Glitch by Wu Jun Han (Singapore)
2022-09-01 20:00 - 21:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Goodman Arts Centre, 90 Goodman Road, Block O, Singapore, Singapore 439053, Singapore
We live in a time of unprecedented technological development. From ancient stone tools all the way to the computers that we use to work and live, we have always possessed the innate desire to progress and advance. We’ve come far enough that we’ve begun to trust in our computers in ways that we wouldn’t trust another human being.
As we further develop these systems, could we one day ask the machine to interpret our dreams?
Can we see ourselves in the machines we use?
Can we ground ourselves in the ‘now’ to catch a glimpse of possible futures?

(Use the promo code EB20 to enjoy 20% discount off ticket prices, until 18 July 2022)

CROSSING CULTURES: FASHIONABLE ASIA
2022-09-02 - 2022-09-04 | Asian Civilisations Museum, 1 Empress Pl,, Singapore, 179555, Singapore
Step into a world of mesmerising prints and patterns, designed and Made in Asia. Crossing Cultures takes on Asian fashion, with an outdoor fashion and upcycle market featuring local brands and fun textile craft activities, breathtaking performances of fashion-inspired music and dance from the Nusantara, and deep dives into our fashion and textiles collection through tours, workshops, and drop-in activities!
This edition of Crossing Cultures is held in conjunction with the ACM’s special exhibition Batik Kita: Dressing in Port Cities. Visit the exhibition at a special $10 discounted admission rate into Batik Kita: Dressing in Port Cities, only during programme timings (usual price: $12 for Singaporeans/PRs, $25 for foreigners).

SURVIVING HOPE
2022-09-02 20:00 - 22:00 | Gateway Theatre BlackBox, 3615 Jalan Bukit Merah, Singapore 159461, Singapore, 159461, Singapore
Surviving Hope is an original theatre play inspired by real stories exploring notions of hope and mental wellness. The Playwright, Ivan Lim, uses his personal experiences and theatrical know-how to juxtapose elements required to express the deepest and most intricate dilemmas faced in broken relationships. The term ‘Surviving Hope’ paints a faint optimism in overcoming our greatest fears and struggles and highlights the importance of staying committed till the very end. The play is presented in a covert narrative, through the eyes of children and parents, bringing out the ironies of human behaviors and conflicting mental states.
Surviving Hope is a theatre piece scripted to shed more light on the current stigma made on mental challenges in Singapore. The project seeks to stir deeper conversations and public discourse over mental issues people face and how it should be important for everyone to see a dim of hope in every one of our own struggles.
Actors: Adi Amon Mesika, Nini Chaiyanara, Risa Ann Wong, Miranda Ng, James Lee
Playwright : Ivan Lim
Director: Shana Yap
Dramaturg & Sound: Siti Z
Theme song composer: Rebecca Louise Burch
Producer: Dennis Toh

PRINT SCREEN Film Screening
2022-09-03 16:00 - 17:15 | ArtSpace @ HeluTrans, 39 Keppel Road, Singapore, 089065
Saturday, 3 September 2022 | 4.00PM — 5.15PM
Free Drop-in Event
ArtSpace @ HeluTrans
Join us for the first half of our Film Screening session, taking place on Saturday, 3 September from 4.00PM – 5.15PM.
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Rawuh (directed by Agung Kurniawan):
Jumarno and his wife are experiencing financial difficulties, making them even more dependent on their eldest son, Zainu, who works as an illegal laborer in Malaysia.
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Elephants in the City (directed by Dam Quang Trung):
An intimate sketch of urbanisation and human connection.
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Kasih Sayang Untuk Layla (directed by Nur Munawarah):
When a young girl’s mother travels abroad for work, she needs to find a way to overcome her longing for her mother and convince her strict grandmother to allow her to call her mother.

PRINT SCREEN Film Screening
2022-09-03 17:30 - 18:45 | ArtSpace @ HeluTrans, 39 Keppel Road, Singapore, 089065
Saturday, 3 September 2022 | 5.30PM — 6.45PM
Free Drop-in Event
ArtSpace @ HeluTrans
Join us for the first half of our Film Screening session, taking place on Saturday, 3 September from 5.30PM – 6.45PM.
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Judy Free (directed by Che Tagyamon)
A young girl’s reality is intruded when her migrant worker father suddenly comes home as an animated doodle figure.
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Bo Hai (directed by Duzan Duong)
Bo Hai takes an intimate look at a young man who helps out at his father’s mini-market. By showing everyday situations, the films introduces us to the life of young Vietnamese who have lived most of their life in the Czech Republic and are losing touch with the culture of their parents but at the same time are prevented from becoming fully-fledged members of Czech society.
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Manila is Full of Men Named Boy (directed by Andrew Stephen Lee)
As Michael Jackson’s televised funeral plays throughout The Philippines, an estranged son purchases a child who can drink and smoke to impress his father.

Drifted - an intergenerational contemporary dance production by Decadance Co.
2022-09-03 19:00 - 20:00 | 28 Aliwal St, Singapore 199918, 28 Aliwal St, Singapore 199918, Singapore, 199918, Singapore
Drifted explores grief, memory, and celebration, unfurling the different dynamics of loss for all bodies young and old. Taking reference from the book ‘Lost in the Clouds’ by Tom-Tinn Disbury as a starting point, Drifted is devised together with dancers from Decadance Co, our decak!ds young dancers, and seniors from our decasilver elderly community engagement program. This production is perfect for all ages, and will resonate with audiences new or familiar to contemporary dance. Journey through the landscape of life after loss with us, as we explore how emotional bonds are ageless, timeless, and unbound by physical presence.

STPI x OFFCUT / Bookmaking
2022-09-07 19:30 - 22:00 | Allegro Print, 61 Tai Seng Ave, #05-02/03/04 Print Media Hub, Singapore, 534167, Singapore
Various Wednesdays in September
7.30PM – 10.00PM

SGD 50 per pax
Recommended for ages 13 and above
Location: Allegro Print
Ahead of sustainability day, STPI joins forces with Allegro Print House for a bookmaking workshop using offcut materials. Discover the printing process at Allegro, and learn how our partnership contributes to their sustainability initiatives.
Find out more about OFFCUT here.
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STPI x OFFCUT / Bookmaking
2022-09-07 19:30 - 22:00 | Allegro Print, 61 Tai Seng Ave, #05-02/03/04 Print Media Hub, Singapore, 534167, Singapore
Various Wednesdays in September
7.30PM – 10.00PM

SGD 50 per pax
Recommended for ages 13 and above
Location: Allegro Print
Ahead of sustainability day, STPI joins forces with Allegro Print House for a bookmaking workshop using offcut materials. Discover the printing process at Allegro, and learn how our partnership contributes to their sustainability initiatives.
Participants will learn the coptic bookbinding stitch and create endpapers from an etched marbled copper plate.
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This workshop will take place at Allegro Print. Recommended for ages 13 and above.
Allegro Print
61 Tai Seng Ave, #05-02/03/04 Print Media Hub, Singapore 534167

MENG HUANG - Striking Distance
2022-09-08 - 2022-11-05 | Kang Contemporary, Lindenstraße 90 / Mendelssohnplatz, Berlin, Berlin, 10969
It is the empty space surrounding a mountain’s summit that accentuates its grandeur. Similarly, the sky above a field, the distance the human eye can suppose, emphasizes its vastness. Gazing into these distances suggests a visual-mental journey from the viewer’s position to somewhere else. The distance has no direction and no destination; the only clear variable is the point we are moving away from.
Meng Huang’s paintings have landscapes as their subject as much as the empty spaces above and around them. The formal and thematic immanence of distance in the artist’s works can be retraced in his biography. Despite Meng Huang’s move to Berlin 10 years ago, the artist’s thoughts and concerns remained with China. Already here and not yet arrived – that is one of the starting points of this exhibition, as well as the emotional and mental processes that follow the experience of cultural displacement and an encounter with distance. Evidently, the idiom “Striking Distance” implies a dual distance that can emerge when leaving a culture behind. Close enough to touch and simultaneously conspicuously distant. However, this year marks an immanent change in Meng Huang’s artistic work. For the first time, he is not exclusively painting Chinese landscapes but now also German and Austrian sceneries. Putting these landscape paintings from China, Germany and Austria into a dialogue captures a turning point. This incision perhaps suggests hope and the possibility of overcoming the emotional and cultural distance between oneself and a new environment. Learning to navigate the distance and find solitude, not in proximity to culture but to beliefs, permits new clarity to spread across the void and offers an unparalleled perspective on the world.
Additionally to the landscape paintings, Kang Contemporary shows waterscapes by Meng Huang on the upper level of the gallery. These paintings were initially created after the death of Liu Xiaobo. The waves, which in nature are never static, stop their movement as they are captured on the canvas. They mark the attempt to preserve a condition that cannot last; rather, it transforms continuously with persistent movement. Holding on, trying to make a moment last, and recognizing the impossibility of petrifying waves, reflects the process that comes with an involuntary distance between a person and their home. While the gallery’s lower level depicts Meng Huang’s journey of overcoming the mental distance between him and his new surroundings, the upper level offers an immersive experience into the emotional depths of cultural displacement. The viewer can be surrounded by the abysmal water and empathize with the moment of being midway between holding on and letting go, mirroring the natural pattern of water itself.
Besides the biographical themes, Meng Huang’s formal vocabulary unites his connection to two countries and cultures in an effortless and unexpected amalgamation of traditions. The philosophy of distance as a subject has greatly influenced Meng Huang’s paintings which were especially common during the Song dynasty. Moreover, the subject of remote locations as a retreat from the turmoils of political and civil society has a long tradition within Chinese art history. Vast landscapes and empty spaces serve as a representation of the self within a culture in which it is forced to withdraw into an internal exile. However, despite these parallels, the format of Meng Huang’s paintings is unlike these ancient Chinese landscapes. The monumental canvases he works with are more reminiscent of Western art history. Rather than moving along a scroll, the viewer is standing at a fixed point, gazing upon the scenery. While the artist does not include people in his paintings, they convey the unmistakable feeling that the human observer and with them, human turmoil is minuscule measured against the vastness of nature. Through his compositions and a muted palette, Meng Huang’s paintings are reminiscent of the philosophy and poetic emotions of German Romanticism. Moreover, the artist expands this vocabulary to a global magnitude. The themes of yearning for peacefulness and the longing for rest from social and political turmoil connect German and Chinese art histories. Adopting formal strategies that are intuitively legible in both nations, the artist employs his combined cultural knowledge into a new artistic tradition that can be understood universally.

Paula Böke

Moonfest – A Mid-Autumn Celebration 2022
2022-09-09 - 2022-09-11 | Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, 1 Esplanade Dr, 038981, Singapore
Moonfest – A Mid-Autumn Celebration is an annual traditional Chinese arts festival held in celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival. The festival is celebrated across the world by the Chinese, and their large and far-flung diaspora. While the celebrations differ in the various countries, the spirit remains the same. Families and friends gather to rejoice and give thanks for harmony and the fullness of life under a beautiful full moon. Celebrating this tradition, the 18th edition of Moonfest will be happening from 9 – 11 Sep 2022 with on-site live performances and ticketed workshops, with a peek behind-the-scenes online. It presents the opportunity for families and friends, young and old to be exposed to and rediscover the intrinsic beauty of traditional Chinese arts.

Can Everybody See My Screen?
2022-09-09 10:00 - 2022-12-11 19:00 | SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, 39 Keppel Rd, 01-02, Singapore 089065, Singapore, 089065, Singapore
As we navigate the spaces of the virtual, physical, digital, phygital – terms that have gained new meanings in and after the time of the pandemic – discover how artists explore the relationship between technology and the human body, and the space of the screen for interaction, bonding, imagination and worlding.

Can Everybody See My Screen? looks at the various ways in which artistic practices engage with an increasingly digitalised world—from the technological mediation of the senses and the body, to social critique, to how digital spaces may engender possibilities for self-identification, kinship, and love. Drawing from works in the SAM Collection and new commissions, the exhibition highlights recent explorations, as well as earlier practices from the 2000s.

Referencing one of the most repeated phrases that emerged from a long period of remote interactions, Can Everybody See My Screen? captures the ambivalence of bodies navigating technology, with the screen as the interface and locus of mediation.

#SOMERNIGHTS: NYFA FILM SCREENING
2022-09-09 19:30 - 2022-09-10 21:05 | Somerset Youth Park, 129 Devonshire Rd, 239886, Singapore
This upcoming weekend on 9 and 10 September, grab your family and friends, and head over to Somerset Youth Park for a family-friendly outdoor movie experience.
Lay out your picnic mats, put on your headphones, and get cosy under the stars with the exciting line-up of short films made by local filmmakers as part of the National Youth Film Awards (NYFA). There’s no better way to wrap up the weekend than this!
Registration is free, via the Cinewav app. Fastest fingers first as there are limited seats available!
NYFA is a national award recognising youths who have excelled across various aspects of filmmaking, empowering them to further their filmmaking ambitions, and serving as a springboard for them to enter the international film industry.

Journey West: White Bone Fiend 西游之三打白骨精
2022-09-09 19:30 - 2022-09-11 19:30 | Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre Auditorium, Level 9, 1 Straits Blvd, Singapore, Singapore, 018906, Singapore
In this episode from the well-loved Chinese epic adventure, Journey to the West, Master Tang San Zang and his disciples encounter the White Bone Fiend in their travels. Intent on dining on Tang San Zang, the demoness tricks him into expelling Sun Wu Kong, the Monkey God from the group. Will she succeed or will Wu Kong save the day?
Be delighted with this lively parable about trust, loyalty, friendship and compassion. Watch how these values come alive with traditional Chinese hand puppets, Pili puppets and shadow puppets.

Performed in Mandarin with English surtitles.

Suara Singa: A renaissance of the male voice ensemble
2022-09-11 15:00 - 21:00 | Esplanade Recital Studio, 1 Esplanade Dr, Singapore, 038981, Singapore
Suara Singa is an annual lower equal-voices ensemble performance by the Vox Camerata Male Chorus. It provides a platform for conductors and enthusiastic tenor and bass singers that deep-dives into repertoire that is not often performed in Singapore and allows them to experiment with the vocal sonority of equal voices.
This inaugural concert is led by the esteemed Dr. Zechariah Goh Toh Chai. He has curated a survey of TTBB repertoire that ranges from the late medieval period to contemporary pieces. We will also be featuring three of his works ‘4 Iron-Black Steeds’, ‘Strike the Drums’ and ‘Dawn of the New Millennium’. ‘Dawn of the New Millennium’ will be receiving its Singapore premiere in this concert. The ensemble is made up of established music teachers and performers gathered by their common interest in developing the performance capabilities of the local choral music scene.

almost home《我以为家》
2022-09-14 20:00 - 2022-09-18 21:00 | Practice Space, 54 Waterloo Street, 187953, Singapore
If home is where the heart is,
what do you do when your heart says,
“Actually… Is it ok if I don’t want to go home?”
Kuala Lumpur-born, Singapore-based Ng Mun Poh has spent the last 18 years of her life travelling between her two “homes”. As she should.
In a monodrama equal parts heartfelt and humorous, almost home dramatises the struggle of finding her place in a home where nothing, and yet so much has changed.
A first version of the work, Daughter, was received with rave reviews as part of Practice’s It’s Not About The Numbers series in September 2021. It has since been brilliantly reimagined for a black box stage in collaboration with director Yeo Lyle and dramaturg Neo Hai Bin.
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This project is supported by Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre and funded through the Singapore Chinese Cultural Contribution Award.

Producers SG #30: 5th Anniversary Party
2022-09-15 19:00 - 22:30 | The Projector X Riverside, 30 Merchant Road, #04-13, Singapore, 058282, Singapore
On 19 September 2017, a group of producers gathered for happy hour at the former Artistry café in Jalan Pinang to meet, chat, and commiserate. This month, we’ll be celebrating the 5th anniversary of that first Producers Social which started us all on this journey together.
Producers SG would like to share about some of the programmes and initiatives we’ve got coming up, as well as to re-introduce our Organising Team and welcome some new faces. But most of all, we’d love to catch up with all of you whom we’ve missed seeing the past two years!
Whether you’ve been with us from the very beginning, or have never had the chance to join our Socials because of the pandemic, you’re welcome to the party. We’ve missed you, so drinks are on us*! 😉
*Within reason, lah. 😀

Pulau Ujong / Island at the End
2022-09-15 19:30 - 2022-10-02 14:30 | The Ngee Ann Kongsi Theatre @ WILD RICE Funan, 107 North Bridge Road, Singapore, Singapore, 179105, Singapore
Pulau Ujong, or “Island at the End”, is one of the oldest recorded names for Singapore. But what was it like at the beginning, before humans started transforming the landscape? What lifeforms once filled its rainforests and rivers, and which ones are now extinct? With temperatures soaring twice as fast as the rest of the world, what will this island’s future look like?
Written with heartfelt insight by award-winning playwright Alfian Sa’at, Pulau Ujong is a riveting piece of documentary theatre featuring interviews with climate scientists, botanists, zoologists, environmental historians and activists. Their words, wishes and worries for the world take centre stage alongside the more-than-human voices we all need to hear – from zoo mascot Ah Meng to Singapore’s last tiger.
Brought to thrilling, kaleidoscopic heights by director Edith Podesta and a brilliant ensemble cast, Pulau Ujong is both an elegy and a cry of hope. At a time when we can no longer afford to turn a blind eye to climate change as it ravages the entire planet, Pulau Ujong invites audiences to re-acquaint themselves with the miracles and mysteries of the natural world.
Starring Al-Matin Yatim, Ryan Ang, Koh Wan Ching, Krish Natarajan, Siti Khalijah Zainal
Duration: approximately 1 hour 30 minutes (with no interval)
IMDA Rating: TBA

Fashionably Late at ACM
2022-09-16 | Asian Civilisations Museum, 1 Empress Pl,, Singapore, 179555, Singapore
Missed out on the last Fashionably Late? Join us for the final run at ACM on Friday, 16 September, as we explore facets of contemporary fashion. Keep a look out for a special silkscreen activity, our student curator tours, fashion and book swaps, and a hands-on finger knitting session.
This programme was jointly developed by Ethan Lai and Sophie Tan, from LASALLE College of the Arts, and ACM’s Audience team.

Anthony Chua Say Hua the echoes and eclipses of traditions
2022-09-16 - 2022-09-30 | artcommune gallery, 76 Bras Basah Rd, #01-01, Singapore 189558, Singapore, Singapore, 189558, Singapore
AC43 Gallery is pleased to present Singapore artist Anthony Chua Say Hua’s latest solo exhibition, Anthony Chua Say Hua: The Echoes and Eclipses of Traditions. Featuring around 15 ink works completed in the period of 2015-2022, the showcase provides audience a quick survey of Anthony Chua’s contemporary ink approach, which experiments widely with effects of smudging, rubbing and layering of ink, as well as non-brush and collage techniques. The show officially opens on Friday, 16 September 2022, 6 – 8pm at AC43 Gallery, with the artist in attendance.
Anthony Chua is most known for his contemporary abstract ink renditions of local heritage shophouse scenes. His interpretations of these familiar landscapes and buildings, such as Under the Banyan Tree and Boat Quay, merge Chinese monochrome aesthetics and daxieyi (大写意; writing the idea) brush style with Western abstraction techniques in pure lines and shapes.
Like the Nanyang art pioneers before him, Anthony Chua holds sacrosanct the principle of learning from and drawing on traditions without being slavishly bound by them. Having worked with Chinese ink and rice paper for over two decades, he constantly seeks to transcend beyond familiar techniques and conventions. His new mixed media collage, In Search of Shangri-la, presents an enormous euphonious network of association formed through disparate and painted paper fragments that include spliced rice paper, newspaper, calendar pages and even a money bill. Images are laid upon images, just as his ink sits layered upon ink, evoking a multi-layered continuum where time, space and cultures collide. Amidst this Western collage approach, his handling of materials and paints amplifies rather than diminishes the rich ink wash subtleties intrinsic to Chinese ink tradition, revealing a work that successfully embodies an East-West fusion and the expressive potential woven from these tensions. Bold and stylised in conception, his work invites viewers to meander through the echoes and eclipses of traditions.

Anthony Chua Say Hua (b. Singapore, 1966) is a multiple award-winning artist who has been practising full-time art since 1996. An alumnus of the Goldsmiths College, University of London under the Chen Chong Swee Overseas Art Scholarship and former winner of the National Arts Council’s Young Artist Award (2001), Anthony Chua also won the Silver Award in the established artist category in the 33rd UOB Painting of the Year Competition in 2014.
Apart from experimenting with different compositional themes, Anthony Chua is versatile in employing effects of smudging, rubbing and layering of ink to expand on the interesting subtleties of ink wash on rice paper. The artist is also known for utilising different types of brushes and unconventional tools such as peacock feathers and squeeze bottles in his paintings.

ROME INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2022 – 4TH EDITION
2022-09-16 09:30 - 2022-09-29 17:30
CALL FOR ARTISTS: ROME INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2022 – 4th edition
Rome, Italy | September 16 – 29, 2022
Deadline: August 05, 2022
ROME INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2022 is a contemporary art fair that presents collective and solo projects by leading and emerging international artists. The 4th edition will represent a forum for the direct exchange of ideas and contacts between collectors, artists, photographers, designers and art professionals. The art fair features paintings, sculptures, photography art, installations, video art and live performance.
ROME INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2022 – 4th edition, organized by ITSLIQUID Group, will be held in Rome, at Medina Art Gallery from September 16 to September 29, 2022.

more. www.itsliquid.com

Esplanade Presents - Charlie Lim & The Great Wave
2022-09-16 19:30 - 21:00 | Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, 1 Esplanade Dr, 038981, Singapore
Charlie Lim returns to the Esplanade Concert Hall once again, this time with a stellar line-up of guest artists from The Great Wave, a new artist collective set to release collaborative works.
Indulge in the musical synergies between Charlie and these artists as they perform their original music, backed by Charlie’s superband of seasoned musicians, The Mothership. Beyond musical exchange, the artists will also share their personal experiences in songwriting along with insights into their creative processes through candid on-stage conversations.
Be part of this new chapter of Charlie’s musical journey and experience the next great wave of talented young artists!
A programme of PopLore, in celebration of Esplanade’s 20th anniversary.
Discover and relive the epic, storied and exhilarating journeys of different generations through Singapore popular music and culture.

ASEAN-EU Cultural Festival
2022-09-19 - 2022-09-25
We are pleased to welcome you to the ASEAN-EU Cultural Festival.
This is the first edition of the festival, and it stands under the sign of youth. It features a new generation of artists sharing their ideas, struggles and hopes. This generation strengthens ties between our two continents and stimulates a fruitful dialogue over a more inclusive, sustainable and resilient society.
In our music programme, jazz musicians from different backgrounds come together to create unexplored soundscapes while revisiting traditional melodies. Rock guitar riffs and rap flows echo the interrogations of art and creation on today’s greatest issues. Cinematic works reflect the hopes of a rising generation dedicated to a world that respects individual and collective rights: the right of women to be emancipated from the authority of men, the right of young people to live in a better world, the right of the handicapped to be integrated into society and the right of migrants to be treated as human beings.
Finally, the exhibition Butterflies count not months but moments, and have enough time brings together the young generation’s artistic perspectives on the idea of nature as a site for environmental and philosophical imagination. The exhibition questions the very notion of sustainability in terms of the circular economy and in relation to cultural belonging.
To celebrate the 45 years of friendship between the European Union and ASEAN, we invite you to a festival that is resolutely in tune with our times.

A Land Imagined: A Transnational Framework On Land Reclamation And Labour
2022-09-22 20:00 - 21:30 | Zoom, N.A.
T:>Works features PerForm Fellow Dr Jerrine Tan, a researcher, writer and assistant professor at City University Hong Kong, in the next PerForm keynote, A Land Imagined: A Transnational Framework on Land Reclamation and Labour. Referencing Yeo Siew Hua’s neo-noir mystery thriller film A Land Imagined, as well as Saidiya Hartman’s work on the fungibility of bodies and Lisa Lowe’s writings on immigration and citizenship, Dr Tan brings together a lecture that allegorises the movement of land across bodies of water for the similar movement of indentured labourers. It further unpacks the film’s imaginative and responsible form of transnational assemblage which connects cultures and people not through labour or even soil, but through art.
Image credits: Akanga Film Asia

A Journey of Shared Memories
2022-09-23 11:00 - 2022-10-02 21:00 | ShouShan ArtSpace, 37 Jalan Pemimpin #06-06, Mapex, Singapore, 577177, Singapore
Visit internationally acclaimed oil painter Eu Oy Chun’s solo exhibition: A Journey of Shared Memories, where a selection of this local artist’s best works from the past 10 years are on display. In this exhibition, Eu immortalises sights from her past, including a stunning variety of encounters with daily life from all around the world.
Eu hopes her work will bring back experiences from your past, inspiring you to reflect on your emotions and allow old memories to resurface. Visitors may participate in interactive activities that allow your stories to form a part of the exhibit, building an ever-growing narrative behind each painting. Come visit us at ShouShan ArtSpace to peek into Eu’s world and share your unique stories.
参观国际知名油画家余爱珍的个展：《共同回忆之旅》，展出了这位本地艺术家近十年的优秀作品。 在这次展览中，展示了她的过去，包括与世界各地日常生活的各种接触
余希望她的作品能让你回忆起过去的经历，激励您反思自己的情绪，让旧的记忆重现。 参观者可以参与互动活动，让您的故事成为展览的一部分，在每幅画的背后建立一个不断增长的叙述。 欢迎来寿善艺术空间 (ShouShan ArtSpace)，窥探余的世界，分享您独特的故事。

Sugar Pills for a Bitter World
2022-09-23 12:00 - 2022-11-06 16:00 | Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, 155 Middle Road, Singapore, 188977, Singapore
Sugar Pills for a Bitter World
Curated by Daniel Chong with works by Desiree Tham, Eng Kai Er, Mike HJ Chang, Ryan Lim Zi Yi and Yeyoon Avis
Recipient of Curator Open Call 2022
Presented by Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film
“We live in an age of absurdity. Every new event is somehow more ridiculous than the last. Our financial systems constantly hang in the balance; we’re forever in a health crisis; even the concept of truth has changed. What a time to be alive.
Yet in this post-truth, late-stage capitalist, populist, Anthropocene, I’ve found sweet relief in a new brand of humour. This serotonin boost goes by many names: Gen-Z humour, TikTok humour or Post-Dada irony. Often defined by its generational difference, it is marked by its low video quality and unplanned randomness. However, it is often misunderstood as mere attempts to laugh away the pain. In a generation that has dealt with the increasingly illogical nature of the world, this brand of humour is not just a mere joke. In fact, within its absurdity are honest attempts to make sense of the world. They have developed their own sugar pill – a placebo activated from belief.
This exhibition functions as a sampler – a conceptual pillbox. Containing the work of 5 artists, each of them have developed their own sugar pills, placebos to process and guide them through their times. They too are honest responses created in the vernacular chaos of our era, synthesising works that sit between the poetic and the hilarious.
Their art is an incidental reflection. While not a direct response to the ailments plaguing our world today, they are clearly of its time. Sugar pills do not inherently heal, but through belief, affect change. Similarly, it is the artists’ earnest responses that have led the curation of this show. Selected for their commitment to their practices and their embrace of the absurd, they have formed their own internal structures and logics – crystallisation of their pursuits.
With each practice comes its own brand of sugar pill, and with each pill an acknowledgement of its size. A sugar pill is small. It pales in comparison to the monstrosity of the world. Yet, this tiny pill, with enough faith, commitment and hope, can help relieve even for a little while.”
— Daniel Chong, Curator
Presented by Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film
Supported by the Cultural Matching Fund
Exhibition Programme Schedule
Opening: Thu 22 Sep, 6pm – 9pm
Formulating Sugar Pills for a Bitter World: A Discussion with Daniel Chong and Sam I-shan
Sat 24 Sept | 2-3pm, at Objectifs Workshop Space (Register here)
Exhibition Activation: In other words – an off script gym
Sun 9 Oct, 23 Oct, and 6 Nov | 4-6pm, at Objectifs Chapel Gallery (Register here)
Guided Tour with Curator
Sat 15 Oct | 2-3pm, at Objectifs Chapel Gallery (Register here)
Ba-Zi Reading by Desiree Tham
Sun 23 Oct | 1-5pm, at Objectifs Lower Gallery (Register here)
Guided Tour with Curator and Artists
Sun 30 Oct | 2-3pm, at Objectifs Chapel Gallery (Register here)

Candlelight: A Tribute to Lady Gaga
2022-09-23 19:00 - 20:00 | The Arts House, 1 Old Parliament Lane, Singapore, Singapore
⭐ Candlelight Concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Singapore. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Lady Gaga at Chamber, The Arts House under the gentle glow of candlelight.
General Info
📍 Venue: Chamber, The Arts House
📅 Dates and times: 23 September at 7 p.m.
⏳ Duration: 65 minutes (doors open 30 mins prior to the start time and late entry is not permitted)
👤 Age requirement: 8+. Anyone under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult
♿ Accessibility: this venue is partially wheelchair-accessible. Please see FAQs
❓ View the FAQs for this event here
✔️ Safety measures will be in place throughout the experience
🪑 Seating is assigned on a first come first served basis in each zone
🕯️ If you would like to book a private concert, please click here
Tentative Programme

Bad Romance
Born This Way
Just Dance
Alejandro
Shallow
The Edge of Glory
Million Reasons
Poker Face
You & I
Paparazzi
I’ll Never Love Again
Always Remember Us This Way

Programme subject to change
Performers

Solo pianist – Churen Li

Candlelight: A Tribute to ABBA
2022-09-23 19:00 - 20:00 | CHIJMES Hall, 30 Victoria Street, #01-28 CHIJMES, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore 187996, Singapore
⭐ Candlelight Concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Singapore. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of ABBA at the CHIJMES Hall under the gentle glow of candlelight.
General Info
📍 Venue: CHIJMES Hall
📅 Dates and times: various dates at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. (select during purchase)
⏳ Duration: 65 minutes (doors open 30 mins prior to the start time and late entry is not permitted)
👤 Age requirement: 8 years old or older. Anyone under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult
♿ Accessibility: this venue is fully wheelchair-accessible
❓ View the FAQs for this event here
✔️ Safety measures will be in place throughout the experience
🪑 Seating is assigned on a first come first served basis in each zone
🕯️ If you would like to book a private concert, please click here
Programme

Mamma Mia
The Winner Takes it all
Money Money Money
The Name of the Game
SOS
Angeleyes
Fernando
Waterloo
Gimme Gimme Gimme
Dancing Queen
and many more!

Performers

String quartet – VOX

Candlelight: Chopin’s Best Works at The Arts House
2022-09-23 21:00 - 22:00 | The Arts House, 1 Old Parliament Lane, Singapore, Singapore
⭐ Candlelight Concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Singapore. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Chopin at Chamber, The Arts House under the gentle glow of candlelight.
General Info
📍 Venue: Chamber, The Arts House
📅 Dates and times: 23 September at 9 p.m.
⏳ Duration: 65 minutes (doors open 30 mins prior to the start time and late entry is not permitted)
👤 Age requirement: 8+. Anyone under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult
♿ Accessibility: this venue is partially wheelchair-accessible. Please see FAQs
❓ View the FAQs for this event here
✔️ Safety measures will be in place throughout the experience
🪑 Seating is assigned on a first come first served basis in each zone
🕯️ If you would like to book a private concert (min 40+ people), please click here
Programme

Nocturne in E-flat Major, op. 9 no. 2
Fantasie-Impromptu in C# Minor
Prelude in D-flat Major, op. 28 no. 15
Etude op. 10 no. 12 “Revolutionary”
Waltz in C sharp minor, op. 64 no. 2
Scherzo no. 4 in E major, op. 54
Ballade no. 4 in F minor, op. 52
Prelude in E minor, op. 28 no. 4

Performers

Pianist – Churen Li
