Art & Market Small Rooms (AMSR)
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:
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. Presently, he is an active member of socially-engaged art collective Brack, and is working on conceiving his practice as a long-term endeavour sustained by collaboration, decency, and patience.
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 is currently a primary school art teacher. She works across a variety of media, including printmaking, drawing, painting, collage, fibres and textiles, to explore the mundane in both the urban and natural landscape.
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. Through making social commentary on issues of queer identity within the national rhetoric, Samuel is interested in how art can facilitate empathy, preserve culture, and foster better social interaction.
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:
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.
MIRIAM DEVAPRASANA a 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.
AMAR 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. This clash in values and doctrines shaped his uniquely Southeast Asian narrative.
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.
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.
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. She holds a MA in Art Management and Curating from Richmond, The American International University in London.
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.
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.
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’.
Open Call for Artists (Closed)
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We have loved featuring and interacting with emerging artists through our long-running A&M Fresh Faces series, and are heartened to hear from aspiring artists that the interviews have helped them to figure out their start in the industry, such as sustaining a studio practice, proposing and executing an exhibition, establishing connections with others in the community, and general multi-tasking!
We would like to invite emerging – and aspiring – artists to apply for a new programme we are calling Art & Market Small Rooms, or AMSR (not to be confused with ASMR!). The inaugural AMSR series will feature three presentations in Singapore, hosted both in a physical small room in the city and in a digital small room on artandmarket.net.
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Artist fee of SGD500
Production, administration, publicity, art handling and transportation costs will be covered based on individual proposals
Two group workshops in January to refine the artist bio and the artist statement, prepare for the solo exhibition, put together a press kit and more
Two individual consultations in February to finalise all the details of the exhibition
A presentation lasting two weeks in February or March in a physical small room in Singapore, and indefinitely in a digital small room on artandmarket.net
Listing of AMSR artworks on A&M Marketplace, with half of the sale proceeds going to the artist
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Please propose a solo exhibition of 5 to 8 artworks. The works can be in any medium, and we welcome interdisciplinary bodies of work. Submissions can be made with existing artworks, yet to be realised artworks or a mix of both. Do keep in mind the timeline when proposing to produce new artworks. A note that there is no obligation for all of the works in the exhibition to be put up for sale on A&M Marketplace.
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Artists or artist collectives residing in Singapore who have not held a solo exhibition before. Students are welcome to apply. There is no age restriction.
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To submit, please complete the Google Form here. The closing date is 22 December 2021. Selected artists will be notified by 29 December 2021.
Open Call for Writers (Closed)
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A&M is holding an open call for writers for our inaugural Art & Market Small Rooms (AMSR) series! Since the start of 2021, we have been working with three selected artists for AMSR: Jevon Chandra, Khor Ting Yan and Samuel Xun. They will each put up an exhibition in a physical small room in Singapore, and a digital small room on artandmarket.net in March 2022.
We would like to invite early-career writers to respond critically and creatively to both physical and digital exhibitions of AMSR, from writing previews and reviews to composing poems or other forms of literary responses.
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A writer’s fee of SGD150
An opportunity to meet with the artists to talk about the artworks in AMSR
Mentorship from the editor
Publication of writings in the digital small rooms of AMSR
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Please submit a written response (preview, review, poem, short story etc.) to any exhibition or event relating to Southeast Asian art of a maximum of 800 words. This means it can be shorter than 800 words, and it can be an existing piece of writing. It is okay if it has been published before. The response is for us to select writers to eventually respond to AMSR.
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Writers with an interest in responding critically to Southeast Asian art. There are no age and geographical restrictions.
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To submit, please complete the Google Form here. The closing date is 25 February 2022. Selected writers will be notified by 4 March 2022.
We look forward to your applications!
If you have any questions, please contact us at info@artandmarket.net.
