{"id":8765,"date":"2015-12-30T15:46:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T07:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/?page_id=8765"},"modified":"2016-01-23T13:39:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T05:39:52","slug":"art-stage-singapore-2016-press-release","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/art-stage-singapore-2016-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Stage Singapore 2016 &#8211; Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='artfairs-title'  class='avia-section av-av_section-28b6a3550cb0d93e8cc281966a696620 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-bg-style-scroll  container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-8765'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_full-2a9015ff38129c418a3f2eafba3e9512 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div '   ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h3 class=\"p1\" style=\"font-family: 'eb garamond'; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Art Stage Singapore 2016 \u2013 Works\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/art-fairs\/art-stage-singapore-2016-works\/\">works<\/a> | <a title=\"Art Stage Singapore 2016 \u2013 Site View\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/art-fairs\/art-stage-singapore-2016-site-view\/\">SITE VIEW<\/a> |\u00a0<a class=\"selected\" title=\"Art Stage Singapore 2016 \u2013 Press Release\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/art-fairs\/art-stage-singapore-2016-press-release\/\">press release<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-0688d0b0b6ed2f8b057db7a8270206df\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-0688d0b0b6ed2f8b057db7a8270206df{\nheight:50px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-0688d0b0b6ed2f8b057db7a8270206df hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_textblock  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"font-family: open sans thin; font-size: 25px; line-height: 24px; letter-spacing: 1px; color: #333333;\">Art Stage Singapore 2016<br \/>\nGroup Show<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; color: #666666; text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Wei-Ling Gallery is proud to announce their participation at Art Stage Singapore in January 2016 at Marina Bay Sands Exhibition Centre Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>The gallery returns to Art Stage with two levels of participation this year where they will be presenting a booth in the main section of the fair as well as with a solo project at the SEA platform.<\/p>\n<p>For the general booth (booth number H14), the gallery will be presenting a curated selection of works by the gallery\u2019s artists who represent a cross-section of the contemporary Malaysian art scene today and reflects on the gallery\u2019s rotating program. This includes both old and new pieces to demonstrate the development of the artists over the years. The focus will be on major works by each respective artist. Participating artists: Amin Gulgee, Chin Kong Yee, Chen Wei Meng, Choy Chun Wei, Ivan Lam, Michal Macku, Stewart Macfarlane and Yau Bee Ling<\/p>\n<p>Chong Kim Chiew represents Malaysia at Art Stage Singapore\u2019s curated section, <em>Southeast Asia Forum<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEISMOGRAPH: Sensing the City \u2013 Art in the Urban Age<\/strong><br \/>\nWith a brand new installation entitled <em>Badminton Court<\/em>.<br \/>\nThe work consists of a life-sized badminton court where a high fence has been used to replace the original net dividing the court. The court is divided into two spaces where the audience can play the game, but the shuttle-cock will be hard-pressed to cross the fence to the other side.<\/p>\n<p>In an urban context, there are a variety of fences used to protect and isolate us from the dangers that we encounter in our daily lives, we live in an urbanscape that is full of fences and divisions. The relationship that exists between the artist and the audience, the artist and the nation, is akin to a sports game where they strive to communicate with each other, but the high fence between them makes the relationship tense and difficult for the message to be transmitted accurately.<br \/>\nChong Kim Chiew\u2019s <em>Badminton Court<\/em> is an interactive installation that encourages audience participation.<\/p>\n<p>The work will be situated at location number 8 in the South East Asia platform section and is presented by Wei-Ling Gallery from Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSoutheast Asia Forum\u201d is a new programme situated within Art Stage on two tenets: (1) the idea of \u2018agora\u2019 as, in ancient Greece, a public square where people not only gathered to trade but also to listen to and discuss ideas on civic society; and, (2) the artist\u2019s role as a \u2018seismograph\u2019 of society. Southeast Asia Forum will have two components: a programme of discussion panels and talks and, an adjoining exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>The theme selected for 2016 is urbanisation. The aim of the inaugural edition of the forum is to make the case for art to be regarded as part of the urban DNA, in the same vein that designers and planners build and shape cities. It emphasises the role of artists and intellectuals as seismographs of society\u2019s pulses, and, the inimitable importance of the humanities and social sciences in the global era. Bringing together architects, urbanists, social scientists, men and women of letters, and of course, artists, the forum will examine, through their different perspectives, the challenges of urbanisation and how cities can be re-imagined through different ways of seeing, learning and cooperation. In creating encounters between observers, thinkers and planners in these different fields, the forum seeks to bring about more inter-disciplinary understanding and collaboration in shaping the underpinnings of cities as they continue to evolve as localities in parallel to shared global conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The forum will also turn attention onto our immediate region, Southeast Asia. There will be an adjoining exhibition surveying the role of artists as seismographs of society across Southeast Asia. The exhibition is centred on artists who relate to issues and sentiments of extremely rapid urbanisation in their own cities, towns, developing localities within the Southeast Asian region and context. The selection will be limited to 12 artists whose works are strong and leave an imprint on the mind. It would be necessary for works in the exhibition to be related to this scope, e.g. impacts of urbanisation on communities and individual outlook, sentiments towards how this has affected the environment and rural areas\/populations, how do artists create \u2018maps\u2019 and \u2018scapes\u2019 of their localities through their practice, how do artists treat urban space, public space.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"works | SITE VIEW |\u00a0press release Art Stage Singapore 2016 Group Show Wei-Ling Gallery is proud to announce their participation at Art Stage Singapore in January 2016 at Marina Bay Sands Exhibition Centre Singapore. 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