Handsome: IVSG
By RainbowArtsProject
Saturday 6 – Thursday 17 May 2012, 12pm-9pm
The Substation Gallery
Admission: Free
This is an OpenHouse event 
Reception: Friday 4 May, 7:30pm
Handsome: IVSG presents 12 artists exploring representations of gender and masculinity through a collective installation curated by Marla Bendini. The theme ‘handsome’ is inspired by Robert Mapplethorpe’s work, which often pairs objectionable content with some of the most beautiful images in contemporary art.
Handsome: IVSG is presented by rainbowartsproject, a project dedicated to the development of LGBT-related artworks in forms of exhibition, documentation, research and collection. rainbowartsproject recently presented “Queer Creatures” curated by Kelvin Atmadibrata in Supermarket 2012, Stockholm.
There’s Something About Me: Gerald Leow presented by Zaki Razak
Wednesday 16 May 2012, 7:30pm-9.30pm
The Substation Classroom 1
Admission: Free
This is an InHouse event 
zaki razak says…
“Gerald is an apt marginal figure who fits Edward Said’s representation of an intellectual: someone who visibly represents a standpoint of some kind, and someone who makes articulate representations to his public despite all sorts of barriers. The standpoint of some kind refers to the prevalence of colonial ideology that attempts to construct a homogeneous and negative influence on society.”
A self-taught artist in his own right, Gerald Leow’s background in sociology does play a part in his artistic process where situations and behavioural traits of society are critically assessed. In this case, his abiding interest is in questioning the seeming rise of a popular culture and pondering on its demerits.
There’s Something About Me
For the 2nd year of The Substation’s Associate Artist Research Programme (AARP), our current batch of Associate Artists will be inviting emergent artists to present their work in a monthly series of lecture-presentations. An expansion to the AARP, There’s Something About Me is a new platform for our Associate Artists to introduce artists whom they personally believe in, and initiate dialogue and sharing within the artists and public community about their works.
Lecture 8 - The Mad Conferences of Professor Ma:
Photography and Performance V.1.1
By Gilles Massot
Thursday 17 May 2012, 8pm-9.30pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: Free
This is an InHouse event
The Lecher of Art is a series of performance-presentations that revisits ways of exploring the art of speech while ‘lecherously’ engaging the audience. These seemingly fictional, un-assumed and alternative methodologies of speech and presentation contradict the authoritative, anticipated and doctrinal manners in which lectures are conventionally delivered.
The Mad Conferences of Professor Ma
The disciplines of photography and performance have developed an intricate inter-relationship over the course of their respective histories. In fact, it could well be said that each assisted the other in finally attaining acceptance by high art institutions in the later part of the 20th century. In this new edition of his mad conferences, Professor Ma explores the rich interaction of these two disciplines in a two-part presentation of their histories, and their expansion in relation to each other.
Tribal Gathering of Tongue Tasters Featuring Brian O’Reilly & OrkeStar Trio
Saturday 19 May 2012, 8pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: $15 and $10 (concession) available from the box office
Contact Mish’aal 6337 7800 / boxoffice@substation.org
This is an InHouse event
The second season of Tribal Gathering of Tongue Tasters kicks off with a stellar collaboration between OrkeStar Trio and Brian O’Reilly. OrkeStar Trio is an exhilarating supergroup that explores the versatility and context of music in the Malay Archipelago, and Brian O’Reilly, is an audio-visual scientist working in fields such as painting, sound/video installation and electronic/noise music.
These two performers will be in residency at The Substation for two weeks prior to the performance, where they will be collaborating and developing their material. Check out their work-in-progress collaboration in the Random Room during these times: Monday 14 May, 1pm – 7pm; Wednesday 16 May, 3pm – 6pm; Thursday 17 May, 2pm – 6pm.
Tribal Gathering of Tongue Tasters is curated by Bani Haykal. Find out more about the event and the performers below.
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