layered: January 2007

A Random Exhibition Visit

1 Comments Published by yeenseen on Monday 29 January 2007 at 19:34.

Exhibition at Plastique Kinetic Worms (of which I've forgotten its name)

Date of Visit: 27/1/07

Like many of the works presented in the Singapore Biennale which dealt with issues regarding beliefs in icons and myths, the artist here takes a similar approach in handling the issue of "myths", juxtopositioning the idea of photography with a certain literary work (which I've forgotten the name) and several historical elements. Photography succeeds in capturing the moment, more so than what the Impressionists tried to achieve, but with a heightened sense of realism that leads one to sometimes question the reality of the scene and the actuality of it in the photograph, as such, sometimes requiring both artist and viewer to take a leap of faith when perceiving the work. Disclaimer: My understanding of the work.

What I enjoyed was the presentation of the work (only the one in the main section). The main screen was a slideshow of photographs of an alldressedupin18thcenturyattire guy posing amidst the forest, with another man playing photographer with his tripod. There was a certain duality in perception that I quite liked of it, the idea of a photo with a photo.... which was further taken upon with placing the same camera and tripod found in the image in front of the screen in the middle of the exhibition space. Within the camera, was a small screen with the same photographs being projected onto it. (For a moment I had thought that the ancient looking camera was some high end projector that was projecting the images onto the big screen). On the right, were three videos being projected on to the wall. Each was a repetitive sequence of a strange looking vase that was presented as a temple, a huge ancient looking book, and the "alldressedup" man's hand nearing a flame and moving away from it. The interesting bit about the videos was that each had a static object (be it the vase, book, or flame), with its staticity re-emphasised with having a foam board cut-out of the individual objects shapes, resulting this objects not just having existed in the video, but also in the immediate environment of the gallery.

There were several woodboards with the images of these objects printed on, and the gallery sitter told me that I could put it up and put it down, but I couldn't quite see the point. Also, the piece presented in the next door space was quite irrelevant, if not troublesome to look at . Capturing several dark shots with streaks of light to present signs that look like letters in the alphabet, the artist then prints each one out and inverts them clockwise (or anti-clockwise), such that one has to re-orientate them to figure out the strange sentence he's trying to make. I gave up halfway, cos it's really quite annoying.

The most amusing bit about the exhibition though, was looking at the guestbook, and realising that a certain art teacher happened to be there on the same day too, and perhaps the one just before me- it was a good thing that I had come later, if not a parent teacher meet (with interrogation) would have occurred, especially when one has such notoriety as I do. Oh, and there was this cute looking painter with short hair flaring sideways and a very clean shaven face cleaning his works on the upper floor. His series of paintings were of dark cityscapes with streaks of pschedelic yellows, reds, whites and greens, painted in a subdued sort of expressive manner. He just looked at me and smiled a little when I walked up to take a look. I was too shy to say hi.

Lastly, I liked the nice aroma of curry and rotiprata in PKWorms, coming from the whole range of indian eateries residing just outside. Not many gallery spaces can boast of being able to smell yummy.

Change in Plans Regarding Thursday's Activities

0 Comments Published by yeenseen on Wednesday 17 January 2007 at 05:35.

Okay, in light that the time slot given is from 4.30-6.30pm, and that some of you do not wish to stay till so late in the evening, I have drastically changed Thursday's schedule to this:

4.30pm SHARP: The special activity still goes on.
4.45pm - 5.00pm: Get to know juniors (Say Hi)
5.00pm - 6.00pm: Frisbee (If it rains we'll be playing indoor games or watching a movie)
6.00pm - 6.30pm: Food session (involving snacks, drinks, pizzas, ice cream floats and milo godzillas)
6.00pm onwards: Movie Session (for those interested)

Confirmed Schedule for Thursday 17/1/07

0 Comments Published by yeenseen on Monday 15 January 2007 at 14:12.

Assemble at 4.30 - 4.35 pm for SPECIAL ACTIVITY.

4.40pm - 5.00pm Meet the Juniors, Design Name Tags
5.00pm - 6.00pm Frisbee Session at School Field
6.00pm - 6.45pm Sardines in Art Block
7.00pm - 9.30pm Night Walk at the Botanical Gardens and Dinner

(Wet Weather Plan)
5.00pm - 5.45pm Sardines
6.00pm - 8.00pm Movie Session
8.15pm - 9.30pm Dinner

The Initiation Ceremony

3 Comments Published by charm on Thursday 4 January 2007 at 19:43.

hey everyone!

This is lovely - a big hug to yeenseen for the hardwork! To do your html efforts (something I remain extremely envious of) justice, I shall make a constructive post!

Remember the Initiation Ceremony for the J1s? Ms Kee asked us to plan a Snr-Jnr meeting, and your ever responsibility-shirking welfare rep shall attempt to make a proposal. In view of my nationality (the ever pragmatic Singaporean), I propose we make it an outdoor drawing session so we can do our Senior stuff and get some exciting drawing practice as well!

Date: Pending on the schedules of the various parties. Would be good if it could replace say, Monday's AEP lessons. Or we could take a whole Saturday.

Venue: Botanic Gardens - it's nearby (relative to school), and very conducive for picnics and other artyfarty stuff (and if our lessons are anything to show for it, this means eating and sleeping)

What we can do:
- Have a picnic! we can make this somewhat 'potluck', where snrs bring something (as a class) and juniors contribute something. Cheap version of STJ/JTS yah? Saving money is a very big part of AEP. Plus, food always facilitates the 'get to know each other' part of activities like this.

- Do our coursework research (for anyone that might potentially need flowers, grass, mosquitoes and more grass. And models.)
- Scheduled drawing sessions where everyone sits quietly and draws for a bit. Must look a bit more arty farty in the eyes of the public yah? (maybe the teachers could use this as a diagnostic test!)

- Play games. Frisbee is very good in the Botanic Gardens. This is where the Amazing , Awe-Inspiring Hwachong Frisbee Champion class played their maiden game. We might even kickstart an Aep Frisbee League. Or we could play other embarrassing ice breaking games. But of course, games are optional, seeing as to how we always manage to amuse ourselves somehow.

P.S. I love the links to EMB and IVLE! I can never remember the URLs. <3
Btw, are juniors given access to this blog too?

now, Comment!

ALSO: If you're free, head down to the National History Museum. Suzanne Victor's swinging chandeliers are there, and the really funky guy who draws on the floor (such that the drawings look 3D from an angle) has a work featured. The Maria Theresia exhibition's really good too, though not exactly Art.

The Welcome Message

0 Comments Published by yeenseen on at 16:12.

Okay people, welcome to the class blog. You've been invited to blog here, and that means to post, read and comment on entries.

Things which YOU might want to blog about

Strange queries such as "who can be my drawing model?"
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Homework reminders
Discussions and Announcements
Youtube videos and interesting images

In all, what you want your friends to know.

These are the basic guidelines, which you do not have to strictly follow. Really.
Though hmm... I'm the blog moderator so I get to censor stuff (I hope I don't have to do that).

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