21 December to 24 December 2016
What happens when two musicians collaborate with three visual artists? How does a composer ‘see’ the sounds that come out of a drawing or a sculpture? Can a drawing or a sculpture be made to ‘sing’? These were some of the questions that the five artists embarked on in Hearing Images & Seeing Sounds.
This project is about practitioners from different disciplines, genres and media engaging in each other’s works and modes of production while adding their own interpretations and expressions from sculpture to video, from drawing to singers.
Hearing Images & Seeing Sound | A collaborative performance-installation that attempts a transition between mediums (performance, sculpture, drawing, video and sound), where one takes on the quality of the other. Rather than merely displaying interest in the translation of inherent qualities of each medium, these works show how one can inhabit the other and interpret interaction and performativity.
Conceived by Dr Robert Casteels, this project brings together visual artists Milenko Prvacki, Joshua Yang, and Hilmi Johandi, composer and conductor Robert Casteels as well as electro-acoustician and e-luthier Dirk Stromberg. Singers Evelyn Ang, Angela Cortez, Melissa Estrella, Daniel Ho, Jeremy Koh, David Ng, Leslie Tay and Felicia Teo interpret the graphic score consisting of Joshua Yang’s Still Life in Blue Minor, No.1 and 2, whilst the sound of their voice is transformed in real time by Dirk Stromb
erg.
Supported by a Creation Grant of the National Arts Council.
Composition by Robert Casteels:
1. Echoes: Improv #1 (After Joshua’s Centre of Gravity), Single channel video, 2016
Artwork by Joshua Yang:
1. Still Life in Blue Minor, No.1, Archival ink on paper, 101.6cm x 101.6ccm
2. Still Life in Blue Minor, No.2, Archival ink on paper, 101.6cm x 101.6cm
3. Still Life in Blue Minor, No.3, Archival ink on paper, 101.6cm x 180cm
4. Shading the Shadows, graphite on paper, 91.4cm x 205.7cm
5. Centre of Gravity, oil-based marker on tempered glass, 77cm dia.
6. Found Ultrasound, oil-based marker on tempered glass, dimensions variable
Artwork by Hilmi Johandi:
1. Echoes: Improv #1 (After Joshua’s Centre of Gravity), Single channel video, 2016
2. Echoes: Improv #2 (Monologue after Still Life in Blue Minor #1), single channel
video, 2016
3. Echoes: Improv #3 (Monologue after Still Life in Blue Minor #2), single channel
video, 2016
4. Echoes: Improv #4 (After Shading the Shadows & Vertical Dictionary 1), single
channel video , 2016
Exhibition Dates: 12 – 19 December 2016, 11am – 8pm daily
Venue: Visual Arts Centre. 10 Penang Road, 01-02 Dhoby Ghaut Green, S(238469)
Exhibition Preview: 14 December 2016, 6:30pm – 9:30pm
FREE ADMISSION
《走进古宅，探索新加坡本土艺术》THE SHOPHOUSE EDITION: SINGAPORE ART TREASURES
Visual Arts Centre is an exhibition gallery and art studio at Dhoby Ghaut Green supported by the National Parks Board and the National Arts Council.
Since its initiation on 31 January 2016, the Visual Arts Centre Exhibition Gallery has hosted over two hundred international and local art and design exhibitions, boasting a diverse range of art styles and programmes.
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