Framing Criticisms is a new initiative developed through a collaboration between The Substation and Theatrex Asia. Through a series of varied programming such as podcasts, live panels, and editorials, Framing Criticisms aims to gather artists, writers, and thinkers from multiple disciplines to engage in critical dialogue around current conversations within the arts community in Singapore.

The inaugural session of Framing Criticisms will be a response to The Substation’s recent conference Space, Spaces, and Spacing 2020 held last month on 21 & 22 March. A panel of speakers will be discussing The Substation’s evolving role and relevance in the local arts ecosystem, and the challenges and importance of bringing diverse voices together in the current climate of the arts.

Register at sub-spaces.peatix.com for FREE. A private Zoom link will be sent to you on the day of the session.

Speakers:

DEBBIE DING

Debbie Ding is a visual artist and technologist who researches and explores technologies of perception through personal investigations and experimentation. Prototyping is used as a conceptual strategy for artistic production, iteratively exploring potential dead-ends and breakthroughs–as they would be encountered by amateur archaeologists, citizen scientists, and machines programmed to perform roles of cultural craftsmanship–in the pursuit of knowledge.

ILA ILA

The intimate works of visual and performance artist Ila Ila incorporate objects, moving images and live performance. Through weaving imagined narratives into existing realities, she seeks to create alternative nodes of experience and entry points into the peripheries of the unspoken, the tacit and the silenced. Her work has been shown at The Substation; NTU Centre for Contemporary Art; National Design Centre, all Singapore; Coda Culture, and ArtScience Museum.

SONIA KWEK

Sonia Kwek is a performer, performance-maker and facilitator based in Singapore. Her practice is founded on exploring the body as material and body politics. She works across varying arts mediums, moving between theatre, performance art, dance/movement, image-making, installation etc. Sonia enjoys disruptive intersections, often through collaborative creating and learning from different disciplines. Currently, Sonia is interested in the politics of (female) eroticism and decolonising her own artistic processes.