Let's talk about (what we) SAW
Let’s talk about (what we) SAW was a two-part forum in response to Singapore Art Week 2022, organised by MA Arts and Cultural Leadership programme at LASALLE College of the Arts in partnership with A&M.
The MA Arts and Cultural Leadership programme at LASALLE College of the Arts, in partnership with A&M, is organising a two-part forum, ‘Let’s talk about (what we) SAW’ in response to Singapore Art Week 2022.
The first event is a panel discussion taking place on 2 March 2022 (Wednesday), from 6pm to 7.30pm. The speakers are Helmi Yusoff, Jeffrey Say and Wong Binghao, with moderation by Nadya Wang.
The second event, taking place a week later on 9 March 2022 (Wednesday), from 6pm to 7.30pm, will feature a series of lightning presentations by tertiary students and recent graduates. If you would like to participate in this, scroll down for details of the open call!
Both gatherings will take place as Zoom webinars, and include Q&A segments with the audience.
PART ONE | Panel Discussion
Speakers:
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Helmi Yusof is the Deputy Editor (Lifestyle) of financial daily The Business Times. Prior to this position, he was the newspaper’s Senior Arts Correspondent from 2012 to 2018, covering mostly visual arts, theatre and cinema. He’s also contributed to online publications such as Plural and Arts Equator. Other positions he’s held include News Director (2008 – 2012) at Razor TV, and film and theatre journalist (2000 – 2005) at The Straits Times.
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Jeffrey Say is an art historian specialising in Singapore and Southeast Asian art history. Say has been instrumental in the development of art history studies at LASALLE College of the Arts. In 2009, he designed the world’s first Master’s programme focussing on Asian modern and contemporary art histories. He is currently its programme leader. Say is a public advocate of the importance of art history to Singapore and a regular commentator of the local art scene. He is a frequent public speaker at museums, universities and galleries, and conducts short courses which remain hugely popular among various publics. As a researcher, Say has done pioneering work on pre- and post-war sculpture in Singapore. His co-edited book, Histories, Practices, Interventions: A Reader in Singapore Contemporary Art (2016), remains a critical anthology for researchers, curators and students on Singapore contemporary art. The second volume on Singapore modern art is due to be published in the middle of 2022.
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Wong Binghao eclectically constellates and mediates ideas, scenes, and devotions. They generate contextually specific, conceptually capacious, and emotionally available readings and experiences of art in the hope of more expansive, ethical worlds. They are currently C-MAP Asia Fellow for the Museum of Modern Art.
Moderator:
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Nadya Wang is Editor at A&M, a multimedia platform presenting specialist content on Southeast Asian art, with a focus on artistic, curatorial and business practices. In 2021, she launched sibling site Fashion & Market (FAM), which explores the interdisciplinary practices within the Southeast Asian fashion community. She is interested in profiling underrepresented work, and conceptualising projects to demystify and encourage endeavours in the regional art and fashion communities. Nadya is also a lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts.
PART TWO | Lightning Presentations
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Nurshafiqa is a first-year BA(Hons) Arts Management student at LASALLE. With a background in live technical production, she has been freelancing as an audio technician since 2015 for live productions such as the annual National Day Parade and the St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival. She aspires to be an artist manager in the future.
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Teck Lim is a visual artist whose primary mediums are photography and moving images. He has been a photographer in the commercial and fashion industries for more than 15 years. He has also been lecturing and teaching photography at the tertiary level for students at LASALLE and ITE since 2018. In recent years, Lim has ventured more into the realm of fine arts. He is currently a first-year MA Fine Arts student at LASALLE.
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Stellah Lim is an arts practitioner and educator. She is actively involved in community arts engagement projects, such as Silver Arts Festival, and Arts@SAFRA Toa Payoh and Arts@Macpherson by Participate in Design. She has taught at LASALLE, Ministry of Education, Nanyang Polytechnic and Tembusu College. Her works have been featured on both local and international platforms and in publications such as Lianhe Zhaobao. She is currently taking her Masters in Arts and Cultural Leadership at LASALLE.
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Danson Kok is a third-year Media Art student at the School of Art, Design and Media in Nanyang Technological University. As a filmmaker, he is inclined towards directing, screenwriting and editing. He also plays music in a band and dabbles in other forms of visual art in his free time.
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Kristi graduated with a BA in Comparative Literature from Cornell University last year. There, she played and performed with an experimental music ensemble and published several poems in a university publication. She is interested in recovering deeper meaning from collaging text, sound and print media. She was part of the Noise Music Mentorship in 2015.
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Ni Molin is a first-year BA(Hons) Arts Management student at LASALLE. With a background in theatre production management, she hopes to explore other aspects of events management and artist management.
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Natasha Lin is a first-year BA(Hons) Arts Management student at LASALLE. She previously worked as a project manager and web designer in the marketing industry, with a particular focus on corporate branding.
Moderator:
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Audrey Wong is the Programme Leader of the MA Arts and Cultural Leadership course at LASALLE. She was formerly Artistic Co-director of independent art space The Substation and was Singapore’s first Nominated Member of Parliament for the arts. She was a board member of the Singapore Art Museum and a council member of the National Arts Council, and is currently on the board of non-profit theatre company Nine Years Theatre.
Open Call for Lightning Presentations [Closed]
This is an open call for the series of lightning presentations taking place on 9 March 2022 (Wednesday) from 6pm to 7.30pm, each lasting no more than 8 minutes.
To apply, please submit a proposal of a maximum of 300 words that outlines a critical response to Singapore Art Week (SAW) 2022.
Applicants are encouraged to be creative in expressing what they experienced at SAW 2022. Possibilities include but are not limited to a presentation with slides, a performance, video and animation. These can be presented live or as pre-recordings, and by individuals, pairs or groups.
The most original, creative and coherent proposals will be selected for presentation at the forum. Do note that A&M will record the session and publish it along with a summary of the discussion.
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The response can be rooted in any relevant disciplinary practice, such as one's own artistic practice, art history, cultural studies, visual culture, arts management and cultural policy, sociology, urban studies etc. Responses can be reflections on curatorial themes, artistic work, the locations where SAW took place, the position of SAW vis-a-vis Singapore's visual art ecosystem, arts development or Singapore's cultural policy, audience outreach and engagement, innovativeness etc.In your application, do include a 50-word biography, including your arts experience, if any.
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Applicants should be either a tertiary student or have graduated less than a year from a tertiary institution. There are no age limits.
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To submit, please complete the Google Form here. The deadline for applications is 2pm (GMT+8) on 28 February 2022. Selected applicants will be notified by 2 March 2022.
We look forward to your applications!
If you have any questions, please contact us at info@artandmarket.net.