Singapore Fringe Festival '07
hey!The Singapore Fringe Festival is here again, and this year their theme is Art and Disability. They've got some interesting exhibitions at the Singapore Art Museum:
Should I Be in My Bodi? (United Kingdom)
Tim Jeeves
01.02.07 – 04.02.07
Singapore Art Museum (Queen Gallery, 2nd Storey)
Cancer is one of the few words in the English Language that has the power to offend, the power to catch attention, the power to terrify – and the use this piece makes of words in relation to the artist's history with the disease tries to capture some of that power.
By presenting his naked body, its scars and marks of the treatment that has saved his life but left him walking with a stick and prone to crippling bouts of ulcerative colitis, an audience is confronted with a person who has survived cancer but is still feeling its effects and living in its shadow.
Supported by British Council
Reset Button (Japan)
anti-cool a.k.a. Tomoko Takahashi
08.02.07 – 11.02.07
Singapore Art Museum (Queen Gallery, 2nd Storey)
In Japan, it is not unusual to find many people who are too afraid of getting hurt, and who, as a result, choose to live in virtual reality. For instance, adult men fall seriously in love with girlish cartoons characters which appear child-like, albeit with appropriate womanly curves; or people who resort to online matchmaking websites, who realize that since there is no necessity to give their personal information, they do not need real commitment and can erase the relationship whenever they want. She aims to express this “dislocation” from reality in a series of movements.
Supported by the Japan Foundation Kuala Lumpur
The Self Collector (The Netherlands)
Jan Rothuizen
30.01.07 – 11.02.07
Singapore Art Museum (Waterloo Gallery, 2nd Storey)
http://www.janrothuizen.nl
In his works, Jan Rothuizen deals with the image of the 'self' in a blithe, humorous, familiar yet profound manner. He juxtaposes representations that sometimes seem to be at opposing ends or mutually exclusive. Through his investigations and interventions, Jan seeks to embark upon a journey where he is on a personal quest for possible “selves”, At the same time, his works are inquiries upon the way we construct, control and confront our individual images and personas.
Jan will be presenting a series of his previous works such as Somewhere Over the Rainbow and The Self Collector in this exhibition, as well as a special commissioned new work by the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival at the Singapore Art Museum.
For more information, please go to: http://www.nhb.gov.sg/SAM/Exhibitions/UpcomingExhibitions/M1+Fringe+Fest+07.htm
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