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LASALLE-SIA¡¯s Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (ICA Singapore)
is proud to present its latest exhibition, islanded: Contemporary Art
from New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan as part of the Singapore Arts
Festival 2006 and New Zealand¡¯s Wellington Arts Festival. |
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Held from 16 June to 6 August 2006 at the Earl Lu Gallery, the
exhibition in Singapore is its second touring venue after New Zealand
and is co-curated and co-organised by the Adam Art Gallery, LASALLE-SIA¡¯s
Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore and The Substation. |
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islanded will feature 12 contemporary artists from three islands in the
Asia-Pacific region: New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan. |
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The artists explore how "island-ness" plays a role in their societies'
imaginings and (re)inventions of themselves; ¡°arrival¡± and ¡°departure¡±,
¡°anxiety¡± and ¡°accident¡± are among the exhibition's central themes. |
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Amongst the works featured will be Stella Brennan¡¯s digital print works,
including Twin Coast Highway; Ho Tzu Nyen¡¯s Utama: Every Name in History
is I, Charles Lim¡¯s Seastate 1: Inside Outside, Tsui Kuang Yu¡¯s video
entitled Eighteen Copper Guardians in Sha-Lin Temple and Penetration:
The Penetrative, and Yao Jui Chung¡¯s Long March ¨C Shifted the Universe. |
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To be ¡®islanded¡¯ is to arrive; to stand apart. The three
island-countries, New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan, share histories
of colonisation and migration, of conflict and strife in their
process of ¡®islanding¡¯, a process marked by political, social and
cultural complexities. The shared histories of trauma, albeit in
different ways, relates to a sense of survival, as well as the
anxietiy of being ¡®islanded¡¯, of arriving at the unknown and being
separated from the known. |
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The participating artists examine the histories and the geo-cultural
anxieties of these postcolonial societies in subtle yet complex
ways, often with humour and irony. |
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The works presented, though diverse, share a certain critical
objectivity in their reflections on ¡®place¡¯. While the engagement
with any ¡®place¡¯ is irretrievably conditional by accidents and
chance encounters, their works critique and challenge popular
pre-conceptions of what defines ¡®place¡¯ and in turn engage with the
problematics of ¡®islanding¡¯ which by its very nature is an
open-ended, fluid process of arrival and departure. |
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islanded is part of the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore¡¯s
programme of exhibitions showcasing contemporary art practice. This
exhibition is supported by Singapore¡¯s National Arts Council, Asia
New Zealand Foundation and Victoria University of Wellington. |
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