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11/11/2008

The Future of Imagination

Sculpture Square, Singapore

“The Future of Imagination”, a time based, performance art event was first held at the Substation on 6 December 2003. Given the limited budget and other intrinsic conditions of the local art scene, we are proud to say that the event was a considerable success. We would like to reiterate our concerns and aspirations to reinvigorate a positive situation for performance art and time-based art practitioners in Singapore. Our aims remain to significantly re-define and to kindle interests as well as promote the visibility of the practice of performance art and time-based art.

We had a successful follow-up with “The Future of Imagination 2” at the Sculpture Square in 2004. The event was named one of the ten most important art events of the year by the National Arts Council. Following that we organized “The Future of Imagination 3” at the Substation and Singapore Art Museumin 2006 and with increased intensity “The Future of Imagination 4” was presented at 72-13 in 2007. We hope to continue our efforts to raise a heightened sensitivity and accentuate appreciation for time-based, performance art as a legitimate art form in itself by organizing “The Future of Imagination 5”.

“The Future of Imagination 5” will continue to cross-examine performance and live art practice within the international context. We would like to invite foreign artists together with artists working in Singapore. With careful consideration, the artists are invited to provide a wider spectrum in order to present a balanced program so as to reveal the open range of possibilities while working in raw explorations of body, space and time-based performances. Some will be specifically exploring performance as an intrinsic utopian universal language, yet others embark on the body as sound, audio or visual producers. Yet others address performance art in terms of social subjectivities or interventions. Ours is an age of intense globalization and we as artists organizers sincerely believe that such an event will help increase international cultural exchange and understanding as well as being a continuity of developing of our artistic practice, research and growth.

We would like to continue efforts to encourage a committed discourse by holding workshops, a forum and a catalog publication based on the writings and documentation of previous year’s event. In addition to the presentation of live performances we would like to have some workshops to be conducted by some of the invited artists before or during the event. This is part of our desire to enhance awareness as well as to make comparative studies between the different practices of performance artists.

In FOI, we included a collaboration with Malaysian artists Liew Kung Yu and Ray Langenbach to help bring the international artists and some Singapore artists to participate in “Satu Kali”, first performance art symposium, held in Kuala Lumpur just prior to our event. Another parallel program, “Fetter Fields” organized by Lina Adam, Jeremy Hiah and Natasha Wei showcased 10 young Singapore based artists. It was good exposure and experience to allow the young artists to present their works to an international audience. FOI4 worked in collaboration with Indonesian artists, Arahmaini and Iwan Wijono to bring invited artists after the Singapore event to Jogjakarta for another performance art event “Maju Jaya”, organized by Indonesian artists. This year we are inviting artists who will be also presenting their work in Bangkok, Thailand, in the 10th Asiatopia performance art festival.

Invited Artists

1. Helmut Lemke (Germany/UK)
2. Fabien Montmartin (France)
3. Myriam Laplante (Italy)
4. Melati Suryodarmo (Indonesia)
5. Mongkol Plienbangchang (Thailand)
6. Gwendoline Robin (Belgium)
7. Ronaldo Ruiz (The Philippines)
8. Yuenjie Maru (Hong Kong)
9. Cheng Guang Feng (China)
10. Duan Ying Mei (Germany/China)
11. Cai Qing (Germany/China)
12. Dariusz Fodczuk (Poland)
13. Adina Bar-On (Israel)

Singapore artists:

1. Chia Chu Yia
2. Lynn Lu
3. Zai Kuning
4. Jason Lim
5. Kai Lam
6. Angie Seah
7. Lee Wen
8. Sabrina Koh

Image: Myriam Laplante, Disaster (with tea), performance still. Photo: Roberto Vaccai

Sculpture Square Limited Contemporary 3-D Art Centre
155 Middle Road Singapore 188977

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