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Opening Date & Time: Mon 8 Sep 2008, 6.30pm
Date: Tue 9 Sep – Fri 26 Sep 2008
Time: 10am - 6pm daily
Type: Exhibition
Venue: Various venues, LASALLE College of the Arts
Adding a humourous twist to the newly minted theme ‘Wonder’ at the Singapore Biennale 2008, LASALLE’s Faculty of Fine Arts presents various multi-disciplinary works at the exhibition titled NO WONDER. The event consists of exhibitions and performances ranging from a reverberating tectonic sound work to a whimsical rattan satellite dish hanging from the sky bridge, inviting meditation over the real sense of wonderment which may not exist perhaps in the digital world perpetuated with diseases, wars, pollution and racial discrimination.
NO WONDER is curated by Milenko Prvacki, Dean of LASALLE’s Faculty of Fine Arts and brought to you by the following artists and curators -
Performances on Opening Night
Exhibition
Image and Sound
Date: Mon 8 Sep
Time: 6.30pm
Type: Performance
Venue: Earl Lu Gallery (B104), LASALLE College of the Arts
Curated by: Ian Woo, Jeremy Sharma and Andreas Schlegel
Artists: Paviter Singh, Veliana and Zurianah Bte Hashim
Linking sound and projected images, this site-specific performance piece responds to LASALLE’s campus architecture. Featuring the reverberations of amplifiers and speakers from hidden microphones within the gallery, audiences are treated to an unusual visualisation of the sound of the central air-conditioning system through reverberations. A system usually felt yet not heard, the central air-conditioning unit, will make its presence known through a myriad of the sounds which then evokes images from a pinhole to enlarged sized imageries.
How Much Sugar
Date: Mon 8 Sep 2008
Time: 6.30pm
Type: Performance
Venue: Amphitheatre, (below Campus Green), LASALLE College of the Arts
Artist: Sima Salehi
This performance calls for audience engagement as they are asked to participate by pouring sugar over the artist in the performance that aims to combine the elements of facts and myths to raise awareness of the female crisis. The other issues addressed by the artist are of female stereotypes, social and cultural conventions that limit the freedom of women and he distinctiveness of individual identities as well as every woman’s desire to escape conditioning especially in the context of the contemporary Islamic culture in Iran.
Rowing Boats
Date: Mon 8 Sep – Fri 26 Sep 2008
Time: 6.30pm (Opening Night); 10am – 6pm
Type: Installation
Venue: Various venues at Block C & E, Level 1, LASALLE College of the Arts
Artist: Zainuddin Samsuri
Zainuddin Samsuri’s six Rowing Boat sculptures are visual idioms that represent his dialogue between his work, his audience and his thoughts. In an effort to revive Malay idioms as a way to convey messages meaningfully and subtly to his audience, Zainudin stuck a cord with his installations amongst Singapore’s multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multilingual audience. In the context of our society, where one’s aspirations are asked to take a back seat when measured against political and social need for a unified society, the audience is left with nothing but to ponder over the loss of culture.
Don't Worry Mom!
Date: Mon 8 Sep – Fri 26 Sep 2008
Time: 6.30pm (Opening Night); 10am – 6pm
Type: Exhibition
Venue: Praxis Space (H101), LASALLE College of the Arts
Artists: Faculty of Fine Arts students
Curated By: Milenko Prvacki
Don’t worry Mom! is an exhibition that delves into the element of risk artists struggle with coupled with the mechanisms of failure and success. Addressing the artist occupational hazard “You’re only as good as your last success”, this exhibition pays particular attention to the importance of the process of the artwork as opposed to the final outcome as artists display their are interrupted midway through the art process. This exhibition brings together new exhibits as well as a series of works and objects used by the artists in the process of creating their individual pieces of artwork. Appropriately titled, this exhibition pays heed to mothers who worry constantly about the possible failures of their offspring.
Oh No Wonder
Date: Mon 8 Sep – Fri 26 Sep 2008
Time: 6.30pm (Opening Night); 10am – 6pm
Type: Exhibition
Venue: Project Space (G101), LASALLE College of the Arts
Artists: Tay Choon Kok Taiten, Sima Salehi, Nah Yong En, Suhirman B Sulaiman, Micheal Larsson, Yentri Tan, Patrick Storey and Jon Chan
Curated By: Rofan Teo
In Oh No Wonder artists create works of art centralising around themes of the often over-romantised identity of artists in the contemporary world. The works of art are a tongue-in-cheek critique of the artistic means of the production of art. These representations expose the artworks and the artists, demystifying the artistic process and the artist themselves as they lose their often-glorified status of present day “celebrities”.
No Wonder Structure
Date: Mon 8 Sep – Fri 26 Sep
Time: 6.30pm (Opening Night); 10am – 6pm
Type: Installation
Venue: Sky Bridge, LASALLE College of the Arts
Artist: Patrick Storey
Integrating his love for technology and nature, Patrick Storey builds a satellite dish out of materials that are specific and exclusive to Asia such as rattan, cane and bamboo. Suspended from the bridge with aircraft cable, this wonderment of a structure will engage itself with the breeze, in its attempt to mimic and mock the things in life we take for granted. Helping Patrick build this structure are Fine Arts students.
