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ICAS GUIDEJanuary - February 2012

Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore

LASALLE College of the Arts


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GLOSSARYThe ICAS presents a new 68pp full-colour publication featuringarticles, visuals, dossiers, highlights and activities in 2011.

Some highlights:- Inkimage- Foris exhibition: Interview with curators, and essay by Lawrence Chin- The Situation of Roberto Chabets Plywood Installations,

essay by Isabel Ching- The Invisible Cosmology of Chihiro Kabata, essay by Julia Friedman- Interview with Otomo Yoshihide, major experimental Japanese

musician, about his work and Japanese avant-garde music scenesince the 1980s- Ian Woo: A Review, 1995 2011, a critical self-appraisal- Beyond Souvenirs, a review of the past 30 years in Indonesian art

by Paul Khoo- Article by the outgoing LASALLE President, Alastair Pearce

Out in January 2012.


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CUT THRU: A View on 21st Century Thai Art11 January 7 February 2012, ICA Gallery 1

CUT THRU: A View on 21st Century Thai Art is a gesture: the gestureof slicing through vernacular culture, secular beliefs and religion inorder to access and investigate the complex and multi-layered 21stcentury Thai society.

Based on the idea of materiality - industrial / traditional, secular /religious, old / new - this exhibition brings together recent bodiesof works by nine emerging art practitioners from Thailand: Angkrit

Ajchariyasophon, Chulayarnnon Siriphol, Chusak Srikwan, NawapolThamrongrattanarit, Piyatat Hemmatat, Preeyachanok Ketsuwan,Ruangsak Anuwatwimon, Vichaya Mukdamanee and Tawan Wattuya.

In a time when the Thai cultural landscape is being redefined by awave of younger artists, this exhibition offers multiple reflections ofcontemporary Thailand by spotlighting iconic elements of daily life,vernacular culture and religion.

Guest Curated by Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani

Opening reception: Tuesday, 10 January 2012, 6.30pm

Artist Talk by Piyatat Hemmatat and Vichaya MukdamaneeWednesday, 11 January 2012, 1.00pmICA Gallery 1

JANUARY

TawanWattuya,HonestyatAllCosts,Evento

LoseOnesLife(2009)


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The exhibition introduces three women artists from outside of WesternEurope who have taken up residence in Berlin. Integral to their

practice is performance that is recorded and subsequently shownas independent video work. Their practice involves both themselvesdirectly as the subject, as well as others. Some of the work exploresthe subject of women as well as cultural differences that lie within theircountries of origin and between national boundaries.

Participating artists: Mariana Vassileva (Bulgaria), Almagul Menlibayeva(Kazakhstan) and Nezaket Ekici (Turkey)

Opening reception: Friday, 13 January 2012, 6.30pm

Talk by the three artists and special performance by Nezaket EkiciMonday, 16 January 2012, 4.00pmEarl Lu Gallery

East is West: Three Women Artists14 January 15 February 2012, Earl Lu Gallery

AlmagulMenlibayeva,TheAralBeach2(2011)


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In viewingthis exhibition

holistically, oneobserves thatthe juxtapositionof the imagesaddresses theimportance of different elements such as, colour, tone, form and thespatial considerations, as well as our own recognition of the humanform. At the same time, the exhibition further invites viewers to lookbeyond the images and their substance in order to critique and discussthe production and process of the work. The work represents aninvestigation of the ways in which our visual perception can be alteredin order to raise questions on the conceptual structure of the visualrepresentation.

The artists, Wayne Lim and Derrick Ng are recent graduates of the

Faculty of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts.Opening reception: Thursday, 19 January 2012, 6.30pm

Something About Seeing20 January 14 February 2012, TriSpace

Transpaper project,in which paperis chosen as themain material,investigates theidea of materialexploration. The

prefix trans isdeprived fromtwo wordstransformation and transparency. While transformationrepresents the major idea of this project as exploring thetransformative potential of paper, a mundane material, transparencydescribes a similar quality found in both artists works.

This exhibition is an investigation into a form of aesthetic known as thebeauty of purity, in which factors like sensitivity, fragility, lightness andtranslucency play an important part.

The artists, Anh Tran and Irene Febry, are recent graduates of theFaculty of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts.

Opening reception: Thursday, 19 January 2012, 6.30pm

Transpaper20 January 8 February 2012, Project Space


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Videologue is a neologised term from the words video anddialogue suggesting the form of communication through video art.

The exhibition/exchange project was conceptualised in 2010 by visualartists Urich Lau from Singapore and Cheng Guangfeng from Beijing,as an artist-initiative to create a platform that connects artists fromdifferent cities with video art.

The inaugural exhibition was first realised in Beijing on March 2011,hosted by Sunshine International Art Museum. It focused on thecommentary exchanges between the artists of both cities, on the

critique of contemporary urban changes and displacement.

In January 2012, Videologue: Beijing Singapore Tokyo continuesto explore the issues concerned, and on the situations of the humandilemma and dissociation in geological, territorial and cultural shifts asinterpreted by the participating artists.

Curated by Urich Lau (Singapore) and Cheng Guangfeng (China)

Participating artists: Urich Lau, Lim Shengen and Teow Yue Han(Singapore), Cheng Guangfeng, Han Tao, Li Ning and Shen Shaomin(China) and Tetsugo Hyakutake (Japan).

Opening reception: Thursday, 19 January 2012, 6.30pm

Artist TalkFriday, 20 January 2012, 5.00pm

ICA Gallery 2

Videologue: Beijing Singapore Tokyo20 January 19 February 2012, ICA Gallery 2

LimShengen,EastCostPark,Singapore

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Drawing Relations20 27 January 2012, Brother Joseph McNally Gallery

Drawing Relations is anexhibition highlighting

the emergence ofdrawing as a viableform of contemporaryart practice. No longerrelegated to supportwork and or just pencilon paper, contemporarydrawing has moved onto the three-dimensional,the conceptual and the act of making a drawing. This is a showcaseof works produced by first year Drawing Specialism students andsecond year undergraduate students for Studio Drawing of the FineArts Bachelor of Arts (Hons) programme. They were selected from aseries of projects that explored material, line, space, the everyday, thecartographic and the ephemeral.

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

though we be but human26 January 5 February 2012, Praxis Space

The human figure is a fascinatingsubject with various facets tothe idea of the Self. This yearsFoundation students have donetheir best, through applicationand exploration of variousmediums and techniques learntin the first semester, to give a

unique and personal perspectiveof this subject, seeking to portraythe human figure as they see it.

Presented by the Diploma Level 1Visual Studies programme,Faculty for the CreativeIndustries,

LASALLE College of the Arts.


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FEBRUARY

Resonance: An Ethnographic Research ProductDesign Exhibition4 17 February 2012, Brother Joseph McNally Gallery

Undertaken by the final year undergraduate students from ProductDesign, the project was divided into two phases: Research and Design,requiring students to experience, analyse and extract the potentialelements of a foreign culture. Following that, these elements werethen translated into products to fit into a contemporary lifestyle thatappeals to a chosen target user group within that segment.

These student designers along with the programme leader had goneon location to carry out an ethnographic field research in the colourfuland multicultural Sarawak, on the island of Borneo. They were requiredto participate reflexively in their daily research journeys, understandingand interpreting the ways of Sarawak allowing the amalgamation ofindividual tacit knowledge and experiences. Over a period of eightdays, the group experienced a dynamic mix of Sarawaks indigenous

cultures interweaved with urbanised cultures that negotiate manyinteresting cultural collisions; identifying various start points fortheir individual searches for fresh product design possibilities withthe perspective of promoting new or otherwise lost values to thecontemporary world.

This ethnographic reflection and deflection of cultural experiencesgathered from the

ethnographic study ofSarawak, taken throughthe researchers and thedesigners translationsinto the contemporaryworld resonates in asimilar fashion to how

sound is reflected andaltered as it bounces offdifferent surfaces beforeit is finally heard, or in thiscase, showcased in thisexhibition.

Presented by the Product

Design programme,Faculty of Design, LASALLECollege of the Arts.


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One Perfect Complex

23 February 18 March 2012, TriSpace

The installation byartist Lucinda Lawfeatures a series ofdelicate microcosmencased in bell jars.Each individualbell jar contains

elemental materialsthat explore thenotion of As Above,So Below, As Within,So Without. Each microcosm is a formation of objects that reflect theway this intelligence works, where the inner reflects the outer, fromatom (material) ad infinitum (metaphysical). Each is a miniature copy

of the macrocosm, alluding to the mode of its action, as depictedby most of the transient and transformative state of the elementalmaterials within the jars, which wane or develop across the durationof the installation. The work is an exploration on the unity of themicrocosm with the macrocosm where the complete understanding ofthe two worlds equates perfect knowledge.

Opening reception: Wednesday, 22 February 2012, 6.30pm

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ecredit:SereneLin

This exhibition mergessurface design and

illustration, fusing visualcommunication withdecoration. Pens makemarks. Needles makeholes. The potential ofthe pen and needle asan art-making tool isrestricted only by thecreative intention ofits operator. Movingbetween the conventional and unconventional application of these artmaking tools, SURFACE 122 invited a group of designers and artiststo explore the possibilities of creating illustrative based artwork usingpens and/or needles, playing with the notions of surface and texture.

Presented by SURFACE 122 and supported by the Faculty of Design,LASALLE College of the Arts.

Pens and Needles17 February 1 March 2012, Project Space


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Hong Kong Intervention23 February 18 March 2012, ICA Gallery 1

This exhibition features a recent work by Sun Yuan and Peng Yucomprising 100 sets of photographs involving foreign domestic

workers in Hong Kong. This is part of a larger global economy wherewomen from poorer countries work abroad to raise money and sendhome as remittances to support their families. The two artists invitedthese women to photograph their favourite place in the house with atoy hand grenade. They were given a camera to make the photographand asked also to pose standing in the house and photographed frombehind to secure their anonymity.

There is a lightness, amusement to the project. And yet the doublingphotograph nonetheless carries within it a critique of the unspokensocial conditions of contemporary life and by implication of theaccompanying photograph, a time bomb of what may be to come.Anonymity serves a double purpose not only out of respect ofthe individual but also obscuring the identity of the person who isimplicated in the planting of the bomb: the suspect. Together, these

photographs create a theater of master/servant relations, a form ofpotential, albeit symbolic anxiety.

Opening reception: Wednesday, 22 February 2012, 6.30pm

Artist Talk by Sun Yuan and Peng YuThursday, 23 February 2012, 1.00pmICA Gallery 1


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Beyond Limits

Fashion Figurines

23 February 2 March 2012, Earl Lu Gallery

24 February 15 March 2012, Brother Joseph McNallyGallery

This exhibition features the selected works created by the Level 1Fine Arts students, who explore the language of painting both in

its tendencies as a process as well as in its flexibilities as a medium.The selected works are taken from the students experimentationof surfaces and lines, and to what extent they are able to pushboundaries and defy limitations of painting.

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

Curated by Lionel Roudaut,Programme Leader of FashionDesign, LASALLE College of

the Arts.

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reetiVarma

Imagecredit:KittikunAtsawintarangkul


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

Practices and Performing Arts. Its programme focuses on showcasinginternational, Asian, Southeast Asian and local contemporary arts.Its outreach programme includes regular publications, seminarsand symposiums, visiting artists talks and events of contemporaryperformance, installation, design and music/sound practices. The ICASis committed to providing a cultural and educational tool for studentsand the Singaporean audience to advance their knowledge andappreciation of the contemporary local, regional and international arts,that is not otherwise available in Singapore today.

The staff include Dr. Charles Merewether (Director), Jody Neal(Curator), Ramesh Narayanan (Senior Executive), Jessica Anne Rahardjo(Executive), Isrudy Shaik (Senior Exhibitions Officer), Redzuan Zemmy(Exhibitions Officer) and Drishti Luthra (Curatorial Intern).

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Daily 10am 6pm (except Mondays and public holidays)

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