Rooted In The Ephemeral Speak (R.I.T.E.S) presents:
1. Andree Weschler [SG]
2. Justin Lee [SG]
3. Mideo M Cruz [PH]
4. Natasha Wei [SG]
Date: 26th June 2010
Time: 7:30 pm to late
Venue: Post-Museum, Showroom
107+109 Rowell Road S209033.
http://www.post-museum.org/
Artists’ Biography:
Andrée Weschler‘s artistic endeavours focus on using the physical body to explore the boundaries of acceptable social constructs. The performing body is used as a tool for discovery, often becoming material in itself. Her work also attempts to challenge the audience into reading her performance of bodily difference. Born in France, she has been living and practicing her art in Asia for more than 15 years. Her formative visual arts training were in Singapore, Australia and Les Beaux Arts de Paris, France. Since 2000, she has been invited to participate in international art events in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, China, Korea, Australia, Finland, Hong Kong, Argentina, Chile and United Kingdom. Her art practice encompasses Drawings, Video Art, Photography, Performance Art and Installation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreeweschler/sets/72157622788120096/show/
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile//77730.html
Mideo M. Cruz “….is a facile generator of anxiety and debate and is skilled in the production of excitingly intellectual images and forms within the unorthodox as seen in his art practice teeming with imitable social and political commentary.” - Philip Paraan
Mideo is based in Manila and currently having a solo painting exhibition in Utterly Art Gallery. For RITES he will be presenting a live interactive piece "Terra Incognita". "Terra Incognita" will be a simulation of the early expansionism exploring cultural connection and losing identities in the age of late capital. His exemplary works enabled him to be awarded the 2003 Cultural Center of the Philippines thirteen artists award and the 2006 Ateneo Art Awards.
www.mideo.tk
Justin Lee has been actively and widely exhibiting since 1996 making an impact with his pop art imageries. His prolific and witty paintings and sculptures offer a unique understanding of contemporary Singapore society and lifestyle with a blend of cultures from the east and west. Justin also seeks to record everyday lifestyle into visual art based on his cultural background and surrounded by doubting questions appearances. He believes that art can play an important part in helping people to grow and generate a heighten awareness. His current works reflect on how text influences and controls the users in our daily lifestyle. His works also reflect on words and images from the mass media like signage, billboards and consumer products, which control our thoughts and expression.
http://justinlee.farm.sg/
Sophia Natasha Wei is a practicing artist who engages mainly in three-dimensional works. She is currently an art teacher in Pioneer Junior College, after graduating from LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts with a diploma in Jewelry and Metalsmithing in 2004. Natasha is versatile in various forms of art making, including jewelry making, mixed media installations, drama and performance art. Her performances often address the human condition of beliefs and customs. Natasha has also begun travelling to various places to perform and observe performance festivals. As an active member in the Artists Village which serves as a platform for her collaborations and involvements in the local art scene, she is convicted in playing the role to create art that penetrates the heart of the community, engage the public in her art-making and merge the visual language of her own practice in her art teaching career.
R.I.T.E.S is an artists-initiative organised as a non-profit event to platform new ideas and artists in sonic art, time-based and performance art-related practices. Its objectives are to present an eclectic mix of performances that is informed by visual aesthetics, technological integration and conceptual integrity involving art making and the social and cultural contexts that are related to performances. It explores art activities that are spatial, the way in which performance is linked to cultural, ethnic and geographical elements of the body, and at the same time exploring how all these elements can be bounded to the global, technological, cultural and economic shifts in our daily life.
More information here.
1. Andree Weschler [SG]
2. Justin Lee [SG]
3. Mideo M Cruz [PH]
4. Natasha Wei [SG]
Date: 26th June 2010
Time: 7:30 pm to late
Venue: Post-Museum, Showroom
107+109 Rowell Road S209033.
http://www.post-museum.org/
Artists’ Biography:
Andrée Weschler‘s artistic endeavours focus on using the physical body to explore the boundaries of acceptable social constructs. The performing body is used as a tool for discovery, often becoming material in itself. Her work also attempts to challenge the audience into reading her performance of bodily difference. Born in France, she has been living and practicing her art in Asia for more than 15 years. Her formative visual arts training were in Singapore, Australia and Les Beaux Arts de Paris, France. Since 2000, she has been invited to participate in international art events in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, China, Korea, Australia, Finland, Hong Kong, Argentina, Chile and United Kingdom. Her art practice encompasses Drawings, Video Art, Photography, Performance Art and Installation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreeweschler/sets/72157622788120096/show/
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile//77730.html
Mideo M. Cruz “….is a facile generator of anxiety and debate and is skilled in the production of excitingly intellectual images and forms within the unorthodox as seen in his art practice teeming with imitable social and political commentary.” - Philip Paraan
Mideo is based in Manila and currently having a solo painting exhibition in Utterly Art Gallery. For RITES he will be presenting a live interactive piece "Terra Incognita". "Terra Incognita" will be a simulation of the early expansionism exploring cultural connection and losing identities in the age of late capital. His exemplary works enabled him to be awarded the 2003 Cultural Center of the Philippines thirteen artists award and the 2006 Ateneo Art Awards.
www.mideo.tk
Justin Lee has been actively and widely exhibiting since 1996 making an impact with his pop art imageries. His prolific and witty paintings and sculptures offer a unique understanding of contemporary Singapore society and lifestyle with a blend of cultures from the east and west. Justin also seeks to record everyday lifestyle into visual art based on his cultural background and surrounded by doubting questions appearances. He believes that art can play an important part in helping people to grow and generate a heighten awareness. His current works reflect on how text influences and controls the users in our daily lifestyle. His works also reflect on words and images from the mass media like signage, billboards and consumer products, which control our thoughts and expression.
http://justinlee.farm.sg/
Sophia Natasha Wei is a practicing artist who engages mainly in three-dimensional works. She is currently an art teacher in Pioneer Junior College, after graduating from LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts with a diploma in Jewelry and Metalsmithing in 2004. Natasha is versatile in various forms of art making, including jewelry making, mixed media installations, drama and performance art. Her performances often address the human condition of beliefs and customs. Natasha has also begun travelling to various places to perform and observe performance festivals. As an active member in the Artists Village which serves as a platform for her collaborations and involvements in the local art scene, she is convicted in playing the role to create art that penetrates the heart of the community, engage the public in her art-making and merge the visual language of her own practice in her art teaching career.
R.I.T.E.S is an artists-initiative organised as a non-profit event to platform new ideas and artists in sonic art, time-based and performance art-related practices. Its objectives are to present an eclectic mix of performances that is informed by visual aesthetics, technological integration and conceptual integrity involving art making and the social and cultural contexts that are related to performances. It explores art activities that are spatial, the way in which performance is linked to cultural, ethnic and geographical elements of the body, and at the same time exploring how all these elements can be bounded to the global, technological, cultural and economic shifts in our daily life.
More information here.
