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From Lorong Gambas to Ninmanheamin 2012
By Zai Kuning
Saturday 4 February 2012, 4pm-8pm
The Substation Random Room
Admission: Free
This is an OpenHouse event 
This is a pop-up exhibition of drawings from Zai Kuning’s latest exhibition, From Lorong Gambas to Ninmanheamin 2012. All works will be on sale, with prices ranging from $200-$500. For more information about the original exhibition, read TODAY journalist Mayo Martin’s review here: http://blogs.todayonline.com/forartssake/2012/02/01/the-stateless-affairs-of-zai-kuning/
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Building as a Body
Commissioned by Singapore Art Museum, as part of The Singapore Show 2012: Future Proof
By Grace Tan and Randy Chan
Until Wedneday 28 March 2012
The Substation Façade
This is an InHouse event 
There will be a party on Thursday 2 February 2012, 8pm to celebrate the installation of Building as a Body
Building As a Body is an art installation by Grace Tan and Randy Chan. The installation is a veil, composed of a matrix of dots and lines which envelope the entire façade of the building. The Substation is personified, and the veil articulates the opposing and yet inter-connecting themes of concealing and revealing.
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Goddess of Mercy
By Alecia Neo with Clarence Chung
Wednesday 15 – Sunday 26 February 2012, 11am-7pm
The Substation Gallery
Admission: Free
This is an InHouse Event
Two families. Four faiths. Visual artist Alecia Neo and sound artist Clarence Chung bring forth an art installation about love and faith, and how each needs the other in order to survive.
In a huge rustic house in upper Bukit Timah lives Tan Ying Hsien and his mother Dr Nalla Tan. Nalla suffers from Alzheimer’s disease and her condition has deteriorated to the point whereby she is a stranger even to herself. While Dr Tan was an active member of church, her youngest son Ying Hsien calls himself agnostic, and unconvinced about life after death. In a shophouse unit in Queenstown lives the Neo family. Filled with books about Buddhism and cooking, it reveals Mdm Tay Siew Hwa’s areas of specialties. After being diagnosed with breast cancer, she devotes more time to self-study about her religion and life after death, while undergoing chemotherapy. Her oldest son Alex Neo, builds his own shrine of beliefs with religious pendants and symbols from Thailand.
Guests are invited to participate and witness rituals of healing. Photography and soundscape installations will evoke the range of emotions experienced by the mothers (Alzheimer’s sufferer and Cancer patient) in trying to reach out emotionally to their sons, as well as the abstract phenomena of how religion functions.
This exhibition is part of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2012: Art and Faith.
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