Presenters
Mintio
Concrete Euphoria [Photography]
“Concrete Euphoria” was triggered by my desire to document my country’s relentless drive with construction and reinventing itself. Growing up in Singapore, landscapes in my eyes have become a cycle of erasure and reinvention – the places we see today may drastically change or even cease to exist tomorrow. The inconstant and transient nature of a space as intimate as ‘home’ has created within me a mixture of both euphoria and disorientation.
In creating kaleidoscope-like multiple exposures, the camera takes a step to render familiar places as fantastical and sublime, so that the city may be seen with new eyes. Elements within the cityscape such a streetlights, road signs, buildings intersect to create stark symbols amidst the confusion.
Eng Yee Peng
Diminishing Memories [Film]
Yee Peng graduated from Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia) with a Bachelor of Digital Media Production with First Class Honours. She completed her first documentary- Diminishing Memories in 2005. The film was broadcast on South Korea’s national educational channel (EBS) and Australia’s international television channel (Australia Network) in 2006.
Diminishing Memories won the Best Tertiary Documentary at the Queensland New Filmmakers Award competition in Australia. Also, nominated for Best Documentary at the Asian Festival of First Films, awarded Special Jury Commendation Award in 2005.
Lawrence Abrahamson
OUT-lines [Art]
As a designer with an architectural background, Lawrence Abrahamson is interested in the borders between space, art and experience.
Lawrence’s explorations have led him to develop a methodology of using flagging tape to create temporary site-specific installations. With these installations he aims to reveal a sense of Ma, a “consciousness of place”, to create spaces not necessarily through the built form itself but through the experience of the form.
By highlighting places hidden in the environment, outlining forms already existing in the setting, the invisible becomes visible. Once removed, a lingering residue of the space remains, what he refers to as the retina burn, forever transforming the site in the mind of those who experience it. Lawrence empowers the viewer to see the world slightly differently, to see the spaces between.
Ang Song Ming
From Abba to Zappa [Sound & Art]
Ang Song Ming is a sound artist exploring various intersections between the avant garde and the popular. He holds the dubious honours of inserting Bon Jovi samples into his concerts, and conducting listening parties where audiences revel in guilty pleasures such as Take That.
His exhibitions and performances include: Art is Not Mute (Gothenburg & Uppsala 2008), Singapore Fringe Festival (2007), 100 Days = 100 Videos (Copenhagen 2007 & Heidelberg 2006), SAND Music Festival (Hong Kong 2006), Aqua Art Sound Broadcast (Miami 2005), and International Computer Music Conference (Singapore 2003). Under the name Circadian, he has independently released two EPs of electronic music, Radial and Current.
Ang has written articles on music and aural culture for The Wire, Static (London Consortium), and the Substation Magazine. He was recently awarded the NAC Arts Scholarship (Overseas).
Visit http://www.circadiansongs.com for more.
Perception3
Places, Still and Moving [Photography & Film]
Perception3 is an interdisciplinary art group co-founded by artist/writer Regina De Rozario and art director Seah Sze Yunn in 2007.
Its collaborative practice is currently devoted to exploring the themes of memory and loss, through the examination of relationships encountered between the self and the city landscape.
The group operates on a minimalist aesthetic, be it with still or moving images. It employs the use of places that are empty, but full of time; including within the frame only the barest of details, and rendering them in muted light and shadow.
Through this approach, the group hopes to capture the mundane reality of common city spaces, as well as unearth the poetic dualities that may lie beneath these seemingly austere surfaces.
