Video screening: Singapore Artists

 

Artist:               Urich Lau

Title:                Converse Construct: After Walther Ruttmann - Version 3.0 

Length:    06 min 58 sec

Year:                2011

The work is created in response to a constant state of demolition and construction in today’s urban landscapes. Appropriating the 1927 film Berlin: Symphony of a Great City by the German experimental film director Walther Ruttmann, the video work is structured as ‘chapters’ as in Ruttmann’s film that looked at the city of Berlin from morning to night the modern era. Scenes of urban construction are captured in Singapore with some parts from other Asian countries. Each chapter opens with a line from the article on the Fundamental Liberties found in the Constitution of Singapore, to reflect the basic freedom and will of expression to work as an artist in a nation, and to establish any form of cultural memory where there are relentless transformation of spaces and buildings. The artist is featured at the end of each chapter and superimposed into the scenes as a ‘ghost’ struggling to emerge from the rubble.

 

 

Artist:               Teow Yue Han

Title:                Performing the Smart Nation 

Length:    08 min 04 sec

Year:                2016

While many smart cities are emerging around the world, Singapore’s Smart Nation seeks to establishitself as the world’s first to incorporate a holistic, all around vision. Technology builders and entrepreneurs are encouraged to leverage Singapore’s smart infrastructure and use the nation as a ‘living laboratory’ to test new ideas with global potential. Can a nation be governed by algorithms? How do bodies move within this apparatus of interfaces and sensors? What can or cannot be quantified? ‘Performing the Smart Nation’ seeks to engage this corporate vision by finding new performance strategies within choreography — a system that thrives on bringing physical expression and it’s potentialities to the fore. It re-imagines the social kinaesthetic by transforming the exhibition space into a playful site of transmission and collaboration.

 

 

Artist:               Marcel Gaspar

Title:                R.T.T.P. (Fading Flats)

Year:                2016

Length:    4 min 1 sec

Singapore is new and despite it’s being new has been going through rapid development since its birth. Becoming conscious of the perpetual change of this City-State, the artist Marcel Gaspar began to take notice of it and use as a point of departure for creating art. The artist believes that before one can even appreciate what has been built, something is takes its place in one way or another. Using artistic documentary approach, the video work R.T.T.P. revisits such migratory places after which a remarkable change has take place and identity redefined.

 

 

Video Screening: Students from LASALLE College of the Arts, School of the Creative Industries, Visual Studies

These are a selection of videos made by students from the first year course in their studies. With a diversity of subject matter based on the concept and direction of “OPEN”, and using basic editing software and new learnt skills in video and audio shooting and production, the students created original works through their perspectives in urban lives.

 

Name:              Efael Naquiddin Ameehar

Title:                Revival

Length:    1 min 36 sec

Year:                2016

 

Name:              Angelo Rodriguez

Title:                Artless

Length:    1 min 53 sec

Year:                2016

 

Name:              Vince Tay Sai Kiat

Title:                Passage

Length:    1 min 40 sec

Year:                2015

 

Name:              Yap Cai Fa

Title:                Beatboxer

Length:    1 min 36 sec

Year:                2015