Modern love: LASALLE thirtieth anniversary exhibition : Khairuddin Hori and Bala Starr Artists Ahmad Abu Bakar, Lina Curatorial and Research Assistant: Christina Arum Sok Adam, Jon Chan, Choy Published by the Institute of Contemporary Arts on Ka Fai, Chua Chye Teck, the occasion of the exhibition Modern love: LASALLE thirtieth anniversary exhibition, 6 November 2014 to 4 February 2015. , Jeremy Hiah, Djohan Johari, Godwin © 2014, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore Koay, Zai Kuning, Jane Lee, This catalogue is copyright. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of research, criticism or review as permitted under , Vincent Leow, the Copyright Act 1987, no part may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means without the prior Justin Lim, Zulkifle Mahmod, permission of the publisher. mohamadriduan, ,

Design by Vanessa Ban Ruben Pang, Phan Thao Printed by Allegro Print, Singapore Nguyen, PHUNK, Ana Prvacki, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore Rizman Putra, , LASALLE College of the Arts 1 McNally Street Zaki Razak, anGie Seah, Singapore 187940 Email: [email protected] Jeremy Sharma, Shirley Soh, www.lasalle.edu.sg/institute-of-contemporary-arts-sg/ Speak Cryptic, Melissa Tan, .

Curators Khairuddin Hori, LASALLE alumnus, Deputy Programming Director, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, and Bala Starr, Director, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore. Presented over two levels in the existential reading. It reckons on the largest galleries of the ICA Singapore, aspirations that artists associate with Modern love: LASALLE 30th anniversary learning, their aspirations for a civil exhibition marks a special birthday in society, their dedication to knowledge the history of LASALLE College of the and the pedagogy of an institution, Arts. With thirty years now behind the and the necessity of independent college, the exhibition brings together art practice and collaboration. These a relatively small number of exemplary are qualities and tools that LASALLE artists from among a much larger graduates come to know and in turn alumni group. These few represent eventually pass on, some to their own the many artists whose earliest students, but many others to their professional experiences began on a own communities through various art- LASALLE campus and who have made related platforms. Modern love is as pivotal contributions to Southeast well the intensity and drive that artists Asia’s contemporary art scenes in ways bring to their practice; their need to that go beyond geographical settings. imagine, to generate new ideas, hone skills, and pursue a life with vision. The curators have selected and designed the exhibition with a view to affirming the vitality of contemporary We are very aware that in future creative practices and artists’ LASALLE will continue to transform engagements with communities. along with Singapore. It is likely that The artists themselves exemplify the the next thirty years—conditioned by diverse approaches and independent changing creative opportunities as well thinking of LASALLE graduates. as environmental challenges in Asia— will be even faster, more outward- Modern love is founded on the looking and international. The ambition exuberant and at times overwhelming of LASALLE and its artist-graduates is experience of modern life. In the to contribute and grow with these new sense that it describes a state of play futures, searching out and building the or way of being, the title also has an brilliant new forms of modern Asia. Modern love: LASALLE thirtieth anniversary exhibition, Earl Lu Gallery. Photo: Ken Cheong Modern love: LASALLE thirtieth anniversary exhibition, Gallery 1 and Gallery 2. Photo: Ken Cheong Ahmad Abu Bakar culinary history of Singapore 5 born Malacca, Malaysia, performance art over more Remote, 2013 1963, lives Singapore than 20 years. She served a oil on canvas 10-course degustation menu 32 x 45 cm 1 accompanied by PowerPoint Direction, 1992–2014 slides, having selected her 6 wood, glazed ceramic, metal, ingredients via word-of- Terminal, 2013 paint mouth descriptions, her own oil on canvas 130 x 50 x 50 cm recollections, online research, 34 x 41 cm collections of catalogues, The first version ofDirection books and photographic These 3 from 2013, dated 1992 was shown the accounts. Control, Remote and Terminal same year in Bread & butter are intended to be viewed at the National Museum Art 3 sequentially. Jon Chan Gallery, an exhibition that Juliana, 2014 describes links between them explored the mechanics of 20 inkjet prints on Arches that are both conceptual and the art world. Bread & butter paper pictorial: ‘Contextually, the act included 4 Malay LASALLE each 12.5 x 17.5 cm of violence found in Terminal graduates. Direction was would be at odds with the acquired by the museum Lina Adam first conceived peace found in Control as but later apparently lost. this artwork for a fundraising seen in the different states of Remade especially for group exhibition in 2014 the bodies in each picture. I Modern love, the current work to benefit fellow artist and imagine that the light at their is a reconstruction based on friend, the late . feet [in the Control] memory and photographs Funds were raised to help is light emitting from the of the original. Inscribed defray the costs of cancer image found in Terminal’. The vertically on each face of treatment. Adam regularly surface of each small canvas a wooden column are the visited Yasin during her stays is painterly, the colours words: evolution, conceptual, in hospital. In the span of muted. Although none are conservative and beautiful. An a single day she captured actually alone, the people ‘art-world weather vane’ made details of Yasin’s room and depicted appear isolated from clock parts, metal and her movements as she went from one another in shadowy glazed ceramic stands on top about her daily routine, taking darkness or the half-light of a of the column. steps towards recovery bedroom television screen. post-surgery. The carefully Catalogue Lina Adam cropped images are printed 7 born Singapore 1971, on small rectangles of paper Pretense, 2007 lives Singapore that are represented here synthetic polymer paint on as individual sheets but canvas 2 were originally bound into 80 x 145 cm The culinary history of an artist book. The prints are Private collection, Singapore Singapore performance art displayed in 2 vitrines as a of works re-presented, 2014 selection of fragments rather Pretense depicts 2 rows of performance with table, than a continuous narrative. unsmiling men wearing white chairs, tableware, food, scarves on their heads or PowerPoint presentation Jon Chan around their shoulders. It is 90 minutes approx., overall born Singapore 1982, based on a photograph that dimensions variable lives Singapore accompanied a Singapore 7 November 2014, newspaper article. The 7:30–9:00 pm 4 article described a false in the Control, 2013 report published in a Thai Performance art can be oil on canvas newspaper claiming that challenging to document and 32 x 45 cm terrorists were operating is often poorly remembered. in Malaysia, and giving the In this performance, Lina photograph as evidence. exhibition Adam re-imagined the The article used by Chan countered that the image artefact is accompanied by a During a visit to the Amanda Heng dimensions variable Apathy is an inkjet print in in fact depicted a group text written by Singaporean northeastern coast of born Singapore 1951, 14 January 2015, black and white. The image, of Malay students wearing writer Ng Yi-Sheng. Singapore nearly 10 years lives Singapore 4.30–6.00 pm composed of several layers, is costumes at a school party. ago, Chua discovered typographic and architectural. 12 makeshift shelters, each 16 In this performance, Jeremy It appears to depict the 8 ‘The man who rode crocodiles’ structure characterized by Singirl, 2011 Hiah’s body is hidden below interior of a building, with Bus, 2006 from ‘The Lan Fang the individuality of its maker ground. Above the surface, 2 or more levels collaged oil on canvas chronicles’, 2012 and by its temporary purpose. Visit the site on your only his hand appears, together. The typography of 50 x 50 cm high-definition video, colour, The shelters are made from smartphone or tablet holding aloft a lit candle the title is ambiguous, in parts sound wood, tarpaulin and found encircled by barbed wire in reading as a new surface Bus was made in 2006 when 6 minutes materials by people who fish 17 an enactment of the logo of layer and in others integrated Jon Chan was studying fine and spend their leisure time Singirl@Lorong Buangkok, 2011 Amnesty International. Hiah’s into the collision of built forms arts at LASALLE. At the time This short documentary film in the area. Paradise pays digital print mounted on statement with this work that comprise the underlying he was interested in American was inspired by the poem tribute to these structures. polystyrene-cored board is to draw attention to the picture. and European painting, written by Luo Fang Bo, the In several photographs it is 110 x 254 cm disputed situation of human especially Gerhard Richter’s founder of Lan Fang Republic. possible to glimpse high-rise rights in Singapore. He has Godwin Koay Baader-Meinhof paintings. The original poem narrates Singapore on the horizon. 18 undertaken this performance born Singapore 1987, Bus depicts the real event the ritualistic practice of Over time Chua believes Singirl in print, 2006 twice before; once in Xi’an, lives Singapore of a bus crashing into a tree. exorcising crocodiles. The the shelters will gradually screenprint and photographic China, and once in Singapore. The violence of the scene is story has since morphed disappear from a landscape transfer with embossing on 22 mitigated in the painting by into multiple versions in local that is increasingly shaped handmade paper 20 Excerpts from ‘Notes from a a screen-like surface pattern folklore. by uniform, urban and 49.5 x 61 cm Renaissance city, 2002 revolution’, 2012–14 that neutralizes the detail in commercial construction. oil on wood, electronic parts watercolour the image. 13 More than 40 years ago, 87 x 63 cm overall dimensions variable ‘Insignificant landscape’ from 15 the iconic branding of Choy Ka Fai ‘The Lan Fang chronicles’, Nature, 2013 the Singapore Girl was Throughout his career Godwin Koay’s 17 small born Singapore 1979, 2010 concrete, tembusu wood established when French Jeremy Hiah has constructed watercolour paintings are lives Berlin 4-channel video installation, 4 parts, (a) 15 x 17 x 9 cm, couturier Pierre Balmain parodies of art-historical displayed under a glass- colour (b) 14 x 10 x 5 cm, (c) 20 x 18 x designed the Singapore icons by building for his topped museum-style vitrine. 9–11 14:30 minutes 9 cm, (d) 25 x 15 x 14 cm Airlines flight attendants’ paintings simple mechanisms Koay has been working on the ‘The De Groot Collection kebaya, and marketing that enable interactivity. In Notes from a revolution series artefact #002, The tomb of Luo Insignificant landscape is Nature is composed of images began to portray a Renaissance city, he has of watercolours since 2011 Fangbo 1795, Mandor’; ‘The composed of a series of small pieces of concrete mysterious, gentle, smiling appropriated Leonardo Da but until now has displayed De Groot Collection artefact documentaries about the that Chua Chye Teck came woman. Amanda Heng was Vinci’s Mona Lisa, replacing them on walls, singularly, #012, Lantaka, 1840s, Brunei’; various geographical sites across in Singapore streets in her early twenties when the background landscape of and in groups, salon-style. and ‘The De Groot Collection that mark historical events and mounted in hand- the image of the Singapore the original with a nocturnal The images appear at first artefact #014, Official seal of the Lan Fang Republic. carved wooden bases. The Girl began to be promoted. cityscape of Singapore whose to be anonymous excerpts of the Lan Fang Republic, c. The landscape has witnessed carving of the wood is a Through a series of works in lights the viewer may activate from daily newspapers and 1880s, Mandor’, from ‘The Lan the erosion of its historical meditative process for Chua. photography, performance, by pressing small red buttons magazines but the series is Fang chronicles’, 2012 significance as the mundane Presented in the tradition of video and installation, she affixed to the subject’s fictional and the paintings 3-D printed from manifestations of life have suiseki (Japanese miniature has continued to explore breasts. depict an imagined, more high-density powder taken over. For Choy Ka Fai, landscape stones) or gongshi the icon’s relationship to turbulent, Singapore. Through 3 parts visits to these locations are (Chinese scholars’ rocks), gender politics and the Djohan Johari these delicately rendered impossible attempts to create the concrete fragments commercialization of culture. born Singapore 1981, works, Koay explores Choy Ka Fai’s De Groot access to a past that can only contrast with the finely Singirl in print, 2006, was the lives Singapore relationships between ideas Collection comprises 17 be imagined today. honed, rounded forms of first work in the series. about art, action, information speculative artefacts (107 their wooden bases. The 4 21 and ideology. are proposed) inspired by Chua Chye Teck sculptures are displayed on a Jeremy Hia Apathy, 2014 the work of Dutch sinologist born Singapore 1974, low platform that is the height born Singapore 1972, inket print Zai Kuning JJM De Groot, who in 1885 lives Singapore of a Japanese or Korean lives Singapore 128.9 x 84.2 cm born Singapore 1964, lives published the earliest known dining table. Johor Bahru, Malaysia and most comprehensive 14 19 Djohan Johari explores ideas with mohamadriduan and Western document on Paradise, 2006–14 Untitled, 2014 about design, brand identities Lee Pheng Guan the Lan Fang Republic, a 18 inkjet prints performance with turf on and commerce, and the Chinese state in West Borneo overall dimensions variable, wood, barbed wire, candle slippages and mistranslations proclaimed in 1777. Each each 35.5 x 35.5 cm 90 minutes approx., overall between them. His new work 23 She uses the traditional wood, 6 plastic electric fans a monkey drawn in green. 34 Donna Ong The fleeting world of Dapunta media of painting, wooden overall dimensions variable The pictorial entanglement Sonically exposed #014, 2014 born Singapore 1978, Hyang, 2014 stretchers and paint, and of the bodies suggests that wire, photoresistors, speaker, lives Singapore rattan, waxed thread, stones, employs non-traditional Vincent Leow’s installation the animals or their spirits piezo disc, capacitors, books, wax methods to create innovative is composed of 6 pairs of are interchangeable with the resistors, integrated circuit, 36 113 x 747 x 274 cm (variable) new works. The obscure very large, dark grey feet human figures. wood, potentiometer Secret, interiors: Chrysalis (22), object #8 is a painting that is mounted on plinths made 55 x 65 x 55 cm 2006 This was imperceptibly evolving over from wood offcuts and scraps Justin Lim furniture and objects, constructed for Zai Kuning’s time as gravity pulls down the of furniture and arranged in 2 born 1983, These sculptures were first mixed media solo exhibition immediately heavy strands of stretched rows. Suspended above each lives Kuala Lumpur shown as part of a major overall dimensions variable preceding Modern love at and woven paint. Silver is a pair of feet is an electrically exhibition of new work by the ICA Singapore, and circular canvas composed of powered white plastic fan. 31 Zulkifle Mahmod in early This complex, multilayered remains in its original a multitude of smaller than The feet were first shown in Wall, 2006 2014. They are constructed installation is composed of a position. The fleeting world coin-sized rosettes of layered Yogyakarta in 2000; at the synthetic polymer paint of electrical and mechanical large wooden table and stool, of Dapunta Hyang spans a plastic paint, painstakingly time, they were displayed on canvas parts that emit low-level free- modified clothes rack, lamps, length of almost 8 metres. It applied to the surface. in birdcages. In 2010, for triptych: dimensions variable, form sounds. Highly refined upturned plastic bins, and is constructed of lengths of Leow’s survey exhibition at each 65 x 65 cm and comprised of intricate numerous smaller objects rattan in various diameters Lee Wen the , lines and discs that intersect including metal cutlery, a bound by waxed red thread, born Singapore 1957, they were displayed on faux Wall is comprised of medium- to form semi-abstracted bicycle wheel and painter’s and incorporates netted lives Singapore marble Grecian-style plinths. sized square canvases, sculptural forms, they have tools. The objects are clusters of suspended stones Feet remembered was made each composed of different the appearance of exposed arranged in such a way that and books coated in wax. 26 in honour and rememberance dominant hues of orange, mechanical devices, models, the entire piece resembles The sculpture references Altar for union of gay/lesbian of the labour of the becak blue and grey. Each painting or 3-dimensional technical a customised percussion the skeleton of the body couples, 2014 (pedal-powered trishaw) is painstakingly constructed drawings. instrument. Ong invites the of a ship built by the Bugis pencil on paper, furniture and drivers of Yogyakarta. from an all-over pattern audience to play and make people, renowned warriors objects, mixed media of small dots, producing mohamadriduan music using beaters and and seamen. The work is overall dimensions variable, 28 a universe or infiniteness, born Singapore 1982, rattles to scrape or strike the based on Kuning’s cultural drawing: 105 x 75 cm Animal farm, 2012 but without iconographic lives Singapore various components of the knowledge and experience, oil on canvas representation. Justin instrument. particularly the lesser-known Lee Wen’s new work 180 x 150 cm Lim writes of his process, 35 accounts and myths of Malay comprises 2 straight-backed ‘Painting is a personal come I clap for you, 2014 Ruben Pang history, such as stories of chairs on either side of a 29 struggle, one that gives me a fibre-tipped pen on paper born Singapore 1990, Dapunta Hyang Sri Jayanasa wooden table, with a drawing Cry wolf, 2012 sense of optimism and hope’. tape on floor tiles lives Singapore in the 7th century. inscribed with ‘Legalise oil on canvas Wall was made the year Lim dimensions variable gay unions’ hung on the 180 x 150 cm graduated from the MA Fine 37 Jane Lee wall behind the table. It Arts programme at LASALLE. mohamadriduan is producing Hypervigilance, 2014 born Singapore 1963, is representative of what 30 come I clap for you during the oil, alkyd, synthetic polymer lives Singapore Lee describes as an ‘altar Helping hand, 2012 Zulkifle Mahmod 3 months of the exhibition. paint and retouching varnish for change’ in support of oil on canvas born Singapore 1975, He applies water-based on aluminium composite 24 modern love and the union 180 x 150 cm lives Singapore brown tape on the tiled floor panel Silver, 2014 of homosexual couples. On in front of one of the main 75 x 60 cm synthetic polymer paint and top of the table is a neat These 3 large paintings 32 entrances to the lower- Private collection, Berlin/ binder on canvas arrangement of kitsch toys depict almost life-size human Sonically exposed #011, 2014 level galleries, continuously Singapore 123 cm diameter and figurines and various and animal figures. The wire, photoresistors, piezo overlaying the tape to create other colourful domestic figures are characteristic discs, capacitors, resistors, a raised surface on which 38 25 objects including pencils, of Leow’s painting style; integrated circuit, wood, he writes with black marker Crystallized, 2014 The obscure object #8, 2006 disposable cups and they are rounded with potentiometer pen. Overlaying and writing oil, alkyd, synthetic polymer synthetic polymer paint and taxidermy butterflies. disproportionate feet, 32 x 65 x 47 cm on the tape in this way, he paint and retouching varnish mixed media on wooden heads and hands. The faces changes and renews the on aluminium composite stretcher Vincent Leow resemble one another 33 message he leaves behind at panel 74 x 76 x 3 cm born Singapore 1961, and cannot be easily Sonically exposed #013, 2014 each visit. Through pilgrimage 75 x 60 cm lives Singapore distinguished, as if they wire, photoresistors, or perhaps scepticism, Collection of See Jingzhong, These 2 paintings by Jane were all generic characters. speakers, capacitors, mohamadriduan enacts the Singapore Lee were made 10 years 27 Superimposed over the first resistors, integrated circuit, duration of the event of the apart. Lee takes at least 2 Feet remembered, 2000–14 layer of painted figures, there wood, potentiometer exhibition itself. Ruben Pang’s new paintings months to produce her works. paint on polyester resin, are outlines of dogs and 81 x 65 x 32 cm Hypervigilance and Crystallized are abstract PHUNK solution, a union of economy The books are stacked and this black cloud of balloons and a plastic watering can in the sense that nothing William Chan born Singapore and the libido; Let’s make arranged on pallets. Two there is also a cool, ironic stands in the centre; the is precisely identifiable; 1973, lives Singapore paying taxes sexy! is a playful framed obituaries, witty humour. glass bottles make clinking nevertheless in each image Melvin Chee born Singapore yet serious proposal to fictions, are hung on a black sounds against one another there is a figurative element. 1974, lives Singapore transform our contemporary wall behind. This work is a 45 and the floor. On the wall The central confluent mass Alvin Tan born Singapore narrative of taxation and what commemoration of S Raoul, Ballots, bullets or ballets: next to the video screen of paint resembles a moving, 1974, lives Singapore is sexy’. the erstwhile scientist, Cycle of renewal, 2011 hang 4 small red and white churning and seemingly Jackson Tan born Singapore theorist, archaeologist and ballot cards mounted on ceramic sculptures of open mutated head. The colours 1974, lives Singapore Rizman Putra scapegoat. A reclusive, corrugated board and closed mouths, as well are bold and dynamic, and born Singapore 1978, obscure and erratic figure, S 4 parts: 320 x 250 x 3 cm; as a red ‘manual’ containing Pang displays a heightened 40 lives Singapore Raoul acted as if the world (a) 94 x 64.5 x 3 cm, (b) 135 x drawings of different body skill for manipulating paint Love, 2014 needed obscure scholarship, 64.5 x 3 cm, (c) 255.5 x 64.5 x parts. The ensemble Voice and building a complex solvent print on self-adhesive 42 freed from economic and 3 cm, (d) 175 x 65 x 3 cm is psychological has its surface that is almost polyester film on window The reinvention of sports for nationalist imperatives, origins in Seah’s residencies metallic. 370 x 1036 cm jaded individuals, 2012 liberated from any agenda This work consists of in Chiang Mai (2007) and 2 high-definition videos, save that of furthering 4 framed boards, each Melbourne (2014). It explores Phan Thao Nguyen Collective team PHUNK has colour, sound said scholarship, a form containing a series of small ideas of the female artist’s born Ho Chi Minh City 1987, taken the word ‘love’ and (a) 46:48 minutes, of quiet activism. S Raoul ballot cards. Instead of a agency. lives Ho Chi Minh City designed a hyperstylized (b) 2:38 minutes was a mentor and patron political vote, the thumbprints signature graphic in black to the younger Shubigi Rao, on the ballot sheets register a Jeremy Sharma 39 and transparent vinyl across Developed for the who eventually became his vote for an artwork. An image born Singapore 1977, Renal calculus, 2012–14 more than 10 metres of the Singapore Platform of Art biographer. of And here is a black balloon, lives Singapore two-channel high-resolution glass façade of the Earl Stage Singapore 2013, this I think of you and let it go is video, colour, silent; 15 artist Lu Gallery. PHUNK’s work performance was inspired Zaki Razak included in the ballot sheets 47 books, kidney stone under ‘brands’ the exhibition and by the changing nature of born Singapore 1979, as 1 of 3 possible options Agoda, 2014 cake dome, magnifying glass, proposes love as a public team sports competitions lives Singapore for voters. The title Ballots, cast, robotic milled, framed text sentiment, shareable and in many countries. Like the bullets or ballets: Cycle of polyurethane foam; pigment overall dimensions variable, celebratory. Love is similar art world, the sporting world 44 renewal was inspired by 70 x 50 x 8 cm video: 2:11 minutes in scale and style to the has become increasingly And here is a black balloon, Malcolm X’s speech to revive Courtesy the artist and work the team produced for monetized, whether in I think of you and let it go, peoples’ consciousness to Michael Janssen Gallery Under a cake dome on a the 2014 Fukuoka Asian Art terms of prize money or 2010–14 vote mindfully rather than Singapore, Berlin glass-topped table is a Triennale. endorsements. Rizman 500 printed balloons, helium blindly. stone, unnervingly large Putra was interested to cylinder, trolley, fibre-tipped 48 once we know, having read Ana Prvacki develop a new way of pens, scissors, string anGie Seah Eaton, 2014 the accompanying framed born Pančevo, Serbia, 1976; considering sporting activity, overall dimensions variable born Singapore 1979, cast, robotic milled, text, that it is a kidney stone lives Los Angeles the relationship between 5 November 2014, lives Singapore polyurethane foam; pigment which stayed in a Vietnamese audience and athlete, and 6:30–11:00 pm 70 x 50 x 8 cm man’s body for more than 41 concepts of motivation and 46 Courtesy the artist and a decade, causing him Let’s make paying taxes sexy!, winning. Zaki Razak’s installation Voice is psychological, Michael Janssen Gallery continuous pain. Phan Thao 2014 appeared at the opening of 2010–14 Singapore, Berlin Nguyen was fascinated by standard-definition video, Shubigi Rao Modern love as an enormous video documentation of the this man’s story and asked colour, sound born Bombay 1975, mushroom of floating black performance listen to what u These 2 hot-blue works are him to send the stone to her 2:12 minutes lives Singapore balloons attached to a tall drink (Asiatopia International cut from polyurethane foam in the United States. It arrived thin gas cylinder standing Performance Art Festival, and present topographic labeled for customs purposes This short film was made 43 close to the main entrance. Chiang Mai, , 2007), abstract images. Three- as a ‘souvenir rock’, thereby in response to an invitation The death of S Raoul, 2010–14 Visitors were invited to take artist book, stoneware with dimensional and textured, assuming a new identity. On from the European Union to 100 books with hand-drawn a balloon and write on its red glaze they straddle a line between the table along with the cake Ana Prvacki to participate in content dissolved in ink, surface. This exchange was overall dimensions variable, image, relief sculpture and dome, there is a magnifying the New Narrative for Europe 2 inkjet prints presented to a wide audience video: 3:03 minutes geological model. The blue glass and a small stack of cultural initiative. The issue overall dimensions variable, which included the Prime colour, close to an Yves Klein artist books. High on the wall of taxation resonated with inkjet prints each 70 x 50 cm Minister of Singapore, Lee anGie Seah’s video Blue, effectively defies both a projected video in 2 parts Prvacki who believes that tax Hsien Loong. The work is documents her walking depth and surface. Initially shows the much-travelled evasion is a civic problem The death of S Raoul is an participatory and has an slowly around a space with devised using computer kidney stone alongside that especially affects installation of 100 books open interpretation. Balloons glass bottles attached by software, the work also images of slowly moving the arts. Prvacki states: whose hand-drawn content represent celebration, lengths of string to her challenges the relationship ocean water. ‘I proposed a two-in-one has been dissolved in ink. hospitality and hope but in ankles. The room is spotlit between art and design. 49 Speak Cryptic of organic cosmological As-is-where-is (butts and Farizwan Fajari born change, she has devised ends), 2014 Singapore 1980, experimental methods of expanded polystyrene foam lives Singapore image construction, such as overall dimensions variable using burns and corrosion to 51 transform traditionally fragile As-is-where-is (butts and Situation normal, 2014 media. Artists’ ends) is a loosely formed Chinese ink and synthetic mountain of polystyrene polymer paint on canvas Suzann Victor foam that has been cut into triptych: 102 x 228 cm born Singapore 1959, various sized shapes, both lives Sydney angular and soft-edged. The figure depicted in the They are offcuts that have central panel of this black 53 come from the factory where and white triptych is a Still waters, 1998 biographies some of Jeremy Sharma’s Malay man wearing military video documentation of the work is produced. The entire camouflage fatigues. He performance Still waters installation is pressed up stares forward blankly, framed (between estrangement against the gallery’s front at either side by jungle and reconcilliation) (ARX5, glass window, as if it might foliage. In the background, Singapore Art Museum, tumble out of the gallery beyond a river or sea, urban second-floor drain, 1998) space, a strangely modern high-rises line the horizon 8 mm film converted to DVD archaeological site gone underneath a black sky. 8:56 minutes awry. Speak Cryptic’s work often focuses on the subject Suzann Victor’s Still waters Shirley Soh of cultural identity, and is a documentation of a 1998 born Singapore 1956, particularly a Malay identity work that responded to the lives Singapore affected by the landscape. Singapore government’s view His work also addresses loss at that time of performance 50 and adversity in the face of art as a debased form of What would you give up for globalization. expression. In this political love? (or art?), 2014 environment, Victor chose high-definition video, colour, Melissa Tan to perform in a drain of sound; pencil on wall born Singapore 1989, the Singapore Art Museum overall dimensions variable, lives Singapore to reintroduce the fugitive video: 22:40 minutes performing body, specifically 52 a female one, into an Shirley Soh’s film has been at the edge of the universe institutionalized public space. inspired by her encounter window, 2014 The documentation marks a with the white tigers at the 136.5 x 218 x 5 cm moment when contemporary . For Soh, synthetic polymer paint on notions of ‘abjection’ the white tiger is the motif watercolour paper threatened to invade the for the tale of the prince Private collection, Singapore professionalized museum. who sacrifices his life for A lone female body literally a starving tigress on the This work was created as infiltrated the museum verge of eating her own part of Melissa Tan’s recent infrastructure, challenging its newborn cubs. While the series And the darkest hour carefully honed integrity. story is ancient, its tropes is just before dawn. The seem no less pertinent in series was developed in contemporary life. Religions part during Tan’s residency teach an ultimate form of at the Dena Foundation in love that involves sacrifice. Paris in 2013. It continues Through the story of the her exploration of ideas of captive white tigers in What geology, time and accident. would you give up for love? (or Tan is specifically fascinated art?), Soh asks if such a love by the formation of crystals in can be true only if something nature. In order to mimic the All works courtesy the artist significant is relinquished. intensity and chance effects unless otherwise noted Ahmad Abu Bakar (2007); and Bilateral bonds, Taksu Gallery, Amanda Heng Djohan Johari Singapore (2003). Chan was awarded the In the 25 years since completing his Diploma Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry Cultural Medallion recipient Amanda Heng Djohan Johari is a graphic designer who in Fine Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore Foundation Art Award in 2007. maintains a multidisciplinary practice across experiments with music. Since graduating with in 1989, Ahmad Abu Bakar has participated cargocollective.com/jonchanww contemporary art exhibitions, performance, a BA Graphic Design from Open University in more than 60 exhibitions, including forums, workshops and art interventions. through LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts in international ceramics surveys. Major group She has held a major solo survey exhibition 2007, he has held many exhibitions including exhibitions include If the world changed, Choy Ka Fai at Singapore Art Museum (2011), and has Red herrings: The images of music, Museum Singapore (2013); 62-08: APAD participated in many group exhibitions of Independent Music, Singapore (2014); We tradition, innovation & continuity, Singapore Art Choy Ka Fai describes himself as an including The realm in the mirror, the vision set the pace: A retrospective. Stompin’ ground, Museum (2008); The second dance song: New artist, performance maker and speculative out of image, Singapore contemporary art , Singapore (2012); Do androids contemporaries, ICA Singapore (2006); and designer. He is currently an artist-in-residence exhibition, Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, dream of electric sheep?, The Substation, The wahana project: Imagined legacies, Selasar at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. Choy’s China (2013); Concept context contestation: Singapore (2011); Synaesthesia, The Substation, Sunaryo Art Space, , and Jorge B works have been presented in international Collective-driven art in Southeast Asia, Bangkok Singapore (2011); and My little black book: A Vargas Museum, University of the Philippines, festivals including 25th Tanz im August, Berlin Art and Culture Centre (2013); Women in- typographic showcase, SCAPE Youth Centre, Quezon City (2005). Abu Bakar has received (2013), Singapore Arts Festival (2012), Festival between: Asian women artists 1984–2012, Singapore (2008). Tokyo (2011), and 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art many awards and several grants. He was Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan (2012); and bloodthrone.co awarded an MA Fine Arts by RMIT University Triennale. He has participated in numerous What do you mean, we?, Te Tuhi Centre for the through LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts in group exhibitions notably at the Museum Arts, Auckland (2012). Heng has participated 2001. of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2014), Museum in the inaugural (2006), M1 Godwin Koay of Modern Art, New York (2014), the Israel ahmadbakar.com.sg Singapore Fringe Festival (2005), 1st Women’s Museum, Jerusalem (2011), Whitechapel Performance Art Festival, Osaka (2001), and Since graduating with a BA Fine Arts from Gallery, London (2010), and Singapore Art 1st Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale (1999). She Open University through LASALLE College of Lina Adam Museum (2010). Choy Ka Fai received the completed a Diploma in Fine Arts at LASALLE the Arts in 2011, Godwin Koay has participated Singapore Young Artist Award in 2010. He College of the Arts in 1988 and a BA Fine Arts in several exhibitions including King for a Lina Adam is co-founder with Jeremy Hiah completed a Diploma in Multimedia Art at at Curtin University in 1993. day, Equator Art Projects, Singapore (2014); of performance art event Fetter Field (first LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts in 2004, and the solo project Notes from a revolution, Grey staged 2006), and Your MOTHER gallery, an an MA Design Interactions at Royal College of singirl.net Projects, Singapore (2013); The artist, the book artist-run initiative in Little India, Singapore Art in 2011. and the crowd, The Substation, Singapore (established in late 2004). She has been a ka5.info Jeremy Hiah (2013); Singapore survey 2012—New strange member of since 1998. faces, Valentine Willie , Singapore Adam completed a Diploma in Fine Arts, a Jeremy Hiah was co-founder with Lina Adam (2012); Still building: Contemporary art from BA and MA Fine Arts at LASALLE between Chua Chye Teck of performance art event Fetter Field (first Singapore, Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, 2001 and 2009. She has participated in group staged 2006), and Your MOTHER gallery, an Bandung (2012); and Takeaways, FASS Art exhibitions and performance projects since Since his first solo exhibition at Utopia Gallery artist-run initiative in Little India, Singapore, Gallery, Sabanci University, Istanbul (2010). He the late 1990s. Recent group exhibitions in 1996, Chua Chye Teck has held major solo (established late 2004). He is a long-time was The Art Incubator artist-in-residence at include Notes on performance, , exhibitions at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, member of The Artists Village. Since his Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taipei, in 2014. Berlin (2010); The Substation, Singapore Singapore (2014); Seni mini and Testing, testing, first exhibition at Seletar Camp in 1995, Hiah godwinkoay.weebly.com Mi Casa Su Casa, Singapore (2014); Surfaces, (2008); and Post-Museum, Singapore (2007). has held solo exhibitions at Your MOTHER Singapore Tyler Print Institute (2009); Ket noi: He has participated in group exhibitions gallery, Singapore (most recently in 2014); Vietnam–Singapore performance art event, including Medium at large, Singapore Art Post-Museum, Singapore (2010); and Kedai Zai Kuning Singapore Art Museum (2008); Indonesian Museum (2014); Southeast Asia Platform, Art Kebun Forum, Yogyakarta (2007). He often international performance art event, Galeri Stage Singapore (2014); Crossing SEA(s), 2902 works collaboratively and has participated in Zai Kuning is a multidisciplinary artist who Nasional , (2006); and Fusion Gallery, Singapore (2011); Sovereign Asian Art group exhibitions and performances including works across dance, music, sculpture, strength, 24HR Art, Darwin (2005). Prize (Singapore finalists), Artspace@Helutrans, Performance in frames, Gallery of Faculty of painting, drawing and film. He has held major Singapore (2010); and Notes from the south: Fine Arts, Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand solo exhibitions at Ota Fine Arts (2014); ICA New photography from South-East Asia, Orange Singapore (2014); The Substation, Singapore Jon Chan (2010); Future of imagination 6, Sculpture Photo Festival, Changsha, China (2010). He Square, Singapore (2010); OPEN International (2004); Esplanade, Singapore (2004); undertook a 3-month residency with the Performance Art Festival, Beijing (2009); Singapore Art Museum (2000); and Artists Jon Chan graduated with a BA and MA Fine International Photography Research Network, Unlimited, Bielefeld, (1995). He has Arts from Open University through LASALLE The Artists Village 20 years on, Singapore Art University of Sunderland, Newcastle upon Museum (2008); and Contemporary gossip, participated in group exhibitions including in 2007 and 2008 respectively. He has Tyne, UK, in 2007, and a 1-year residency at the The mirror and monitor of democracy in Asia, participated in exhibitions including Finding Changdong Gallery, Korea (2006). Jeremy Hiah Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, in 2009. Chua was awarded a BA Fine Arts by RMIT University Gwangju Museum of Art Sangrok Exhibition humour, Merely Ice Cream, Sunshine Plaza, Chye Teck was awarded a BA Fine Arts by Hall, (2014); Asian film symposium, Singapore (2013); Black is not the darkest through LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts in RMIT University through LASALLE-SIA College 2001. The Substation, Singapore (2005); Human colour, La Libreria, Singapore (2007); Feast and of the Arts in 2000. zoo, The Artist Village, Taipei (2005); and No Visual rage, ICA Singapore (2007); The stone alibi, Art Centre (1999). Kuning soup story, tickle art, CityLink Mall, Singapore chuachyeteck.com participated in the 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art (2014); Gu Yu International Performance Art Lim has undertaken a Khazanah Nasional Donna Ong Triennale (2004), the 2nd Asia Pacific Triennial Festival (2013); Singapore Biennale (2013); and artist residency hosted by Red Gate Gallery, of Contemporary Art, Brisbane (1996), and the 10th OPEN International Performance Art Beijing (2013), an Asian Artist Fellowship at Donna Ong received the Singapore Young the 7th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh, Dhaka Festival, Beijing (2009). Lee Wen was awarded the Vermont Studio Center, USA (2011), and a Artist Award and the President’s Young Talents (1995). Zai Kuning was awarded a BA Fine an MA Fine Arts by Open University through Malaysia– artist residency at Rimbun People’s Choice Award in 2009. Ong has held Arts by RMIT University through LASALLE-SIA LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts in 2006. Dahan, Kuala Lumpur (2008). solo exhibitions at Primae Noctis Art Gallery, College of the Arts in 1996. leewen.republicofdaydreams.com justinlim.arts.com.my Lugano, Switzerland (2013); ICA Singapore dapunta2013.wordpress.com (2011); Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham (2010); and at The Old Parliament, Vincent Leow Zulkifle Mahmod Singapore (2004). She has participated in Jane Lee group exhibitions including Move on Asia, Vincent Leow is one of the early members Zulkifle Mahmod completed a Diploma in ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Jane Lee has held major solo exhibitions at of The Artists Village and co-founder with Visual Arts at LASALLE-SIA College of the Germany (2013); The Singapore show: Future Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Singapore (2014) Yvonne Lee of , a Arts in 1997. He formed Pink Ark, an art proof, Singapore Art Museum (2012); Home and New York (2012); Mizuma Gallery, Tokyo contemporary art collective established collective working with experimental sound, again: 10 artists who have experienced Japan, (2013); Osage Gallery, Hong Kong (2011) in 1998. Leow has held solo exhibitions at in 2004. He has held solo exhibitions at The Hara Museum, Tokyo (2012); Koganecho and Singapore (2009); and Taksu Gallery, Chan Hampe Galleries, Singapore (2012); Private Museum, Singapore (2014); ION Art bazaar, Koganecho Area Management, Japan Singapore (2006). Lee has participated in Singapore Art Museum (2010); SooBin Art Gallery, Singapore (2010); The Substation, (2009); Photographer unknown, Monash numerous group exhibitions including Medium International, Singapore (2009); Xin Beijing Singapore (2009); The Asylum, Singapore University Museum of Art, Melbourne (2009); at large, Singapore Art Museum (2014); Square Gallery (2007); TADU Art Space, Bangkok (2007); Lonnstrom Art Museum, Finland (2004); and Hybricity: Singapore, Singapore Season the circle, art from South East Asia, 8 Gallery, (2001); TK Studios Gallery, Singapore (1998); and Ona Art Centre, Norway (2001). He has China, Beijing (2007). Ong has exhibited in London (2013); The realm in the mirror, the and The Substation, Singapore (1996). He has participated in group exhibitions including the Jakarta Biennale (2009), Kuandu Biennale, vision out of image, Jinji Art Museum, Suzhou, participated in numerous group exhibitions New sensibilities in sculpture and painting, Taipei (2008), and the inaugural Singapore China (2013); Landscape memories, Espace including The realm in the mirror, the vision Yeo Workshop, Singapore (2014); Medium at Biennale (2006). She completed an MA Fine Louis Vuitton, Singapore (2013); Celeste Prize out of image, Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, large, Singapore Art Museum (2014); SOUND: Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts in 2012. exhibition, The Invisible Dog, New York (2011); China (2013); Brief histories, Sharjah, UAE Latitudes and attitudes, ICA Singapore (2014); Jane Lee, Donna Ong, Wilson Sheih, Eslite (2011); and Domesticity, Seoul Museum of Art. The realm in the mirror, the vision out of image, donnaong.com Gallery, Taipei (2011); and Popping up, revisit He participated in the 52nd Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, China (2013); 2D-3D, Hong Kong Art Centre (2010). Lee (2007), 3rd Guiyang Biennale, China (2007), Synaesthesia, , Singapore Ruben Pang was awarded the Singapore International 9th Triennale India, New Delhi (1997), 5th Fukui (2009); and POP Singapore, Esplanade (2009). Residency Art Prize in 2007, and the Celeste International Video Biennale, Japan (1993), and Mahmod has participated in the 52nd Venice Since graduating from LASALLE College of the Prize (painting category) in 2011. She the 1st Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Biennale (2007) and the 2nd Ogaki Biennale, Arts with a Diploma in Fine Arts in 2010, Ruben completed a BA at LASALLE-SIA College of the Art, Brisbane (1993). Leow was awarded a Japan (2006). Pang has held solo exhibitions including Arts in 2005. Professional Doctorate by RMIT University in zulmahmod.wordpress.com New energetics: Inverting the process, Chan janelee.sg 2005, an MA Fine Arts by Maryland Institute Hampe Galleries, Singapore (2013); Aetheric College of Art in 1991, and a Diploma in Fine portraiture, Primae Noctis Art Gallery, Lugano, Arts by LASALLE College of the Arts in 1987. mohamadriduan Switzerland (2013); and Angels, Chan Hampe Lee Wen vincentleow.com Galleries (2011). He has participated in group mohamadriduan graduated with a Diploma exhibitions including The Singapore show: Cultural Medallion recipient Lee Wen has in Fine Arts from LASALLE-SIA College of the Future proof, Singapore Art Museum (2012); held major solo exhibitions at Grey Projects, Justin Lim Arts in 2005. His work has been presented in A persistent illusion, Forest Rain Gallery, Singapore (2014); Singapore Art Museum theatre and sound art projects and exhibitions Singapore (2010); Is that a temple?, Evil Empire, (2012); Soo Bin Art International, Singapore Since graduating with an MA Fine Arts from in Singapore including at Esplanade, Furor Singapore (2010); Take-aways, Sambanci (2008); Your MOTHER gallery, Singapore Open University through LASALLE-SIA College Space, The Substation, ICA Singapore and the University Istanbul, Turkey (2010); and Strobe (2007); and The Substation, Singapore of the Arts in 2006, Justin Lim has presented NTU Centre for Contemporary Art. He creates like a butterfly, The Substation, Singapore (2003). Lee has participated in many group solo exhibitions at Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala objects and machines that incorporate sound (2010). He was a finalist in the Sovereign Asian exhibitions including Concept context Lumpur and Singapore (2013); Taksu Gallery, and light effects and are often interactive. Art Prize in 2010 and 2011. contestation: Art and the collective in Southeast Kuala Lumpur (2010); and Rimbun Dahan, Kuala Recent exhibitions include Budi daya, Malay Asia, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (2013); Lumpur (2009). He has exhibited in group Heritage Centre, Singapore (2014); and SOUND: rubenpang.com One step forward, two steps back—us and exhibitions including Young artist discovery, Art Latitudes and attitudes, ICA Singapore (2014). institution, us as institution, Guangdong Times Taipei (2013); Asian Artist Fellowship residency mohamadriduan was until recently a member Phan Thao Nguyen Museum, Guangzhou, China (2013); Survey show, Vermont Studio Center, USA (2011); of OFFCUFF, a multidisciplinary performance- from Singapore, FADO, Toronto Free Gallery, 18@8 Save the planet, Wei Ling Contemporary, based collective that develops improvisations Phan Thao Nguyen investigates the complex Canada (2010); Performance Platform Lublin, Kuala Lumpur (2011); , incorporating visual projections and sound. relationship between personal history, the Poland (2010); and Situations, Museum of Singapore Art Museum (2007); Urban on urban, conditions of contemporary life, and feelings Contemporary Art, Sydney (2005). Lee has ICA Singapore (2005); and Germany in mind, of alienation and otherness. Phan has held participated in Roppongi Art Night, Tokyo National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur (2003). exhibitions including NhaSan 15+, NhaSan Studio, Hanoi (2014); New work show, Sullivan projects for institutions including the Utah exhibitions including The disappearance, NTU Biennale (2013) and performed at the 55th Galleries, School of the Art Institute Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore (2014); Venice Biennale (2013). Seah has undertaken (2013); I-CAMP, Muong Ethnology Museum, Hoa (2013); Smart Museum of Art, Chicago (2012); CON[TEXT], NUS Museum, Singapore (2012); residencies at the Victorian College of the Binh, Vietnam (2013); Right fiction, Sàn Art, Ho Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Still building: Contemporary art from Singapore, Arts, Melbourne (2014); Titanik Gallery, Finland Chi Minh City (2013); Naptime noise, L’usine (2012); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2011); Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung (2012); (2013); and Galeria Labirynt, Poland (2012). Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City (2010); Intersection Bloomberg HQ, New York (2011); Centre Singapore survey, Valentine Willie Fine Art, In 2005 she was awarded a Goethe Institut Vietnam, new works from north and south, Pompidou, Paris (2010); Artists Space, New York Singapore (2010); Wonder, Singapore Biennale cultural scholarship to Berlin. Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore (2009); (2008); Art in General, New York (2007); and (2008); Found & lost, Osage Gallery, Singapore angieseah.com and Ket noi: Vietnam–Singapore performance Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, (2009); A progressive affair, Gallery 80, dialogue, Singapore Art Museum (2008). She Turin, Italy (2005). Prvacki’s art has been Singapore (2007); The second dance song— has also participated in the RIAP International included in many international exhibitions new contemporaries, ICA Singapore (2006); Jeremy Sharma Performance Art Festival, Quebec, Canada including dOCUMENTA (13) (2012), Biennale Singapore art show, Singapore Art Museum (2012), and the Young Artist Festival, Hanoi of Sydney (2007), the inaugural Singapore (2007); and Print out, Singapore Tyler Print Jeremy Sharma was awarded an MA Fine (2007). Phan completed an MA Fine Arts at the Biennale (2006), and the Turin Triennale, Italy Institute (2005). Arts by Open University through LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts in 2006. Since his first School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013, (2005). She has undertaken residencies at the www.shubigi.com and a BA at LASALLE College of the Arts in NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore solo exhibition at The Substation in 2004, 2009. (2014), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2011), he has held major solo exhibitions at Primae Zaki Razak Noctis Art Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland (2014); phanthaonguyen.com and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne (2008). Michael Janssen Gallery, Singapore (2014); In 2013, Zaki Razak was awarded both the Grey Projects, Singapore (2013); ICA Singapore PHUNK anaprvacki.com Singapore Young Artist Award, and President’s (2012); and Art Forum Gallery, Singapore Young Talents Award. Since completing his (2011). He has participated in group exhibitions PHUNK is a contemporary art and design Rizman Putra MA Fine Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts including Countershadows (tactics in evasion), collective founded by Alvin Tan, Melvin Chee, in 2011, Razak has held solo exhibitions at ICA Singapore (2014); Anthropos, Sundaram Jackson Tan and William Chan in 1994, after Rizman Putra’s practice crosses the boundaries The Substation, Singapore (as Associate Tagore Gallery, New York (2014); Do you each graduated from LASALLE-SIA College between performance, visual arts and music. Artist 2012–14); ICA Singapore (2011); and believe in angels?, Mo Space, Manila (2014); of the Arts the same year with a Diploma in He was awarded an MA Fine Arts by Open Land Foundation, Chiang Mai (2006). He has Abstraction, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong (2014); Design Communication. PHUNK has held solo University through LASALLE-SIA College of participated in group exhibitions including Painting in Singapore, Equator Art Projects, exhibitions at Art Seasons, Singapore (2013); the Arts in 2007. Putra is a founding member President’s young talents, Singapore Art Singapore (2013); Lyrical abstraction: Works by Gallery J Chen, Taipei (2012); Diesel Gallery, of multidisciplinary art group KYTV (Kill Your Museum (2013); Nouvelles vagues, Palais de Jeremy Sharma and Yeo Shih Yun, Singapore Tokyo (2010); Vallery, Barcelona (2009); Art Television) and front man of music group, Tokyo, Paris (2013); Trappole, Art Trove Gallery, Art Museum (2012); The same rain, the same Seasons, Beijing (2008); Levi’s flagship store, Tiramisu, formed in 1997. KYTV was awarded Singapore (2010); Artriangle III, National Visual wind, Chiang Mai University Art Centre, Paris (2008); Museum of Contemporary Art, the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Arts Gallery Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur (2010); Thailand (2012); and The subject shall remain Taipei (2007); Pixie Gallery, Taipei (2005); and Industry Singapore Foundation Art Award in Performativity 2, 24HR Art, Darwin (2008); and anonymous, Give Art Space, Singapore (2012). Tuami, Ecuador (2005). PHUNK has participated 2005. Putra has performed and exhibited Bond, Agent Bond, 1a space, Hong Kong (2008). He participated in the Singapore Biennale in group exhibitions including Welcome to internationally including The reinvention of (2013) and 14th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh, the jungle, Yokohama Museum of Art and sports for jaded individuals, Singapore Platform anGie Seah Dhaka (2010). Sharma is a founding member Kumamoto Contemporary Art Museum (2013); of (2013); Decimal points of multidisciplinary art group KYTV (Kill Your The Singapore show: Future proof, Singapore Art series: 5.1, The Substation, Singapore (2012); anGie Seah is a multidisciplinary artist who Television) and was a member of music group Museum (2012); and Future pass—from Asia to The Singapore show: Future proof, Singapore Art works with drawing, installation, performance Tiramisu from 1997 to 2004. the world, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art Museum (2012); 120, National History Museum, and sculpture. She was awarded a BA Fine jeremysharma.com (2012). PHUNK has participated in Singapore (2008); and Future of imagination Arts from RMIT University through LASALLE- and festivals including the 54th Venice 3, The Substation, Singapore (2006). He SIA College of the Arts in 2000. Seah has Shirley Soh Biennale (2011); Kaohsiung Design Festival, participated in the Venice Biennale (2008), the participated in exhibitions and performances Taiwan (2010); Taipei Public Art Festival (2010); inaugural Singapore Biennale (2006) and the including Joget, abang, joget, M1 Fringe Shirley Soh studied political science and Animamix Biennial, Shanghai (2009–10); and the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale (2005). Festival, Singapore (2014); The soup of nature, Gwangju Design Biennale, South Korea (2005). worked in printing and publishing before Titanik Gallery, Turku, Finland (2013); Every embarking on a career as a visual artist. She phunkstudio.com Shubigi Rao heart vibrates to that iron string, Unidentified was awarded an MA Fine Arts at the National Art Space, Granada, Spain (2013); Beyond University of Singapore in 2010, and a BA Fine Ana Prvacki Shubigi Rao was awarded an MA Fine Arts performance art monthly meeting, Open Arts by RMIT University through LASALLE- by Open University through LASALLE College Situation Performance, Derry, Ireland (2013); SIA College of the Arts in 2001. Since 2001, Ana Prvacki was born in the former Yugoslavia of the Arts in 2008. She is a visual artist and Resonance performance, Uppsala Art Museum, she has participated in many exhibitions and grew up in Singapore. She was awarded writer who has held solo exhibitions at Grey Sweden (2012); Ket noi: Vietnam–Singapore including The sustainable shop, Singapore an MA Fine Arts by Open University through Projects, Singapore (2013); ICA Singapore performance dialogue, Singapore Art Museum Management University (2011); Ceramitivity 05, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts in 2005. (2013); and Sanskriti Kala Kendra, New (2008); and Simplicity, Utterly Art, Singapore NUS Centre for the Arts, Singapore (2005); Prvacki has exhibited widely and developed Delhi (2001). She has participated in group (2003). She participated in the Singapore Process of enquiry, Museum of Modern Art, Luzern, Switzerland (2005); The writing is on Suzann Victor the soil, Pharmazentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland (2004); Convergences of art, Since Suzann Victor’s first solo exhibition at science and technology (CAST), Singapore Art The Substation in 1995, she has held solo Museum (2003); Resolutions, Sculpture Square, exhibitions at Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, Singapore (2003); the housework project, New Zealand (2002); Nexus Multicultural Arts Alliance Française, Singapore (2003); and Life Centre, Adelaide (1999); Gallery 4A, Sydney from earth, Utterly Art, Singapore (2003). Soh (1998); and Artspace, Sydney (1996). She has participated in the Singapore Biennale in 2013. participated in group exhibitions including Classic contemporary, Singapore Art Museum Speak Cryptic (2010); Australian, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney (2008); Thermocline of art. New Asian waves, Farizwan Fajari, professionally known as Speak ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Cryptic, was awarded a BA Fine Arts by Open Germany (2007); and Asian traffic, Today Art University through LASALLE-SIA College of the Museum, Beijing (2005). She has participated Arts in 2007. He has held solo exhibitions at in the Singapore Biennale (2013), Adelaide Esplanade, Singapore (2014); Singapore Art Biennial of Australian Art (2008), 5th Seoul Museum (2011); Double O Art Space, Singapore International Media Art Biennale (2008), 6th (2009); and Straits Records, Singapore (2007). , South Korea (2006), 49th He has participated in group exhibitions Venice Biennale (2001), 6th including Public order, Kingswell, Los Angeles (1997), and the 2nd Asia Pacific Triennial of (2014); Read carefully, Kult Gallery, Singapore Contemporary Art, Brisbane (1996). Suzann (2013); If the world changed, Singapore Victor has been commissioned to produce Biennale (2013); We set the pace, The major public artworks for Sydney’s World Substation, Singapore (2012); The la sardina Square, the National Museum of Singapore wardrobe exhibition, The Lomography Gallery, and Meritus Mandarin Singapore. She won a Singapore (2012); Instinctively, Pigeonhole, Civitella Ranieri Fellowship in 2009, and was Singapore (2012); The resistance movement, awarded several postgraduate scholarships Taksu Gallery, Singapore (2011); Synaesthesia, to undertake her BA and MA in Visual Art, and Post-Museum, Singapore (2011); Superheroes, her PhD (2009) at the University of Western D-Structure Gallery, San Francisco (2011); Sydney. Victor completed an Associate Interbike, Sands Expo Center, Las Vegas (2011); Diploma in Fine Arts at LASALLE College of the and Emerging Asia, Kepco Art Gallery, Seoul Arts in 1990. (2008). suzannvictor.com speakcryptic.com

Melissa Tan

Since graduating with a BA Fine Arts from Open University through LASALLE College of the Arts in 2011, Melissa Tan has held a solo exhibition at Richard Koh Fine Art, Singapore (2014). She has participated in group exhibitions including Primavera 2, CNEAI, Paris (2013); STRARTA Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London (2013); Looking for time, The Private Museum, Singapore (2013); Expression, Dahlia Gallery, Singapore (2012); and The Singapore show: Future proof, Singapore Art Museum (2012). Melissa Tan undertook a Dena Foundation residency in Paris in 2013. melissatan.wix.com