WOMEN IN FILM 2019: A Woman’s Work: The NFL Cheerleader Problem Discussion Recap
Women in Film 2019: Remedy for Rage kicked off at Objectifs with a screening of A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem, directed by Yu Gu.
The film was followed by …
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WOMEN IN FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY 2019
Presented by Objectifs Chapel & Lower Galleries, Objectifs 2 Oct to 17 Nov 2019
In recent years, communities across the world have responded to enduring social, gender, racial …
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REMEDY FOR RAGE: SHORT FILMS
Presented by Objectifs Lower Gallery, Objectifs 11 Oct to 17 November 2019 Tue to Sat, 12pm to 7pm / Sun, 12pm to 4pm Opening reception: 10 Oct 2019, 7pm to …
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WOMEN IN FILM 2019: SCREENINGS
Presented by Objectifs Chapel Gallery, Objectifs 2 to 5 October 2019 Admission: $8 per screening / $35 for season pass Buy tickets via Peatix
Women in Film is part of …
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CODE BLUE from Shashasha books
Korean photographer Yoon Seung Jun photographed half-finished buildings in South Korea – not ruins, and not buildings in the process of being constructed either, but buildings whose development has stopped (for one reason or another).
In Code Blue, Yoon records these buildings in the manner of a status report. The title itself is borrowed from the medical field, where it is used to assemble all available staff in the case of an urgent emergency. As if “Yoon wants to gather every one of us reading his photobook” in the (absurd) hope that these buildings can still be rescued.
The book itself – designed by Yoshihisa Tanaka – mirrors the state of the buildings: half-finished. The complicated fold-out layout of the pages not quite complete, the book not completely bound, the hardcover glued on but not yet hidden behind cloth – yet the book itself manages to tell of all the work that went into its creation, and its unfinished state does not detract from its beauty.
Includes an afterword by the artist and an essay by Japanese curator Hiroshi Suganuma in Korean, Japanese and English translation.
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Exactly Foundation – Commonplace
Jason Wee’s Commonplace is inspired by Arthur Yap’s poetry, as well as the furtive, coded, partially hidden walks, postures and other moves that some men make in order to claim and revise the public orientations of urban spaces as their own private grounds. He says, ‘I think of this as a choreography, a syntax, and I am interested in the ways that photographs might help plot this syntax. I am also interested in these men’s secrets, their anonymous, libidinous maps’.
Features a keynote essay by Victorine Grataloup, (translated by Daniel Selig), Bondy Bridge – An “Outsider’s” View on Jason Wee’s Photographic Project.
About Jason Wee
Jason Wee is an artist, writer and curator working between contemporary art, architecture, poetry and photography. His decades-long art practice often contends with sources of singular authority by exposing alternative readings that favour polyphony and difference. In this way, he transforms histories and spaces that have been viewed through a single lens into visual and written materials that expose their secrets and their futures, their idealisms and their conundrums.
Particularly interested in Asia / Southeast Asia, Jason spends time investigating complexities especially of urban development but, importantly, his practice often circles back to the notion of personal empowerment. He has exhibited widely in Singapore and abroad. He also founded Grey Projects, a gallery, publisher and exchange programme in Singapore.
About Exactly Foundation
Exactly Foundation is a not-for-profit, trademarked registered label established by Li Li Chung to commission photographers to create works that stimulate discussion of social concerns in Singapore. Its goal is to produce new knowledge by having viewers engage with the photographs and share them with friends and family over a 2-3 month period.
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Faeryville (Collector’s Edition)
Set in an alternate universe, in FAERYVILLE college, a group of teen misfits struggle to find themselves and make sense of their bullied teenhood. They decide that there is no reason in trying to ‘fit-in’ — choosing instead to be willing misfits calling themselves The Nobodies. Now, what’s their plan? Frankly, The Nobodies have no idea — until Laer, a transfer student, joins the clique and inspires them to take their fight to the establishment. Faeryville was the winner of Best Original Story at the Jefferson State Flixx Fest in 2015.
About Tzang Merwyn Tong
Tzang Merwyn Tong is an independent script writer/ film director behind award winning films like e’Tzaintes (2003), A Wicked Tale (2005) and V1K1 – A Techno Fairytale (2011). Tzang’s films are characterised by his rather offbeat style, often set in a surreal environment, incorporating elements of fairytale and comic fantasy.
A Wicked Tale premiered to a sold-out crowd at the 2005 Rotterdam International Film Festival, and was selected to be the Closing Night Film at the Montreal FanTasia Film Fesitval. V1K1 – an Indie Sci Fi, won the Gold Remi Award at the Houston WorldFest 2011. A maverick with his own brand of uncanny-ness, Tzang represents a new voice in alternative cinema.
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