Let's Get Into Digital (Nov - Dec)
STPI, The Asia Society, BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY and more
By Woong Soak Teng
Jason Wee, ‘Reciprocal Test Circuit #1’ (front), 2020/21, digital print on paper, reassembled postcards, 12 x 18cm. Image courtesy of the artist and STPI.
STPI Fundraiser 2021: Silent Auction
STPI - Creative Workshop & Gallery presents a special selection of contemporary artworks donated by artists and galleries including Gajah Gallery, Mizuma Gallery and Yavuz Gallery. The silent auction is a fundraising effort to support hands-on workshops for STPI Open House 2021 in educating the public about printmaking techniques, as well as for 50 participants from social service centres in gratitude for their contributions to the community. STPI has partnered with art collectors Jim Amberson and Lourdes Samson, who will each host an auction experience in groups of five. Participants can expect an enjoyable evening around food, conversations and art alongside a surprise STPI artist.
STPI – Creative Workshop & Gallery, 1 to 30 November 2021. Take part in the fundraiser here.
Image courtesy of the MMCA.
Watch and Chill: Streaming Art to Your Homes
In an effort to explore new methods of exchange among institutions, artists and audiences in our socially-distanced times, ‘Watch and Chill’ is a collaboration among four museums to present a line-up of moving image artworks from Asia. It is co-curated by Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) in Manila, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, in Seoul, the M+ West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, and MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum in Chiang Mai. Featuring over 20 films across four sub-topics, ‘Things in My Living Room’, ‘By the Other Being’, ‘Community of Houses’ and ‘Meta-Home’, the film programme is designed to navigate notions of home in relation to home-based media consumption in the pandemic.
Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manila, 24 August 2021 to 28 February 2022. Watch the films here.
Image courtesy of The Asia Society.
2021 Arts & Museum Summit: Reimagining Museum Narratives in the 21st Century
The 2021 Arts & Museum Summit is a three-day virtual gathering of curators, artists and museum and arts professionals in discussions surrounding decolonisation in the arts, from decolonising curatorial practices to re-negotiating art historical narratives. The biennial conference includes presentations, panel discussions and workshops, featuring Vietnamese-American artist Dinh Q. Lê, Director and Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) Joselina Cruz, Chief Executive of Bangkok Art Biennale Apinan Poshyananda, and other key voices from the Asia Pacific regions and beyond.
The Asia Society, 17 - 19 November 2021. Register for the summit here.
Image courtesy of Workshopables.
Workshopables: 16 Workshops Schools Don't Teach
Initiated by Michael Lee and co-developed with Ong Kian Peng in partnership with Supernormal.space, ‘Workshopables’ carves out an experimental space where 16 workshops by 20 artists will take place across three months to incubate ideas about the taught, the untaught and the unteachable in the conventional education system. The artists were selected from closed invitations and an open call to teach, learn, make, or all of the above, with the aim of discussing pedagogy, aesthetics and sustainability in the arts.
Workshopables, November 2021 to January 2022. Register for the workshops here.
‘The Dudes of Heaven Crumbles’ featuring Nawin Nuthong, Podcharakrit To-im, Sa-ard, TangBadVoice and Pūd. Image courtesy of Harit Srikhao.
Heaven Crumbles: The Marvellous Misadventures of Sudsakorn
BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY presents ‘Heaven Crumbles: The Marvellous Misadventures of Sudsakorna’, a two-episode animated podcast series and publication by Nawin Nuthong and Podcharakrit To-im in collaboration with comic writer Sa-ard, song-writer and photographer TangBadVoice and two video content creators from Pūd Production. Living vicariously through a band of heroes seeking ancient creatures with supernatural abilities, the series brings audiences through an allegorical narrative to explore the absurdity of present-day socio-political situations.
BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY, two episodes will premiere online on 19 November 2021 and 10 December 2021 respectively. Watch the episodes here.
Image courtesy of Google Arts and Culture.
Google Doodle: Georgette Chen
On 1 November, Google Doodle featured Georgette Chen, the first-generation Singapore painter and a pioneer of the ‘Nanyang’ art movement. Celebrating Chen’s legacy, the Google Doodle was launched in commemoration of the day when two of her paintings were selected for the annual Salon d’Automne in 1930. The exhibition was well-known for showcasing ground-breaking 20th century paintings, including works of Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Paul Cézanne. The first Singapore female artist to be featured, Georgette Chen's works are also available for viewing on Google Arts and Culture.
Google Arts and Culture, launched on 1 November 2021. Experience the Google Doodle here.
