Tag: Singapore

  • Happiness Private Limited 2016 Peculiar Botany by William Sim

    Happiness Private Limited 2016 Peculiar Botany by William Sim

    The eighth edition of the Happiness Private Limited show is a hybrid of William’s trademark fantasia and the botanical world. The work is presented as a series of pseudo-botanical drawings on thirty-six species of popular plants frequently encountered in Singapore. A playful study on symbiosis as each piece of work documents the anomalous alliance of an imagined facultative symbiont to its vascular plant host. (more…)

  • Book launch: Track Faults and Other Glitches

    Book launch: Track Faults and Other Glitches

    Author and journalist Nicholas Yong launches his second book at the Singapore Writers Festival on Sunday, November 6. In “Track Faults and Other Glitches”, Nicholas Yong takes us on a journey into an alternate Singapore, where the impossible becomes real. (more…)

  • “There are too many episodes of people coming here…”

    “There are too many episodes of people coming here…”

    “There are too many episodes of people coming here…” builds on the previous exhibition’s interest towards the textuality of exhibitions, bringing in additional materials by artists Charles Lim, Dennis Tan and Zai Kuning as a means to rewrite and open up newer points of departure. Each work or project may be considered in its own right and contexts or may be read simultaneously as episodic units of meaning. This inclusion of newer materials by the aforementioned artists generates a new complexity for the exhibition, but at the same time points to the very conditions of the exhibitionary medium. (more…)