Curators/Artists
Yam Chew Oh
Yam Chew Oh is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and storyteller exploring circumstance, time, and attention through history, relationships, and the everyday. His work has been exhibited in the United States and Asia and featured in Commotion, Lumina Journal, The Match Factory, Studio Visit, and Velocity. More at www.yamchewoh.com.
Artists
Ezzam Rahman
Ezzam Rahman is an art educator, multi-disciplinary installation and performance artist based in Singapore. Ezzam is known for his interest in the body and his use of common, easily accessible and unconventional materials to produce works. Ezzam was awarded a joint winner of the Grand Prize for the President's Young Talents 2015 and the People's Choice Award by the Singapore Art Museum. In 2016, Ezzam was awarded the Goh Chok Tong Youth Promise Award by Yayasan Mendaki and the prestigious Young Artist Award by the National Arts Council, Singapore.
Yen Phang
Yen Phang is preoccupied with the biological as interface. He was a recipient of the Winston Oh Grant (2016), Winston Oh Travel Research Award (2016), and was awarded the Cliftons Art Prize (2015) and the UNSW Julius Stone Prize (2006). His work has been collected by the Singapore High Commission in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Singapore), British Airways for their Terminal 1 Lounge at Changi Airport, Singapore. He has also initiated projects such as “I.D. (The Body’s Still Warm)” (2018), Displacements: 13 Wilkie Terrace“ (2013),“The Peony And the Crow“ (2016), and “Repurposing Nostalgia” (2016).
Cynthia Delaney Suwito
Exploring the curiosities and subtleties of daily life and experience of time are important to Cynthia Delaney Suwito’s practice as an artist. It is her hope that through her work, people can slow down and reflect, seeing daily things with a different perspective and forming new approaches of thinking.
Veronyka Lau
Veronyka Lau (b. 1971, Singapore) is an English Lit grad, social and animal welfare advocate, martial artist turned artist. Her multi-disciplinary works often explore feminine power and its mercurial quality for conveyance and resistance as well as social and environmental themes situated in the community.
Alison Kuo
Alison Kuo is an artist who works in a space where food, performance and sculpture collide. She serves as the Arts Residency Manager at the International Studio & Curatorial Program in Brooklyn, and is a member of the New York Chinatown arts community where she co-runs the group Sisters in Self-Defense.
Elephnt
Elephnt is a photographer interested in urban spaces and mundane and taken for granted everyday objects. His photo projects are often the result of his encounters with the constant cycle of urban redevelopment in Singapore. His first photobook, Ways of Seeing, was published by Math Paper Press in 2017.
Writers
Anna Harsanyi
Anna Harsanyi is a curator, educator, and arts manager. She is dedicated to presenting art in a non-art context and creating sites that invite participation from audiences outside of the art community. Anna has worked in education and public engagement roles at the Art Encounters Biennial, Museum of Modern Art, New York Arts Practicum, A Blade of Grass, and the Guggenheim Social Practice initiative at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. She teaches at The New School.
Kamiliah Bahdar & Wu Jun Han
Kamiliah Bahdar has worked across numerous exhibitions, programmes and projects as curator, organiser, collaborator, researcher, and writer.
Wu Jun Han enjoys playing and thinking with sound and images. Among other things, he has an experimental music practice improvising with cassette tape loops.
Kamiliah and Jun both have a love for scruffy neighbourhood cats.
Liana Yang
Liana Yang combines digital media and prints in her installation works. She is motivated by the aesthetics of social and sociological interactions and is usually drawn to the trivialities and oddities that we encounter in our daily experiences. This includes the enigmatic and unseen aspects of relationships, as well as explorations of memory and associations in our contemporary culture. A process which she hopes will offer a compelling discourse in understanding societal views. She has exhibited both locally and internationally.
Ong Kian Peng
Ong Kian Peng is a media artist based in Singapore. His practice investigates the effects of climate change and our relationship with nature. Working at the intersection of art, technology, and the environment, Ong creates immersive and reflective environments that offer alternate visions and imaginations of our relationship with nature. Ong was awarded the President’s Young Talent Grand Prize in 2015. Since 2017, he runs Supernormal, an independent art space focusing on emerging and experimental art practice.is a media artist based in Singapore.
Ang Kia Yee
Ang Kia Yee is a transdisciplinary poet and artist based in Singapore. Their work performs and speaks within the realms of desire, futurity and ecology, with an emphasis on love and deep time. More at kyatos.com.