LANDING 2023
To follow the launch of CHECK-IN 2023, the third edition of the annual publication by A&M, we are pleased to announce its accompanying conference LANDING 2023. The title signifies arrival following flight, but it is also the level area between two flights of stairs, where we take a pause to consider how far we have come, and how we are going to move forward.
Things are by all accounts "back to normal", and we have relished boarding planes again to go to places familiar and new, allowing our eyes to travel, and our minds to wander. How do we charge forward when the sky's the limit, while pacing ourselves so we grow sustainably? The conference celebrates the care, creativity and continuity we see in the regional art scene.
Event 1 | Panel: Creative Entrepreneurship: The Ups, The Downs and the In-Between
A&M LANDING Conference in collaboration with MA Arts and Cultural Leadership, LASALLE College of the Arts
11 September 2023, 7pm - 8.30pm
at Lecture Theatre F201 on the LASALLE McNally Campus
Creative entrepreneurs create businesses that offer products and services that serve their communities. What does it take to be a creative entrepreneur, and what keeps them going? Join our panelists as they discuss the ups and downs of building and scaling their businesses, and how they remain consistent while innovating.
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Nina Boldyreva is Co-Founder of Fantasium Group, which, under her direction, has produced artistic immersive shows and exhibitions in Singapore and Europe. She is also the Singapore representative of the DSL Collection, which is among the top five Chinese contemporary art collections in Europe. Nina curates digital art exhibitions and develops creative tech educational programmes for Singapore schools. She holds an MA in Arts and Cultural Management from LASALLE College of the Arts.
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A former architect, Yoko moved to Singapore in 2013 and had a career shift to a visual artist and art therapist after graduating from NAFA and LASALLE. Yoko co-founded FoundSpace as she aspires to promote mental wellbeing to communities and vulnerable individuals through therapeutic arts and art therapy.
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Renée Ting is the founder of the Singapore Art Book Fair (SGABF), an annual festival specialising in contemporary art books & zines. Founded in 2013, SGABF is the first of its kind in Southeast Asia and has now established itself as one of the leading art book fairs in Asia.
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Nadya Wang is Founder and Editor of Art & Market (A&M) and Fashion & Market (FAM). Through these pioneering platforms that strike a balance between the journalistic and the academic, she creates content together with a dedicated team that features practices and processes within the Southeast Asian art and fashion communities respectively. Nadya has been a full-time lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts since 2014. She holds a PhD in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Event 2 | Panel: Creative Labour: The Good, The Bad and the Question Marks
A&M LANDING Conference in collaboration with MA (Arts and Cultural Entrepreneurship), National University of Singapore
2 October 2023, 6.30pm - 8pm
at LT10 on the National University of Singapore Campus
Creative labour usually entails wearing multiple hats, and working as an individual and in a collective. How is creative labour freeing, and in what ways can they be limiting? Join our panelists as they discuss being a part of the creative labour force, overcoming challenges and securing opportunities, and what making this career choice sustainable looks like.
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Berny Tan's interdisciplinary practice explores the tensions that arise when she applies systems to - and unearths systems in - her subjective experiences. As an independent curator, she has developed approaches built on principles of empathy, sensitivity, and collaboration. In 2022, she was awarded the IMPART Art Prize in the curator category.
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Rafi Abdullah is a writer and curator based out of Singapore with interests broadly in contemporary art and the politics of aesthetics. He is also co-founder and core member of the art collective TO NEW ENTITIES.
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Jennifer Yang completed her bachelor’s in art history at the University of Sydney in 2022. Her dissertation was awarded the University Medal and her writing appears in New Mandala, Artlink, and Southeast of Now. Jennifer’s research interests include vernacular photography, migrancy, and transnational and feminist histories.
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Nadya Wang is Founder and Editor of Art & Market (A&M) and Fashion & Market (FAM). Through these pioneering platforms that strike a balance between the journalistic and the academic, she creates content together with a dedicated team that features practices and processes within the Southeast Asian art and fashion communities respectively. Nadya has been a full-time lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts since 2014. She holds a PhD in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Event 3 | Panel: Creative Coordinates:
A Dialogue Between Space and Art
A&M LANDING Conference
28 October 2023, 11am - 12pm
at Art Agenda JKT,
Wisma Geha 4th Floor, Jakarta
The creative process of an artist is similar to a woven tapestry, intricately blending various sources of inspiration, including personal experience, imagination and societal shifts. What is often overlooked is the role of the spaces and locations where these influences converge. In this panel, 2 artists will share how their working spaces inspire and shape their creative outputs.
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Ella graduated from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2015 with the Edward L Ryerson Fellowship Award. Her work is an interpretation of personal experience, poetry, mythology and womanhood expressed through painting and site-specific installation. In the studio she may question, doubt, and become through an intuitive process which is an open conversation. This process of creating moves her between memory and possibility, and her work then reveals its story as she lay out forms, lines, colors and composition. She lives and works in Bandung.
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Ruth Marbun is a visual artist based in Jakarta, Indonesia. She started her career in fashion before shifting into visual arts. Ruth is deeply interested in the connectivity between human beings and also their surrounding environments—their thriving capability for adaptation and survival. She embraces imperfection as fabrication of life, as seen and reflected in textures and deconstruction of figures in her paintings, textiles, drawings, animations and installations. Her works have been featured in Jakarta, Jogjakarta, Singapore, and Australia.
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Nabila Giovanna is Content Manager at A&M. She writes as a way to piece together her scattered thoughts. From writing short pieces on Instagram, she is now trying her hand at writing long-form ones. Alongside writing, she manages content for Art & Market and handles arts-related projects at Art Agenda. Her interests lie in the intersection between art and technology.
Event 4 | Panel: Turning Pages into Purpose: Zines and Publications to Drive Sociocultural Impact
A&M LANDING Conference in collaboration with Fashion & Market (FAM)
28 October 2023, 12pm - 1pm
at Art Agenda JKT,
Wisma Geha 4th Floor, Jakarta
In Southeast Asia, creative practitioners are using self-started publications to communicate ideas and sharing stories dedicated to various topics—from fashion to art to culture. These publications set out to create an impact by stirring up conversations that address sociocultural agendas while providing a platform for creative expression. Join our panelists as they discuss the underlying themes that their publication explores, the issues that prompted them to take action, and the impact their publication creates to drive social and cultural change.
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Tia is an Indonesian researcher, editor and writer exploring cultural diversity and social issues through the creative industries. Her practices are often focused on identity, emotions, memory, decolonisation and borders. Through her narrative-driven works, she finds the connection between the private and public realms of everyday life.
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Wei Ting Wong is a stylist based in Singapore. She is interested in creating slow, thoughtful imagery that expresses new ways of looking at gender and beauty. Her styling work has been published online on 1 Granary and AnOther Magazine.
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Sharrona Valezka is a Jakarta-based fashion media practitioner with a BA (Hons) in Fashion Media and Industries from LASALLE College of the Arts. She is currently Content Manager at Fashion & Market, as well as Project Manager and Designer at Art & Market. Through her work, she hopes to discover and explore new perspectives on Southeast Asian fashion, art, and culture.
