Annex A: Bios of Creative Directors - Clara Yee and Randy Chan

Clara Yee Creative Director : 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 , 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 ’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

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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 .

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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

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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 () 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 (). Chua was also awarded with the ‘Best Experimental Design

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Award’ by The (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

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() 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 Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Shimizu has been researching about costumes in tribal and urban areas, and has made works for actors and dancers for live events and films.

Miho and Norwegian artist Øyvind Renberg have collaborated as Danger Museum since 2001. She has also exhibited in several gallery and museum exhibitions, including the Takeninagawa Gallery. Her projects reflect the experience of travelling in videos, sculptures and images.

plantica

plantica is a creative studio that connects flowers with the fields of art, fashion, textile, product and installation design. The studio believes that floral art stems from encounters between nature and mankind. Presenting the floral culture of Japan to the world, the studio has exhibited in cities around the world, including Berlin, Milan, New York and Paris.

Its founder, Takashi Kimura, is known for his contemporary flower arrangements and large- scale installations conceived based on the aesthetics of ikebana1. In addition to creating floral decorations and spatial designs for haute couture salons, his site-specific installations have been showcased by Nike, Toyota, Starbucks and the LVMH group. As an emerging cultural figure, Kimura has appeared in television commercials for the Japanese clothing brand UNIQLO.

1ikebana – traditional Japanese flower arrangement

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Supermama

Founded by designer, educator, and entrepreneur Edwin Low, Supermama is a Singapore-based gallery shop that produces original Singapore-inspired souvenirs including the Singapore Icons, porcelain collection that was awarded the President’s Design Award, the highest design accolade in Singapore in 2013.

Supermama works closely with designers from Singapore and traditional craft facilities in Japan to produce meaningful giftware that resonate with Singapore’s heritage and culture. Using culture as a context in the design process, products by Supermama blur the fine line between cultural artefacts, everyday objects and the concept of basic luxury – so everyone can own a piece of heritage.

Zul Mahmod

One of Singapore’s leading sound artists, Zul Mahmod is at the forefront of Singapore’s contemporary art development. Known for integrating three-dimensional forms with “sound-scapes”, Zul regularly collaborates with artists of various disciplines.

Zul’s achievements include exhibitions around the world, such as an industrial-inspired soundtrack created in conjunction with the Antoni Tàpies exhibition at the Singapore Art Museum and a sound art performance at the Ogaki Biennale (Japan) 2006. He is also the first artist to produce a complete sound sculpture for the Singapore Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale. In 2017, Zul was awarded the Soichiro Fukutake Prize, a special award presented on the occasion of the inaugural Asian edition of the Benesse Priize for an artwork commissioned by the 2016. One of his works is also currently exhibited as part of SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now at Tokyo’s National Art Center and Mori Art Museum.

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Annex C: Artwork descriptions for Singapore: Inside Out Tokyo

1. Clara Yee (SG) x Daisuke Yano (JP) Multimedia installation Singapore multi-disciplinary designer Clara Yee and Japanese lighting artist Daisuke Yano work together on an outdoor multimedia installation that plays with light, mist and technology and is reflective of man’s continued augmentation of his surroundings and nature.

2. Ishinomaki Lab (JP) x Supermama (SG) Product design installation Singapore home-grown souvenir label Supermama and Japanese furniture workshop Ishinomaki Lab pay homage to cultural icons such as food stalls and kitsch souvenirs from Singapore and Japan.

Supermama will also be displaying a product specially created for Singapore: Inside Out Tokyo – a daruma.

3. plantica (JP) x Zul Mahmod (SG) Sound and visual installation In a collaborative work where nature is recreated and re-inspired by man-made sounds, Japanese creative studio plantica creates a floral art installation in response to Zul Mahmod’s composition of sounds from the city.

4. diskodanny (SG) x Miho Shimizu (JP) Visual installation and durational performance In a dynamic mash-up of different visual and performance elements, Singapore performance artist diskodanny choreographs a durational performance using Japanese visual artist Miho Shimizu’s site-specific sculptural works in a performance piece that explores the notion of identities.

5. Atelier HOKO (SG) Participatory installation Independent research lab Atelier HOKO will set up a “café” for visitors to experience the various ways of drinking from cups of different shapes.

6. Irfan Kasban (SG) Durational performance Theatre practitioner Irfan Kasban will perform a new work that delves into how tourism inevitably changes the architecture of sacred sites.

7. KITCHEN. LABEL (SG/JP) Music performance The Singapore- and Tokyo-based record label will present daily music performances by five artists from Singapore and Japan: ASPIDISTRAFLY (SG), Hanging Up The Moon (SG), haruka nakamura LABO (JP), ironomi (JP), and Janis Crunch (JP).

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8. Josiah Chua (SG) Fashion presentation Drawing inspiration from the popular Japanese anime series “Sailor moon”, Singaporean fashion designer Josiah Chua, whose work has been purchased by celebrities like Lady Gaga, will be unveiling a preview selection from his 2018 capsule collection based on the theme “HyperCity”.

9. Media Art Nexus, Nanyang Technological University (SG) Interactive multimedia installation Multimedia collective MAN creates myriad abstract and interactive audio-visual works of dreamlike fantasies inspired by the moon.

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Annex D: Information on Tokyo’s partner events

Candlenut x Dominique Ansel Bakery (25 August 2017 to 10 September 2017)

The World’s Best Pastry Chef 20171 comes together with chef-owner of the only Michelin-starred Peranakan restaurant in the world to create a delectable dessert creation, taking inspiration from one of the most iconic dishes from Singapore’s culinary history.

Singapore Designer’s Showcase at PARCO

In a pop-up showcase curated by PARCO (Singapore) Pte Ltd, 10 designers ranging from fashion and accessories to home furnishings and souvenirs will be featured at the BY PARCO SHOP&GALLERY and MEETSCAL STORE AOYAMA from 25 August to 3 September 2017.

1 As awarded by the World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards in April 2017. Chef Dominique Ansel is Chef/Owner of Dominique Ansel Bakery in New York, Tokyo, and London, and Dominique Ansel Kitchen in New York. He is the winner of the James Beard Foundation Award for the Best Pastry Chef in the U.S., the recipient of ’s l’Ordre du Mérite Agricole award, and is the inventor of the Cronut® (a cross between a croissant and a donut), amongst other innovative sweets.

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Annex E: Information on Singapore creative talents participating in Singapore: Inside Out Sydney

Ang Song Ming

Living and working between Singapore and Berlin, Song-Ming Ang is a sound artist with an interest that lies more in “using music as a subject” and the relationship between music and society. He has presented solo shows with Spring Workshop (Hong Kong), FuturePerfect (Singapore), SoundFjord (London); and exhibited at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Armory Art Show (New York), Art Basel (Miami Beach), and the 3rd Singapore Biennale. He has previously shown his works in Sydney – “Sonic Social” at the Museum Contemporary Art and “Video Identity at Sullivan+Strumpf.Ang is also the 2011 recipient of the Young Artist Award conferred by the National Arts Council of Singapore, and was a finalist for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize in 2010.

Donna Ong

Donna Ong is an installation artist from Singapore, best known for her evocative and thought-provoking environments made from furniture, found objects and original artwork. She has exhibited her works locally and internationally in shows such as the Jakarta Biennale (2009), Kwandu Biennale (2008) and the inaugural Singapore Biennale (2007). She has also exhibited in prestigious museums and institutions worldwide, including “Photographer Unknown” at the Monash Museum of Art in Melbourne.

In 2009, Donna was conferred the National Arts Council’s Young Artist Award and won the People’s Choice award for the President’s Young Talent Competition. She recently also completed a Master in Fine Art degree at LASALLE College (Singapore) where she graduated at the top of her cohort.

Donna has participated in several prestigious art residencies such as Arts Initiative Tokyo (Japan), STPI (Singapore), Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (Germany) and most recently, Krinzinger Projekte (). Her work is represented by Primo Marella Gallery (Italy), Gallerie Krinzinger (Austria) and Fost Gallery (Singapore).

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Ezzam Rahman

Ezzam Rahman is a multi-disciplinary installation and performance artist. Formally trained as a sculptor from LASALLE College of the Arts, he recently graduated with a Master in Arts, Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2017.

Ezzam is known for his interest in the body and his use of common, easily accessible and unconventional materials to produce works. His work features narratives that challenge and expand notions of identity politics, and the inherent paradoxes of presence and marginality. Most of his works are time-based ephemera that aim to pique the viewer’s thoughts on the topic of impermanence, trace and abjection.

In 2015, Ezzam was named a joint winner of the Grand Prize for the President's Young Talents and conferred the People's Choice Award by the Singapore Art Museum. He was also awarded the prestigious Young Artist Award by the National Arts Council in 2016.

Grace Tan

Grace Tan began her art and design practice in 2003 under “the kwodrent series” to explore wearable structures based on the study of rectangles and construction methods. Her hands-on approach and interest in material and construction led her wearable works to evolve into sculptural objects and site-specific installations. Influenced by geometry, her works are distinguished by an intrinsic tactile nuance that heightens the matter and form.

Tan has exhibited extensively within Singapore and internationally on platforms including Singapore Biennale 2013, Setouchi Triennale 2013, President’s Young Talents 2013, and State of Design (Melbourne) from 2008 to 2010. She has also Photo credit: Caleb Ming recently worked on a number of large-scale public art commissions in Singapore, including “Woven Field” at Downtown Line Little Station, “PLANES” and “CURRENTS” at Marina One and “SYMMETRY” at DUO Tower.

Tan was awarded the President's Design Award for “Building as a Body” in 2012 and conferred the Young Artist Award in 2013 by the National Arts Council. In 2014, her collaborative entry with FARM Architects, “GROUND” was selected for National Gallery Singapore’s art connector project.

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Joshua Ip

Joshua Ip is the Singapore Literature Prize-winning author of “sonnets from the singlish upsized edition” (2015), “making love with scrabble tiles” (2013), and “sonnets from the singlish” (2012). He has placed in three different categories of the Golden Point Award, Singapore’s premier creative writing competition for Short Story and Poetry established by the Singapore National Arts Council, and has co-edited two series of anthologies: A Luxury We Cannot Afford and SingPoWriMo. He is also the editor of Ten Year Series, an imprint of Math Paper Press, and is currently working on a graphic novel, ‘Ten Stories Below’.

He has also taken part in a reading tour of organized by Griffith University upon being selected as one of "20 New Asian Voices Under 40" by Griffith Review.

Ip is the founder of Sing Lit Station, a non-profit organisation that runs multiple community initiatives, including SingPoWriMo, Manuscript Bootcamp, poetry.sg, and several workshop groups.

Kirsten Tan

A versatile filmmaker with a penchant for bold visual storytelling, Kirsten Tan’s works straddle a range of genres, but are consistent in their humanity and off-beat humour. Raised in Singapore, Tan lived in South Korea and before settling in New York City, where she recently completed a Master in Film Production degree at New York University and received the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts Fellowship.

Her works have been showcased at a host of international film festivals including the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and the Busan International Film Festival.

Tan has been featured on CNN International’s flagship program, Ones to Watch, which ‘shines a spotlight on up-and- coming creative talents set to be the next big names in culture and the arts’.

She has collected over 15 international awards, and is a four-time Silver Screen Award Nominee at the Singapore International Film Festival, where she won Best Southeast Asian Film for Dahdi (2014), Best Director for Fonzi (2007), and Special Jury Prize for 10 Minutes Later (2006). Commercially, she has also directed content for brands including Heineken, Giorgio Armani, TED Talks, Magnum Ice-cream and Credit-Suisse.

In 2017, she completed her debut feature, POP AYE that made its World Premiere in competition at Sundance Film Festival 2017. It screened to positive reviews from The Hollywood Reporter, Roger Ebert, Variety and Screen International and went on to receive a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Larry Peh

Larry started his design career in 1997 at Men’s Folio, Singapore’s first men’s magazine. He honed his skills at creative agency Asylum and co-founded Neighbor Studio in 2001 before going independent with &Larry in 2005. He is also the Founder and Creative Director of menswear label Faculty.

In 2009, together with six other top creatives in Singapore, Larry co-founded The Design Society — a local non-profit design organisation. Larry was voted in 2012 by Perspective Global as one of the top 40 design talents under the age of 40 in Asia, and also featured in +81 Japan as one of the next generation of creatives in Asia. In 2014, Larry was named Designer of the Year at the President’s Design Award.

Larry’s work has been internationally recognised with awards from D&AD (UK), One Show (New York), Tokyo Type Director’s Club, Singapore Creative Circle Awards, Singapore SPH iink Awards, and has been featured by renowned publishers including Wallpaper*, Taschen and Gestalten.

Malcolm Lee

Chef Malcolm Lee is the head chef and owner of one-Michelin starred Candlenut, the word’s only Peranakan restaurant to be awarded the prestigious Michelin star. He is the first Singaporean recipient of the Miele Guide Scholarship in 2008, and was granted a place at the At- Sunrice Globalchef Academy where he was able to explore his Asian culinary roots.

Chef Lee grew up in a family surrounded by the smell, taste and sight of his grandmother’s Peranakan cuisine. Inspired by this, he seeks to serve his heritage through a menu of refined tastes and techniques, hence creating Candlenut’s authentic yet innovative Peranakan flavours.

RAW Moves Ltd

Established in 2011, RAW Moves is a contemporary dance company with a vision to be the leading exponent of an inclusive and holistic approach to movement and dance in the Asia region. It focuses its establishment, connection and direction of work with the spirit of inquiry.

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RAW Moves’ work is based on the ethos of inquiry and experimentation. It seeks to achieve its mission of redefining movement by supporting cross-disciplinary experimentation in dance. This is done through innovation and research and the nurturing of new talents. Through collaborative investigation, experiential learning and promoting dance in the community, it hopes to eventually develop a centre that supports research, experimentation, education and performance platforms for all aspects of the word “movement”.

Peter Chua

One of Singapore’s rising young stars, Peter is a talented bartender who has represented Singapore at a number of international bartending competitions. Peter, who is currently owner and co-head bartender at Crackerjack, an all-day drinking and dining venue, recently won the Asia-Pacific regional title at the Diplomatico World Tournament, an international cocktail competition. In 2014, he was named one of the top six bartenders after placing in the world Diageo Reserve World Class Global Finals; it is the best ranking for a Singaporean in the competition, where no rankings are given for the top six. A member of the opening team of 28 HongKong Street, which is listed on both the Asia’s 50 Best Bars and the World’s 50 Best Bars 2016 list, Peter has previously also spent time as a Spirits Journeyman at Proof & Company Spirits, where he worked on menu and concept development, spirits curation, staff training and education for venues all over Asia.

Sarah Choo

Sarah Choo Jing is known for her interdisciplinary approach to photography, video and installation. Concerned with the gaze of the flaneur, voyeurism and the uncanny, her work depicts identifiable moments and characters within contemporary urban society suggesting a plethora of private and often solitary narratives.

Choo lives and works in Singapore and recently completed her Master of Fine Art degree at the Slade School of Art in London in 2015. Choo clinched the Gold Award in the 2016 PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Fine Art Category and was awarded First Place in the 2015 Moscow International Foto Awards. She was also shortlisted as a Finalist in the Sovereign Asian Art Prize in 2017 and awarded the ICON De Martell Cordon Bleu 2013 Photography Award and Kwek Leng Joo Prize of Excellence in Still Photography Award in 2013.

The artist has exhibited internationally at institutions like The Busan Museum of Art, the Daegu Photo Biennale in Korea, ArtParis at The Grand Palais in Paris, the START Art Fair at The Saatchi Gallery in London, Photo London 2015, and The Santa Fe International New Media Festival. Her works are also collected by both private individuals and public institutions including the Singapore Art Museum.

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Syndicate

Syndicate is a Singapore-based, forward-thinking audio visual collective and independent record label, who have presented a versatile range of works from live electronic music showcase to architectural projection mapping an installations. Since its inception in 2010, the collective has represented Singapore in the US and Europe playing to crowds in intimate clubs and international music festivals such as the Gilles Peterson Worldwide Festival in France and the 2016 Big Sound Festival in Brisbane.

Urich Lau

Urich Lau is a visual artist, independent curator and art educator based in Singapore who graduated with a Master of Fine Art degree from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2004.

Working in video art and photography, he has presented works in Singapore, Australia, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, , the , Thailand, South Korea, , Taiwan, Thailand, the UK, the US and Uzbekistan. His exhibitions include the Singapore Biennale 2013, VII Tashkent International Biennale of Contemporary Art, the 7th Geumgang Nature Art Biennale and Pyeongchang Biennale 2017. His works were also part of “Performativity_2: Neo Intuition, Slight Repartee” in Darwin in 2008.

He is currently a lecturer at Singapore’s LASALLE College of the Arts, a member of , Instinctive (INSTINC Art Space). He is a founding member of the art collective INTER– MISSION and a resident-artist at Singapore’s Goodman Arts Centre.

Zul Mahmod

One of Singapore’s leading sound artists, Zul Mahmod is at the forefront of Singapore’s contemporary art development. Known for integrating three- dimensional forms with “sound-scapes”, Zul regularly collaborates with artists of various disciplines.

Zul’s achievements include exhibitions around the world, such as an industrial-inspired soundtrack created in conjunction with the Antoni Tàpies

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exhibition at the Singapore Art Museum and a sound art performance at the Ogaki Biennale (Japan) 2006. He is also the first artist to produce a complete sound sculpture for the Singapore Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale. In 2017, Zul was awarded the Soichiro Fukutake Prize, a special award presented on the occasion of the inaugural Asian edition of the Benesse Priize, for an artwork commissioned by the Singapore Biennale 2016. One of his works is also currently exhibited as part of SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now at Tokyo’s National Art Center and Mori Art Museum.

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