[R.I.T.E.S. #03-2012]

[R.I.T.E.S. #03-2012]
Rooted In The Ephemeral Speak
Presents Ben Puah (SG), Carlos Llavata (ES), Li Cassidy-Peet (DE), Mariona Vilaseca (ES)
Friday 6 July 2012, 7:30pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: Free
This is an OpenHouse event 

R.I.T.E.S. is an artists-initiative organised as a non-profit event to platform new ideas and artists in sonic art, time-based and performance art-related practices. Its objectives are to present an eclectic mix of performances that are informed by visual aesthetics, technological integration and conceptual integrity involving art-making and the social and cultural contexts that are related to performances. It explores art activities that are spatial, the way in which performance is linked to cultural, ethnic and geographical elements of the body, and at the same time exploring how all these elements can be bound to the global, technological, cultural and economic shifts in our daily life.
Ben Puah

Ben Puah is a new breed of contemporary Asian artists who’s made a huge impact with his energy and vision. A self-confessed mentally “乱七八糟” artist of ‘crazy artworks’, Ben creates shocking and powerful works that refuse to fit into the mainstream. Art is very important to Ben because it is a way of expressing oneself and an abstraction of how he feel about life. His works are like in the state of phantasmagoria where there is a mix of real and imagined elements. At the psychological level, he seemed to suffer from paranoid personality disorder and have a negative view about the world, and is quietly frantic at the same time. This resulted in the penetration of unsettled emotions where his art seems temperamental with an erratic behavior that tells the honest truth to his audience. Ben has exhibited his works in Singapore, Australia, Germany, Japan, USA, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Brazil, London, Malaysia, Abu Dhabi and China. His artwork is in the public and private collections in numerous local and international locations. Ben has also conducted workshops in many schools and art institutions. http://www.benpuah.com/

Carlos Llavata

Visual and performance independent artist. 1983 started art education at the ceramics school of Manises, after he moves to San Francisco and attended SFAI around a year, never officially inscribed, he backs to Spain, and he finished Fine Arts university in Valencia, and later on he graduates at The Gerrit Rietveld Academie of Amsterdam at 2001. He has been made around 90 offcially colectives events (mostly performance) 6 solo shows under Carlos Llavata´s name. He is cooperating with some galleries and projects around the world, Mirta Demare (ARCO 2010) Rotterdam, Art Amsterdam 2011 (Artkitchen Gallery), “Splattered” Golden Threat Gallery Belfast, Sign in Groningen, Zé dos Bois, Lisbon,La Pieza, Madrid, Artpotheek Brussels, Lost Generation Space, Kuala Lumpur, MY, Pensart Madrid, ES http://www.carlosllavata.org/

Li Cassidy-Peet

Li Cassidy-Peet is an artist from London now resident in Singapore since 2005. Born in West Germany, of dual parentage Russian and Montenegrin. She studied Fine Art at Goldsmith’s College, University of London and Theater Studies at NW5 Theater School, London. Cassidy-Peet works in mixed media from performance, installation, sculpture, drawing and slide shows with the use of ready mades, commonly available and industrial materials. Her interest in human behavior/ mind space, can be seen through out all her work practice. In her performances “uncomfortable states of mind” are explored from the biographical to contemporary life. She has shown in London, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Bandung. http://licassidypeet.com

Mariona Vilaseca

Born in Spain 1978, Mariona holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, where she also teaches art currently writing her doctoral thesis, the issue is on the way of pictorial experience and contemplative experience, lead to the same experience, toward unity. She has performed solo and group exhibitions in Europe, South America and also in Singapore last year, during their residence invited by Jason Wee Grey Projects Her work is in private and public collections in different countries, as well as some publications on them. This year, repeated her trip to Singapore to perform along with Kelvin Atmadibrata, an installation in Substation, during days 21 to 28 June. Both artists were part of residency exchange program Initiated by SinCat, a Singapore-Catalan cultural research team, Grey Project, a project space and residency by Jason Wee and Nau Cochlea, a residency space in Catalan by Clara Gari. During this trip the Catalan artist will also participate in the event organized by Art Salon with visual displays of their work and a small performance. http://www.marionavilaseca.com

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