Artworld in 9 Days: Day 9

Day 9, 30 Jan 2021:

This is the last day! 

We visited the following:

• Pressplay 2021
• Under the Skin curated by Cheong Kah Kit
• Aliwal Tracks 
• For the House; Against the House
• Cunxin Cuntie Cunxin by Tang Dawu
• Altared State 
• Reconnect by Modern Art Society
• Listening to the Ink by Teo Lee Lang 

• Re-Written: The world ahead of us (could not find) 
• Of Kopi and Kampongs (could not attend) 
• Understanding Art Conservation (could not attend) 
• Asian Art in the 21st Century - Narratives of History and Curating (Missed this online talk) 

* I visited and attended eight SAW events and four event attempts today. This concludes my Artworld in 9 days Art Week experiment. Stay tuned to know more of the outcome. 

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Artworld in 9 Days: Day 8

 Day 8, 29 Jan 2021:

Time is running out! left 2 more days! 

We visited the following:

• #Neverbeforesg
• All things New Esplanade 
• Timeless Treasures: A Collection of Modern and Contemporary Masters from Across the Region
• Margins: Drawing Pictures of Home
• Deep Field Cinema by INTER-MISSION and Currency Design
• Otherworlds: Non/Digital Realities Curated by Instinc
• Free Jazz III. Sound. Walks. 
  
• Trinh T. Minh-Ha. Films. 
• Campur, Tolak, Kali, Bahagi, Sama Dengan (Add, Substract, Multiply, Divide, Equals)
• Shifting Between: Our softest hour
• The Orchid; The Wasp 
• A Matter of Time by Wyn-Lyn Tan
• Telok Kurau Showcase- The Phase
• Trees For A Pink Playground
• Lite On! @ Downtown East
• Arts @ Safra Chinese New Year Celebration - Family Reunion Wall Mural

* I visited and attended sixteen SAW events and three event attempts. I have 14 left to go.

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Day 7: Artworld in 9 Days

 

Day 7, 28 Jan 2021:

The new semester starts today at Lasalle so I will be spending time with my bunch of wonderful studio group students in the afternoon. 

 

We visited the following:

• Art Never Stops: Vertical Horizon at Y2ARTS Gallery
•  Wishful Images: When Microhistories Take Form
• Visual Notes: Actions and Imaginings
• Tropics, A Many (Con)sequence - An Exhibition with Kent Chan
• Moo Moo Park (could not enter) 
• Creative Union at Funan
• New Weave 
• Chromatic Identities (could not enter) 
• Annotations (could not enter) 

* I visited and attended six SAW events and three event attempts. I have 30 left to go with 3 event attempts today. 

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Day 6: Artworld in 9 Days

 Day 6, 27 Jan 2021:

Spend this day going across different sites around Singapore. 

We visited the following:

• Subhuman - Komkrit Tepthian 
• Ziyang Wu: Where did Macy Go?
• A Group Exhibition by Huang Yuananqing, Xue Song, Jin Jie and Lui Chun KWong
• In our best interests: Afro-Southeast Asian Affinities during a cold war
• Tigran Tsitoghdzyan - Inside Looking Out 
• A Familiar Forest by Zen Teh
• Inner like the Outar by Mama Magnet
• SAW Art Symposium 

* I visited and attended eight SAW events and have 39 left to go.

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Day 5: Artworld in 9 Days

Day 5, 26 Jan 2021: 

I know that 100 events sound like a lot. 

I am determined to do my best not to prove a point but it is a way of mapping the artworld. 

It was pleasant to have Lily and Carmella join us. 

We visited the following: 

• Open to Interpretation by Art Institutum
• The Incredible Magical Moving Sticker Exhibition by Eyeyah! 
• Celebrating SG Artists by Filmat36 featuring artists like Goh Beng Kwan, Ho Ho Ying, Sarkasi Said, Siew Hock Meng, Lee Hock Mah, Tay Chee Toh and Tong Chin Sye. 
• If Forests Talk curated by Kent Chan 
• Open Books: I want to go home
• Light to Night: __ -IN-PROGRESS 
• Maybe We Read Too Much Into Things at 72-13
• Time Passes
• Escape Velocity V 
• Visual Arts at Esplanade
• Strange Forms of Life
• Artwalk in Spite of... 
• On/Off/Screen
• Restituating Home(Making): Hyper Material Domesticity by Tekad Kolektif
• Progressive Disintegrations 
• Allergies by Artblovk Pop-up Gallery
• C/Discoveries: A solo show bby Aisha Rosli

* I visited and attended seventeen SAW events and have 47 left to go. 

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Artworld in 9 Days: Day 4

 

Johnny Wong & me at Jurong Central Library with 

The Dream from the other side by Melissa Tan

Here we are at Bus.Stop.Art. with Alecia Neo's Walk with Me

Day 4, 25 Jan 2021: 

I had work and some Substation duties so I started late today on my art adventure. 

One of my oldest artist friend, Johnny Wong joined me on the the SAW art trail and we decided to go to places that he could not easily get to. We visited the following: 

• Bus.Stop.Art. Curated by Amelia Abdullahsani and Merryn Trevethan 
• Travelougue: Solo Exhibition by Jieun Park at REDSEA Gallery
• KHALSOM at Artitude Galeria 
• The Dream from the other side by Melissa Tan - SAM Mini Mobile Museum at Jurong Regional Library 

* I visited and attended three SAW events and have 64 left to go. 

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Artworld in 9 Days: Day 2 Tips, Insights and Setbacks

Walk quickly and a lot. SAW should collaborate with the Health Promotion Board and count cultural steps or steps towards culture. Give the culture vultures a reward or something, give them an artwork! Substation next inter-ministry production for SAW!

A bowl of Rice analogy. If you are given a bowl of rice, and you eat two mouthfuls and throw the rest away. Isn't that wasteful? Going to all the events is like finishing the rice with no need to clean the bowl. I feel a little defeated at this rate - should have some rice left in the bowl.

Don't talk too much. That's my setback on the two days. Not seeing many peeps for so long was tempting to stop to say 'hallo' and find out how they are. Suppose one wants to finish the rice. Talk less and keep walking.

Jokes aside. I think so far the best part about the SAW experience is that people get into conversations about art, life and politics.

My favourite quote so far is from Lucas.

On the nice crowd at Gillman Barracks, he said:

"People realise that Art and culture are essential after the lockdown, so they are all coming to see art!"

Artworld in 9 Days: Day 3

 

Fyon Cheong, Raging in Capsule (2020) 

Day 3, 24 Jan 2021: 

Due to volunteering at Bukit Batok, I have to conduct a workshop so I only continued my SAW art trail in the late afternoon. 

I continue the SAW art trail at Waterloo Street. I visited the following: 

• Joint Exhibition by Ten Galleries (Bras Basah Area Art Group) 
• South East Asia Calligraphy Masters Exhibition at The Chinese Calligraphy Society of Singapore
• Untapped 2021 Guest Curated by Syed Muhammad Hafiz by Chan + Hori Contemporary
•  Sub / Merged by Singapore Art Museum 
• An Unnatural History by Singapore Art Museum 

We ended the evening with snacks and drinks with the art trail's guests talking about art, and exceptional women: Georgette Chen, Elieen Chang & Chng Seok Tin. 

* I visited and attended five SAW events and have 67 left to go. 

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Artworld in 9 Days: Day 2

 

Foo Hui Wen, In Plain Sight (2021) at Pivot Point curated by Outcontext

Day 2, 23 Jan 2021: 

I started the day at base camp, The Substation. I attended WAKE artist tour. WAKE is a site-specific exhibition at the Substation based on the themes of hauntings, reterritorialization and homecoming led by 6 Diploma Fine Art students from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. These young artists chose to view the Substation as a living, breathing entity with its own organs and history, full of (un)fortunate events. The works form a representation of the past stories of the Substation and their speculation of its future. 

For the tour, I was joined by a friend who just returned from Berlin. It was wonderful to see the young artists share their ideas and views about the Substation. I told myself that I should invite some old timers to see their work and how these young people see the Substation. 

I continue the SAW art trail at Gillman Barracks. I visited the following: 

• Bubbleloon at the Columns Gallery which featured sculpture from Yeo Chee Kiong
• Baroque Archipelago at Mizuma Gallery
• Yayoi Kusama: Recent Paintings at Ota Fine Arts
• David Diao at ShanghART
• Volume Eleven by Ash Ghazali at Richard Koh Fine Art
• Nicholas Ong, Absurd Theatrics at Yavuz Gallery
• Kill Your Darlings by Ian Tee at Yavuz Gallery (off site)
• Wild Critters curated by Alvin Tan from PHUNK and programmed by Shang Liang. This is Insta AR filter project. 
• Residencies OPEN by NTU CCA 
• Threads and TensionsL The Interconnected World at Yeo Workshop
• Pivot Point curated by Outcontext featuring 8 young artists
• Impart Collectors' Show 2021: Leap of Faith 

* I visited and attended eleven SAW events and have 72 left to go. 

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Artworld in 9 Days: Day 1

Shane Ng, Continuity in Pulses (2020) at Singapore Ceramics Now 2021

Day 1, 22 Jan 2021: 

I started visiting two exhibitions at my basecamp, The Substation. Starting with Ceramic Expressions presented by Mulan Gallery. Then I visited "Withering Rice, Flourishing Sovereignty" by Chu Hao Pei. This is a mixed media installation which highlights a collection of rice farming practices and its interwoven relationship between rice and politics in Southeast Asia. A staple consumed in the region, rice has become more than a food product but a symbol embedded within our Southeast Asian cultures. Through a constellation of textures and material, the work explores the production and consumption of rice as borderless produce, and how it is or can be used as a socio-political tool to reimagine the boundaries between countries in Southeast Asia. Chu's mixed media installation is Substation's We are not coming back, We are coming around and is a part of the NGS's Novel Ways of Being project. 

I had a meeting with Farhan Idris and talked about his art criticism project. Then I listened to the Reset Talk Series by Art & Market. 

Then took an afternoon nap before heading out to Gillman Barracks again. At Gillman, I visited Singapore Ceramics Now 2021. One of the largest surveys of ceramics art in local art history since the 90s. A wonderful exhibition which expands ceramics practice. Singapore Ceramics Now 2021 is organised by Jason Lim and curated by SEED Art Space. 

Continued with The Hours After, Artists as Collector and Deliverance at Mucciaccia Gallery. 

We ended the evening with dinner with the art trail's guests talking about art, life and everything. 

* I visited and attended six SAW events and have 83 left to go. 

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Artworld in 9 Days

I am embarking on an art adventure in this Singapore Art Week (2021).

I will do my best to attempt the 100 events that are happening in these nine days (22 - 30 Jan). If you see me, say hi!

I have not seen many of you for at least a year!

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Artworld in 9 Days: Day 0

Day 0, 21 Jan 2021 : 

We visited Something, Somewhere, Somewhen; S.E.A. Focus 2021 ; COSMICWANDER: Expedition and Ashley Bickerton Solo Exhibition at the Tanjong Pagar District Park. After that, we visited Networked Bodies curated by Supernormal at Gillman Baracks. Then it was dinner with the art trail guests with an evening of conversations on art and life. 

 

* I visited five SAW events and have 89 left to go. 

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Artworld in 9 Days: Day -1

State of Motion, Pure Ever Sunset X - This is not sci-fi, this is heartbreak (2021)

Day -1, 20 Jan 2021: 

State of Motion 

We visited the State of Motion 2021: [Alternate / Opt] located at Marina One. The event explores "Southeast Asian Futurism" as a way of speculating and spectacularise of a time to come. The event is curated by Syaheedah Iskandar and Thong Kay Wee. 

* I visited one SAW event and have 94 left to go. 

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