[WORKSHOP] Ways of Seeing: A pinhole photography workshop by Kee Ya Ting and Isabelle Desjeux
Date: Sat–Sun, 27–28 Jul and 4 Aug
Time: Various timings
Venue: SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Level 3, Corporate Office, Main Deck
$22 per ticket | Ages 14 and up

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Get acquainted with one of the simplest ways to document your environment: a pinhole camera. Make one of your own using an aluminium can, a light-sealed box and photo paper! Rediscover the world around you with the negatives that you capture: observe how light and shadows interact, how perspectives can be widened and time made to stand still.

 

In this workshop, this no-lens image-making technique is demystified. Participants will make their own pinhole camera from materials found at home, learn how to expose a shot and experience developing their images in a makeshift darkroom.

 

Disclaimer
- This workshop is suitable for participants aged 14 and above. Please note that Singapore Art Museum reserves the right to turn away registrants who do not meet the requirements to participate in this programme.
- Successful registrants will be informed to bring a list of materials to use during the workshop. We seek your cooperation in making this a sustainable programme by reusing materials found from home.
- During the workshop, please be mindful of your surroundings. By participating in this activity, you consent that Singapore Art Museum will not be liable for any injury, loss or damage that you may sustain during this programme.

 

About Kee Ya Ting
Kee Ya Ting is the pocket rocket powering The Kyt Studio who often zips around on her trusty Lambretta scooter or cooks up weird ideas with other creative collaborators. An artist, photographer and video producer, Kee revels in projects where she can mesh her formal art sensibilities with an edgy commercial perspective. Her photographic works have been shown in the Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF), the Dali International Photography Festival and the M1 Fringe Festival. Her most recent solo exhibition in 2022, Monday Mornings, I Whispered, explored scenes of Singapore’s wilderness through encaustic photographs.

About Isabelle Desjeux
Isabelle Desjeux is a Singapore-based artist and researcher. Using her training in Molecular Biology and by working closely with scientists, she creates works based on the scientific method. She encourages participants to assume the perspective of a scientist in her interventions, whether they are in a class, a workshop or experiencing an installation. Camera obscura and pinhole photography have been a prominent part of her practice and teaching since 2014. She received her Masters in Fine Arts from LASALLE and received the French + Singapore New Generation Artist award in 2011 and was a LASALLE Research Fellow in 2017. Her works have been exhibited in Singapore, Japan and the United States. She currently runs a residency space in a pre-school, where she invites artists to experiment and let children into their processes.

Sekali Theia: An audio experience by bani haykal and ila
Date: Sat, 27 Jul and 3 Aug
Time: 7–8pm
Venue: Meet at Tanglin Halt Market
$10 (refundable, T&Cs apply)

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Sekali Theia is a sprawling audio experience that responds to Sookoon Ang’s public art commission, Moonlight. Taking inspiration from the emptied flats of Tanglin Halt and the ghost tracks that run down the Rail Corridor, Sekali Theia explores how different layers of time and space can occur simultaneously and transform the bodies that pass through them.

 

The audio experience begins with a self-guided walk and ends with a live performance. It is an invitation to listen deeply and be attuned to the fragments of a place, each one displaced or emplaced over time and preceded by the hypothesised collision of Planet Theia into proto-Earth. This single cosmic event, which birthed the moon, seasons and tides, has rippling echoes that continue to unfurl in all matter—environments, flora and fauna—through endless cycles of creation and destruction.

 

ila and bani haykal will be performing solo live sets on 27 July and 3 August respectively.

 

About bani haykal
bani haykal experiments with text and music. As an artist and musician, his work revolves around human-machine relationships and intimacies as well as examining and reflecting on how tools and technologies have shaped and continue to shape our experiences as we navigate places and people. Manifestations of his research include site-responsive installations, poetry and performance. bani has participated in festivals including Other Futures (The Netherlands), MeCA Festival (Japan), Wiener Festwochen (Austria), Media/Art Kitchen (Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia and Japan) and Liquid Architecture (Australia/Singapore), among others.

About ila
ila is a visual and performance artist whose intimate works incorporate archives, moving images and live performance. Her works reconfigure and merge speculative fiction with factual histories, informal archives and collective experiences, conceiving them as sites for empathy and connection. ila’s works have been included in group shows such as Singapore Biennale 2022 named Natasha; Proposals for Novel Ways of Being, National Gallery Singapore (2020); 2219: Futures Imagined, ArtScience Museum (2019) and Arus Balik: From below the wind to above the wind and back again, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (2019). She has also exhibited at the National Design Centre (2019); Coda Culture, Singapore (2018); Objectifs – Centre for Photography & Film (2016); Ketemu Project Space, Bali (2016) and Unifiedfield, Granada (2015), among other spaces.

Under the Banyan: A storyteller responds
Date: Sun, 28 Jul and 4 Aug
Time: 11am–12pm
Venue: SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Level 3, Corporate Office, Main Deck
Free with registration

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In Malay folklore, the banyan tree is a gateway into other realms and an important source of Indigenous knowledge in contemporary urban life. Inspired by Shooshie Sulaiman's Kancil Mengadap Beringin and informed by a visit to the Southern Islands where the artwork is sited, oral tradition practitioner Kamini Ramachandran presents a lecture-performance that weaves her personal stories with extracts from the artist's storybook, which accompanies the artwork.

 

Joined by sound artist Syafiq Halid, with contributions by photographer Joseph Nair, Under the Banyan is an intimate, multi-sensorial experience that uncovers our metaphorical and spiritual connections to the banyan tree as a mediator of worlds, mother of the forest and the tree of life.

 

This programme is free with registration. Limited seats are available.

 

About Kamini Ramachandran
Growing up amidst vast plantations in Malaysia, Kamini Ramachandran shares a similar childhood background with Shooshie Sulaiman, as well as the same concerns about the transmission of oral traditions and values passed down through folklore. Kamini founded MoonShadow Stories, a storytelling entity that promotes oral traditions, which held its first performance at the Substation, coincidentally where the banyan tree featured in Kancil Mengadap Beringin was nurtured as a sapling.

Wild Neighbours: Film screening and conversation with Divaagar, Jun Chong and Melody Wu
Date: Fri, 2 Aug
Time: 7–8.30pm
Venue: SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Level 3, Corporate Office, Main Deck
Free with registration

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Since April 2023, Divaagar’s Everfowl Estate has been on view at Block 1 Everton Park as part of The Everyday Museum’s public art commissioning series, Port/raits of Tanjong Pagar. This artwork playfully proposes a civilised living environment for the junglefowl that roam around the neighbourhood and suggests the possibility of harmonious living with our nonhuman counterparts. Everfowl Estate examines how city inhabitants engage with public spaces and highlights the urban ecosystems that exist amidst and are affected by constant urban development. Joined by filmmaker Jun Chong, the director of 《新民》 New Resident, and avian specialist and researcher Melody Wu, this programme invites contemplation on the nuanced dynamics between humans and nature as well as art, science and habitat.

 

The evening includes a screening of 《新民》New Resident, a narrative short film by Chong that spotlights the unlikely relationship between a resident and the wild chickens found at her estate in Sin Ming.

 

About Jun Chong
Jun Chong is a Singapore filmmaker and producer who is interested in stories that people can connect to deeply. His debut short film 《客》premiered at the Busan International Film Festival in 2017 and clinched the “Best Asian Short Film” and “Best Actress” awards at the Sapporo Short Fest in 2018. Chong’s 《新民》New Resident premiered in international film festivals in Taiwan, Thailand and Dubai. His most recent work, Siti, clinched the top prizes in Cine65 2021, including the prestigious “Movie Makers Award,” “Best Film,” “Best Screenplay” and “Best Cinematography.” Chong is an alumnus of the prestigious Asian Film Academy in Busian International Film Festival 2017.

Public Art Tour: Singapore Deviation
Date: Sat, 27 Jul
Time: 4.30pm, approx. 2 hours
Venue: Various locations along the Rail Corridor. Meet at 63 Commonwealth Drive.
Free with registration

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Embark on an artful journey through the iconic Rail Corridor with our Public Art Tour: Singapore Deviation. Held on the third Saturday of every month (*with the exception of July’s tour happening on 27 Jul 2024), SAM’s public art team will take you on a unique exploration of the Rail Corridor’s transformation from colonial railway to wildlife corridor and recreational trail through the works of three artists: Sookoon Ang, Hilmi Johandi, and Tan Pin Pin.

 

Presented by The Everyday Museum, a public art initiative by Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Deviation: Wander with Art through the Rail Corridor offers a unique perspective on the evolving uses of this historic site.

 

You will have the opportunity to encounter these artworks and gain deeper insights into the artistic process and effort behind their creation. Discover how public art encourages us to reflect on our perception of the world and serves as a catalyst for curiosity, imagination, and meaningful conversations that transform our everyday experiences.

 

This guided tour is suitable for all ages, and we encourage participants aged 12 and below to be accompanied by an adult.

 

 

Note:

Meeting Point and Tour Schedule:
• 63 Commonwealth Drive
• Tour Route: The tour will begin at 67 Commonwealth Drive and end at Kampong Bahru Bus Terminal (11A Spooner Road). Transportation between venues will be provided.

Tour Guidelines:
• Dress comfortably and bring a water bottle, raincoat, or umbrella.
• The tour will proceed even in light rain. Look out for live updates via Peatix Messenger and The Everyday Museum’s Instagram. Contact us through these channels for any enquiries on the event day.
• Registration begins 15 minutes before the start of the session. Please arrive early as latecomers may miss the tour.
• The tour requires a minimum of 5 participants to proceed. In case of cancellation, all participants will be notified via Peatix Messenger to sign up for another session.

Public Art Tour: Port/raits of Tanjong Pagar
Date: Sat, 3 Aug
Time: 1pm, approx. 1 hour
Venue: Various locations in Tanjong Pagar. Meet at Block 4 Tanjong Pagar Plaza, Resident’s Corner.
Free with registration

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Join us for a captivating journey through the vibrant district of Tanjong Pagar on our Public Art Tour: Port/raits of Tanjong Pagar led by SAM’s Public Art team. Held on the first Saturday of every month, the tour showcases the remarkable transformation of the area through a series of site-specific commissioned artworks presented by The Everyday Museum, a public art initiative by Singapore Art Museum.

 

Encounter the works of six talented artists and collectives: Aki Hassan, Divaagar, Space Objekt, Grace Tan, Zen Teh, and Isabella Teng, situated between Outram Park MRT and SAM’s present location at Tanjong Pagar Distripark. Discover how public art serves as a space for reflection, sparking curiosity, imagination, and conversations that transform everyday experiences into memorable encounters. This guided tour is suitable for all ages, and we encourage participants aged 12 and below to be accompanied by an adult.

 

Note:

Meeting Point and Tour Schedule:
• Block 4 Tanjong Pagar Plaza, Resident’s Corner

Tour Guidelines:
• Participants must be mindful of their surroundings as the tour involves crossing roads, passing construction sites, and walking uphill and downhill.
• Dress comfortably and bring a water bottle, raincoat, or umbrella.
• The tour will proceed even in light rain. Look out for live updates via Peatix Messenger and The Everyday Museum’s Instagram. Contact us through these channels for any enquiries on the event day.
• Registration begins 15 minutes before the start of the session. Please arrive early as latecomers may miss the tour.
• The tour requires a minimum of 5 participants to proceed. In case of cancellation, all participants will be notified via Peatix Messenger to sign up for another session.