Friday, October 8, 2010
Really AR 5 and other post-exhibition talks
Hello world! I'm still alive! I've been a bit of a hermit lately, working on new projects, but tomorrow I will be out in the world again - probably heading down to Barcamp first), and later in the evening I'll be sharing my work at Really AR?
Really Ar? is a sharing session where invited creatives and academics share their projects that explores various facets of the built environment. This edition of Really Ar? presents 5 exciting projects that explores the question of identity and community in our landscape through the lenses of diverse disciplines such as film, sociology, architecture, illustration and graphic design, which will conclude with a Question and Answer segment on the different perspectives that defines Our Singapore?
This Really AR? session is held in conjunction with the opening party of the 'Uniquely Singapore – Distinctively London: a GENERICITY project' exhibition at Illuma.
Featuring Debbie Ding, Justin Zhuang, Johnny Gao and Pan Yichen, and the eminent William S.W Lim!
Date: 09 October 2010
Time: 6.30pm - 9pm
Location: Illuma Bugis, Filmgarde, Level 5
201 Victoria Street
Session is moderated by Tan Szue Hann.
In other news, here are links to some other interviews I did last month:
Interview with Rajinder Singh
Interview with Superyouth
And thanks so much to Hazel & Gilles for asking me down to Lasalle to speak last week! I had a great time talking with the lovely and very lively folks from fine art there. We had a discussion about natural geographical features and one of the girls who came to my talk noted that Singapore doesn't have a culture of going out and appreciating nature since there is very little of it which is not man-made. Nobody goes "rambling" here, because a garden city is something that is immaculately pruned by human hands - a completely different experience compared to the rolling fields of say, the Cotswolds.
Gilles also mentioned that it is not that Singapore is flat by nature, but rather that reclamation and the flattening of Singapore's natural features (so it could be built on) was something that had been conducted from the very beginning, once the British arrived. Must investigate this further!
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