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/
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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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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Spatial Conflicts By Insoon Felch
Upcoming Solo Exhibition and Art Prize 2011 – 2012
Thursday 1 – Thursday 10 March 2012, 12pm-9pm
The Substation Gallery
Admission: Free
This is an OpenHouse event
InSoon Felch, originally born in South Korea, received her MFA in painting/sculpture at Western Michigan University in 2000. Her most recent works incorporate sculptural elements into painted works, transforming not only the outer appearance of these pieces, but also the fundamental structure of her canvas-shaped paintings. InSoon’s installations are often suspended from the ceiling and incorporate materials such as metal, canvas, paper, silk, fabric and sawdust.
Although primarily non-objective and non-representational, she considers her work to be an intensely subjective response to the various aspects of the painterly reality around her: lines, colors, figures, and shapes. InSoon has been traveling to museums and galleries around the world for nearly 20 years. Recently she has exhibited her works in France, the United Kingdom and Denmark.
The Rail Life
By The Rail Life Co.
Friday 3 – Sunday 5 February, 12pm-9pm
The Substation Gallery
Admission: Free
This is an OpenHouse Event
A showcase of ‘renewed life’. This is an exhibition of Functional ART Furniture recycled from 400 year old Australian railway sleepers. Inspired by the life of trees, their grandeur, and their dignified purpose in having been part of our railway systems for over a century. This is a showcase of the ability to reclaim, reuse and recreate historical wood into beautiful and functional art pieces that can exist for many more decades to come. The exhibition also aims to raise awareness about conservation and deforestation.
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Performance in Frames: Video Mobiles
Friday 13 – Thursday 26 January, 12pm-9pm
The Substation Gallery
This is an InHouse event
Reception: Friday 13 January, 7pm
Performance in Frames: Video Mobiles is an exhibition of performance art specifically made for film. Performance Art is typically defined as a genre that has to be experienced spatially and in real time, with all our senses. However, we often end up viewing performances which have been recorded or documented as videos, or photographic stills.
This exhibition is about artists who create performances for the camera, not as documentation, but as works of art. It explores the extent to which various forms of performance influence the subject, content and presentation of art. Investigating the differences between video art, moving images, live performance art which is recorded, and performances made specifically for celluloid, this exhibition will highlight the similarities and differences between these distinct, yet related, modalities.
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Nanyang and Tipsy Series: A Solo Exhibition
By Fern Min Eng
Saturday 7 – Thursday 12 January 2012, 12pm-9pm
The Substation Gallery
Admission: Free
This is an OpenHouse event
Reception: Saturday 7 January 2012, 2pm
Featuring mixed-media paintings and ceramic works, this exhibition reflects the spirituality of both the painting and the painter. The combination of colours and ceramics allows the physical form to strengthen its visual impact, often combining the beauty of both elements to convey the fate of a woman as the symbolic conduit for the birth of life, strength, spirituality and as a source of seductive temptation.
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La Carte de Tendre revisited
By Andrée Weschler and Lynn Lu
Performance: Tuesday 6 December, 7pm / Exhibition: Wednesday 7 – Sunday 11 December 2011
The Substation Theatre
Admission: Free
This is an InHouse event
La Carte de Tendre was a French map of an imaginary land called Tendre produced in the 17th Century. It depicts the “geography of love” according to the Precieuses of that era: the River of Inclination flows past the villages of “Billet Doux” (Love Letter), “Petits Soins” (Little Trinkets), and intrepid travelers brave the dangers of “Le Lac d’Indiference” (Lake of Indifference). The villages, roads, and topographic features in this allegorical representation trace the myriad facets of love and its associated perils. Lynn Lu and Andrée Weschler are revisiting the map of love and will propose a new reading of the Carte of Tendre with video installation and performances art.
Read an interview with Andree Weschler here
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Constant Conflict
By Philippa Killen
Wednesday 16 to Monday 28 November 2011, 12pm-9pm
The Substation Gallery
Admission: Free
This is an OpenHouse event
There will be a special vernissage from 6:30 to 9pm on 16 Nov 11 – opening day
Painted surfaces become victims of an artist’s restless search for the essential thing that (s)he, and only (s)he, is able to say. Original works are broken down and intuitively taken to the edge of destruction, there to be rendered porous and abstract. While the paintings retain whispers and shadows of their former selves they re-emerge as vibrant and varied in terms of colour, sensitivity and formal concept.
By painting and un-painting is she negating reality or revealing one that is concealed?
Working in oils, sourcing from selected literature and nature, the artist draws on Northern Romanticism in terms of landscapes recalled, and passing from solid state to the ethereal.
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