Pandemic as Zeitgeist, Opportunity and Muse | Peatixtag:peatix.com,2011:12021-11-15T10:57:56+08:00PeatixArtsEquatorPandemic as Zeitgeist, Opportunity and Musetag:peatix.com,2021:event-17656802021-01-23T15:30:00SGT2021-01-23T15:30:00SGTDecades from now, will we look back on the pandemic as a period of creative growth? While it’s too early to call it a cultural zeitgeist, it has allowed institutions and groups in Singapore to make creative work and gather community in new and experimental ways. Listen and be inspired by new visions and speculations for the future. Moderated by curator Adele Tan from National Gallery Singapore, this roundtable brings together Rupert Thomson from Arts House Limited, curator Tulika Ahuja from multimedia art consultancy MAMA Magnet, Kamiliah Maimon-Bahdar from collaborative project soft/WALL/studs and art production company ARTFACTORY. This roundtable is part of Festival Forum: Meeting-in-Progress. The festival forum is co-curated with National Gallery Singapore as part of the Light to Night Festival 2021. 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 Biographies ARTFACTORY is a full-service Production & Technical Company dedicated to installing art events for intimate spaces to large spaces. Dedicated to craftsmanship, fascinated by ideas and listening closely to the needs and intentions of our collaborators, ARTFACTORY develops new strategies and technologies for art and theatrical events, recognising the importance of supporting the work of an artist. Founded by technical professionals who are dedicated to artistic rigour, technical craftsmanship and digital mediation, ARTFACTORY champions the process of collaboration and research, and is a translator for artists to create technically challenging art and pushing the limitation of possibilities.Kamiliah Maimon-Bahdar has curated numerous exhibitions and projects, including in more recent years Nyanyi Sunyi: Songs of Solitude (2018, Gillman Barracks with Syaheedah Iskandar), State of Motion: Sejarah-ku (2018, Asian Film Archive), and Merayakan Murni ("Celebrating Murni", 2015-2016, Ketemu Projects, Bali). With her current attachment in an educational institution, she is beginning a new cycle in her curatorial practice.soft/WALL/studs is a collaborative project in Singapore composed of several layers, involving several artists, writers, film makers, art workers, and researchers. Its projects include libraries, acts of amplification, hosting, exhibitions, fugitivity, counter-rhythm generation, support, resource gathering, research, writing, detournement, game-making, teaching, collaboration, and maintenance.Rupert Thomson is Head of Artistic Programmes for Arts House Limited. Prior to this (2015-2019) he was head of Performance and Dance activities at Southbank Centre, Europe’s biggest arts centre occupying an 11-acre site in central London. In post he developed the Royal Festival Hall roof as an iconic site-specific performance space, and curated major festivals such as the Festival of Love and Unlimited disability arts festival.From 2011 to 2015 he was Artistic Director at Summerhall, a multi-arts venue in Edinburgh described by the Guardian in 2014 as ‘one of the world’s great arts centres’. Rupert’s programmes have won over 40 major awards, and he has created projects with Oscar-winners (Tim Yip), Nobel Prize-winners (Dario Fo, Peter Higgs), and major artists across theatre, dance, literature, music, and fashion.Tulika Ahuja is a curator focussed on growing access to visual art and culture for the masses. She often finds solutions in collaborations, creative technology and cross-disciplinary experiments. She is the founder of MAMA MAGNET, a multimedia art programming consultancy creating work on accessible themes.MAMA MAGNET was founded to create greater public access to a diversity of art, ideas and perspectives - whether cultural, social or digitally-relevant. Through public programming and counter-culture archiving, we create offline and online encounters for the community to navigate unconventional futures.www.mamamagnet.org | @mama.magnet Moderator BiographyAdele Tan received her PhD in art history from The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London and is currently Senior Curator at National Gallery Singapore. Her research focuses on contemporary art in Southeast Asia and China, with a special interest in performative practices, photography and new media. Her recent projects include the exhibition “Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia, 1960s to 1990s”, the 2019 annual Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission with the artist Charles Lim Yi Yong, and OUTBOUND, a series of large-scale site-specific artwork commissions at the Gallery. She also lectures in the Art History minor programme at the National University of Singapore. She is currently preparing monographic exhibitions on the artists Lin Hsin Hsin, Kim Lim and Teo Eng Seng.Updatestag:peatix.com,2021-01-11 03:49:172021-01-11 03:49:17The event description was updated. Diff#880712Updatestag:peatix.com,2021-01-11 03:37:162021-01-11 03:37:16The event description was updated. Diff#880706