Quattro artisti da Singapore

Kai Lam Jason Lim anGie seah Lee Wen

Martedì 1 luglio dalle 19:00 alle 23:00

26cc – via Castruccio Castracane 26

www.26cc.org

info@26cc.org



26cc propone un evento di performance, in collaborazione con i festival Performatica (Italia) e Blow! (Germania) e il patrocinio del National Arts Council di Singapore. Quattro artisti, tra i più interessanti, del vasto panorama orientale presenteranno lavori performativi ideati e realizzati per questa occasione.


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Kai Lam ha iniziato a lavorare nel 1995. Artista versatile e prolifico, Lam ha realizzato opere pittoriche, disegni, sculture, installazioni multi-mediali e performance, collabora in produzioni teatrali e musicali. Lam vede l’arte come uno strumento per analizzare e conoscere l’ambiente in cui vive e per esplorare la vita e la condizione umana. I suoi lavori possono essere considerati una sorta di commento “politico” sulle problematiche della società pluralista contemporanea. Fondatore del gruppo indipendente Artists Village, ha collaborato alla realizzazione dell’evento “Artists Investigating Monuments”, presentato al Singapore Art Museum (2004), al Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney e alla House of World Culture, Berlino (2005).


Jason Lim, grandissimo innovatore nel campo della ceramica, ne ha sconvolto la definizione, utilizzandola anche nell’installazione e nella performance. Le sue performances affrontano i limiti di situazioni rischiose e precarie, beffeggiando il pubblico con un uso irriverente dei materiali e dello spazio. E’ stato tra i fondatori dello spazio alternativo UTOPIA e ha curato “Future of Imagination 2” nel 2006. Nel 2005 ha organizzato StopOver , un meeting di performance, Kuala Lampur, in Malesia e a Singapore. Ha rappresentato Singapore alla 52° Biennale di Venezia nel 2007.


anGie seah è un’artista multidisciplinare, nata nel 1979. Lavora con il disegno, l’installazione e la scultura dal 1995. Dal 2002 pratica la performance, utilizzando principalmente la voce. L’artista lavora su elementi autobiografici, creando suoni le cui radici affondano soprattutto nell’emozione pura e nella fantasia. A partire da elementi minuscoli, crea grandi immagini, e da piccoli pensieri crea imponenti progetti con video, azioni, suoni. Ha partecipato a numerosi festival internazionali in Polonia, Romania, Indonesia, Giappone e Thailandia.


Lee Wen, nelle sue installazioni e performance, critica le ideologie e il sistema di valori sia individuali che sociali. Ha esordito alla fine degli anni ottanta, ottenendo un’ampia e immediata attenzione. Molto noto per le performance in cui interpreta l”uomo giallo”, vagando imperturbabile in paesi e situazioni diversi dipinto di giallo, Lee coniuga il contesto del sudest asiatico con le tendenze artistiche contemporanee.

Nel 2005 ha fondato “The Future of Imagination”, un evento internazionale di performance con forum e documentazione del mondo della performance di Singapore. Dal 1999 lavora con Black Market International, un collettivo di performance innovativo e utopico. Ha ricevuto il premio Singapore’s Cultural Medallion nel 2005.
























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Four artists from Singapore

Kai Lam Jason Lim anGie seah Lee Wen

Tuesday, July 1st from 19:00 to 23:00

26cc – via Castruccio Castracane 26

www.26cc.org

info@26cc.org


With the support of





In collaboration with










Kai Lam has proved an active innovator since his artistic involvements in 1995. Versatile and prolific skills in drawing, painting, sculpture, mixed-media installation and performance, Lam also collaborates in theatre productions and co-organizes art events. As President of alternative art group, Artists Village he helped initiate “Artists Investigating Monuments”, in 2000, presenting installations and performances in various public sites. This was later presented again in Singapore Art Museum (2004) and Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney and House of World Culture, Berlin (2005).

Art-making to Kai Lam is a tool for a better understanding of the environment where he lives in and an exploration of life and social human conditions. His artworks are created as a social commentary and creative response to urban pluralistic society.



Jason Lim’s practice transverses ceramics, sculpture and performance art and is regarded as a maverick in the ceramics field, Lim has radically shifted assumptions about ceramics as a discipline, pushing its potential as a media in installation and performance art. Lim’s performances often play on boundaries of risky precarious situations, teasing the audiences with a cheeky use of the materials and spaces.

He participated in various international performance festivals and had taken up residency programs in Japan, The Netherlands, Australia and U.S.A. In 2006, he was awarded the Freeman Fellowship artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Vermont, U.S.A. Lim was involved in initiating “UTOPIA”, an alternative art gallery in 1996 and was co-Artistic Director of Future of Imagination 2, in 2004. In 2005, he organized StopOver – Singapore/Japan performance art meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Singapore. He was one of the artists in the Singapore Pavilion for the 52nd Venice Biennale 2007.


anGie seah is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Singapore. Since 1995, she has been making drawings, installation art and clay sculptures. She started exploring the medium of Sound Art in the area of vocal with actions - performance since 2002, she continue to explore creating sounds rooted in raw emotion and the imagination in the context of the autobiographical situations.

Art making is a tool for anGie to understand the social environment and responding to deal with the everyday life of human conditions.

She had traveled and participated in several performance art festivals locally in Singapore and internationally in Poland, The Philippines, Romania and Indonesia, Japan and Thailand.


In 2000, she was awarded an education bursary from National Arts Council, and graduated from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology’s Bachelor of Arts where she majored in painting. She has exhibited her works in South East Asia and did a series of artist residencies in Europe, like Switzerland and Romania.


Lee Wen question the ideologies and value systems of individuals as well as social structures. Lee entered the art scene comparatively late in the late 1980s, but quickly gained attention. His early practice was associated with Artists Village in Singapore and later forged a more individuated artistic career.

Born in Singapore, Lee now lives and works extensively on a global circuit and based between Singapore and Tokyo. Leebe active and involved with the new generation in spawning possibilities of collaborations, network and discourse. In 2003 Lee started to organize “The Future of Imagination”, an international performance art meeting which includes forum, documentation and presentation of performance art in Singapore. Since 1999 Lee has also worked with Black Market International an innovative, ground-breaking, utopian performance art “group” comprising artists from various countries and cultural backgrounds.

Lee has been represented at the Sea Art Festival, Busan Biennale (2004), the 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial in Brisbane (1999), the Sexta Bienal de La Habana, (1997), the Kwang Ju Biennial (1995) and the 4th Asian Art Show, Fukuoka (1994).