Notebook Vol. 1 – Begin

Saturday 29 May to Saturday 19 June
Curated by chin
Opening night: Thursday 27 May, 7.30pm
The Substation Gallery
Gallery hours: 12pm to 9pm (Closed on public holidays)
Presented by AlsOdoMinie, a specialist printer
Venue supported by The Substation

The notebook represents an empty canvas – a blank slate to fill with vast imagination, ideas and inspiration. Presented by AlsOdoMinie, 8 creatives from different creative disciplines have collaborated with the specialist printer to design notebooks.

Grace Tan (artist), Teo Ying Hui (fashion designer), Zul Mahmod (sound artist), Mark Lim (photographer), Louis Lam (graphic designer), Dean Chew (architect), Jeremy Hiah (artist), and Xhin (DJ) will individualize notebooks using AlsOdoMinie’s printing, binding and paper resources.

These notebooks will form into a large-scale sculpture to be exhibited at The Substation Gallery. A structure stacked from notebooks, the audience-turned-consumer is invited to change the form of the structure by displacing, replacing, moving or taking away the notebooks in an interactive process.

Limited edition copies of the notebooks will be available for sale during the exhibition.

An open-call to students (above the age of 18) will also see two winners participating alongside the 8 creative participants in Notebook Vol. 1.

Artwork submissions can be sent to notebookbegin@yahoo.com.sg.

Notebook artists

Dean Chew
An architect, illustrator and DJ, Dean works with his partners at FURR associates on a wide array of projects, ranging from residential, mixed use, F & B, hospitality to revitalising urban spaces.

A certain sense of quirkiness and context is always applied into each and every facet of his work.

Grace Tan
Grace Tan is a multi-disciplinary practitioner specializing in the area of wearable and spatial structures. With a formal training in fashion design, Grace started the label Kwodrent as a design platform for research and application, seeking to question and redefine the relationship between body and space while focusing on the transformative aspect of form, function and meaning. Her experimentations lead to new landscapes that blur the lines between fashion, fine art, architecture, mathematics and sound.

Jeremy Hiah
Jeremy Hiah’s body of work is always centred on the social system – where and how one lives in a society. He has explored different art mediums and has collaborated with artists of diverse fields. Involved in the arts since 1993, he has participated and held art residencies in Germany, Italy, Indonesia, Australia, South Korea, Thailand and China, including the Hong Kong Art Centre, Vietnam Contemporary Art Centre, and Austria for the UNESCO Artists-in-Residency program.

Louis Lam
A creative at wünderkammer, Louis Lam produces ad campaigns, brand identities, packaging solutions, editorial design as well as store interiors. Involuntarily interjecting his concepts with subjects of musical and sentimental influences, the end product translates and embodies more of an experience than anything tangible. In the words of Dieter Rams; “Good Design is as little as possible”.

Mark Lim
Mark lives and works in Singapore. He graduated from Parsons School of Design in New York with a BFA in fine art photography. Mark has since been involved in creating images for fashion and makes personal work whenever time allows. Mark is currently confused with what art is, so for right now let’s just say he takes pictures, makes videos and builds dioramas and installations. Mark also thinks it is quite strange to write in the third person.

Xhin
Xhin (pronounced as “sheen”) has been crafting ominous cuts of cutting-edge electronic music since 1997. Building a forte in sound design, he is best described as a sound futurist. His identical rhythmic structure and compositional techniques which incorporate elements of techno, tight sub bass, ambient and IDM delivers a hint of chaotic soundscape amidst artistry. One will find Xhin’s work mind-blowing as it hinges on tomorrow’s cutting edge creations. Simply put, it’s an aural feast for one’s mind.

Zul Mahmod
Zulkifle Mahmod (b. 1975) is at the forefront of a generation of sound-media artists in Singapore’s contemporary art development. Adopting a multi-disciplinary/multi-genre approach, that also include drawings, prints, sculptures and ready-mades, Zul has exhibited in Singapore, Thailand, Germany, Japan, Vietnam, Moscow, China, Malaysia, Taiwan, Norway and Finland. His “Stilt” series forms part of The Swissotel Stamford Singapore’s permanent art collection. Zul is also involved in creating sonic workshop for students locally and internationally.

Teo Ying Hui
Ying Hui’s fashion label, demisemiquaver, is based on an ideology to create endlessly and to seek perceptivity for each finished product. Each collection is evoked by something the designer feels for and breathes for. The garments are not just a sheath, they represent a conviction for creation and the belief that no clothes should just be an empty shell.