16 April 2023, Sunday

12:30PM — 1:30PM

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[BOOK LAUNCH]
Every Step in the Right Direction

Presented by Everything’s Fine
Patrick Flores in conversation with Katrina Stuart Santiago & Sidd Perez

Curator and art historian Patrick Flores talks about his latest book, Every Step in the Right Direction, which collects essays he’s written about his thought processes and procedures directing the 2019 Singapore Biennale. He will also talk about the necessity of writing and publishing more about Southeast Asian art history

Patrick Flores
Deputy Director, Curatorial and Exhibitions, National Gallery Singapore
Patrick Flores is currently the Deputy Director for Curatorial and Exhibitions at the National Gallery in Singapore. He served as curator of the Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2021 and as artistic director of the Singapore Biennale in 2019. He is formerly a professor of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines and curator of the Vargas Museum in Manila. He has been a guest scholar at the Getty Research Institute, a visiting fellow at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, a member of the Guggenheim Museum’s Asian Art Council, and an advisor to the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Katrina Stuart Santiago
Publisher, Everything's Fine
Katrina Stuart Santiago is publisher and founder of Everything’s Fine. She is one of the first cohorts of the Feminist Journalist Project of the Association of Women’s Rights in Development. She teaches writing and criticism at the College of St. Benilde at De La Salle University in Manila. Her writings on art and culture may be found in the Arts Equator website.

Sidd Perez
Curator, NUS Museum
Sidd Perez is a curator affiliated with the National University of Singapore NUS Museum focused on developing exhibitions and programs around the museum’s South and Southeast Asian collections while steering the prep-room, a curatorial modality that exposes labour in practices and unruly learning processes. She is the co-founder of Planting Rice, a curatorial and resource platform focused on Philippine art and artists.

2:00PM — 3:00PM

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[ARTIST TALK]
Publishing Ecosystems; Paper Economies

Presented by Perimeter Editions
Moderated by Renée Ting

Publishing is more than merely editing, designing and producing a book. In this informal, broad-ranging discussion, Perimeter co-director Dan Rule uses key publications in Perimeter Editions’ eighty-book strong publishing catalogue as sign-posts in wider dialogue about publishing as practice: the making, promotion and distribution of books amidst the global independent art book diaspora. The discussion will gesture towards publishing as a metaphor for a creative, international life.

Dan Rule
Co-Director, Perimeter
Dan Rule (b. 1979) is a publisher, writer and editor from Melbourne, Australia. He is the co-director of Perimeter Books, Perimeter Distribution and Perimeter Editions, for which he has published, edited and written for upward of eighty books on contemporary photographers and artists from around the world. Dan was a longstanding visual art critic for Melbourne newspaper The Saturday Age, a design and architecture columnist for The Age, the former editor and editor-at-large of Vault magazine and the former co-editor of Composite Journal. In a career spanning more than twenty years, he has published more than three thousand articles, reviews and interviews on art, photography, design, music and culture more widely for publications internationally, including major critical writing commissions for institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Camera Austria, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Australian Centre for Photography and others. He is a co-founder and juror for the Perimeter Small Book Prize and the PHOTO x Perimeter International Photobook Prize, and regularly lectures on the intersection of writing, photography and publishing as part of the PSC MFA program and at various universities and institutions.

Renée Ting
Director, Singapore Art Book Fair
Renée Ting is the director of the Singapore Art Book Fair. She is also the founder of Thing Books, an online shop for books, zines & things by artists.

3:30PM — 4:30PM

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[BOOK LAUNCH]
MFYG: Magazine for Young Girls (For Old Girls, Young Boys, Old Boys and They/Them of all ages) says HELLO!

Presented by MFYG (Magazine for Young Girls)
Moderated by Weiqi Yap

Editor-in-Chief, Wei Ting Wong talks about creating a publication geared towards exploring ideas around gender through fashion and visual culture. Wong, a fashion stylist as her day job, created the magazine to showcase a largely ignored fashion culture based around South East Asia and its diaspora as told through the feminine gaze. Phoning in is Creative Director Boah Kim. Based in Paris, Kim who’s previous clients include Balenciaga, Indie Magazine and now Shang Xia, participated in the creative direction and graphic design of Issue 02 “Adulting”. Though the two have never met in real life, they are both excited to share their journey with you! This talk will center around fashion image making with fashion writer and curator Wei Qi Yap as moderator.

Wei Ting Wong
Founder and Editor-in Chief, MFYG (Magazine for Young Girls)
Wei Ting Wong is founder and Editor-in-Chief of the yearly pop culture and fashion publication MFYG (Magazine for Young Girls). She is interested in creating slow, thoughtful imagery that breaks gender and beauty stereotypes. Her styling work has been published in 1 Granary and AnOther Magazine (online).

Boah Kim
Creative Director, Art Director and Graphic Designer
Boah Kim is from Seoul, Korea, based in Paris where she makes books and works as a creative director, art director, and graphic designer. Craving Apollinaire’s poems and concrete poetry introduced her to the world of typography. Since she studied graphic design and semiotics in Basel, Switzerland, her main interest lies in showing a text as a sequence of aesthetic images, by actively interpreting the meaning of it. She believes in books as a matter of time-based media, where images and texts take part in creating stories organically. Apart from book creation, she works as a creative director for various fashion houses and magazines in Paris and worldwide.

Weiqi Yap
Independent Fashion Writer, Researcher, and Curator
Weiqi Yap is an independent fashion writer, researcher, and curator. In May 2022, she opened Fashion On Display, an independent fashion curation studio and experimental gallery dedicated to exhibiting fashion and everyday dress. Her writing has been published in Vogue Singapore, Harper’s Bazaar Singapore, FEMALE Singapore, The International Journal of Fashion Studies, and Fashion & Market. Weiqi also lectures at the School of Fashion Studies at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and the School of Fashion at Lasalle College of the Arts.

5:00PM — 6:30PM

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[ARTIST TALK]
The Use and Design of Risograph

Presented by NEUTRAL COLORS
Moderated by Gideon Kong

NEUTRAL COLORS is an independent magazine and publishing house that produces their own books, incorporating manual work into the printing process such as Risograph and silkscreen.

In this talk, graphic designer Daisuke Kano and editor Naonori Kato will discuss their full process; from planning, editing, printing, producing, and binding to sales.

Naonori Kato
Editor, NEUTRAL COLORS
Naonori Kato (b. 1975) is the editor of NEUTRAL COLORS. He worked for a publishing company and launched numerous magazines. He currently operates an alternative space where he can bind and print books, and produces magazines and books.

Daisuke Kano
Graphic Designer, NEUTRAL COLORS
Daisuke Kano (b. 1992, Aichi, Japan) is the art director and book designer for NEUTRAL COLORS, an alternative magazine that combines offset and Risograph printing. He also art directs for critical magazines and other publications, and is currently a lecturer at Tama Art University.

Gideon Kong
Designer, gideon-jamie/Temporary Press/Temporary Unit
Gideon Kong co-runs gideon-jamie, a design studio, Temporary Press, a micro-publishing press, and Temporary Unit, an informal space for workshops and exhibitions. He teaches at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore.

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