A Love Unknown
Asian Film Festival Barcelona 2021
Two distant strangers, a woman in New York and her abandoned daughter she has never met in Singapore, try to break their endless fall into depression towards a better life. Elsewhere in a parallel universe, they live different fates.
Date: October 28 - November 10, 2021
Watch it on FILMIN (online), click HERE
https://asianfilmfestival.barcelona/2021/film-item/a-love-unknown/
5th Passage: In Search of Lost Time, a group exhibition curated by John Tung
Exhibition Date: September 24 - October 17, 2021
Venue: Gajah Gallery Singapore
Artists: Chu Chu Yuan, Eve Tan, Jason Lim, John Clang, Kai Lam, Ray Langebach, Siew Kee Liong, Susie Lingham, Susie Wong, Suzann Victor
In 1991, 5th Passage was founded by a small group of emerging Singaporean artists who strived to bring the arts to the public. Setting up their space in the fifth-floor passageway of Parkway Parade, Singapore’s first major suburban mall, 5th Passage situated itself within the ‘ready-made public’ of civic centres, and became Singapore’s first corporate-sponsored artist-run initiative. A number of substantial exhibitions, events, and activities were realised while the collective operated between 1991 and 1996. They experimented with varied site-specific, contemporary mediums, such as performance art and installation, and addressed a wide range of social concerns, from race, gender and sexuality, to the environment. In doing so, they sparked urgent conversations that spoke to the lived realities of their public.
Yet, the historicisation of 5th Passage remains conspicuously absent from dominant narratives of the country’s art history. Recognising that the remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were, 5𝙩𝙝 𝙋𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙜𝙚: 𝙄𝙣 𝙎𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 𝙤𝙛 𝙇𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚 looks to memories of the collective’s existence to reconstitute a basis for establishing the initiative’s significance within the wider arc of the country’s arts and cultural development. Bringing together artists who had presented works under its auspices, this exhibition revives in the wider public consciousness the plethora of programmes that articulated the initiative’s ideals and aspirations, while intimating the passage of time that has since elapsed. As a consequence, the exhibition begs the question: to what extent did the delay in historicisation result in material harm to the corpus of 5th Passage?
A Love Unknown
Singular Screens, Singapore International Festival of Arts 2021
First screening: Friday, May 21, 2021
Time: 8pm
Second screening: Saturday, May 29, 2021
Time: 2pm
Venue: Oldham Theatre
Address: 1 Canning Rise, Singapore 179868
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Curated by the Asian Film Archive (AFA) for the Singapore International Festival of Arts 2020 (SIFA), Singular Screens celebrates diverse, independent and singular visions from Singapore and around the world. Discover a bold palette of cinematic adventures, featuring the ingenious and risk-taking in film.
Buy a Totebag and Help Build a Space
In collaboration with 15 local and international Artists to support DECK Building Fund is a series of totebags of 15 selected works.
With the vision for a permanent building for photography arts and the community, the DECK building contributes to the development of our future visual voices. The arrival of an alternative arts space signals the coming of age in Singapore embracing diversities in the arts ecosystem.
The preorder of these beautiful totebags will commence from now till 31 March 2021, your purchase will contribute 100% to the ongoing Building Fund - every contribution counts! We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Pick your choice of artist totebag while stocks last. Limited edition of 30 per artist.
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Participating Artists: Aik Beng Chia, Ang Song Nian, Angki Purbandono, Chow and Lin, Feng Li, Hu Qiren, John Clang, Lavender Chang, Liana Yang, Manit Sriwanichpoom, Miti Ruangkritya, Robert Zhao, Sherman Ong, Theseus Chan, Yukari Chikura
FAMILY AFFAIRS. FAMILY IN CURRENT PHOTOGRAPHY, a group exhibition curated by Ingo Taubhorn
Exhibition Date: April 2 – July 11, 2021 postponed due to Covid-19, new date: April 20 - July 4, 2021 *opens May 18 and extended through July 18, 2021
Venue: House of Photography, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Artists: Nancy Borowick, Katharina Bosse, Elinor Carucci, John Clang, Daniel W. Coburn, Neil DaCosta, Siân Davey, Jaimie Diamond, Vincent Ferrané, Gustavo Germano, Eric Gyamfi, Lucia Herrero, Lebohang Kganye, Grégoire Korganow, Katharina Meyer, Dario Mitidieri, Lee-Ann Olwage, Trent Parke, Linn Schröder, Daniel Schumann, and Akihito Yoshida.
Exhibition preview here
Objectifs is a non-profit arts space dedicated to photography and film. Covid-19 has deeply affected their operation and they’ve just launched their first ever fundraiser. Please support generously. Donate and get a print gift! 🎁
Participating Artists: Darren Soh, John Clang, Robert Zhao Renhui, Kirsten Tan, Lenne Chai, Bryan van der Beek, ila, Ng Hui Hsien, nor, Shubigi Rao, Mindy Tan, Boo Junfeng, Amrita Chandradas, Lui Hock Seng, Lim Kwong Ling, Wee Li Lin, Deanna Ng, Kevin WY Lee, Ivan Tan and Dylan Chan
More info here: www.objectifs.com.sg/support-objectifs2020/
Margins: drawing pictures of home, a group exhibition at ArtScience Museum
Exhibition Date: November 21, 2020 – February 28, 2021 * now extended till March 28, 2021
Venue: ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands
Artists: Nguan, Sim Chi Yin, Aik Beng Chia, Charmaine Poh, Darren Soh, Woong Soak Teng, Marvin Tang, Wilfred Lim, John Clang, Hu Qi Ren, Zakaria Zainal, Ang Song Nian, Alecia Neo, Kevin WY Lee, Chow & Lin
This exhibition is a part of the 7th edition of Singapore International Photography Festival, co-presented by ArtScience Museum.
A Love Unknown
Asia Premiere at the 12th DMZ International Documentary Film Festival 2020
Date: Thursday, September 17, 2020
Time: 1:30pm
Second screening
Date: Saturday, September 19, 2020
Time: 11am
Venue: Megabox Baekseok
Address: 1036, Jungang-ro, Baekseok 1-dong, Ilsan-dong, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do
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DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, also known as DMZ Docs, showcases films dealing with “peace, coexistence and reconcillation.”
A review by Christine Han / Flash Art
Fost Gallery’s online exhibition “Come Together” presents a unique opportunity to experience with others the prospect of getting away from what you usually are. In response to a growing sense of rootlessness, disillusionment, pessimism, and dread, twelve artists from Asia find consolation in metaphysics and “inner understanding.”
https://flash---art.com/2020/06/come-together-fost-gallery-singapore/
Come Together, a group exhibition at FOST Gallery
Exhibition Date: Apr 21, 2020 – Jun 28, 2020
Opening: Tuesday, Apr 21, 12pm (Singapore, online)
Venue: FOST Gallery
Artists: Adeel uz-Zafar, Bea Camacho, Kray Chen, John Clang, Bovey Lee, Elaine Roberto Navas, Donna Ong, Ezzam Rahman, Grace Tan, Wyn-Lyn Tan, Sebastian Mary Tay and Ian Woo
