63 YEARS (Gửi anh Tuyền)
An exhibition by Mai Nguyen Anh Recipient of the Objectifs Documentary Award, Open Category (2018) Curated by Sam I-shan
Exhibition period | 13 Mar to 14 Apr 2019
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EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: PANEL DISCUSSION
Objectifs hosted a panel discussion on Experimental Cinema in Southeast Asia on 19 Jan 2019 in conjunction with our ongoing exhibition Dance of a Humble Atheist by Toh Hun Ping. …
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STORIES THAT MATTER 2019: MYTHS
Objectifs presents Stories That Matter, an annual programme that looks at critical issues and trends in non-fiction visual storytelling. This year, the programme features the theme ‘Myths’.
Myths are as …
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WOMEN IN WAR: PHASE 3 (PERFORMATIVE): TALK BY NURUL HUDA RASHID
Women in War: Phase 3 (Performative) Performance-meditation and talk by Nurul Huda Rashid, Objectifs’ 2018 resident artist Sat 23 Feb, 1pm to 2.30pm Objectifs Workshop Space Free admission; RSVP via …
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STORIES THAT MATTER 2019: SCREENINGS
Presented by Objectifs Chapel Gallery, Objectifs 27 Feb to 2 Mar 2019 Admission: $10 per screening / $35 for season pass / $8 student concessions (Please show student ID at …
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CURATOR OPEN CALL
Thank you for your interest in Curator Open Call. The successful applicant will be announced in April 2019.
Deadline: 11 March 2019
Curator Open Call invites Singapore-based curators to …
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THE GRASS IS BLUER BY THE SEA by Lee Chi Leung
If pictures tell us anything, it only tells the insurmountable distance between the camera and what is photographed. The gaze is always a lack. The world that seduces the gaze is a Trompe-l’œil. The Grass is Bluer by the Sea feigns no stories or humanist connection. The pictures are first and foremost accidental, like remnant visions of somebody who tries to look awry in the near-automatic movements dictated by the capitalistic destruction of places and subjects.
If we can’t tell a concrete wall from a beach, a flower from a face, or representations from lives that’s because we swoon and fall asunder, as we are being unborn in permanent dispossession, in exorbitant speed. The sad truth is that we are long disembodied by technologies of surveillance and an all-seeing culture that punishes us with mere appearances, the more we see the less we would relate, and everyone is nobody’s anybody. There won’t be a fathomable “we” unless perhaps, in a language yet to come.
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DANCE OF A HUMBLE ATHEIST
Chapel Gallery, Objectifs 11 Jan to 17 Feb 2019 Tues to Sat, 12pm to 7pm / Sun, 12pm to 4pm Admission is free Opening Reception: Thurs 10 Jan, 7pm Live music …
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another mad afternoon at home
Another mad afternoon at home is an activity piece that contains 20 instructional postcards to be performed by individuals in the comfort of their own home. Using the familiarity of everyday actions and materials to investigate and experience the different openings of their dwelling, this project attempts to draw a closer and more intimate relationship between people and buildings.
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KINGDOM TOTE BAG by Wei Keong
In a world devoid of other humans, a man journeys through a forest, searching for a place where he belongs. Take home a souvenir of Kingdom, the short film that had its world premiere at the opening of the 29th edition of the Singapore International Film Festival. All bags are handprinted by director Tan Wei Keong.
Screenings:
- Berlin International Film Festival 2019
- Singapore International Film Festival 2018
Click here to rent Tan Wei Keong’s short films via the Objectifs Film Library!
About Tan Wei Keong
Tan Wei Keong‘s animation entertains fantasy and mimics the familiarity of the real by weaving fiction into personal history. Photography, frame-by-frame drawings and photocopies are often combined, forming the visual world of his animated films. He found his favourite medium in animation when he enrolled at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) on a scholarship from the Media Development Authority of Singapore. His first stop-motion film White received the Special Achievement Award at the Singapore International Film Festival in 2007, an experience that opened his imagination to the endless possibilities of animation. His graduation film Hush Baby was awarded the Special Mention Award at the same festival in 2009. Pifuskin, his third animation, garnered international acclaim and has been selected at many prestigious film festivals worldwide, including those at Annecy, Zagreb, Edinburgh, Toronto, Stuttgart, Bristol, and London. It won the Best Experimental Award at the Singapore Short Film Awards (2015), and the Non-Narrative Award at the Aggregate Space Gallery (US) (2017).