Live Art is a series of meeting by performance artists in Singapore to develop performance art practice and to bring its related activities to a wider Singaporean audience. These activities are self-funded and organised by performance artists as actions of awareness-building to establish the local performance art form as an integral part of contemporary art practice in Singapore.

Live Art @ Studio 19
An evening of performance art and video screening,
Time & Date:  Tuesday, 7 pm onwards. 28 February 2006.
Venue: 19 Tay Lian Teck Drive Singapore 455652

Heal the rift between us
Video screening by Juliana Yasin and Natasha Wei.

This performance is scripted in a way that both artists in due course meet together with their differing personalities, faith, and art language on the same canvas. In this constructed time and space, both artists begin on their own areas and react in their own ways. Where the artists are engaged in this obsessive performance, both women artists exhaust themselves physically to find the meaning of healing in their lives and we look with expectancy how these two artists respond to each other, when differences are brazened out, to bridge the rift between them as unique individuals. This performance need not resemble the rainbow in its transitory beauty, but is settled and abiding at the end of the day when we experience the healing from the visual images as audience ourselves.

Video File – [Artists’ Chronicles] 07/2003:
Benjamin Puah / Zulkifle Mahmod #01-025/25”   Video installation by Urich Lau.

The video is sequenced from photo stills – the original stills are transferred as motion image. It is a feature of artists as art subjects, as artworks. The video shows an absurdity of representation on the negotiation and correlation between artists in the form of a play-act, and it draws from an exaggerated expression of tension.

Performance in Parts
Video screening and Performance by Jason Lim.
 
On video, through cut and paste technique, these selection of videos attempts to explore and enhance our perception of our daily routine in private and public domain. These selected videos were results of a recent exploration into video works. The audio in the video forms a relation with Jason’s recent series of live performances where mundane materials were used to generate sound (acoustic and sometimes amplified). Recent performances adopt a methodology in arrangement, composition, seeing and listening. Besides screening of his recent video works, Jason will also present a solo-performance.

Untitled
Performance by Lee Wen.

In his recent series of work, Lee Wen will work with a loose structure in order to respond more spontaneously to different situations and contexts. The free-form nature allows me to play with open-ended vision of identity  and social relationships. The actions provide an image for  contemplation. The process of making rituals in contemporary ceremony is a search for discovery of self in society, society in self. Our crises sometimes manifest as madness on the outside however there is an attempt to maintain the peace within.

Prop-Agenda Blab: Green Fingers on Furious Electric Zit No. 031
Performance by Singlish Punk.

“Prop-Agenda Blab” is a work that embodies daily materiality and technology as metaphorical actions to present the many contradictions of our high-technology lifestyle in urban society. ‘Prop’ is about materiality and consumerism, ‘Agenda’ is a reference to notions of urban issues surrounding daily life and ‘Blab’ is a word without any actual meaning, in this sense, the meaning can be left for an open interpretation. Singlish Punk is responding to the notions of the Urban Global Citizen identity as well as an appropriation of popular mass cultures through inter-media works presented by collaborating individuals. It re-enacts experiences of cultural alienation and re-portrays hybridised identities that are popularised by the mass-media as a form of alternative ‘entertainment’ in our perplexed consumerist society.

Dialogue
Performance by Cheng Guang Feng
“Dialogue” is a sound-based performance that requires the Performer and Audiences to interact with each other, through stethoscopes that are custom-made by the artist for the purpose of ‘listening and responding’ of bodily sounds. This work is a respond to the contradictions of the ‘spoken language’ as well as an exploration towards the notions of human relationships and communications as experienced in our everyday life.    

For more information:
C/o Kai LAM  
9238 3443
studio19@singnet.com.sg
www.studio19.4-all.org