tag:peatix.com,2011:1 2021-11-15T10:58:16+08:00 Peatix ArtsEquator tag:peatix.com,2021:event-1765679 2021-01-23T13:30:00SGT 2021-01-23T13:30:00SGT

Is the image of the travelling artist on a journey of discovery an outdated one? In an increasingly socially distanced world, where Zoom is a venue and residencies go digital, what does it mean to be a “local” or “global” artist? This panel, featuring artists Eugene Soh, Alecia Neo and Shubigi Rao, and moderated by curator Zulkhairi Zulkiflee, will interrogate this provocation, re-examining the privilege of travel and the relevance of the globally connected artist. The Burning Questions series was introduced by ArtsEquator in 2020 to ask big questions in the midst of a global crisis. This event is part of Festival Forum: Meeting in Progress. The festival forum is co-curated with National Gallery Singapore as part of Light to Night Festival. Check out the other programmes of the festival forum here.  This programme will also be livestreamed on ArtsEquator and National Gallery Singapore's Facebook page (@artsequator / @nationalgallerysg) and NGS's Youtube page.Speakers Biography Alecia Neo develops long-term projects that involve collaborative partnerships with individuals and communities. Her socially engaged practice unfolds primarily through photography, video, and participatory workshops that address modes of radical hospitality, reciprocity, caregiving, and wellbeing to explore issues of identity and the search for self. Her recent projects include ramah-tamah, Asian Civilisations Museum, a collaboration with the community engagement platform Both Sides, Now, Singapore, (2019-2017); a research project for the Touch Collection, Singapore Art Museum and Between Earth and Sky for Personally Speaking, Objectifs (both Singapore, 2018). She is the co-founder of Brack and Unseen Art Initiatives.Eugene Soh a.k.a. DUDE (b. 1987) is a tech artist. He is the founder of Dude Studios (dude.sg), a creative tech studio focusing on Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality, and Mind Palace (mindpalacevr.org), a social enterprise that uses VR to help dementia patients and nursing home residents revisit fond places and explore the world from the comfort and safety of their chairs, keeping their minds active and slowing the effects of dementia.He grew up as a self-taught computer programmer, tinkering with the latest fun technology when he accidentally became an artist after his photographic piece, contextualizing Da Vinci’s Last Supper in a local hawker centre setting, went viral on social media in 2012. That discovery, with its tongue-in-cheek commentary on contemporary life in Singapore, catapulted him into the art world. Many awards and exhibitions later, he hasn’t stopped creating and tinkering.Shubigi Rao is an atist and writer whose interests include libraries, archival systems, histories and lies, literature and violence, ecologies, and natural history. Her art, texts, films, and photographs look at current and historical flashpoints as perspectival shifts to examining contemporary crises of displacement, whether of people, languages, cultures, or knowledge bodies.Her current decade-long project, Pulp: A Short Biography of the Banished Book is about the history of book destruction and the future of knowledge. The first Pulp volume was shortlisted in 2018, and the second volume won in 2020 the Singapore Literature Prize (creative non-fiction). The first portion of the project, Written in the Margins won the APB Signature Prize 2018 Juror’s Choice Award. Rao has also been featured in March Meets 2019, 4 th Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2018), 10th Taipei Biennial, (2016); 3rd Pune Biennale (2017), Digital Arts Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark (2013); and 2nd Singapore Biennale (2008). She is currently the Artistic Director for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2021.Moderator BiographyZulkhairi Zulkiflee (b. 1991) is an artist-curator committed to a practice centered on Malayness and its social ontology. As a lens-based artist, he has exhibited in Stories We Tell To Scare Ourselves With, MOCA, Taipei (2019), and The Direction I Rub One Matters, Grey Projects (2018). As a curator, he spearheaded co-curated projects like RUANG (2017) and RAID (2018), and was the recipient of Objectifs’ Curator Open Call 2019 for MAT (2019). Additionally, he received the Impart Awards (Curator category) in 2020. He is currently co-organizing The Orchid; The Wasp (2021) as part of Singapore Art Week 2021.

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