https://www.theinstitutum.com/news daily 0.75 2021-09-02 https://www.theinstitutum.com/news/blog-post-title-one-ny7mb monthly 0.5 2021-01-13 https://www.theinstitutum.com/news/artist-residency-in-partnership-with-gasworks-london monthly 0.5 2021-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/1630554766833-HMMU81FHZUZ770K51LFC/gasworks.jfif News - Artist residency in partnership with Gasworks London - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theinstitutum.com/home daily 1.0 2023-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/1610768108354-N4DXUA231XBPFLL252VT/mobilelogo2.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/14abc602-607a-4d1c-b6e0-e46b4737cefe/Screenshot+2023-11-11+at+2.07.21+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/ed3eee4a-c24a-4cd8-8e1a-ab4a7479e320/Screenshot+2023-08-18+at+1.36.36+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/eda88783-4626-4c45-8cac-e8d48baf1f89/image-asset.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/a54b3ba0-2275-4bac-a944-35652448c476/Screenshot+2022-06-02+at+15-18-10+The+Institutum+on+Instagram+%E2%80%9CPublished+by+The+Institutum+%28%40theinstitutum%29+and+supported+by+Art+Outreach+%28%40artoutreachsingapore%29+SEA+Contemporary+Art+in+Southeast+Asia%E2%80%A6%E2%80%9D.png Home - SEA: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia Co-published by The Institutum and Weiss Publishing and supported by Art Outreach SEA: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia is a beautifully illustrated, clothbound compendium presenting significant contemporary art in Southeast Asia across generations and borders. This publication provides a unique and timely opportunity to introduce an international audience to the dynamic and multifarious artistic practices of Southeast Asia as they are connected to major themes of interest, such as community engagement and organisation, social and political commentary, gender and identity, environment and ecology and material traditions and processes. Edited by Ute Meta Bauer, Karin G. Oen and Boon Hui Tan, this book fills a noticeable void in the landscape of arts publications, serving as an essential guide to artists working in the region. Selected by an international curatorial committee, the work of 60 different artists or collectives will be highlighted by concise introductory texts as well as images of significant works. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/df046ab8-b8fe-450d-94f1-8a75395a2df6/Screenshot+2022-09-25+at+12-51-07+State+of+the+Arts+-+Daisy+Parris+%26+Wells+Fray-Smith.png Home - State of the Arts - Daisy Parris & Wells Fray-Smith Daisy Parris is a painter of psychological space. Direct text-based works and abstract paintings are made up of a vernacular that has developed through experience, relationships and through the depths and the peaks of their human existence thus far. Parris brings intimacy, insight and integrity to their paintings with great psychological and emotional force. The work is imbued with the sensitivity of one who feels everything, taking us through unflinching narratives and moments of reflection and tenderness. An ode to human existence, their work is sometimes silent, sometimes savage, with paintings that construct self portraits of personal battles and triumphs in a fast moving yet contemplative assault on the canvas. Daisy Parris (b. 1993, Kent, UK) lives and works in London, UK and holds BA (Hons) Fine Art from Goldsmiths University, London. Recent exhibitions include Pain For Home, M+B, Los Angeles, USA (solo), Star-Studded Canopy, Sim Smith, London, UK (solo), Talk Like Strangers, with Nico Stone, Sebastian Helling and Jesse Littlefield, Part 2 Gallery, Oakland, California, What Kind Of Spirit Is This?, Sim Smith, London, UK and Poem, Las Palmas Project, Lisbon, Portugal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/5c8003a4-bc74-4845-afec-1063c4700f48/robert.jfif Home - Singapore Art Week 2022 As part of Singapore Art Week 2022 (SAW), held from 14 to 23 January 2022, The Institutum presents the continuation of our State of the Arts series. This installment commissioned for SAW will feature the following regional and local artists: Cultural Medallion recipient Amanda Heng National Arts Council Young Artist Awardee (2020) Chen Yanyun Singaporean artists Robert Zhao and anGie seah Filipino artist Pio Abad https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/43305d37-d114-4f19-8504-51bad4cfe6ba/Screenshot+2022-06-01+at+11.21.02.png Home - State of the Arts - Alex Prager & Wells Fray-Smith Alex Prager (b. 1979, Los Angeles, CA; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) is a photographer and filmmaker who creates elaborately staged scenes that draw inspiration from a wide range of influences and references, including Hollywood cinema, experimental films, popular culture, and street photography. She deliberately casts and stages all of her works, merging past and contemporary sources to create a sense of ambiguity. Her work is in multiple international public and private collections, and she has won numerous awards including an Emmy in 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/2e19c1c4-a5e4-46d6-8545-965e3f8afcc7/kentchan.jfif Home - Kent Chan - Gasworks Residency The Institutum is delighted to announce Kent Chan's residency at Gasworks London, 11 April to 27 June 2022. Kent's residency is part of a 5-year residency partnership between The Institutum, and Gasworks London. This is a new and unique opportunity that enables Gasworks to engage with cutting edge artists working in the region, providing them with a platform to undertake research, develop new work and forge new connections in London. Kent Chan is an artist, curator and filmmaker based in the Netherlands and Singapore. Chan’s artistic practice is centred around fiction, writing and cinematic research, with a particular interest in the ‘tropical imagination’ and the relationship between heat and art. During the residency, Chan will develop a speculative project that explores the potential of future societies after the loss of climate demarcation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/1623919386906-38X2J9DRFK8ROO7RDFH8/gasworks.jfif Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/1610527022415-HYLJ0GJNZT2Z4E7J99GK/hilmijohandi2.jpg Home - Past Event: Open to Interpretation Singapore Art Week 2021 – 22nd to 30th January 2021 The Asian Art Institutum (AAI) and Gasworks London are proud to present Open to Interpretation, a series of five short videos by five local artists. https://www.theinstitutum.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-01-13 https://www.theinstitutum.com/about-us daily 0.75 2021-12-31 https://www.theinstitutum.com/commissions daily 0.75 2024-02-28 https://www.theinstitutum.com/commissions/open-to-interpretation monthly 0.5 2021-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/1610358881673-I6QTDR120DULKO7RPXNL/boediwidjaja2.jpg Commissions - Open to Interpretation 2021 - Boedi Widjaja Boedi Widjaja (b. 1975, Solo City, Indonesia) migrated to Singapore at the age of 9 due to ethnic tensions, separated from his parents. His practice draws on his own transmigrant lived experiences, researching diaspora and homelands; Indo-Asia-Pacific geopolitics; and cross-cultural hybridities. Trained as an architect and with a background in graphic design, the techniques, materials and tools of drawing have become a defining element of Widjaja’s artistic practice. This is expressed through a broad range of media, from photography and new media to architectural installations and Live Art, with an emphasis on process and bodily engagement. Title: A tree rings, a tree sings 树龄°述铃 Artists: Boedi Widjaja Details: Single Channel Video, 00:20:00 Description: New findings in epigenetics suggest that we inherit ancestral memories. Could we then possibly inherit images and sounds—audiovisual signals—through DNA transmissions? In 2012, I returned to my grandfather’s hometown. Travel photos shot with my phone were subsequently re-imaged (re-imagined?) by inverting camera lenses. The soundtrack is the sonification of a hybrid DNA; genetic code—music score—of my Y-chromosome, the Chinese parasol tree (or wu tong, my grandfather’s namesake), and an encoded text. The video is generative in the tradition of Eno’s ambient music. An algorithmic composition that plays different every time, and (almost) infinitely. This 19-min slice was recorded at my computer in Jan 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/1610359089424-JYDGYCPB2MQOTIAXX95M/hindsight2.jpg Commissions - Open to Interpretation 2021 - Chen Yanyun Dr. Yanyun Chen (b. 1986, Singapore) is a visual artist, known for her charcoal drawings, animations and installations practice, and her works delve into the aesthetic, cultural and technological inheritances on one’s body, unravelling fictional and philosophical notions of embodiment. She researches cultural wounds, dowry traditions, hereditary scars, philosophies of nudities, and etymology. Chen graduated from the European Graduate School Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought PhD programme in 2018, the Communications MA programme in 2014, and Nanyang Technological University School of Art Design and Media Digital Animation programme in 2009. She is the Arts Practice Coordinator for the Humanities division of Yale-NUS College in Singapore. Title: Hindsight is 20/20 Artists: Yanyun Chen & Chia Yaim Chong Details: Single Channel Video, 00:02:27 Description: How does one begin to describe the inane restlessness and psychic volatility, without recourse, which was 2020? What constitutes creative production and privilege in a time when the stage is shut, and society has deemed art as no.1 non-essential during a pandemic in Singapore? What are artists to do when they are just not needed? With hindsight, visual artist Yanyun Chen and singer-songwriter Chia Yaim Chong offer a glimpse of a Singaporean artist’s life under lockdown, in the only way they know how: a new work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/1610357389114-NZJDYKXONWJ2QMSV58U5/hilmijohandi.jpg Commissions - Open to Interpretation 2021 - Hilmi Johandi Primarily a painter, Hilmi's recent exploration has expanded to include various media. His works are often set in the context of Singapore, where he is based, and he re-composes images from film, archival footages, and photographs into fragmented montages that hint at the social effects of rapid development. Hilmi's interest in film and the local history of Singapore has been a constant in his practice. Title: Two minutes of island paradise (Sun set to rise) n.2 Artists: Hilmi Johandi Details: Single Channel Video, 00:02:15 Description: Using printouts to create stop motion animation, this work is a composition of images borrowed from tourist advertisements and travel documentary clips produced in the past. Footages are dissected into frames and superimposed into a piece to create a visual experience that highlights the constructed-ness of its representation. Hilmi Johandi works primarily with painting and explores interventions with various media to pursue ideas of image-making. As he often borrows images from archival footages and photographs, beyond the reflection of nostalgia in Hilmi’s work, is a subtle portrayal of a society that encourages the viewer to reflect on existing historical narratives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/1610357913205-34ZS6C2LWTTPW0PN6K20/rizmanputra2.jpg Commissions - Open to Interpretation 2021 - Rizman Putra Rizman Putra graduated with Master of Arts (Fine Arts) from Lasalle College of the Arts in 2007. He is the winner of the 2005 Japanese Chamber of Commerce & Industry Singapore Foundation Arts Award, a co-founder of the now dissolved art collective Kill Your Television, as well as the founder of the electronic outfit NADA. He is currently an Associate Artist with Cake Theatrical Productions. Title: Smearing Impulsion Artists: Rizman Putra Details: Single Channel Video, 00:04:29 Description: Smearing Impulsion is a performative drawing presentation that was pre-recorded within a span of 3 days. Specifically focusing on the notion of immediacy and ephemerality, connecting related themes that surround motion and time, body and energy, light and space, imagined and observed, demonstrating how drawing can function as a performative device. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/1610358751350-6DXSLXS1HPCQUJPMBPYD/robertzhao2.jpg Commissions - Open to Interpretation 2021 - Robert Zhao Robert Zhao (b. 1982, Singapore) is a multi-disciplinary artist who blends reality and fiction in his works. Strongly informed by his observations and ongoing research into the natural world, Zhao adopts a practice that investigates and unravels the intertwining relationship between humans and their habitats. He lives and works in Singapore. Title: And A Great Sign Appeared Artists: Robert Zhao Details: Single Channel Video, 00:04:52 Description: On Dec 22, 2019, thousands of birds appeared in front of my home, darkening the sky and covering the open field next to a construction site. They were Asian openbill storks, birds foreign to Singapore and which have travelled a long way to be here. Their appearance was a great sign, but what of, to this day, I’m not sure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/1610356937105-Q63J090OQOLYG91FP9ON/AAI_Poster3.jpg Commissions - Open to Interpretation 2021 https://www.theinstitutum.com/commissions/justice-for-all monthly 0.5 2021-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/1610616138002-TS8TRB1U4ECX9Y7UEEXI/Asian+Art+Institutum__007_web+res.jpg Commissions - Yinka Shonibare CBE: Justice for All 2020 Shonibare’s monumental sculptural installation re-configures British sculptor F.W. Pomeroy’s Lady Justice (1905-1906), which stands upon the dome of London’s imposing Central Criminal Court (otherwise known as The Old Bailey). Instead of her habitual golden garb, Shonibare’s Singaporean Lady Justice is depicted wearing a brightly patterned, ankle-length garment, apparently fashioned from ‘African’ batik. With both hands outstretched, Lady Justice wields a sword in her right hand and balances the scales of justice in her left. In place of a head, she sports a hand-painted globe, featuring a map of the world. Shonibare’s oeuvre investigates notions of imperialist authority and power. Discussing the work with Dr Jumabhoy, the artist explains, “I was thinking about the idea of justice: Singapore itself is a very multi-cultural place. And I wanted a Justice figure that would be there to serve a wide range of the population; the different types of people in Singapore.” Seducing us with its colour and beauty, Shonibare re-interprets Lady Justice for an interior setting, whilst retaining the dramatic impact of the original, iconic public sculpture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/1610616348666-VBV2G3BM09Y97ZF7P2HP/Asian+Art+Institutum__034_web+res.jpg Commissions - Yinka Shonibare CBE: Justice for All 2020 Yinka Shonibare was born in 1962 in London and moved to Lagos, Nigeria at the age of three. He now lives and works in London. He received his MFA from Goldsmiths College, University of London, graduating as part of the generation of Young British Artists. Shonibare’s work explores issues of race and class through the media of painting, sculpture, photography and film. Having described himself as a ‘post-colonial’ hybrid, Shonibare questions the meaning of cultural and national definitions. In 2019 Shonibare was awarded the decoration of Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire or CBE. Shonibare was a Turner prize nominee in 2004 for his Double Dutch exhibition at Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands and his solo exhibition at Stephen Friedman Gallery. He was notably commissioned by the late curator Okwui Enwezor at Documenta 11 in 2002 to create his most recognised work Gallantry and Criminal Conversation that launched him on to an international stage. He has exhibited at the Venice Biennale and internationally at leading museums worldwide. In September 2008 his major mid-career survey commenced at the MCA Sydney and then toured to the Brooklyn Museum, New York and the Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. He was elected as a Royal Academician by the Royal Academy, London, UK in 2013. In 2010, Nelson's Ship in a Bottle became Shonibare’s first public art commission on the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square; arguably, the most prestigious public commission in the UK. His installation for Singapore, Justice for All, is similarly concerned with exposing and analysing the currents of economic power and cultural exchange in contemporary global society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/1610616536242-K3VVKW41EEON5ULCSEZA/Asian+Art+Institutum__020_web+res.jpg Commissions - Yinka Shonibare CBE: Justice for All 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/1610616540579-8QKJYETS9S976NF094RD/Asian+Art+Institutum__024_web+res.jpg Commissions - Yinka Shonibare CBE: Justice for All 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/1610616537869-AQBPBRRVVPPXXW8J6GQ0/Asian+Art+Institutum__029_web+res.jpg Commissions - Yinka Shonibare CBE: Justice for All 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/1610700508641-V751VDN9O48YV6T4LVBB/Asian+Art+Institutum__025_web+res.jpg Commissions - Yinka Shonibare CBE: Justice for All 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/1610700996340-W8JQ6R0UJEJTQXI1TG2U/Asian+Art+Institutum__004_web+res.jpg Commissions - Yinka Shonibare CBE: Justice for All 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/1610701049036-WNJE14WWA5VE1C4MQT3H/Asian+Art+Institutum__039_web+res.jpg Commissions - Yinka Shonibare CBE: Justice for All 2020 https://www.theinstitutum.com/commissions/state-of-the-arts-artist-interviews monthly 0.5 2021-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/7b98e5f0-0e51-42d7-8d36-d8aabf321ccd/Screenshot+2022-06-01+at+11.21.02.png Commissions - State of the Arts: Artist Interviews - Alex Prager Alex Prager (b. 1979, Los Angeles, CA; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) is a photographer and filmmaker who creates elaborately staged scenes that draw inspiration from a wide range of influences and references, including Hollywood cinema, experimental films, popular culture, and street photography. She deliberately casts and stages all of her works, merging past and contemporary sources to create a sense of ambiguity. Her work is in multiple international public and private collections, and she has won numerous awards including an Emmy in 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/56ae74d9-4a4f-4282-a1b0-91aa98a52e3a/khari.png Commissions - State of the Arts: Artist Interviews - Khari Turner Khari Turner‘s work represents the social and political place Black bodies have had in the Black experience, particularly as they relate to bodies of water. Turner builds upon and redefines a spiritual connection to his subjects that he renders in elaborate processes incorporating water he collects from oceans or rivers in paintings, drawings and mixed media works. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/6f9a734d-07c9-4f7e-b78c-eb570bce312e/tessjaray.PNG Commissions - State of the Arts: Artist Interviews - Tess Jaray RA For over the past six decades, Tess Jaray RA (b. 1937) has investigated creating space within abstract painting. Inspired by her travels, architecture and pure form, her paintings are meticulous explorations of colour, shape, line, composition and sensations of distance and closeness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/029ab4c2-e1e7-44ab-9d52-41bec1ee3346/hambling.PNG Commissions - State of the Arts: Artist Interviews - Maggi Hambling CBE Maggi Hambling CBE (b.1945) is one of Britain's most prolific and important artists. Over the last 60 years, she has made work in painting and sculpture that is expressive and uncompromising, with a deep concern for humanity. Her subjects range from portraits, to death, loss, war, oblivion, sex and environmental damage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/4b91283c-1d43-461f-979f-3c4be80c0c3c/Capture3.PNG Commissions - State of the Arts: Artist Interviews - Kojo Marfo Kojo Marfo (b. 1980) is a Ghanian artist living and working in London. Hear him in discussion with London-based curator Wells Fray-Smith discuss the inspiration behind his work, his painting practices, and his desire to connect people all over the world through his colourful, fluid portraits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/1623081591849-Z36LKX3U2759R1D8X36S/rizman.png Commissions - State of the Arts: Artist Interviews - Rizman Putra Artist Rizman Putra sits down for a conversion with Tan Boon Hui on his formative years at LaSalle, his introduction to performance art and the community at the S11 coffee shop on Armenian Street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/1623080608919-SCPRT37PR7SI9Q1TRAVZ/shubigi.png Commissions - State of the Arts: Artist Interviews - Shubigi Rao Singaporean artist and the artistic director of the 2021 Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Shubigi Rao speaks to Tan Boon Hui about the trajectory of her practice and her time at Lasalle as a student and a teacher. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/1623081119522-BNZJU857V4OUJRMM4JA7/choykafai.png Commissions - State of the Arts: Artist Interviews - Choy Ka Fai Choy Ka Fai is a Berlin-based Singaporean artist. His multidisciplinary art practice situates itself at the intersection of dance, media art and performance. At the heart of his research is a continuous exploration of the metaphysics of the human body. Through research expeditions, pseudo-scientific experiments and documentary performances, Ka Fai appropriates technologies and narratives to imagine new futures of the human body. https://www.theinstitutum.com/commissions/singapore-art-week-2022-state-of-the-arts-artist-interviews monthly 0.5 2022-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/3f4fb779-036c-4a79-a175-b8c84fa9e9f4/amanda.jfif Commissions - Singapore Art Week 2022 State of the Arts: Artist Interviews - Amanda Heng Cultural Medallion recipient and multi-disciplinary artist Amanda Heng pioneered feminist discourse in the local arts scene. Her practice is process focused and the audience is invited to participate in the process to explore social and gender identities. Here she speaks to Tan Boon Hui about enrolling at Lasalle in her 30’s during the 1980’s, how art became her language in finding meaning in life in parallel with the early years of post-independence Singapore, and the evolution of her practice. Amanda Heng (b. 1951, Singapore) has been a full-time art practitioner since the late 1980s. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to her art practice, she deals with clashing of eastern and western values, traditions and gender roles in the context of a multi-cultural and fast-changing society of Singapore. Recently she expended her study in identity politics addressing issues of history, memory, communication and human relationships in urban condition and the changes and its impact on the body and life. She often works in collaboration with people of different cultural backgrounds from art as well as non-art fields, and led her to closer examination of the roles of the audience and collaboration practices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/7af498c6-46f5-428c-a4e6-35b4fa74cf0d/yanyun.jfif Commissions - Singapore Art Week 2022 State of the Arts: Artist Interviews - Chen Yanyun In this episode of State of the Arts, Tan Boon Hui speaks to Chen Yanyun. From her formal training in Animation, Classical Realism and Philosophy, to her dual career as both artist and academic; Yanyun speaks of how “questions” and “questioning” have propelled her practice and approach to art. From the necessity of changing methods due to a shortage of her preferred charcoal to the meaning of space, Yanyun shares her journey with us. Dr. Yanyun Chen (b. 1986, Singapore) is a visual artist, known for her charcoal drawings, animations and installations practice, and her works delve into the aesthetic, cultural and technological inheritances on one’s body, unravelling fictional and philosophical notions of embodiment. She researches cultural wounds, dowry traditions, hereditary scars, philosophies of nudities, and etymology. Chen graduated from the European Graduate School Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought PhD programme in 2018, the Communications MA programme in 2014, and Nanyang Technological University School of Art Design and Media Digital Animation programme in 2009. She is the Arts Practice Coordinator for the Humanities division of Yale-NUS College in Singapore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/565d0eaa-1bf6-4015-b5aa-58400c402998/robert.jfif Commissions - Singapore Art Week 2022 State of the Arts: Artist Interviews - Robert Zhao Singaporean artist Robert Zhao’s artistic practice investigates man’s relationship with nature, through narratives in print, film and photography. Robert speaks to Tan Boon Hui about the evolution and philosophy of his practice. From his time as a photography major at Polytechnic to the work he made from his 26th floor window during Singapore's pandemic lock down. Robert Zhao (b. 1982) is a multi-disciplinary artist who blends reality and fiction in his works. Strongly informed by his observations and ongoing research into the natural world, Zhao adopts a practice that investigates and unravels the intertwining relationship between humans and their habitats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/92edfbd0-285d-4a1e-80bd-794ae7d3643c/angie.jfif Commissions - Singapore Art Week 2022 State of the Arts: Artist Interviews - anGie seah Filmed at the Aliwal Arts Centre, amidst a backdrop of anGie’s works, Tan Booh Hui speaks with multi-disciplinary artist anGie seah. Formally trained in Sculpture, anGie’s practice has grown to encompass drawing, performance art, sound and video. She firmly believes that audience experience is integral to her practice and that they should be able to “perform with her” and socially engaged art is a cornerstone of her practice. In this interview we explore how Art for anGie expresses the condition of being alive. Born in 1979, anGie seah is a Singaporean artist. Her multidisciplinary practice traverses the mediums of drawing, sculpture, performance art, sound and video to respond about the enigma of life. In 2000, she was awarded an education bursary from National Arts Council, graduating from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology’s Bachelor of Arts, with a major in sculpture. She was also awarded a culture scholarship from the Goethe Institute, Berlin in 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff6c217c271144bb2a5a27c/ffcdae30-10d3-416d-b85f-0e5040cb45c5/pio.jfif Commissions - Singapore Art Week 2022 State of the Arts: Artist Interviews - Pio Abad This interview between artist Pio Abad and art historian Sandhini Poddar mines Abad’s longstanding research on the troubled legacy of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, and the implications of their corruption and greed on present-day Filipino society. Abad’s personal history is entwined with larger political discourses around the archive, history, and transnationalism. As he states, “as much as it’s a visual arts project, it’s a political project.” We learn about the Marcos’ close friendship with Nancy and Ronald Reagan, and the self-mythologizing tendency of both political families. In excavating this otherwise private world, Abad monumentalizes what would otherwise be lost to history. Abad’s role within the Pacita Abad Art Estate is another aspect of his expanded studio practice, as he disseminates the work of his late aunt through an “ethics of inheritance”. As a whole, we come to reckon with Abad’s practice as an intricate mapping of the world through a complex and interrelated praxis involving drawing, 3D printing, painting, and sculpture. Pio Abad (b. 1983, Manila) is a Filipino artist living and working in London. His work is concerned with the social and political signification of things. 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