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Reciprocal 2023

 

Reciprocal 2023: Asian Film Archive (AFA) x Eye Filmmuseum

Absent Smile features the parents of New York-based Singaporean photographer and filmmaker John Clang. Their daily routines and conversations reveal them missing but supporting their son. On a parallel tangent, the documentary features candid portrait photography sessions of various families, where kin overseas partake and reconnect with loved ones at home over the webcam.

This screening will be accompanied by a post-screening in-person discussion with Director Lavender Chang at Oldham Theatre

Screening: July 8, Saturday, 2023
Time: 8:00pm
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RECIPROCAL is the Asian Film Archive (AFA)’s annual collaborative film programme that spotlights the archival collections of AFA and a partnering archive. Inspired by and responding to the resonance of each other’s featured collections, the curated line-up explores the creative intersections and juxtapositions between the preserved national, regional, and international film and moving image, offering perspectives on archival issues and concerns confronting contemporary archivists.

https://asianfilmarchive.org/event-calendar/reciprocal-2023-eye-filmmuseum/

Art Basel Hong Kong 2023

Art Basel Hong Kong 2023
Date: March 21 - 25, 2023
Venue: Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Booth 3C09

Exhibitor: FOST Gallery
Participating artists: John Clang, Phi Phi Oanh, Donna Ong, Grace Tan, Yeo Tze Yang, Ian Woo

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Art SG 2023

Art SG 2023

Participating artists: Kray Chen, John Clang, Phi Phi Oanh, Donna Ong, Bernado Pacquing, Luis Antonio Santos, Wyn-Lyn Tan, Ian Woo, Yeo Tze Yang

Date: January 11 - 15, 2023

Venue: Marina Bay Sands, Booth BE06

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So this is what it feels like to be free

 

So this is what it feels like to be free
a solo exhibition curated by Kong Yen Lin

Exhibition Date: January 7 - March 4, 2023
Artist and Curator’s Talk: January 7 (Sat), 3 - 4pm
Opening: January 7 (Sat), 3 -7pm
Venue: FOST Gallery, Singapore


In conjunction with Singapore Art Week 2023, FOST Gallery is proud to present So this is what it feels like to be free, a solo exhibition premiering three new bodies of work by visual artist John Clang. The presentation marks a particularly introspective and productive phase in his artistic practice influenced by his recent foray into the realm of filmmaking.

Surveillance is the dominant nomenclature of our image-centric lives, ever since network culture has profoundly transformed ways we perceive and relate to the world. In this solo exhibition presenting three new bodies of work, visual artist John Clang addresses the complexities of personal privacy, self-knowledge and identity formation by surveying delicate interstices between the private, public and secret. Working at the crossroads of observation, intervention, and performance, he contemplates on how one's inner and outer subjectivities and realities are crystallised across diverse social and historical milieus. Adopting a constellation of methodologies spanning the esoteric to quotidian – from extrapolating the ubiquitous post-it stuck onto laptop web cameras for privacy to individual pursuits of freedom, to the practice of an ancient wisdom shedding light on one’s destiny – this showcase studies the permutations in which the self can be multiplied, reconstituted and deepened.

 
 
 

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