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Heresies
A Retrospective By Pedro Meyer


Happening @ Singapore National Museum - The Atelier
From 7th Oct to 16 Nov 2008
Opening hrs frm 10am to 6pm
Free Admission

Doubleness :
Photography of Chang Chien-Chi

Happening @ Singapore National Museum - Exhibition Gallery 1
From 10th Oct to 4th Jan 2008
Opening hrs frm 10am to 6pm
$ 5 - Adult OR
$ 12 Entry for both Doubleness & Voom Potrait
$ 2.50 - FULL TIME student OR
$ 6 Entry for both Doubleness & Voom Potrait

Drawing Out Conversation


http://www.drawingoutconversations.com
Happening @ FOST Pte Ltd - 65 Kim Yam Rd
Frm 9th Oct to 1st Nov
Opening Hrs frm 12noon to 7pm
Free Admission

Art Of The T


Happening @The cetral promontory site
From 11th Sept to 8th Nov 2008
Close on Monday
Opening hrs frm 11am to 8pm
Free Admission

November Events

First Take

Happening on 3rd Nov, Monday
From 8pm onwards
Free Admission
Substation


Contemporary Young Artist



Happening on 6th Nov, Thursday
7 pm @ Sculpture Square Chapel Gallery
Free Admission

UpComing Events

Japanese Film Festival

Jyo-yuu

Date
22 - 31 August 2008

Venue
Singapore National Museum

Time
7.30 pm on weekdays 11am onwards on weekends

Price
$ 9.50 - public $7.50 - SFS member

Screening schedule can be found in
http://www.sfs.org.sg/jff2008
get the program schedule frm SNM :)





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LAST WORDS
directed by Kenneth Ho

Date
29 - 31 August 2008

Venue
SMU Arts & Culture Centre

Time
3pm - Matinee 7.30pm - Evening

Price
$8 - Matinee $10 - Evening

enquiries : stageit@gmail.com

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Arts Fussion Company Presents

Day Dreams & Night Musing

Date
12 - 14 sept 2008

Time
6.30pm - DayDreams 10pm - Night Musing

Venue
Night & Day Bar + Gallery + Friends

Price
$25 - 1 show $24 - 2 shows $20 - friends of arts fussion

more info
http://www.nightandday.sg/

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Esplanade present
dains Festival 2008

Date
9 - 19 Oct 2008

Time
7pm onwards
(timing varies for each performance )
Venue: Esplanade various location

Price
$ RUSSIAN BALLET GALA / BALLET FLAMENCO SARA BARAS
A pair of tickets at $180 or $216 (usual $200 or $240)
2 pairs at $340 or $408 (usual $400 or $480)

COPPELIA/ NEDERLANDS DANS THEATER I
A pair of tickets at $144 or $180 (usual $160 or $200)
2 pairs at $272 or $340 (usual $320 or $400)

Roving Performance & Short Films

A short summary of where to go for up-coming weekends

There will be a roving performance and short film @ Arts House this weekend starting frm 12 noon till late evening.

tix @ Box office @ Arts House ranging frm $ 7 to $ 22



Bu Ye Tian
directed by Leon Cheo
A hard-boiled deective, Hock, is hired by the wife of a wealthy man to investigate his extra-marital activities. Hock is thrown into a web of lies, murder and surprises with femme fatale in tow.
* a vintage saddess film *



to list some of my favourite films

Minute
directed by Derek Tan
"They say Time is God's way of preventing everything from happening at once"Alwyn wakes upp one morning to find his wife, Caryl missing from his side. Has she left him for good?
* a contemp film *

My keys
directed by Ting Szu Kiong
Tim wakes up to prepare a new day of work but to his dismay, he can't find his keys to get out of the house. Desperately, he turns to the Goddess of Mercy for help
* a hilarious film *

Colours
directed by Derrick Lui & Lee Chee Tian
A colour blind girl goes on a journey to find colours in her life. She ends up seeing more colours then she bargained for, but will she live happily ever after?
* a happy after film *

Ah Ma
directed by Anthony Chen
Ah Ma's mying in the hospital, her life hanging by a thread. Her family gathers by her deathbed to send her off. overwhelmed by sadness, they struggle to find their own way of coming to terms with the impending end.
* the most touching film *

Regrets
directed by Derek Wee
A young couple each with a different family and religious background comes together in an emotional struggle to overcome an unwanted pregnancy that would subsequently change their life perspectives.
* a lovely film *

20th Anniversary: Pak and Son Travels
directed by Aroozoo Wesley Leon
A father and son commemorate the 20th anniversary of heir travek agency by filming a documentary. But their relationship crumbles with false hope of a joyous day.
* a draggy & boring film *

Cloudland

Cloudland: Digital Art frm Aotearoa NewZeland

Location: Substation
Date: 31st July 2008

Cloudland is a glimpse of the diverse terrain of electronic art-making in Aotearoa NewZeland
Electronic Art is rooted in experimentation w/ film & sound, uncertain connections across oceans
Spook infrastructure of wires and magical electricity flow, dancing particals

Sound

1) Electrosmog Lighting Ride (08) 10 min by Adam Millets
- plane riding horizontally
- imersion of light wave tt sparks
- movement of light waves transimission tt creats the sound

2) Electro-magnetic Feedback Study #1 by Bruce Rusell (08) 13 min
- sound of tv light waves
- sound of the sea & construction vehicle tt seems to be thr for land reclaim
- LED waves sound w/ drilling ground
- passing of vehicle & heavy snow rain

3) PSN Electronic Telephone (08) 6 min
- lovely gentle sound
- in a cave w/ sound of water
- riding on a boat into a cave
- arrival of a submarine, detected by another submarine
- sense of meter didi-di-di-di-di-didi-didi-di-di

Video

1) Composition for farmer, 3 dogs & 120 sheeps
by Alex Monteith



2) Listening Head by Kentaro Yamada



3) Free Radical by Len Lye

4) South Pacific by Stella Brennan (07) 10 min

5) The social meaning of things by et al.

A + 3FF

Expose, Experience, Express



Location
Sinema @ Old School

Time
7pm

Date
27/7/08

The Call Home - 30 min
Directed by Han Yew Kwang
india worker who work in SG
$10 phonecard to call my hometown
for a short chat with his wife
asking how's her life and how's his baby boy

State of Things - 6min
Directed by Sherman Ong
1st 2 verse of Singapore Anthem
few ppl were for the meaning of this sentence
but none of them answered correctly

Road to Mecca - 60 min
Directed by Harman Hussin
"Whoever engaged w/ travel will ..."
Story about a muslim who travel to india by driving
frm SG cross to MY to Thailand and to india
He fell sick for 4 days & 4 nights
couldnt do any filming after tt but managed to capture some interesting images
Mecca's actual spelling is "Makkah"
a place in india
the sound of breakfast in india is like a bomb
it's the usual sound in their country
but if the siren sound is played in SG
sound of partol car will be heard as follow

Experimenta Play ++

Tin was invited to the opening ceremony of Experimenta Play ++

Location: Sculpture Square

Time: 7 - 9pm

Date: 28th July 2008

Day: Monday

Experimenta Play ++ was presented as part of ISEA 2008
It was also the 1st ISEA exhibition tt i attended

Experimenta Play ++ is an exhibition of 5 exemplary Australian media artworks tt respond to gallery visitor thru playful & innovative interfaces involving touch, movement, sound, shadow & pressure

Curated around the theme "Ludic" / playful interfaces, they showcased a number of ingenious methods tt the artists use to involve the gallery visitor to touch the artwork.

Touch, movement, sound, shadow & pressure are used in technologically advanced ways to trigger response in the works, to generate narrative within frictional worlds & create sonic compositions.

Experimenta is respected as Australia's leading organisation dedicated to commissioning, exhibiting & promoting the most advanced media & technology-based art.

The 5 artwork are as follow

Charmed

Offering omnipotence thru a touch screen

thr were 3 touch screen and each of them depicts a story once it's touch by the visitor

"we always wanted to be humble. However, due to the ppl and environment around us, we are not kind to ppl and tend to be who we are not "

s1 - congestion of traffic, once the screen is touched, the car will be crashed and more & more traffic could not pass thru the traffic lane

s2 - lovely trees are cut down for construction of new buildings, in Aussie @ nite, ppl watch tv & do nth, do nth.....

Immersion

allow visitor to play with the creature in the virtual underwater world. These creature respond to ppl's shadow

The Shy Picture

A photograph hangs on the gallery wall, quiet, unobstrusive & mysterious. These character seems to see us in the photoframe. When we take a step closer to them, they run away and hide

What's Yours Is Mine

Inspired by childhood mythology, thr's a bear tt sings in a scrulpture tree and dance in the scrulpture tree. Using light & glass, it combines the magical pepper's Ghost technique w/ motion sensing equipment to explore the intersection between phisical & virtual space.

ZiZi the Affectionate Couch

the cat tt ask for emotional support tt give you physical supports. sitting on this couch is like sitting on a living thing. Your butt is its massager while your stroke & scratch pleasure it.