2019年6月、シンガポールでのプログラム「browsing copy: Book Launch and Panel Programme」に千十一編集室が招待されました。
アジア各地のアーティスト&アート系パブリッシャーが集まり自らの出版物を展示し、それぞれの活動を報告するイベントで、パネルディスカッションではローカルメディアのや千十一編集室のこれまでの仕事を紹介してきました。
開催概要
browsing copy
KHL Printing, 57 Loyang Dr
8 — 9 June 2019
Panel programme: 2-6pm on both days
Book launch: Saturday 8 June, 6-8pm
Where artistic production is read habitually towards the exhibition as the final mode of presentation and consumption, browsing copy seeks to advance the artist’s book as an alternative site.
browsing copy is set up comprising two layers:
☗ A collaboration between two curators, a design studio, a printing press and eight invited artists – each of the artists have been asked to consider the interests and preoccupations of their artistic practice in relation to the book-form, culminating in the production of eight discrete artist’s books. Artists include Sookoon Ang, Chua Chye Teck, Nina Djekić, Koh Nguang How, Lai Yu Tong, Ryan Benjamin Lee, Susie Wong and Ian Woo. The collaboration will culminate in the book launch held on 8 June 2019.
☗ A two-day programme that convenes artistic practitioners from Southeast Asia and beyond who have made active and innovative contributions in the field of artists’ books. Held on 8 and 9 June 2019, the aim of the programme is to create regional links and possibilities for exchange and learning across these independent efforts. With the collaboration and programme, the project hopes to prompt the consideration of artistic production in an expanded field.
browsing copy is curated by Cheng Jia Yun and Selene Yap in collaboration with Currency Design and KHL Printing. This initiative has been made possible with the support of the National Arts Council, Arts Fund, The Japan Foundation Asia Center Grant Program for Promotion of Cultural Collaboration and RJ Paper.
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SATURDAY 8 JUNE 2019
2pm – 6pm: Panel Discussions
Making, exchanging and evaluating: The artist and the artist’s book
Czar Kristoff (Manila)
Lee Chang Ming (Singapore)
Releasing into the wild: Publishing for what public?
Elaine Ho of Display Distribute (Hong Kong)
Miti Ruangkritya of 11C (Bangkok)
6pm – 8pm: Launch of 8 artists’ books
SUNDAY 9 JUNE 2019
2pm – 6pm: Panel Discussions
Spreading the word: Print culture in informal networks
Yuki Kageyama of Sen-to-Ichi (Tokyo)
Yonaz Kristy Sanjaya and Alwan Brilian Dewanta of RAReditions (Yogyakarta)
Spacing out: The page as real estate
Lisa Ito-Tapang (Manila)
Ala Younis of Kayfa ta (Amman)
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BIOGRAPHIES
Artists
Sookoon Ang (b. 1977, Singapore)’s practice evokes reconsiderations of everyday experiences through a presentation of varying material and artistic approaches that seek to destabilise perceptions of reality. The works, comprising mainly of physical objects imbued with a metaphysical connotations, suggest the existence of alternate layers of readings and perceptions one can use to interpret the tangible world. Through the alteration of dimensions and juxtapositions of unlikely materials, her works present themselves as visual oxymorons, confronting viewers with an existential anxiety through its anomalous appearance.
Chua Chye Teck (b. 1974, Singapore) is a passionate collector of images, memories and spaces. He takes photographs of the visible and with them he indicates things invisible. His work is inspired by the conflicting field of spatial and social relations within specific, generally urban surroundings; it is a matter of people, their actions with respect to the space they occupy, inhabit or merely cross briefly.
Nina Djekić (b. 1989, Ljubljana), based in Ljubljana and Singapore, graduated with a BA in choreography from School for New Dance Development SNDO and an MFA from Sandberg Instituut, both in Amsterdam. Her work revolves around choreographic notions in exhibitionary settings. It looks at the psycho-somatic engagements between the artwork and the visitor as well as the affect the uncanny presence of artworks has on the relationship between the visitors themselves. It is important to her practice to think of those encounters as processual and time bound. Her latest work focuses on the sensuality of the gaze and the reconsideration of vision as felt perception.
Koh Nguang How (b. 1963, Singapore) is a Singaporean artist, archivist and founding member of The Artists’ Village. From his experience working at the National Museum Art Gallery in the 1980s, Koh garnered an interest in documenting and archiving new local and regional art and art-related events and from there, became a pioneering researcher and recorder of Singapore 20th century art, with a focus on The Artists Village, Tang Da Wu, and performance. Integral to Koh’s research has been his multiple functions as the creator of the ‘Singapore Art Archive Project’ which assembles photographs, newspaper clippings, catalogues, and books attesting to the vibrancy and layering of the local scene.
Lai Yu Tong (b. 1996, Singapore) is a Singaporean artist who works primarily with images. His practice is informed by observations of everyday life whilst living in a city. He makes works about the things he sees, things he eats, things he buys, things he throws away, and other things.
Ryan Benjamin Lee (b.1997, Singapore) is a moving image artist based in Singapore whose practice utilises video art, installation, GIF-making, sampling and (re)animation to create a range of media assemblages. Grounded in an interest in material investigation, his artworks explore the relationship between physical and virtual spaces and how our post-internet experiences seamlessly merge the two. As such, his works often have a sculptural or site-specific quality to them.
Susie Wong (b. 20th century, Singapore) is an art writer, curator and artist in Singapore. She is a curator in contemporary art and collaborative art practices. For her practice as an artist, she is a painter, and she often works with the figure as a subject for her work. She has written for numerous publications on art since the late 1980s. She is a member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics- Singapore Chapter).
Ian Woo (b. 1967, Singapore) is an artist and musician influenced by forms of modernism, perceptual abstraction and the sound structures of music improvisation. His paintings and drawings are characterised by a sense of gravitational and representational change. Woo’s work is in the collection of major institutions such as ABN AMRO, Singapore Art Museum, The Istana Singapore, National Gallery Singapore, UBS, and the Mint Museum of Craft & Design, USA. His paintings are featured in the publication “Art of the New Cities: 21st Century Avant-Gardes”, a publication by Phaidon 2013.
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Panel Speakers
Elaine W. Ho (b. 1977, Boynton Beach) works between the realms of time-based art, experimental publishing, and language. She is the founder of artist-run project space HomeShop in Beijing (2008–13) and continues to ask questions about the sociopolitics of syntax, more recently via ongoing collaborations with Display Distribute, • • PROPAGANDA DEPARTMENT, and Widow Radio Ching. Her work has been presented on a boat named Eleonore, docked along the Danube River (Linz, 2016), at Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart (2017), Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2017), the Power Station of Art (2016), Guangdong Times Museum (2015), Spring Workshop (2015), Tate Modern (2014), and on various street corners, among other places. Indexofho.net
Yuki Kageyama (b. 1982, Tokyo) is an Editor, Writer, Media Consultant, and founder of Sen-To-Ichi Editorial office LLC. After working as a publisher, he became independent and edited art books and culture books. In 2018 he started Sen-To-Ichi Editorial office (https://sen-to-ichi.com/). Then he launched a web magazine “EDIT LOCAL” (http://edit-local.jp/). And as a director of workshops for creators such as “CIRCULATION KYOTO” (2017) and “KOBE MEME” (2018-19), he is active beyond the limit of an editor. He wrote books such as “How to make local media” (2016) and “How to make a new street “(2018). He is also a member of the street observation group “New Antique”, and a member of Arts Commons Tokyo. Sen-to-ichi.com
Czar Kristoff (b. 1989, Libmanan) is an inter-disciplinary artist and lecturer based in Laguna, Philippines. His early exposure to migration and trauma led him to pursue self-organized education and his current practice which sometimes require public engagement, focusing on memory, identity and the theme of unlearning. These inquiries are manifested through performances, photography, interventions and publishing. His work has been exhibited in Vargas Museum, Ateneo Gallery and Drawing Room Gallery in Manila and internationally at Danselhallerne Copenhagen, Art Dubai Marker, C3 Artspace Melbourne, Artvisor London, Bangkok Arts and Culture Center and Westergasfabriek Amsterdam. Kristoff is affiliated with Hardworking Goodlooking, a publishing and design hauz interested in tropical diaspora and vernacular aesthetics. And Temporary Academy for Un/Re/Learning, an experimental school focusing on the reformation of art and cultural production in the Philippines.
Lisa Ito-Tapang (b. 1980, Manila) is an independent curator, cultural worker and writer based in Manila. She is interested in exploring intersections between art practice, political engagement, and ecology. She is a faculty member of the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts in Diliman, Quezon City. She was among the fellows of “Condition Report”, a Southeast Asia-wide curatorial development program of the Japan Foundation from 2015 to 2017. She is the current Secretary-General of the Concerned Artists of the Philippines (CAP), an organization of progressive artists and a member of the Young Critics Circle Film Desk.
Lee Chang Ming (b. 1990, Singapore) is a photographer interested in themes of intimacy, gender identity and the everyday. Personal encounters and an unguarded approach inform his photography, which ranges from portraits to still-life and landscapes. His practice contemplates the subjective act of looking and the photographic medium as a process. His work has been published internationally, and has been exhibited at sound:frame Festival, Vitra Design Museum, Alliance française de Singapour, Obscura Festival of Photography, Peninsular, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, The Substation, NuArt Sculpture Square, Komunitas Salihara, Mambini Projects, basis Frankfurt and Sa Sa Art Projects. He is also the founding editor of Nope Fun, an independent publisher and platform focusing on photography and contemporary image making. Leechangming.com
RAREditions (est. 2012, Yogyakarta) is a collective based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It started as a zine making collective that formed in 2012. As time goes by, along with the added members from inter-disciplinary background, RAR grows and expand the format into a platform that focused on research and archive-based project to produce and distribute the issue, knowledge, and possibilities of communication. Ever since, we often use the model of visual identities, performance art, printed matter work and publication as ways to speak common sense. Rareditions.weebly.com
Miti Ruangkritya (b. 1981, Bangkok) was a Selected Winner by Magenta Foundation for Emerging Photographers (UK) in 2011. He was shortlisted for Kassel Book Award in 2015. In 2016 he was selected as one of the finalists of the Sovereign Asian Art Prize. Exhibitions in 2018 include Tokyo A La Carte – The Backers Foundation and AIT Residence Programme (Tomio Koyama, Tokyo), In Other Image When Words Fail, (Singapore Photography Festival). He produced 2 books including Sathorn Sunset and 1 Square Metre of Soil with Onestar Press. Exhibition this year include a group exhibition, Temporal Topography: MAIIAM’s New Acquisitions; from 2010 to Present (Maiiam Museum, Thailand). Mi-ti.com
Ala Younis (b. 1974, Kuwait) is an artist, trained as an architect in Amman. Research forms a big part of her practice, as do curating, collaboration, film and book projects. In 2012, Maha Maamoun and Ala Younis co-founded the publishing initiative Kayfa ta, a publishing initiative that uses the popular form of how-to manuals (how=kayfa, to=ta) to respond to some of today’s perceived needs. Publishing in Arabic and English per each title, Kayfa ta commissioned seven titles that situate themselves in the space between the technical and the reflective, the everyday and the speculative, the instructional and the intuitive, the factual and the fictional. Kayfa-ta.com