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SUMMARY:Objectifs Film Club: Tenebrae by Nicole Midori Woodford
DESCRIPTION:Objectifs Film Club: Tenebrae by Nicole Midori Woodford\nTue 21 Mar 2023\, 7.30pm to 8.30pm\nVenue: Objectifs Workshop Space \nFree admission\, please RSVP here. \nThe word ‘renewal’ is seldom distant from the collective Singaporean consciousness. Bringing to mind the age-old national narrative of constant progress and development\, where our skills and environment are forever subjected to upgrading\, the beginning of each new year also encloses the word within a more personal sphere as we contemplate changes to old habits and come up with new year resolutions. \nCome join us at our first Film Club session of the year\, which will feature a screening of Tenebrae by Nicole Midori Woodford. This will be followed by a conversation between the filmmaker herself and Singaporean poet\, Crispin Rodrigues\, who will be reading a poem in tandem with the screening. Besides looking at what is lost and gained when renewal takes place\, the discussion will also examine other pertinent questions drawn out by the film – like what\, for instance\, irrevocably leaves its mark\, and how moving images and poetry alike can capture both situational gravitas and the emotions that bubble beneath during processes of renewal. \nLearn about the film here.
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SUMMARY:Objectifs Documentary Award 2023 Open Call
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: Sunday 16 April 2023 (2359H SGT)\nSubmit your application here \nThe Objectifs Documentary Award champions Objectifs’ mission to broaden perspectives through image making\, by supporting original voices in visual storytelling in Singapore and the wider region. The Award enables photographers to work on new or existing projects\, encouraging them to tell stories about their native communities. It welcomes different creative approaches to non-fiction storytelling\, from conventional documentary photography to visual experiments. Projects may be presented in still images or use multimedia. \nSuccessful recipients will be given professional and financial support to work on their projects over a 6 month-long period. The final works will exhibited at Objectifs in March to April 2024. Deadline for applications is Sunday\, 16 April 2023 (2359H SGT). \nAWARDS \n1) Open Category\nThe Open Category is awarded to 1 recipient from Southeast Asia. The recipient will work with curator Roger Nelson to curate and present a solo exhibition at Objectifs in March 2024\, and SGD$2\,500 to work on a new or existing body of work. \n2) Emerging Category\nThe Emerging Category will be awarded to 2 recipients from Southeast Asia. Each recipient receives a 6 month-long mentorship with photographer and curator Ng Swan Ti\, a presentation at Objectifs in March 2024\, and SGD$1\,000 to work on a new or existing body of work. \nRecipients will receive production and logistical support from Objectifs for the exhibition. Completed works will be promoted on Objectifs’ website and social media channels. If the recipient is not based in Singapore\, they will receive financial support for budget flights and accommodation to attend the setting up of and opening of the exhibition and conduct an artist talk/presentation. \nSELECTION PANEL  \nA panel of three jury members will review the application materials. Jury members are: \n\nNg Swan Ti\, Managing Director of PannaFoto Institute and Exhibitions Director at Jakarta International Photo Institute. Emerging Category Mentor for 2023\nRoger Nelson\, curator\, art historian\, and Assistant Professor of Art History in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore. Open Category Curator for 2023.\nMuhammad Fadli Documentary Photographer and Producer\, Emerging Category Mentor for 2022\nSiddharta Perez Curator\, Educator and Organiser\, Open Category Curator for 2022\nChelsea Chua\, Programme Director\, Objectifs\n\nSELECTION PROCESS \nSelection will be based on the artistic and intellectual merit of each applicant’s project. We will also consider the feasibility of the applicant completing the project by 2 Jan 2023. Shortlisted applicants will be interviewed by the jury about their project. Successful recipients will be contacted by May 2023. \n\nApplication Deadline: Sun 16 Apr 2023\, 2359H (SGT)\nAnnouncement of Grantees: May 2023\nCompletion of Awarded Projects: Jan 2024\n\nAPPLICATION CRITERIA  \nWe are seeking work created in photographers’ current or native communities. We welcome different creative approaches to non-fiction storytelling\, including social documentary\, portraiture\, conceptual and art photography. Your final work can be entirely in still photography or use multimedia. \nThe project may be new or existing (if existing\, the photographer must communicate in his/her proposal what additional plans there are for the project)\, and must be completed by January 2024. 
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/objectifs-documentary-award-2023-open-call/
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SUMMARY:Soo Bin - Life of Art\, Art of Life
DESCRIPTION:Featuring the works of Chua Soo Bin\n15 Jan to 26 Mar 2023\nChapel Gallery\, Objectifs\n \nWanted! Photographer-at-Large (RSVP here)\nSat 4 Feb\, 2.30pm | Objectifs Chapel Gallery \nChua Soo Bin’s first exhibition in the post-pandemic period\, following his retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery Singapore (in 2019-2020) is presented in collaboration with Objectifs\, Singapore’s definitive centre for photography and film. \nThe exhibition is accompanied by a full-colour large-format publication of the same title; both exhibition and book commemorate the remarkable life and photographic practice of Cultural Medallion awardee Chua Soo Bin\, bringing to the fore his personal and professional experiences as well as life philosophies that have been honed through the years. \nSpecially curated for display in the Objectifs’ gallery space (a heritage building that was a former chapel built in 1872)\, the exhibition offers highlights from every significant phase of Soo Bin’s practice – with photographs of the 1950s and 60s when he was actively involved with salon photography; to the advertising and professional photographic campaigns of the 1970s-1980s in his ascent as one of Singapore’s award-winning photographers; his magnum opus (1984-88)\, the Legends suite of photographs of 14 Chinese ink masters including Singapore’s Dr. Chen Wen Hsi; his emergence as a gallerist-dealer of foresight and vision in the 1990s\, and his continuing creative work that includes photographs of Singapore artists Liu Kang\, Wu Tsai Yen\, Chua Ek Kay\, Chng Seok Tin and Lee Wen. \nThis solo exhibition presents aspects of Singapore’s exemplary ‘multi-hyphenate’ – in his roles as artist-photographer\, art entrepreneur\, art advisor\, patron and benefactor – offering glimpses into 90 years of an extraordinary life that has been bound up with and enriched by photography and art; and that shares Soo Bin’s precious philosophy of the art of joyful living.
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/soo-bin-life-of-art-art-of-life/
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SUMMARY:Bad Clocks: Alley Through a Pinhole
DESCRIPTION:Bad Clocks: Alley Through a Pinhole by DASSAD\, in collaboration with Victoria Hertel\, Neo Jialing\, Euginia Tan\n6 Jan to 4 Feb 2023\nObjectifs\, Lower Gallery \nFree admission \nPinhole Photography Workshop\, $75 (Register here)\nSat 14 Jan\, 10am – 1pm | Objectifs Workshop Space\n\nArtist Talk (Register here)\n28 Jan\, 3pm | Objectifs Workshop Space \nBad Clocks: Alley Through a Pinhole is a site-specific and immersive installation that introduces a camera obscura into the Lower Gallery of Objectifs. By creating a pinhole in a darkened room\, the environment surrounding the gallery projects back into its interiors\, blending indoor and outdoor spaces with light. \nBad Clocks is an ongoing concept explored by DASSAD to reconsider the ways we understand and define time. This iteration explores the perception of time within the camera obscura\, tracing back to the beginnings of photography. The camera obscura becomes a playground for interdisciplinary collaborations\, inspiring visual\, sound\, performance and installation-based works concerned about the passing of time. This exhibition is led by DASSAD\, in collaboration with installation artist\, Victoria Hertel\, movement artist\, Neo Jialing\, and writer\, Euginia Tan\, and with venue support from Objectifs.
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/bad-clocks-alley-through-a-pinhole/
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SUMMARY:Sugar Pills for a Bitter World
DESCRIPTION:Sugar Pills for a Bitter World \nCurated by Daniel Chong with works by Desiree Tham\, Eng Kai Er\, Mike HJ Chang\, Ryan Lim Zi Yi and Yeyoon Avis\nRecipient of Curator Open Call 2022\nPresented by Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film \n“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. \nYet 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. \nThis 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. \nTheir 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. \nWith 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.” \n— Daniel Chong\, Curator \nPresented by Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film\nSupported by the Cultural Matching Fund \nExhibition Programme Schedule \nOpening: Thu 22 Sep\, 6pm – 9pm \nFormulating Sugar Pills for a Bitter World: A Discussion with Daniel Chong and Sam I-shan\nSat 24 Sept | 2-3pm\, at Objectifs Workshop Space (Register here) \nExhibition Activation: In other words – an off script gym\nSun 9 Oct\, 23 Oct\, and 6 Nov | 4-6pm\, at Objectifs Chapel Gallery (Register here) \nGuided Tour with Curator\nSat 15 Oct | 2-3pm\, at Objectifs Chapel Gallery (Register here) \nBa-Zi Reading by Desiree Tham\nSun 23 Oct | 1-5pm\, at Objectifs Lower Gallery (Register here) \nGuided Tour with Curator and Artists\nSun 30 Oct | 2-3pm\, at Objectifs Chapel Gallery (Register here)
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/sugar-pills-for-a-bitter-world/
LOCATION:Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film\, 155 Middle Road\, Singapore\, 188977\, Singapore
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SUMMARY:Young Photographers’ Mentorship Programme (YPMP) Open Call
DESCRIPTION:The Young Photographers’ Mentorship Programme (YPMP) aims to develop the artistic voice and ambitions of emerging photographers. This three-month long mentorship programme encourages them to explore and experiment with image-based work\, and deepen their understanding of the creative and professional possibilities in photography. The programme was formerly known as the Shooting Home Youth Awards. \nParticipants will have the opportunity to learn from some of the region’s foremost young artists and photographers as mentors and guest lecturers. Topics covered include how to develop a personal photographic practice\, professional and ethical considerations\, and exhibition making. They will work towards completing one photo project\, which will be presented at Objectifs in a group exhibition at the end of programme. \nYPMP is open to Singapore-based photographers aged 15 to 23 years old. Only 12 participants will be selected for this programme. Participants must attend all workshop sessions in person. \nApplications for the Young Photographers’ Mentorship Programme 2022 are open till Mon\, 3 Oct 2022 (2359H).
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/young-photographers-mentorship-programme-ypmp-open-call/
LOCATION:Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film\, 155 Middle Road\, Singapore\, 188977\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Other (Events),Workshop & Talks (Events)
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SUMMARY:Memory is my Sixth Sense by Aparna Nori
DESCRIPTION:“In a world where there is a growing appreciation for all processes handcrafted and homespun\, the dark room yet again becomes a place of mystique and intrigue. Artists entering with a strong sense of conviction and direction about their work often emerge from its dark lairs laced with philosophical undertones that change the way they look at their own work. It is a necessary moulting of hardened ideas\, shedding of preconceived notions and tensions\, and the possibility of a new light to observe their work with. The dark room is a critical tool of this metamorphosis. \nHaving begun her practice in the analog era\, Aparna Nori begins her second and exciting tryst with the dark room on a completely different level. Not only has she turned to photographic processes that are much older (some one hundred and fifty years old) to play with\, but has consciously attempted to create new work and marry it with a process that lends itself to the expression of the story in the most meaningful way. \nWith her exhibition titled Memory is my Sixth Sense\, Aparna presents two bodies of work\, both created using the Salted Paper process. In “Nalla Pilla”\, the mosaic of her skin and its many folds that hang heavily with the burden of years of slow trauma seem fragile and translucent\, yet taut in its tenacity. If one lingers\, the mosaic turns into a quiet celebration of the diversity of the tones – not just of the medium\, but of her skin that held her together through those times. In the second work that shares the title of the exhibition\, the prints depicting the couplet of Rajnigandha flowers\, harbour in its visible brush strokes the many shades of emotions that are associated with the memories of her mother. The lines\, like tree rings – a visible testimony to the passage of time.” \nVivek Muthuramalingam\nLens based artist & Documentarian
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/memory-is-my-sixth-sense-by-aparna-nori/
LOCATION:Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film\, 155 Middle Road\, Singapore\, 188977\, Singapore
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SUMMARY:Objectifs Cinema: Now Showing
DESCRIPTION:Objectifs Cinema: Now Showing showcases the best of Southeast Asian short films across all genres\, from narrative\, documentary\, to experimental. From 14 July to 11 September 2022\, film lovers can expect to see a rotating series of short films from around Southeast Asia\, screened in four parts at the Objectifs Chapel Gallery. \nOver 30 short films selected from the region will be screened during the exhibition period\, including films by award-winning Singaporean filmmakers Boo Junfeng and Kirsten Tan\, and Southeast Asian talents such as Martika Ramirez Escobar and Carlo Francisco Manatad\, whose works have been recognised internationally. Audiences will also have the opportunity to participate in conversations to learn more about the craft and inspiration behind their iconic works. \nFor film enthusiasts and cinephiles\, there will also be a film memorabilia corner at the exhibition where items such as collectibles\, posters\, promotional material\, and more can be exchanged. Aspiring filmmakers can look forward to attending regular gatherings at Objectifs\, where they can connect and network with like-minded individuals in the film community.
URL:https://artsequator.com/event/objectifs-cinema-now-showing/
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