Singapore Fringe 2006
The second edition of
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival is coming in mid Feb. I did think about submitting a proposal for 20 Beans
last year... well, if time runs slower.
The "Fringe" network is growing in South East Asia. That's why you can see the interconnection in their programming, but they definitely have different stands in various cities.
The Necessary Stage, the organizing body of Singapore Fringe, has probably the more distinguishing political aura, in the sense of community movement and gender issues, like the performance
Godeatgod (image above) it's presenting at the
City Festival at the Fringe Club, Hong Kong from 25 Jan (next Wed).
Hope I can squeeze some time for it, the only show I would attend in the festival probably. If you think the festival website is not so helpful, perhaps
this will help.
Portraits announcing School of Creativity
The preparation work of the School of Creativity is getting all the more intensive. Several experimental projects were carried out nicely which brought
the team a lot of 1st hand experience and inputs last year. Now the result of the planning for years is surfacing gradually.
To bring the news to the public, we have organized a dozen of artist friends, art teachers and students to draw their "self-portraits" on the hoarding of the building site. This first open event of the institute has got the support from
Freeman Lau,
Kong Kee,
Craig Auyeung,
Tamshui, King Frog, So Manyee, so far. The messy construction site became immediately a nice outdoor exhibition.
More portraits will be painted by some other artists (Danny Yung, Douglas Young,
Lily Lau, etc.) on the 22nd this month.
Hong Kong School of Creativity:
Junction Road/Inverness Road
Kowloon Tong
(5 minutes from Lok Fu MTR)
The Amateur of the Art
One of my favourite sites dedicated to visual arts,
Amateur d'art, came to the top of the list of "thematic blogs" of a French-language event,
blogs de l'année.
It gives many up-to-dated and exhaustive details of exhibitions taking place all over the world currently. Quite a brilliant work, very admirable for the exposure... and the devotion to write so extensively. Today it introduces some nice installation pieces of
Marc Couturier at a monastery (Monastère Royal de Brou) which I find intriguing also.
Praecox-blueprint has so much to catch up, in fact I have not been to an exhibition for ages already. C'est la vie!
