Blackboard Schemes is an art exhibition that uses experimental coursework to engage artists of Fertile Art Refinery (FAR). The art collective is further stratified to work in groups and adopt a process-centered approach to artmaking. This structure uses reflexive collectivism as a foothold for the wealth of each artistic concern within FAR.
The eight groups navigated through distanced collaboration that is mediated by digital conversations due to the pandemic. The outcome of this project is the documentation of works-in-progress by 30 artists coming together to exhibit the challenges of connecting and collective exploration during the lockdown. Completed artworks are only but a by-product.
The schematics brought out conversations about the society and the pandemic, representation of women, bio ecology, the ideas of craft and fine art, and other artistic lenses that cannot comply with one central theme. Blackboard Schemes includes the diversity of art practices that generate different modes of art-making.
PROGRAMMES:
12 Dec, 5pm-6pm | Slow Stitch with Agatha Lee
Register at: slowstitch.peatix.com
12 Dec, 7pm-8pm | Intimacy Live Performance with Alina Soh, Illa Haziqin, and Raya
Register at: intimacy.peatix.com
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Artists in Blackboard Schemes
Amirah Raudhah, Ang Kia Yee, Ziwei Chen, CyberCesspool, Illa Haziqin, Isabelle Desjeux, Amelia Desmond, Michelle Han, Jireh Koh, Shirly Koh, Eunice Lacaste, Veronyka Lau, Melinda Lauw, Agatha Lee, Winnie Li, Maisarah Kamal, Masuri Mazlan, Nova Nelson, Su Yin Jennifer Ng, Deborah Ong, Ong Xiao Yun, Amber Phang, Yen Phang, Nicole Phua, Raya, Alina Soh, Eve Tan, Teo Huey Ling, Nicolette Teo, Jennifer Teo, Xin Xiao Chang
About Fertile Art Refinery
Fertile Art Refinery is a celebration of women-centric art practices in the Singapore art scene. It is an unmanned collective that functions without a committee hierarchy. The collective supports women's voices in Singapore art.
This programme is part of The Substation’s Associate Artist Programme (2020/21).