensuing outcome o thecollaboration displayed within this exhibition presents an eclectic mixo 29 individually illustrated notebooks, encompassing mediums opainting, sketching and drawing.

The ArtIncubatoris a

community-basedprogrammebased inSingaporethatemphasiseson interactionamongstartists, writers and curators. This is the third o an annual exhibitioneaturing those artists who are awarded a residency to create newwork. It eatures artists Fran Borgia (Objectis, Singapore), GenevieveChua (Centre or Creative Communication, Shizuoka), George Wong(Grey Projects, Singapore) and the art collective Vertical Submarine(Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne).

Opening reception: 9 November 2011, 6.30pm

Art Incubator 310 November - 7 December 2011, Praxis Space

VerticalSubmarine,

IncendiaryTexts(2011)


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Inkimage17 November - 7 December 2011, ICA Galleries 1 & 2

This exhibition showcases the continuous development and newexplorations in contemporary Chinese-ink painting today. Chinese-

ink paintings are based on the artists perceptual understanding ovisual impressions, and conceptual manipulation o the medium. Theexhibition shows both recent work o Lim Choon Jin and teen ohis student artists o ink painting. The selection o work by Lim in ICA2 begins rom 2004 up until 2011 while, ICA 1 includes a selectiono work produced by his student artists over the past year. Thesignicance o the exhibition is to demonstrate that Chinese ink-

painting continues to not only to fourish but renew itsel through atacit dialogue with other orms o contemporary artistic expression.

ICA Gallery 1: Alexis Noakes, Andrea ORyan, Chua Chai ChenChristina, Huang Yian, Koh Pei Chen, Lena Ah-Tune, Lim Siewli,Norreen Bte Rahmat, Peh Jiahao, See Shu Wen, Sng Geok TengShaynvin, Song Yiying Jenny, Tan Jack Ying, Yang Xiuting, Yapp PoiChee

ICA Gallery 2: Lim Choon Jin

Curated by Charles Merewether

Opening reception: 16 November 2011, 6.30pm

LimChoonJin,Beyon

dtheBrush-stroke(2011)


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Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore

The Institute o Contemporary Arts Singapore (ICAS) is the curatorialdivision o LASALLE College o the Arts. It runs seven galleries,comprising some 1,500 square meters o gallery spaces dedicated toexploring new and experimental art across the Fine Arts, Design, Media

Practices and Perorming Arts. Its programme ocuses on showcasinginternational, Asian, Southeast Asian and local contemporary arts.Its outreach programme includes regular publications, seminarsand symposiums, visiting artists talks and events o contemporaryperormance, installation, design and music/sound practices. The ICASis committed to providing a cultural and educational tool or studentsand the Singaporean audience to advance their knowledge and

appreciation o the contemporary local, regional and international arts,that is not otherwise available in Singapore today.

The sta include Dr. Charles Merewether (Director), Jody Neal(Curator), Kimberly Shen (Senior Executive), Isrudy Shaik (SeniorExhibitions Ocer), Redzuan Zemmy (Exhibitions Ocer), Jessica AnneRahardjo (Curatorial Assistant) and Jasmine Yoo JungWon (CuratorialIntern).

Gallery Opening Hours:Daily rom 10am 6pm (except Mondays and public holidays)

Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore

LASALLE College of the Arts

1 McNally Street, B1-03 Singapore 187940

Tel: +65 6496 5070 Email: [email protected]

Website: http://www.lasalle.edu.sg/index.php/galleries

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