Ocula Insight | Sponsored Insight | S.E.A. Focus S.E.A. Focus Connects Southeast Asia With Hybrid Format By Tessa Moldan, Singapore S.E.A. Focus embraces a hybrid format, with works showing digitally and at a curated showcase at Tanjong Pagar Distripark.
Ocula Feature | In Partnership with C-LAB and Asia Culture Center UNESCO's ResiliArt Movement Inspires Asia Art Space Network Forum By Penny Liu, Online Following the launch of UNESCO's ResiliArt movement, this year's Asia Art Space Network forum considered the relationship between art and resilience.
Ocula Feature Georgette Chen: An Inimitable Pioneer of the Nanyang Style By Stephanie Bailey, Singapore Georgette Chen 'called herself a product of two Chinese revolutions and two world wars'.
Ocula News Dettol Is the New Xanax, Finds Artist Cao Fei Singapore, 6 October 2020 Leading Chinese new media artist Cao Fei has revealed intimate, anxious studies created under lockdown in Singapore.
Ocula Feature At Singapore Biennale, Artists Rework the World By Stephanie Bailey, Singapore The sixth edition of the Singapore Biennale considers how artistic practices can 'rework the world'.
Ocula Conversation Emi Eu: ‘We have to look at Southeast Asia as one market’ By Stephanie Bailey, Singapore STPI's Emi Eu reflects on S.E.A. Focus, an STPI project platforming artists and galleries from Southeast Asia, in the wake of Art Stage's decline in 2019.
Ocula News Cao Fei Creates Swinging Space Raft for National Gallery Singapore Rooftop Singapore, 22 January 2020 The meditation on migration will be on display until 25 October 2020.
Ocula Conversation Patrick Flores: 'Southeast Asia must be geopolitically unburdened' By Tess Maunder, Singapore Patrick Flores, artistic director of the 2019 Singapore Biennale, discusses the 'energies of province' that have calibrated his art historical outlook.
Ocula Feature Singapore Lowdown: Shows to See By Tessa Moldan, Singapore Singapore Art Week returns from 11 to 19 January 2020 with a host of island-wide events, at the centre of which is the second edition of S.E.A. Focus (16–19 January 2020) at Gillman Barracks, showcasing the best of contemporary art in Southeast Asia.
Ocula Feature Aesthetic Radicalism in ‘Awakenings’ at Singapore’s National Gallery By Sam Gaskin, Singapore Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s–1990s, a major retrospective at Singapore's National Gallery (14 June–15 September 2019), opens emphatically in flames. At the exhibition's entrance, viewers encounter a wall-sized image from 1964 titled Burning Canvases Floating on the River. The photograph captures a performance by Lee Seung-taek, in...
Ocula Conversation Dr Eugene Tan By Laura Thomson, Singapore The much-anticipated National Gallery Singapore opened its doors to the public for the first time on 24 November 2015. Following an extensive renovation by Studio Milou Architecture, the museum now occupies two important historic buildings in the heart of Singapore’s Civic District, the former City Hall and Supreme Court buildings. The...
