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Digi Art Jam is a “cutting edge” sandbox for digital exhibition & art making.
The aim of this series is to make digitisation less ‘daunting’ yet push the creative potential of artists using digital tools to create their art.
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Curatorial Statement for DigI Art Jam Series #1
Art Jamming began as a social painting experience and was coined by Betty Cheung in the early 2000s. It is essentially an activity in which a group of people come together to explore their creative sides, and is meant to be all-inclusive to any age and level of art-making ability.
Along the same line, this series of digital art-jams was conceptualised for art practitioners as an all-inclusive sandbox, a testing and exploratory environment specifically geared towards digital art exhibition and artmaking. The aim was to make the exploration of digital work and environments less daunting, but at the same time push the creative potentials of the artists in using digital tools for artmaking and exhibiting works.
In Digi Art Jam Series #1, 2 artists and 1 artist collective were invited to try out immersive 360 photo and video technologies. The artists in Digi Art Jam Series #1 share an interest in exploring inner worlds and private spaces, and making the intangible tangible. The works on view highlight how the artists have navigated challenging junctures and areas, and underline the significant shift in the viewing of art beyond traditional means during these pandemic times.
ONLINE ARTWORKS
Embalming A Tree
2021
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Private Moments
2021
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Gestating Shame
2021
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Lee Pheng Guan | Embalming A Tree
2021
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Embalming A Tree is Lee Pheng Guan’s attempts to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable. In a year marked by a tragic pandemic that has led to the death of millions, the artist meditates on the idea of mourning through working with the tembusu- not in its mere physicality but in his endeavour to return the felled trees and fallen branches to their grandeur.
Similar to an embalmer, Lee trims, cuts and assiduously joins tembusu tree parts to make them ‘whole’ again- a gesture that while significant to some, reflects the superficial nature and impermanence of attempts on preserving certain conditions in our island-state.
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Cheo Chai-Hiang | Private Moments
2021
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List of works:
1. Honey on Balls (a free standing floor piece)
2. Fingers Crossed (Video loop 28 secs)
3. Fingers Crossed 2 (22 secs)
4. My Fab Uncle (1:36 video loop)
5. Hwee Loo (14 slide loop including a sound track)
6. A group of 6-8 still images.
This presentation comprises a selection of images, clips, text messages, soundtracks and bits and pieces from my everyday during this COVID-19 period. To share, to create, to reflect, or to simply do little silly things no matter how private helps one maintain a sense of equilibrium - and surely this is not an uncommon pastime in order to find one’s way through difficult times.
This work is a continuation of my ongoing exploratory project From Hand to Mouth.
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Aqilah Faizall & Din Chan | Gestating Shame
2021
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As art therapists in training, there is a constant need to identify and develop an awareness surrounding our own unresolved issues, delicately untangling these from our clients’ presenting issues.
This work starts as a practice in articulating shame, perhaps giving this emotion a visual form would allow us to externalise it. Aqilah started to identify sensations and objects, and putting it through these AI generators that morph these images into one picture in attempts of building a visual vocabulary of shame. Din responds to these images by creating a 3D sculpture and capturing a 360° environment, giving a corporeal form to the invisible, dynamic intersubjective space that exists between himself and the viewers.
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PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Lee Pheng Guan (PG Lee) is a visual artist with an MFA from LASALLE College of the Arts and a degree in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Practicing primarily in the media of video, sculpture, and in- stallation; Lee frequently includes performances in his work; as he examines the ephemeral nature of human ex- istence coupled with personal and collective memories. He has exhibited locally and internationally and had his first solo show, Weight/less, in 2015 at the Institute for Contemporary Arts in Singapore. More recently, he participated in the 2018 Asia Culture Center Arts Space Network Residency at the ACC ASIAPLEX Studio in Gwangju, South Korea.
Cheo Chai-Hiang is a visual artist/curator with BA Fine Art Honours from Brighton Polytechnic and Royal College of the Art, London. He was awarded the Rome Scholarship in Printmaking at the British School and in Australia, he held various positions at the School of Contemporary Arts at the University of Western Australia, Sydney such as Curator, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art and Coordinator of Creative Strategies.
Chai has held over 20 solo shows in Singapore, Italy, Australia and China where his works and thoughts negotiate trajectories through domains related to identity, culture and space. Currently, Chai lives and works in Singapore.
Aqilah is an art psychotherapist in training, & her art making processes are very much a part of a reflexive therapeutic practice. Her visual vocabulary references Southeast Asian/South Asian ritualistic practices. She aspires to co-create spaces of empathy by surfacing the multitudinous realities & nuances of the human experience in relation to complex societal and global issues
Din Chan (b. 1989, Singapore) is an interactive installation artist. He graduated with BA(Hons) Fine Arts from Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore and is currently pursuing his MA in Art Therapy (2021) as a recipient of The Red Pencil Scholarship. Using technology as his medium, his work engages not just the viewers' gaze, but also their senses and the physicality of their bodies. Through such interactivity, viewers are invited to be collaborators in the art-making process, creating a multi-faceted and inclusive vision together.
CURATOR
Lee Sze-Chin is an artist, art educator and art therapist whose art practice focuses on themes revolving around culture and nostalgia. His works often combine the use of video, photography and performance to recreate experiences that question concepts of memory and time.
Lee Sze-Chin is part of The Substation’s Artist Associate Programme 2021
Credits
Artistic Director: Woon Tien Wei
Curator: Lee Sze-Chin
Cover Graphics Design: Lee Sze-Chin
360VR: Lee Sze-Chin & Lee Pheng Guan
Artists: Lee Pheng Guan, Cheo Chai-Hiang, Aqilah Faizall, Din Chan
Programme Manager: Marilyn Giam
Supported by:
National Arts Council Singapore, Digital Presentation Grant.
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