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12 - 19 May 2012
MFA Interim Show 2012, The Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art
The annual exhibition of new work by students in their first year of the Master of Fine Art Programme.
Jennifer Bailey, Simon Buckley, Alexander Cahoon, Saejin Choi, Kai Qun Chun, Brandon Cramm, Allison Gibbs, George Gray, Choon Lin Joo, Darius Kowal, Gabriel Leung, Tessa Lynch, Zoe Mackler, Anthony Meadows, Jason Mosher, Stephen Murray, Thorgerdur Olafsdottir, Hardeep Pandhal, Steven Papadopoulos, Fraser Sim, Keeley Stitt, Cedric Tai, Lisa Ure, Weizi Xu
http://www.gsa.ac.uk/life/gsa-events/events/mfa-interim-show-2012/?source=future
6 - 20 April 2012
New City Space presents Simon Buckley: At the Leaky Margins
22 March 2012
Group exhibition at Crit Space, JD Kelly Building, Glasgow School of Art
Pop-Up Exhibition, curated by Gabriel Leung, features video art by Kai Qun Chun, Choon Lin Joo, Jay Mosher, Gabriel Leung, Hardeep Pandhal, Ben Rankin, Cedric Tai and Rachel Yezbick
2 - 23 March 2012
New City Space presents Concept, Structure, Torture, Survival, Title by Cedric Tai
This show explores the tensions between having fun as an artist (which is a sure way to find sustainability in ones practice) and the daily grind and pressures that come from trying to produce new work. Actually, you can force yourself to do anything although it’s difficult to tell when you’ve finished or if you’ve even started finishing it. Previously a devout follower of the "fake it until you make it" strategy, Cedric Tai is taking five steps back to reflect on the processes of art making while trying to address the art culture he finds himself in.
11 February 2012
Ongoing art workshops organised by The Unfinished Picture Projects, Glasgow, UK
www.unfinishedpictureproject.org
27 January - 17 February 2012
New City Space presents Tenuously Submerged: New Works by Rachel Yezbick
Contorted, her arm aches with the anguish of the night’s distress, of repetitious shapes that slightly shift leaving imprints of the day’s chaotic accumulations. It is an old theme, a familiar theme. It is one that does not care for the changes of time, the maturity of being. She will experience it all the same. It is the brawny arm of anxiety, the arm that wills itself into wind, force, and funnel, the arm that touches ground (once, twice, three times) to wake the latent sentient soul. It is no coincidence, no repetition of chance. Its purpose is biting and determined to wake the being inside.
Awkward Times
18 - 25 January 2012
Open Studio Presentation at Sharp Space, Glasgow
Preview: 18 January 2012, 6 pm
Sharp Space, Level 1, 121 Hill Street, Glasgow, G3 6UB
The Glasgow School of Art MFA Auction 2011
Fund-raising group exhibition
3 December 2011
The Briggait
141 Bridgegate
Glasgow, G1 5HZ
United Kingdom
http://mfaauction.blogspot.com/
17 November - 17 December 2011
New City Space presents Hive Mime: New Works by Peter Schoeffer
In continuation with his research exploring the cross sections between images, shelved perspectives and “three dimensional” object forms, Schoeffer’s new paintings and sculptures push further this unstable nexus where formal histories, loaded gestures and distended monuments begin to feed off themselves and multiply. The curious, the deconstructed and the congealed all beget a strange frozen arrangement of information that seeks to bind lenses on the future with vision from the past.
Hive Mime refers to being on a threshold of potential definitives. In this series of works the mass itself as a unit is drawn into question, and the histories of statuesque gestures offer up the notion of memory as a fantastical product of the future yet laminated. Schoeffer’s interest in the analogue resonance of painting and object-making seeks an exchange with the readability of syntax. The outspoken weight of both plays in these boundaries between recognition and the absence thereof.
October 2011
Established New City Space in Glasgow, UK with Singapore artist Joo Choon Lin
Abject Systems
Group exhibition at Studio Bibliothèque, Singapore
11 September – 9 October 2011
Studio Bibliothèque is pleased to announce the launch of Abject Systems: Artists Who Love The Unlovable, an exhibition of artworks by 15 international artists who explore repellent matter. The exhibition opens on 11 Sep 2011 and continues till 9 Oct 2011 at Studio Bibliothèque, Singapore.
The civilised human being appreciates clear categories and stable meanings. On encountering abject things like excretion, a corpse and even the thin film formed on the surface of milk, where boundaries blur and meanings crumble, the sensible person withdraws in disgust. While such a reaction towards the abject reflects the instinct for survival and health, it can likewise restrict growth and experience. Fear is a stumbling block in any form of development.
Abject Systems showcases the work of 15 international artists who acknowledge and investigate what society rejects. With an open-minded, non-judgmental approach to examining castoffs, these artists demonstrate that what many find disgusting may be harmless or even beneficial to us. In this exhibition, the abject is embraced as potent sites of political and aesthetic reflections in the contemporary context, suggesting ways of reconciling ‘the abject’ and ‘systemisation.’ Themes explored include desire and loss, depression, dust, the artist’s skin, accidents, urban decay, the eccentric, extinction, the overgrowth, suicide, outing, the night, and monsters. On show are works of a variety of media: drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, performance and video.
Programme: A tour with the curator and selected artists will be held during 3-4pm, Sun, 11 Sep 2011.
Artists: Ang Song Nian, Stephen Black, Boo Sze Yang, Chan Sai Lok, Heman Chong, Genevieve Chua, Chun Kai Qun, Ezzam Rahman, Michael Lee, Loo Zihan, Nina Lundström, Bob Matthews, Joanne Pang, Tang Ling Nah and Andree Weschler
Curator: Michael Lee
Dates: 11 Sep – 9 Oct 2011
Venue: Studio Bibliothèque
Goodman Arts Centre, 90 Goodman Road, Blk B #05-04, Singapore 439053
Time: 1000h – 1800h daily, except Mon (closed)
Entry: Free
Contact: Michael Lee, +65 96843200, studiobibliotheque@gmail.com
This exhibition is organised in-conjunction with the inaugural Open House of Goodman Arts Centre.
August 2011
Dedicated website for The Post-Confusion Era launched.
http://www.the-post-confusion-era.chunkaiqun.com
后现代主义其实讲明了，有时也不过是人们在颠倒是非罢了。它虽给了文明一刹时概念及幻想的自由空间，可是人类整体上是难以掌握自由，和平，与命运，还反而会自做陧，害人害自。人在做，天在看，可能当代社会的哲学和思想，天看了也会傻眼，觉得人们为何如此糊涂，简单的对错也分不清。凭着良心过生活，恶有恶报，善有善抱，这老套的俗话，真是难免许要多说几遍。
看着新加坡的掀起繁荣，随着而来的也是一些新颖的游客景点和娱乐活动，例如赌场和外国引进的环球影城，为了是要使我国转变为一个有活力的不夜城。喜新厌旧的人们也早已遗忘了虎豹別墅和它那著名的十殿阎罗。富有教育性及推广高尚品德的虎豹別墅，现在早已象是废城，和它当时在七八十年代被列为新加坡第一景点比较起来，真是会让人辛酸。难道赌博这恶习和一些无需光观客运用大脑的景点也意味着我国把精力关注在能赚钱的商机多过文化教育的发展吗？
我的作品的一部分将是制作一个微型虎豹別墅的十殿阎罗，希望这较小的体型，能带来更有灵活性的展览方式，能够到各地推广中华文化，也唤醒人们在心中能够精确衡量对错的那把尺，多多行善积德。
曾凯群
August 2011
Chun Kai Qun is awarded the Arts Creation Fund from the National Arts Council for the project titled The Post-Confusion Era, which is about the recreating of one of Haw Par Villa's most famous attractions, The Ten Courts of Hell.
August 2011
Chun Kai Qun is awarded the NAC Arts Scholarship (Overseas) towards the completion of the Master in Fine Art programme at Glasgow School of Art, UK from September 2011 to June 2013.
Singapore Survey 2011: Imagine Malaysia
Group exhibition at Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore
6 - 28 August 2011
Dream: Borderlands and Other Territories
Group exhibition at NAC Goodman Arts Centre Gallery
1 - 15 July 2011
A Straits Times article mentioning some of my references such as Haw Par Villa and the Monkey Tree.
Interview on March 2011 issue of FHM magazine.
Exhibition at FOST Gallery, Art Stage Singapore, Marina Bay Sands
13 - 16 January 2011
