Wood & updates eversince...

It has been a while since I added any blog entry in this blog. 

Jen and myself were on a trip to Taipei/Tainan/Kao Shiong for the Melting Project Exhibition curatd by Yves Chiu. A very intense exchange with the participants and audience. We enjoyed ourselves even though we actually did not do much sight seeing, it was really mainly work. Below are some info from the facebook events. (don't you hate the way Facebook searches doesn't successfully return with previous events.. - yah facebook is all about now!)

 Post-Museum is taking part in M.E.L.T.ING Project, a conversation and exhibition project discussing modernity, its problems and possibilities.

*3 May, 3-11pm
What is the Foundation of Social Change?
Howl Space, Tainan [http://www.facebook.com/howlspace]

We will speak on Artistic Practice in Singapore's Renaissance and host a ghost story telling event.

*15 May - 28 June
M.E.L.T.ING Project Exhibition
MoCA Taipei [http://www.facebook.com/MOCATaipei.39]

We will be showing The Bukit Brown Index.

*17 May, 10am-5.30pm
Dialogue as Method
MoCA Taipei

We will be participating in a dialogue, with Chen-Wei Lin and Fang-Tzu Hsu, entitled The Ethics of Listening to the Deceased: Bukit Brown Cemetery and Liuzhangli Mass Grave.

*12 Jun, 3-5pm
The Politics of Remembering in Singapore vs The Aesthetics of Oblivion in Taiwan
MoCA Taipei

Also featuring Lisa Bauer-Zhao, Li-Dong Zhao, Fang-Tze Hsu, Jun-Honn Kao, and Dian Mai. Curated by Yves Chun-Ta Chiu.


[This event is OutPost 89] - https://www.facebook.com/events/474896812665422/

 「梅爾汀計畫」以「對話的欲望」與「對話的形式」作為兩個探討「對話」活動與觀念之核心，並以「一年對話實踐」遊戲規則邀請六位（組）藝術家許芳慈（台灣）＋Post-Museum（新加坡）、高俊宏（台灣）＋麥巔（中國）、包麗莎（Lisa BAUER-ZHAO，德國）＋趙立東（中國/德國）參與這一計畫，以2014年一整年為期進行「對話」。

實驗期程（2014年）結束後，我們提出「縫線、鬼故事、逃離」這三件事來探討、呈現對話的各種層次──欲望、情境、機制、規則、過程、產物等，並與台北竹圍工作室、台南齁空間合作籌辦兩場「梅爾汀論壇」，希冀以更多元的「對話形式」與「主題」碰觸，延展梅爾汀精神與可能之後續反應。

一、論壇台南場：
「社會改變的基礎為何？」＋「鬼事製圖之鬼話連篇」：
5/3（日） | 齁空間（台南）
Sunday, May 3rd | Howl Space（Tainan）
地址｜Address：台南市台南市中西區永福路二段163號｜No.163, Sec. 2, Yongfu Rd., West Central Dist., Tainan City 700, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

「對話」在社會互動中扮演何種角色？每一個個體作為一種社會存在，如何對「社會改變」這一提問做出回應、想像？藝術與文化工作者又如何提出具創造性的對話形式並實踐之？本論壇場次加映「鬼話連篇」鬼故事大會，在春季夜晚的台南市，邀您從靈異、都市傳說與文化信仰的角度重新觀看城市發展與現代空間的泛靈論問題。

二、論壇台北場：
5/17（日）「對話作為方法」：10:00-17:30
加映場6/12（五）「新加坡記憶政治與台灣失憶美學」：15:00-17:00
地點| MOCA台北當代藝術館
Sunday, May 17th | MOCA（Taipei）
地址｜Address：台北市大同區長安西路39號｜
NO.39 Chang-An West Road, Taipei, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

本場次從「梅爾汀計畫」之展呈與創作出發，透過對「一年對話實踐」之過程、遊戲規則、生產、揀選、困惑等面向的檢視與延展，來探討「對話」如何作為「方法」：從作為一種變動的關係、被動的抵抗，到一種深沈聆聽以及面對城市空間與筑居的思考。https://www.facebook.com/events/807077156038317/

Awaken the Dragon 2014 exhibition

Have you seen the awaken the dragon exhibition yet? It is all sorted out and ready! Time to collect your work! #awakenthedragon

Awaken the dragon set up

Setting up for awaken the dragon.

Happy CNY! And lots of rest.

A happy Lunar New Year friends.

Well, i already feel very nua. Fully rested until Sunday (22 Feb). Although I wanted to go to dragon kiln on Saturday... I gave up.

Slept lots and feel more like a new year. Good news is... I did get some sorting of the Dragon pieces before CNY. Determined to do more actually in the new year.

Here is a tip: rest well - if you take a 4 day break and sleep lots. I think anytime of the year - the 5th day will feel like a new year.

I wish you all the best for the year of the goat.

Post-Museum Post (11 Aug 2014): Exhibition + 4 talks this week

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Dear friend,

 

Do join us this week for one or more of the following events in Post-PopUp at CCA! Our address is Blk 38 Malan Road #01-07 S109441 (Gillman Barracks).

 

More info below.

 

Thanks and see you again soon!

 

Regards,

Jennifer.

 

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1. Tonight (11 Aug), 6.30-8pm

Projects: space, place and site – a talk by Antoni Muntadas

Post-PopUp at CCA

Free

FB: http://www.facebook.com/events/1653251068234017/

 

By considering art and architecture as public devices, this talk explores new ways of understanding the concept of the ‘spatial cultural identity’ as relevant subject to contemporary critical discourses and practices on urban space. This concept will be used to address and negotiate the complexities of ideas, situations, objects and materials that are inherent to any public space. Questions and concerns of culture and identity within the cartography of a space will be central to our discussion.

 

 

2. Till Sun (17 Aug), see opening hours

Happiness, Prosperity and Progress

Post-PopUp at CCA

Pay what you want

FB: http://www.facebook.com/events/744677128932507/

 

A selection of artworks for our 49th National Day. Featuring ampulets, Cartoon Press, Chun Kai Chun, Chun Kai Feng, Demon-cratic, Harng Foong, Luis Hernandez Galvan, Hong Mingjie, Wayne Lim, Bernice Ong and The Photo Thing Team. You can view the exhibition during these times: 11 Aug (Mon): 6-9pm; 13 Aug (Wed): 7-9pm; 15 Aug (Fri): 7-9pm; 16 Aug (Sat): 2-6pm; 17 Aug (Sun): 1-3pm.

 

 

3. Wed (13 Aug), 7.30-9.30pm

More than business: Talk 7: Ceramics and Community

Post-PopUp at CCA

Pay what you want

FB: http://www.facebook.com/events/943718285654502/

 

3 ceramic artists (Dr Wee Hong Ling, Madhvi Subrahmanian and Michelle Lim) will talk about their projects with various communities around the world. Hong Ling will speak about her community projects in New York, London and Singapore. Madhvi will focus on traditional ceramic practices in India and illustrate a couple of her community-based projects. Michelle will speak about several projects in Singapore (including Awaken the Dragon) and Australia. 

 

 

4. Sat (16 Aug), 3.30-5pm

More than business: Talk 8: Do Din (Two days): An experiment in co-producing urban knowledge

Post-PopUp at CCA

Pay what you want

FB: http://www.facebook.com/events/541148632679683/

 

This talk will draw on the work of Hyderabad Urban Lab, a group of urban researchers, who made the Do Din project possible. The Lab has been attempting to put their academic research skills at the service of urban communities and is an attempt to rebuild a sense of embeddedness and belonging at the same time as reformulating questions of equity for the city's multifarious communities. The talk will be illustrated with examples of the kind of research that takes collective resources of the city as its starting point.

 

 

5. Sat (16 Aug), 7-10pm

Living with Myths: Silent Spaces of History

Post-PopUp at CCA

Free (Registration required)

URL: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/living-with-myths-silent-spaces-of-history-tickets-12422836037

 

Thum Ping Tjin deconstructs three myths: Singapore’s vulnerability, the government’s role in economic development and the meritocratic system. Ho Chi Tim uncovers traces of social welfare policy in our history. Wong Chee Meng argues that our seemingly ancient cultural heritage is actually shaped by colonial and postcolonial engineering.

 

 

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