In Artversation, Art Fair Philippines 2022, Total Eclipse Plumage and more
By Woong Soak Teng

In Artversation

As part of an educational program exploring art and sustainability, Warin Lab Contemporary launches ‘In Artversation’, a series of podcasts featuring individuals from the Southeast Asia contemporary art ecosystem. Hosted by its founder Sukontip Nakasem, the inaugural episode projects into trends and possibilities of the future with Richard Koh and Nadya Wang. In the upcoming second episode, Nakasem dives into the impact of NFTs with Tom Tandio, Shane Suvikapakornkul and Pongpan Suriyapat. Look forward to more discursive topics in future episodes, such as the role of art in shaping culture and society and collecting practices.

Click here to listen to the first episode, ‘2022 Future Forecast’.

NFP Non-Fungible People, ‘KOMOREBI: (KO)LLECTIVE - (MO)BILE - (RE)SPONSIVE - (BI)OMIMICRY’, 2021. Image taken from www.goethe.de/prj/csc/en/phase-2/tracing-latencies.html.

Tracing Latencies Online Activations

Curated by Dr Hoe Su Fern, ‘Tracing Latencies’ is a hybrid group exhibition that invites the audience to pause, contemplate and (re)imagine the conditional ways we relate to our increasingly digitalised urban environments and each other. The month-long programme includes a series of digital artworks by regional artists such as NGP Non-Fungible People (Malaysia) and Fariz Fadhlillah (Indonesia), as well as online activations including a Facebook livestream event presented by Evening Chants, ’Kin Leonn & onguyot live at Tracing Latencies’.

Click here to watch the digital activations.

Jeremy Couillard, ‘Voluntary Associations’, 2020, HD video, 00:03:50. Image courtesy of the artist and Daata.

Art Fair Philippines 2022

Returning with 46 exhibitors from the Philippines and beyond, Art Fair Philippines 2022 presents artworks via online viewing rooms, along with physical showcases at Ayala Triangle Gardens and in gallery venues. #ArtFairPH Metaverse includes virtual exhibits, talks, open studios, and online tours. Join the Gallery Walkthrough on 23 and 24 March, tune in to daily discussions on Zoom about art collecting, advice for artists, video games as performance art and more. A special collaboration with J Studio and ceramicist Pablo Capati culminates in a three-part series of pottery demos titled ‘Conversations on Clay’ with Jezzel Wee, Marco Rosario, Ella Mendoza, Krista Nogueras, Jon Pettyjohn and Joey de Castro. Look out for A&M Content Producer Vivyan Yeo's preview of the fair next week.

Take part in the fair digitally here. Art Fair Philippines 2022 runs from 23 March to 1 April 2022.

Hanna Pettyjohn, K/C ii, 2019, oil on canvas, 30.48 x 40.64cm. Image taken from www.silverlensgalleries.com.

Resonant Earth: Digital Walkthrough

Accompanying an exhibition ‘Resonant Earth’ curated by Carlos Quijon, Jr., Silverlens organised a digital tour and live Q&A with the artists and curator. Inspired by a 1961 essay by painter Fernando Zobel de Ayala titled ‘The First Philippine Porcelain’, the exhibition explores the possibilities of contemporary ceramics in extrapolating a cosmopolitan and modernist history of craft. Following a pre-recorded walkthrough, the curator was joined by artists Joseph Gabriel, Hanna Pettyjohn and Pam Quinto for a lively conversation.

Watch the Digital Walkthrough here.

Ryan Benjamin Lee and nor, ‘Under Your Spell’, 2022. Image courtesy of Monzoom.xyz.

Total Eclipse Plumage

Monzoom.xyz brings together twelve Singaporean and Singapore-based artists to explore notions of identity, translocal histories, pop culture, and the unraveling of often private emotions and intimacies through the modern phenomenon of karaoke. Newly commissioned artist videos will premiere daily online between 21 to 26 March, and an online viewing party will take place on 27 March at 8pm SGT. The artists include Kai and Xafier Yap, Ryan Benjamin Lee and nor, Stephanie Jane Burt and Elsa Wong, Kenneth Constance Loe and Farizi Noorfauzi, Weixin Quek Chong and Aran Atsuo, Phoo Myet Che and Aqid Aiman.

Stay tuned for the video premieres here and register for the online viewing party here.

Nurul Huda Rashid, ‘Women in War’. Image courtesy of Nurul Huda Rashid.

Image, Data, Actor: Unpacking Images of Muslim Women

T:>Works’ PerForm features its third fellow, artist-researcher-writer Nurul Huda Rashid in a digital lecture which introduces and plots her engagement with visual representations of Muslim women from the daguerreotype to data. Moderated by T:>Works’ Artistic Director Dr. Ong Keng Sen, the Zoom session will combine a decade worth of photographic, annotative, and participatory research focused on images and narratives, visual and sentient bodies, feminisms, and the intersections between them.

Register here for the digital lecture taking place on 31 March, 8pm SGT.