Art & Market Small Rooms (AMSR)
AMSR (Art & Market Small Rooms) is an Open Call for three solo exhibitions presented by A&M in Singapore.
AMSR | Artists
Art & Market (A&M) is pleased to launch Art & Market Small Rooms (AMSR), which celebrates distinct practices of emerging artists and writers. The inaugural AMSR series comprises three pairs of digital and physical small rooms, each showcasing new and existing artworks by Singapore artists Jevon Chandra, Khor Ting Yan and Samuel Xun, who were selected from an open call in December 2021.
Taking after our long-running A&M Fresh Faces series, the AMSR initiative has offered group workshops and individual consultations with the artists about refining the artist website and artist biography, preparing for the AMSR presentations, placing artworks for sale, and putting together a press kit. As knowledge on these topics is not widely available, A&M aims to help emerging artists begin their careers through these educational sessions. AMSR culminates in an online and physical presentation of three small rooms, which were refined and discussed throughout the programme
Selected artists:
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Jevon Chandra is an interdisciplinary artist and designer. Through time and context-bound installations and interventions, his projects estimate the interplays between moments of doubt and belief, as present in acts of care, love, and faith. As sound and multimedia designer, his work also extends into collaborations in the performing and media arts.
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Khor Ting Yan is a Singaporean artist and art educator. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Emphasis in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Education from National Institute of Education, Singapore. She works across a variety of media, including printmaking, drawing, painting, collage, fibres and textiles.
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Samuel Xun is a multidisciplinary artist based in Singapore. His practice explores emblems of culture and identity, often centred around themes of emotion and cognition, aestheticism, and queerness. His work includes soft-sculpture installation, textile compositions, and graphic art informed by film, culture, and personal narratives.
AMSR | Writers
As part of AMSR, early-career writers from the region were also selected from an open call in February 2022 to respond critically and creatively to the small rooms, from writing previews and reviews to composing poems or other forms of literary responses.
We have selected 9 writers, who will each respond to the AMSR of one artist. They are Jonathan Chan, Miriam Devaprasana and Amar Shahid for Jevon Chandra, Louise Crocker, Kristi Lim and Elizabeth Low for Khor Ting Yan, and Sean Wang, Wong Kar Mun Nicole and Adinda Yuwono for Samuel Xun.
All nine writers will first respond to the digital iteration of AMSR, and their written works will be uploaded within the digital small rooms.
Selected writers:
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Jonathan Chan is a writer editor, and graduate student at Yale University. Born in New York to a Malaysian father and South Korean mother, he was raised in Singapore and educated in Cambridge, England. He is interested in questions of faith, identity, and creative expression. His writing has appeared with Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Entropy Magazine, and The Foundationalist.
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Miriam Devaprasana is a writer, researcher, and dabbler of creative expressions. By day, she researches language use in a UNESCO World Heritage Site; by night, she writes about what she observes and feels: the things that break and build, those which inspire and restore – the delicate balance of all things which make us human. She has written for religious publications and on BASKL.
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Amir Shahid is a practising artist specialising in linguistics and multi-disciplinary arts. Working in both conventional and experimental media, he focuses on the intricacies of socio-linguist history concerning the Southeast Asian social and cultural sphere. He reflects on the conflicts of cultures and their ecosystems with personal anecdotes on his Malaysian hometown’s vernacular and conservative educational background.
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Louise Crocker is a Hong Kong-based arts writer who reviews exhibitions and cultural events for her upcoming blog, Culture Gatto. She has held various arts-related roles in Hong Kong and the UK. Her most recent role is with the Hong Kong branch of an international cultural communications agency. Louise has an MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she received an AHRC scholarship and a BA in Art History from the University of Nottingham.
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Kristi Lim studied comparative literature/linguistics at Cornell University, where she wrote an opinion column for the school paper, published several poems and played in an experimental music ensemble. She is interested in linear (sound/text) and nonlinear (visual) collage forms as mechanisms to retrain perception.
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Elizabeth Low is an emerging art professional based in Malaysia. She is currently an independent curator and writer who has written professionally for art exhibitions and art festivals. She has an interest in themes of access and inclusion within the Southeast Asian narrative and is a founding member of the new online art platform, In Transit.
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Sean Wang is a prospective English major waiting to start university. When he is not reading, writing or editing, he spends his time searching for the best matcha lattes. Originally a notes app poet, he is now exploring notes app flash fiction and essays. His writing has appeared in Rattle, Capsule Stories, Dismantle and others. He is interested in the articulation of suffering and the mythologisation of the personal.
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Wong Kar Mun Nicole is an arts practitioner, educator, and academic. Her work is concerned with the fluidities of identity and intimacy as they expand across borders, boundaries, and any other lines that are drawn in between. She writes for reflection, discovery, and sometimes, pleasure.
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Adinda Yuwono is a writer and arts manager living and working in Jakarta, Indonesia. Her written work ranges from translation to short stories, essays, and poetry. Death and its marks on the living have always become the main subject in her work. Adinda published her first poem in the anthology Puandemik (Jual Buku Sastra) in 2021. Her poetry will also appear in the forthcoming Whiteboard Journal Open Column 3.
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