Content: navigating a point

Exhibition opens on 15 Jan 2010, 7 pm
Venue: SMU T-Junction
Please RSVP by 11 Jan 2010 via email to visual_arts@smu.edu.sg

Exhibition continues:16 Jan – 12 Feb 2010, open daily except public holidays
Venues: SMU Gallery & SMU-ASEAN Artist Residency Studio
Time: 12pm to 8pm

Curated by:
Audrey Wong
Khairuddin Hori

(Above by Dani Iswardana)

Content: navigating a point is the visual arts feature for SMU’s Arts Festival in 2010. Crafted in partnership with our neighbour and contemporary arts centre The Substation, the exhibition highlights are artworks from a selection of nine contemporary artists from Southeast Asia. These artworks were developed after the artists’ participation in SMU’s first ever residency programme, the SMU-ASEAN Artist Residency Programme.

(Left by Rich Streitmatter Tran)

Featuring SMU-ASEAN Artist Residency Programme participants:
Dani Iswardana (Indonesia)
Eko Nugroho (Indonesia)
Rich Streitmatter-Tran (Vietnam)
Som Sutthirat (Thailand)
Shahrul Jamili Miskon (Malaysia)
Kai Lam (Singapore)
Sookoon Ang (Singapore)
Zack Razak (Singapore)
Ming Wong (Singapore)

(Left by Zack Razak)

and SMU student artists:
Joyce Koh Bao Zhu
Ooi Tong Si
Sara Ang Mei Xin
Teng Dong Hao
Ephraim Loy Suan Je
Lin Dingxiang
Daniel Yu Wenjie
SMU FLARE

(Right by Shahrul Jamili Miskon)

Derived from the Latin ‘navigare’ meaning ‘to sail’, to navigate is fundamentally to locate one’s own position against other known locations. In the context of the exhibition, this refers to the artists’ navigation to Singapore which is commonly marked as a dot or a ‘point’ on world maps due to its small size. It also alludes to the artists’ personal negotiations and necessary journeys in achieving various objectives through their art.

Amongst the artists represented at the exhibition are Ming Wong, whose solo installation Life of Imitation at the 53rd Venice Biennale received a Special Mention, Rich Streitmatter-Tran, co-curator of The Mekong at Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane in 2009, and Eko Nugroho, comic book and street artist who is now amongst Indonesia’s pool of internationally prominent contemporary artists.

(Below by Eko Nugroho)