26 October 2024, Saturday
1:00PM — 2:30PM
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[PANEL]
Performance of a Photobook
Presented by Editions JOJO
Featuring Ng Hui Hsien, Vanessa Ban & Hong Shu-ying
Moderated by Aparna Nori
Performance of a Photobook
Presented by Editions JOJO
Featuring Ng Hui Hsien, Vanessa Ban & Hong Shu-ying
Moderated by Aparna Nori
The panel will explore and speculate on how the act of making a photobook is an all-encompassing performance, right from the making of the body of work itself to the act of editing, designing & finally in the experience of reading the object itself. This discussion is an entry point to examine the role of design, conceptual framework, artistic process, narrative style & other elements that make up the ecosystem of the photobook and in the process, foster dialogue on the evolving nature of photobooks and innovative practices with the genre.
Ng Hui Hsien
Artist, Writer & Researcher
Ng Hui Hsien is an artist, writer, and researcher based in Singapore. Her art practice uses photography as a medium to explore themes such as perception, (im)materiality, and interconnectivity; her works are sites where the unconscious can find expression, indirectly or otherwise. Hui Hsien’s self-published, limited-edition, hand-stitched artist book – The Weight of Air – is distributed by Reminders Photography Stronghold (Japan).
Vanessa Ban
Graphic Designer, Artist & Lecturer
Vanessa Ban is a graphic designer, artist, and lecturer. Her work cohabits contemporary art and graphic design. She is interested in the mediation between design and art language and is invested in holding the tension between these two forms of aesthetic discourses. Premising the category of an artwork as a foundation to her thought process, she sees design as a complementary discursive partner that can subtly speak to the art object.
Hong Shu-ying
Artist
Hong Shu-ying is a Singaporean artist who collects and works with found images and materials to highlight patterns, repetitions, and contradictions related to inheritance and ways of learning. She works with artist books, video and photography.
Aparna Nori
Photographer & Visual Artist
Aparna Nori is a photographer and visual artist based between Singapore and India. Aparna draws upon personal memory to have a dialogue with the quotidian. Her response is articulated through a range of mediums including alternative photographic processes, installations, video, digital photography and the book form. As a pedagogic extension of her practice, she continues to facilitate workshops to teach photography, bookmaking and alternative photographic processes.
Ng Hui Hsien
Artist, Writer & Researcher
Ng Hui Hsien is an artist, writer, and researcher based in Singapore. Her art practice uses photography as a medium to explore themes such as perception, (im)materiality, and interconnectivity; her works are sites where the unconscious can find expression, indirectly or otherwise. Hui Hsien’s self-published, limited-edition, hand-stitched artist book – The Weight of Air – is distributed by Reminders Photography Stronghold (Japan).
Vanessa Ban
Graphic Designer, Artist & Lecturer
Vanessa Ban is a graphic designer, artist, and lecturer. Her work cohabits contemporary art and graphic design. She is interested in the mediation between design and art language and is invested in holding the tension between these two forms of aesthetic discourses. Premising the category of an artwork as a foundation to her thought process, she sees design as a complementary discursive partner that can subtly speak to the art object.
Hong Shu-ying
Artist
Hong Shu-ying is a Singaporean artist who collects and works with found images and materials to highlight patterns, repetitions, and contradictions related to inheritance and ways of learning. She works with artist books, video and photography.
Aparna Nori
Photographer & Visual Artist
Aparna Nori is a photographer and visual artist based between Singapore and India. Aparna draws upon personal memory to have a dialogue with the quotidian. Her response is articulated through a range of mediums including alternative photographic processes, installations, video, digital photography and the book form. As a pedagogic extension of her practice, she continues to facilitate workshops to teach photography, bookmaking and alternative photographic processes.
3:00PM — 4:00PM
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[BOOK LAUNCH]
Slander! by Jeremy Sharma: A book launch, a screening, a conversation
Presented by Set Margins’ publications
Featuring Jeremy Sharma in conversation with Susie Wong
Slander! by Jeremy Sharma: A book launch, a screening, a conversation
Presented by Set Margins’ publications
Featuring Jeremy Sharma in conversation with Susie Wong
Slander! is a study of six films made between 1958 – 1963 in pre-independence Singapore, as told through the fictional persona of Remy Shah. It is a book of autotheory; a kind of meta-novel which is at once a diary, a thesis, and a meditation. The artist novel addresses how we perceive both images in films through the lens of time, coloniality and history through the lens of film.
Jeremy Sharma
Artist
Jeremy Sharma's current practice revolves solely around longstanding ideas in painting and writing, with side interests in music and moving images.He also teaches with the McNally School of Fine Arts at the LASALLE College of the Arts and runs an experimental curatorial platform called Bulanujung.
Susie Wong
Artist & Curator
Susie Wong is an artist, curator, educator and art writer in Singapore. Wong has written for numerous publications and monographs on art since the late 1980s.
Jeremy Sharma
Artist
Jeremy Sharma's current practice revolves solely around longstanding ideas in painting and writing, with side interests in music and moving images.He also teaches with the McNally School of Fine Arts at the LASALLE College of the Arts and runs an experimental curatorial platform called Bulanujung.
Susie Wong
Artist & Curator
Susie Wong is an artist, curator, educator and art writer in Singapore. Wong has written for numerous publications and monographs on art since the late 1980s.
4:30PM — 5:30PM
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[PANEL]
The Politics of Print in Singapore's Independent Media Scene
Featuring Ginette Chittick, Ruby Thiagarajan & Charmaine Poh
Moderated by Alysha Chandra
The Politics of Print in Singapore's Independent Media Scene
Featuring Ginette Chittick, Ruby Thiagarajan & Charmaine Poh
Moderated by Alysha Chandra
Trace the evolution of Singapore’s independent print media scene, from nascent zine cultures of the 1990s to our present-day publication landscape. Panellists Ginette Chittick (CherryBombe Press), Ruby Thiagarajan (Mynah Magazine) and Charmaine Poh (Jom) will discuss their experiences starting and sustaining magazines in Singapore, the politics of distribution under ever-changing media regulations, and the possibilities offered by a print-forward approach in an era of digital content.
Ginette Chittick
Lecturer, Subculture Researcher & Musician
Ginette Chittick is a member of one of Singapore’s pioneering ArtRock/Shoegaze bands, Astreal, a DJ, co-owned fashion label FruFru & Tigerlily, and was zine-producer and a key member of the mid ‘90s punk scene. She holds an MA (Design) and is currently a PhD student at the University of the Arts London. She is the Programme Leader of the Diploma in Creative Direction for Fashion at the University of the Arts Singapore.
Ruby Thiagarajan
Editor-in-Chief, Mynah Magazine
Ruby is an editor and writer based in Singapore. She is the editor-in-chief of Mynah Magazine, a longform print publication dedicated to Singapore's untold stories. Her essays and criticism have appeared in publications including Mekong Review, Portside Review and New Naratif.
Charmaine Poh
Co-founder, Jom; Artist
Charmaine Poh is a co-founder and the head of visual culture and media at Jom, an independent journalistic magazine about Singapore. As an independent artist, she has exhibited her work at the Singapore Art Museum, the Seoul Museum of Art, and the Venice Biennale, among others.
Alysha Chandra
Network Manager, NIMBUS; Marketing Lead, Feelers
Alysha Chandra manages NIMBUS, a new network for independent media in Singapore. She writes essays and plays, and is a member and Marketing Lead of art and tech research lab Feelers.
Ginette Chittick
Lecturer, Subculture Researcher & Musician
Ginette Chittick is a member of one of Singapore’s pioneering ArtRock/Shoegaze bands, Astreal, a DJ, co-owned fashion label FruFru & Tigerlily, and was zine-producer and a key member of the mid ‘90s punk scene. She holds an MA (Design) and is currently a PhD student at the University of the Arts London. She is the Programme Leader of the Diploma in Creative Direction for Fashion at the University of the Arts Singapore.
Ruby Thiagarajan
Editor-in-Chief, Mynah Magazine
Ruby is an editor and writer based in Singapore. She is the editor-in-chief of Mynah Magazine, a longform print publication dedicated to Singapore's untold stories. Her essays and criticism have appeared in publications including Mekong Review, Portside Review and New Naratif.
Charmaine Poh
Co-founder, Jom; Artist
Charmaine Poh is a co-founder and the head of visual culture and media at Jom, an independent journalistic magazine about Singapore. As an independent artist, she has exhibited her work at the Singapore Art Museum, the Seoul Museum of Art, and the Venice Biennale, among others.
Alysha Chandra
Network Manager, NIMBUS; Marketing Lead, Feelers
Alysha Chandra manages NIMBUS, a new network for independent media in Singapore. She writes essays and plays, and is a member and Marketing Lead of art and tech research lab Feelers.
6:00PM — 7:00PM
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[PANEL]
Old Fears and New Hopes: Singapore's Next General Election
Presented by Jom
Featuring Walid J. Abdullah, Elvin Ong & Anngee Neo
Moderated by Sudhir Thomas
Old Fears and New Hopes: Singapore's Next General Election
Presented by Jom
Featuring Walid J. Abdullah, Elvin Ong & Anngee Neo
Moderated by Sudhir Thomas
Because of the pandemic, it has been almost a decade since Singaporeans attended general election (GE) rallies. As we prepare for perhaps one of the most keenly contested GEs in recent times, due by next November, what has changed since? How has the practice of democracy evolved? Which aspects of this evolution are to be cheered and jeered? How can individual Singaporeans prepare themselves to be more democratically engaged citizens, as we keep methodically constructing this shared project called home? Our four panellists will share thoughts from the vantage points of both their individual practices, and their quotidian interactions and lives.
Walid J. Abdullah
Associate Professor, National University of Singapore
Walid Jumblatt Abdullah is an Associate Professor at the Public Policy and Global Affairs Program at Nanyang Technological University. He is the author of Islam in a Secular State: Muslim Activism in Singapore, published by Amsterdam University Press in 2021. He is also the host of Teh Tarik With Walid, an online show where he hosts politicians and political influencers, discussing local politics.
Elvin Ong
Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
Elvin Ong is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. His primary research agenda is on democratisation in East and Southeast Asia, focusing on the role of opposition parties. His first book “Opposing Power: Building Opposition Alliances in Electoral Autocracies” was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2022. His academic writing has also been published in leading political science disciplinary journals as well as regionally-focused area studies journals.
Anngee Neo
Illustrator
Anngee Neo is a Singapore-based illustrator who has a special interest in making drawings for storytelling. When not working with commercial clients, she makes comics or infographics on political-social issues to entertain readers. She moonlights as a podcaster and is a high level internet troll.
Sudhir Thomas
Founder, Jom
Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh is the co-founder of Jom, a digital weekly magazine about Singapore. His work is focused on amplifying the voices of people marginalised by dominant power structures. His areas of concern are inequality, corporate and political hegemonies, and social hierarchies.
Walid J. Abdullah
Associate Professor, National University of Singapore
Walid Jumblatt Abdullah is an Associate Professor at the Public Policy and Global Affairs Program at Nanyang Technological University. He is the author of Islam in a Secular State: Muslim Activism in Singapore, published by Amsterdam University Press in 2021. He is also the host of Teh Tarik With Walid, an online show where he hosts politicians and political influencers, discussing local politics.
Elvin Ong
Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
Elvin Ong is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. His primary research agenda is on democratisation in East and Southeast Asia, focusing on the role of opposition parties. His first book “Opposing Power: Building Opposition Alliances in Electoral Autocracies” was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2022. His academic writing has also been published in leading political science disciplinary journals as well as regionally-focused area studies journals.
Anngee Neo
Illustrator
Anngee Neo is a Singapore-based illustrator who has a special interest in making drawings for storytelling. When not working with commercial clients, she makes comics or infographics on political-social issues to entertain readers. She moonlights as a podcaster and is a high level internet troll.
Sudhir Thomas
Founder, Jom
Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh is the co-founder of Jom, a digital weekly magazine about Singapore. His work is focused on amplifying the voices of people marginalised by dominant power structures. His areas of concern are inequality, corporate and political hegemonies, and social hierarchies.
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