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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The Substation is accepting submissions for Open Call 2012. The Substation Open Call programme was first initiated in 2008 to support and realise strongly artistic, critical and rigorous visual arts proposals, and was expanded to include performance in 2010, and sound art in 2011. Selected proposals will be staged or exhibited at The Substation in September 2012. For application details and requirements, please visit the Open Call microsite at www.substation.org/opencall
First Take
Monday 6 February 2012, 8pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: Free (donations welcome)
This is an InHouse event
First Take is a popular monthly screening of new local short films, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. First Take is a platform for new directors, screenwriters, editors, filmmakers and anyone who is interested in filmm to meet, exchange ideas and show their work. Submissions are welcome all year round.
For more information on having your short film screened at First Take, please contact Aishah Abu Bakar, Moving Images Programme Manager: 6337 7535 / aishah@substation.org
See this month’s screening schedule below:
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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/
SubMarket
Sunday 11 March 2012, 12-8pm
The Substation Gallery
This is an InHouse event
Please contact info@blackcarpetclothing.com / 6737 3114 to book a table and register as a seller
SubMarket is a quarterly flea market held every in The Substation Gallery. Stalls selling everything from art, fashion and design, to books, music and crafts. For the latest updates please visit the SubMarket Facebook page: http://facebook.com/submarket
Hantaran Buat Mangsa Lupa (Offerings for the Victims of Amnesia)
By Teater Ekamatra
Thursday 16 – Satuday 18 February 2012, 8pm
Satuday 18 February, 3pm
Admission: $19 available from SISTIC, contact 6348 5555 / www.sistic.com
Performed in Malay with English surtitles
This is an InHouse Event
This event is part of the M1 Fringe Festival 2012: Art & Faith
Hantaran Buat Mangsa Lupa is a trilogy of plays inspired by the three main events leading to the establishment of Islam. Paired with the severely poetic nature of the Malay language, Hantaran offers a dimension that faith excludes and questions. The first two plays – Genap 40 and W.C. – were previously staged to small audiences, and this presentation marks the completion of the trilogy with the premiere of 94:05 alongside the other two. Performed by three talented theatre and TV actors, Sani Hussin, Mastura Ahmad and newcomer Rian Asrudi, Hantaran is a performance not to be missed.
“Expectations of fate and faith are tussled with in language that was both sophisticated in its intellectual curiosity and dramatically poetic.”
- The Straits Times Life! on Genap 40
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Cane
By Loo Zihan
Sunday 19 February 2012, 8pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: $19 available from SISTIC, contact 6348 5555 / www.sistic.com
Rating: R18
This is an InHouse Event
This event is part of the M1 Fringe Festival 2012: Art & Faith
In 1993, Singaporean artist Josef Ng’s performance Brother Cane resulted in a public debate over obscenity in performance art and a subsequent ten-year restriction of the licensing and funding of performance art in Singapore.
Cane by Loo Zihan consists of a re-enactment of Brother Cane based on an eyewitness account by artist Ray Langenbach, a performative lecture reconstructing incidents surrounding the event based on various oral accounts, and pre-filmed segments with individuals involved in Brother Cane and performance art in Singapore. The work seeks not only to commemorate and honour the memory of this performance, but also to explore the possibility of representing performance art, a form often perceived as ephemeral or transient.
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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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The Prayer
By Eng Kai Er
Wednesday 22 – Thursday 23 February 2012, 8pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: $19 available from SISTIC, contact 6348 5555 / www.sistic.com
This is an InHouse Event
This event is part of the M1 Fringe Festival 2012: Art & Faith
The Prayer is a solo dance-theatre performance piece with existentialist questions at its heart. What are we on Earth for? Why should we continue existing? How can we be cheerful, when we have discovered the terrible secret that life is meaningless? These questions are explored but remain unanswered. The quest to find the answers results in a performance piece that is dark, desperate, and yet funny.
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minimART 2.0: Open Call for Participation
Saturday 7 April, 2pm-9pm 2012
Sunday 8 April 10am-6pm 2012
The Substation Gallery
Admission: Free
This is an InHouse event
minimART is a platform for young contemporary artists to showcase and sell their original fine art works ranging from painting, sculpture, and photography, to installation work, performance, and other forms of contemporary art. All works for sale are priced under $1,000.
This event is organised by artists for artists in Singapore! It aims to contribute to the development of local artistic practice, in particular young contemporary artists. It also hopes to plant the seed of art collecting among art enthusiasts with affordable artworks.
To participate, or to find out more, please read below and visit http://www.minimartsg.com/
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Public Logbook of Ideas (2003-2013)
By vertical submarine
Friday 10 February- Sunday 12 February 2012, 12pm-9pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: Free
This is an InHouse event
All texts published in Internationale Situationniste maybe freely reproduced,
translated or adapted, even without indication of origin.
- Notice first appeared on the back of Internationale Situationniste, no. 2, December, 1958.
This project aims to document vertical submarine’s unrealised ideas and failed projects mounted up collectively in a publication format. Apart from ideas listed on the ‘Inventory of Ideas’ (containing both ideas archived, since the group was formed in 2003) the publication will also contain unrealisable ideas and unsuccessful projects to be consolidated from 2011 to 2013.
Comprising three volumes, this book project will feature writings and visual documentations, of which the first volume will be launched and displayed in The Substation Theatre this February. The texts will be presented in various forms – ranging from visual art proposals, notes, poems, short stories, ‘biographies’ and transcripts to immaterial forms such as conversations, rants and dreams. The visual documentations shall include traditional forms like sketches, photographs and readymade images.
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