Annex A: Bios of Creative Directors - Clara Yee and Randy Chan Clara Yee Creative Director Singapore: Inside Out Tokyo Clara Yee is the creative director of nomadic creative house, in the wild. After graduating from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design London, Yee has been actively developing her creative practice, creating and collaborating across disciplines from fashion to spatial interventions. To date, Yee has worked with many prolific private and public clients, including Alexander McQueen, Barbican London and Warner Music. Her work has brought her on cross-country cultural adventures to Beijing, London, Mexico City, New York, Taiwan and Japan, where she collaborated with international talents. She has exhibited her works as part of London Design Festival, Taiwan Design Expo, Singapore Design Week and Archifest, showing at galleries in London, Singapore and USA such as Blackall Studios, Sculpture Square, Berkeley Foundation and Singapore Art Museum’s 8Q @ SAM. Yee is part of The Straits Times’ 30 rising stars of Singapore under 30 and is also a Forbes Asia’s inaugural 30 under 30 honouree. Randy Chan Creative Director Singapore: Inside Out Sydney One of Singapore's leading young architects, Randy's architectural and design experience includes work on projects as diverse as stage design, private housing, cluster housing and master-planning – all of which are guided by the simple philosophy that architecture and the aesthetics originate from the same impulse. Randy takes a multidisciplinary architectural approach to his projects and specializes in the convergence between Art and Architecture. His works have been published in numerous local architecture magazines and international publications, including Robert Powell’s Singapore Houses. He has shown versatility in his portfolio as the principal set and stage designer for both national and international events, including Singapore’s National Day Parades in 2004, 2008, 2009 and 2011, the Supergarden Singapore Pavilion at the 2008 Venice Biennale, and the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in 2010. His flair for creating identity 1 by stringing story and design concepts is also demonstrated in his work on various museums and galleries, most distinctively, the Sustainable Singapore Gallery at Marina Barrage. He is also a member for the Venice Biennale Artist Selection Panel. Working at the intersection of art and architecture, his private art works include “dark nights & white days, bodies and move” commissioned by the French Embassy in Singapore. Recent works include “Building as a Body”, a collaboration with Singapore designer kwodrent that was commissioned by the Singapore Art Museum and awarded the prestigious Design of the Year at the President’s Design Award 2012 (Singapore). Most recently he has led the design and content curation for the Singapore pavilion at Expo 2017 in Kazakhstan. 2 Annex B: Information on creative talents participating in Singapore: Inside Out Tokyo Singapore: Inside Out Tokyo Atelier HOKO Atelier HOKO (2002) is an independent research lab that focuses on the study of the growing disengagement between people, things and space. The atelier hopes to cultivate openness and the ability to ‘un-know' in people to unlock their curiosity towards all phenomena by taking a fresh look at reality. Besides producing various exhibitions in Singapore, the studio has exhibited at the Milan Furniture Fair, Dutch Design Week, Vienna Design Week and the 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT (Japan) organised by the Issey Miyake Foundation. They have also been invited to speak at institutions, events and international conferences such as Pecha Kucha for the World Architecture Festival (Singapore). Daisuke Yano Daisuke Yano is a Japanese lighting director who creates a broad range of light and shadow installations in the contexts of building and public space illuminations. He treats light as a material across contradictory elements like nature and architecture to create atmospheric spaces. Yano studied light scenography at Musashino Art University. One of his trademark works is “Night Wave”, a three-day event held at the Zushi Seashore where he set up special light sources that emitted a horizontal stream of blue light, illuminating the sea waves at night. For this piece, Yano was awarded the Gold Prize by the Japan Design Space Association in 2015. diskodanny Daniel Kok (diskodanny) is a performance artist who graduated from the Goldsmiths College with a Bachelor of Fine Art & Critical Theory and the Inter-University Centre for Dance with a Master of Solo/Dance/Authorship. He also attended the Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies in Brussels. In 2008, he received the Young Artist Award from the National Arts Council (Singapore). Kok has since performed in notable festivals and represented Singapore in competitions around the world. Kok is currently developing his artistic research on critical spectatorship. From 2016 to 2018, he will explore Trans-Individuality and “xhe”, in 3 collaboration with visual artist, Miho Shimizu (Japan). diskodanny will also be presenting a world premiere of his work, “MARK”, at the Singapore International Festival of the Arts 2017. Irfan Kasban Irfan Kasban is a freelance theatre-maker who writes, directs, designs and performs. He is the former Associate Artistic Director of Teater Ekamatra (Singapore) and has attended the prestigious La MaMa Umbria International Symposium for Directors (Italy) 2012. Kasban has also written and directed several works; notably Hantaran Buat Mangsa Lupa (Singapore’s M1 Fringe Festival 2012), 94:05 (Malaysia’s Kakiseni Festival 2013), ANA (Singapore’s Projek Suitcase 2015), Trees a Crowd (Singapore’s Twenty Something Festival 2016) and Hutang Belantara (Singapore’s Staging NTU CCA 2016). Irfan’s play TAHAN (2013) was selected for Esplanade’s Fifty – a celebration of Singapore’s seminal works. He believes in affecting change, one universe at a time. Ishinomaki Laboratory Ishinomaki Laboratory was established in 2011 as a community workspace to rebuild lives after the city was devastated by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. The team creates functional and attractive furniture that combine the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset with design thinking to expand the role of design and craftsmanship and energise communities around the world. Besides being awarded the Good Design Award (Japan) in 2012, the Ishinomaki Stool was inducted as part of the Victoria & Albert Museum’s permanent collection in 2015. Ishinomaki Laboratory continues to expand its global reach through a growing list of retail partners including Muji and Herman Miller. The company has been featured in domestic and international press such as Japan Times and Monocle magazine. Josiah Chua Born in Singapore, Josiah Chua is a fashion stylist and designer who obtained his Honours degree in fashion at the LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore) and his Masters in clothing studies at the Bunka Gakuen University (Japan). In 2012, Chua won the Triumph Inspiration Award in Singapore and competed as a finalist in Shanghai. The design was photographed by notable photographer Wing Shya, directed by editor and former Vogue art director Terry Jones, and subsequently published in i-D Magazine (United Kingdom). Chua was also awarded with the ‘Best Experimental Design 4 Award’ by The Peranakan Museum (Singapore) for his redesign of the sarong kebaya, a traditional blouse-dress. Chua approaches his work by combining unexpected details in a singular creation to generate eclectic outcomes that create fresh perspectives. His label, Josiah, is stocked in Tokyo, where a one-of-a-kind piece was famously picked up by international pop star Lady Gaga. KITCHEN. LABEL KITCHEN. LABEL, a Singapore and Tokyo-based record label, is a vital outpost for musicians who explore the ground between ambient and modern classical, and avant-garde sounds, matched with a carefully honed and distinctive aesthetic. KITCHEN. LABEL has released 19 albums and has 11 artists in their roster to date. The label’s artists share an obsession with sensuous and fleeting phenomena in their music. Together with their Japanese partners p*dis / Inpartmaint Inc (Japanese independent label and distributor), KITCHEN. LABEL has a reputation as the purveyors of modern classical and ambient music in Asia. Despite its domesticated namesake and penchant for delicate gestures and impassive interiors, KITCHEN. LABEL is a thoroughly metropolitan phenomenon that documents momentary flickers of melancholic beauty in unlikely environments. Media Art Nexus, Nanyang Technological University Based in Singapore, Media Art Nexus NTU is one of NTU Art and Heritage Museum’s various Art on Campus initiatives. It was conceived by award- winning artists Ina Conradi and Mark Chavez who both obtained their Masters of Fine Arts from UCLA. Ina Conradi’s works have been screened at over 50 film festivals and exhibited at over 40 exhibitions internationally. Her animated film, Elysian Fields, was nominated for the VFX Award 5 (United States) by the prestigious Hollywood Method Studios. It also competed at the 86th Academy Awards’ Animated Short Film Competition Screening. Mark Chavez is an animator, artist, educator and entrepreneur who has developed systems and techniques for animation across various media. He is also the founder of Giant Monster Inc., which is an educational technology start-up on games. Miho Shimizu Tokyo-born artist Miho Shimizu holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College and Master of Fine Arts from the