I’m signing up for this for sure…anyone interested?

Courses / Poetry Workshop

Suitable For: Literary Devotees or Admirers of Cyril’s poems.

Cyril Wong will talk and discuss the expectations and controversies involved in creating and publishing poetry. There will be writing exercises, elaborations on style and imagery, as well as potential answers to such questions as Why publish? and Why should I care about what anyone thinks about my poetry? Participants will each write a poem in the class.

• Venue: Random Room
• Fees: $60
• Dates: 8 & 22 March 2008, Saturdays
• Time: 1pm-3:30pm
• Instructor: Cyril Wong

Cyril Wong is the author of several books of poetry and his work has been published in journals and anthologies around the world. He has won the National Arts Council’s Young Artist Award for Literature and the Singapore Literature Prize. He edits the online literary journal, www.softblow.com

Happy Valentines Day guys… =) This song melts my heart so thought I’d share with yall.. Enjoy!

Installation art commission

Installation art commission
by 31.03.2008

 Details: 

I have a beautiful empty space in my shophouse screaming out to be filled with some installation art.

I am in the process of converting my ground floor into a private gallery space with a focus on local Singaporian contemporary art where I intend to use half the space for rotating installation art pieces. I can’t offer the sun and the moon but happy to stump up for materials and modest commission as well as the space to showcase your art (admittedly to a small audience as its my private residence, but with regular parties for the like minded & sometimes well connected or well off it’s an opportunity nonetheless).

If you think this is a great idea and keen to have a go, contact me below telling me a bit about you and your art

 Contact: 

Oliver Bettin, email obettin@mail.com

Corpus Callosum by Michael Snow

Corpus Callosum by Michael Snow

Who: Kenneth Feinstein & Post-Museum

Where: Back Room, Post-Museum. 107+109 Rowell Road

When: 12.02.2008 Tue 08.00pm

What: We are repeating this again as many of you couldn’t make it to the previous screening.

Michael Snow is recognized as one of the most important experimental filmmakers, as well as an accomplished visual artist and musician.

*Corpus Callosum, the film (or tape, or projected light work), is constructed of, de-picts, creates, examines, presents, consists of, and is, ‘betweens.’ Between beginning and ending, between ‘natural’ and ‘artificial,’ between fiction and fact, between hearing and seeing, between 1956 and 2002. It’s a tragi-comedy of the cinematic variables. *Corpus Callosum juxtaposes or counterpoints a realism of normal metamorphosis (two extreme examples: pregnancy, explosions) in believable, ‘real’ interior spaces with ‘impossible’ shape changes (some made possible with digital animation).

Entrance fee: Pay what you want (recommended amt: $5).

This is a private screening with limited seats. So please RSVP.
jennifer@p-10.org

Always Here But Not Always Present: Art in a Senseless World

 Always Here But Not Always Present: Art in a Senseless World

Who: Ho Tzu Nyen, Khiew Huey Chian, Jane Lee, Hazel Lim and Michael Tan, Lim Tzay Chuen, Donna Ong, Ana Prvacki, Sunsook Roh, Zainudin Samsuri, Ian Woo, Joshua Yang, Ye Shufang

Where: Works are located at various sites throughout SMU campus

When: 18.01.2008 Fri 10.00am till 29.02.2008

What: This exhibition features specially commissioned works by 13 local artists and examines the role of art in contemporary society.

In a media-saturated world where we have become anesthetised, due to our experience of the ever-changing myriad of images each day, the exhibition shows us how art can bring us back in touch with our senses and make us feel again. In so doing, it further analyses the social role of art in an imperfect world. And as the title suggests, the site-specific works in the exhibition will also highlight how we do not have to look too far to experience art in our daily lives. That it can always be found around us, if only we take a moment to stop and take notice.

Exhibition walkthrough with curator and artists
Saturday, 26 January 2008, 2.30pm
Meeting point: Singapore Management University, Li Ka Shing Library Level 1, Visitor Centre

*winks* Guess you all know why I’m putting this up yah?