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What is your
position as an artist?



24th September 2006
Invitation for project sent out via email

Dear ........ ,

I would like to produce a modest text-only publication entitled "What is your position as an artist?". This is a closed invitation, so please do not circulate this email.

I am only collecting responses from artists from Singapore and on an invited basis.

This is a simple exercise that is designed to allow each of you to think about your current position that you take as an artist, to reflect upon your artistic production and its impact on your audience and the general public at large. The different entries will accumulate into a document that will function as an act of collaborative knowledge production in order to generate a new series of dialogue within this network.

Each of your responses will be given a page within the book, and I ask that you keep your response sharp and precise. This is not an exercise on irony or sarcasm nor am I asking you to comment about the state of things in today's world. All I am asking is for you to think and write down what you feel your position is, as an artist, within and beyond what you understand of it.

"What is your position as an artist?" will be launched by the end of 2007, as a platform of its own, that is to say : you are not part of my artwork, or any group exhibition. It is not an add-on component to any existing institutional project. It will be completely produced and funded by me alone. As a participant, you will receive a copy of this publication upon its production. The copyright for your text will be retained by you.

If it is possible, I would like to have a reply from you, immediately, just a small note to see if you are participating or not.

So, if you agree to participate in this publication, please fill in the following. Please note that the deadline for submission is the 31st of October 2006. But I would like to encourage you to do this quickly, in my experience, if such things get shelved for some time, then it never gets done.

Best regards,
Heman chong





Contributors

01
Full name : Ang Song Ming
Organisation (if any) : (None)
Designation : Worrywart
Worrying since : Kindergarten 1
Website : www.circadiansongs.com

02
Full name :  sookoon ang   
Organization (if any) :
Designation : artist   
Artist since : don't know/remember
Website : http://www.sookoonang.com/

03
Full name : Namiko Chan Takahashi
Designation : Visual Artist
Artist since : 1998
Website : www.namikochan.com

04
Full name: Miguel Chew Thong Seng
Organization (if any):
Designation: Visual artist
Artist since: 1997

05
Full name : Chng Nai Wee
Organization (if any) : www.singaporeart.org
Designation : Multi-disciplinary artist
Artist since : 1989
Website : http://www.biotechnics.org

06
Full name :  Heman Chong / NoSleepRequired
Designation :  Artist and curator
Artist since : 1997
Website : www.hemanchong.com

07
Full name : CHONG Li-Chuan
Designation : Composer, Sonic Artist
Artist since : 1996
Website : http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/phase/

08
Full name : Chong Tze Chien
Organization (if any) : The Finger Players
Designation : Theatre director/playwright
Artist since : 1999
Website : www.fingerplayers.com

09
Full name : Choy Ka Fai
Organization (if any) : Kill Your Television Artists Collective
Designation :  New Media Artist/ Theatre director
Artist since : 2002
Website : www.ka5.info

10
Full name : Chu Chu Yuan (Zhu Ziyan)
Organization (if any) : International Forum for InterMedia Art
Designation : Visual artist, cultural worker
Artist since : 1993
Website : www.ifima.net

11
Full name : George Chua
Organization (if any) : Associate artist of The Substation
Designation : Artist
Artist since : 1973
Website : www.georgechua.com

12
Full name : Jocelyn Chua Lay Hong
Designation  :  Performer-Playwright
Artist since :  2004

13
Full name : Elizabeth de Roza
Organization (if any) : Associate Artist ( The Substation)
Designation :  Theatre Artist
Artist since : 1996

14
Full name : Tan Guo Liang
Designation :  Visual Artist
Artist since : 2000

15
Full name: Natalie Hennedige
Organization: CAKE Theatrical Productions
Designation: Artistic Director
Artist Since: 1998
Website: www.caketheatre.com

16
Full name : Ho Tzu Nyen

17
Full name : Philip Jeyaretnam
Designation :  Novelist & short story writer
Artist since : 1985
Website : www.philipjeyaretnam.com

18
Full name : Juliana Yasin
Organization (if any) : The Artists Village /Plastique Kinetic Worms / APAD
Designation : Visual & Performance Artist
Artist since : 1989

19
Name : Khairuddin Hori
Organization : Wunderspaze
Designation : Artist / Curator
Artist Since : 1992
Website : http://khaihori.blogspot.com/

20
Full name :  Jay Koh
Organization (if any) : IFIMA - International Forum for InterMedia Art;
NICA, Yangon - Networking & Initiatives for Culture and the Arts;
CityArts, Dublin
Designation :  Multifaceted Artist, Founding Directors, Assoc. Director for Open Research Practice.
Artist since : 1990
Website : http://www.artstreammyanmar.net/cultural/nica/nica.htm;
http://www.ifima.net; www.cityarts.ie

21
Full name : daniel k
Organization : diskodanny.com
Designation : Choreographer, Visual Artist
Artist since : 1997
website : www.diskodanny.com

22
Full name: Urich Lau Wai-Yuen
Designation: Visual artist 
Artist since: 1997  
Website: http://studio19.4-all.org/

23
Full name : Aaron Lee Soon Yong
Designation :  poet
Artist since : 1986

24
Full name : Justin Lee Chee Kong
Designation: Life-time artist
Artist since : 1999
Website : www.justinleeck.com

25
Full name : Michael Lee Hong Hwee
Designation :  Artist, writer, curator
Artist since : 1996
Website : www.michael.farm.sg

26
Full name: Sandra Lee
Designation: Visual Artist
Artist since: Full time since 2000
Website: sandraleestudio.com

27
Full name : LEE Wen
Organization (if any) :
Honorary member of Artists Village, Singapore,
Associate artist of The Substation, Singapore
Member, Command N, Tokyo
Since 2000, participating with Black Market International, (international performance art “group”)
Artistic Director, “Future of Imagination”, International Performance Art Event, Singapore
Designation :  Visual artist
Artist since : 1980
http://www.artsingapore.org/leewen/

28
Full name : Hazel Lim    
Organization (if any) : Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts
Designation :  Visual Artist
Artist since :2003

29
Full name : Jason Lim
Designation :  Visual artist
Artist since : 1992

30
Full name: Justin Loke Kian Whee
Organization (if any): Member of art collective Vertical Submarine
Designation: Visual Artist
Artist since: 2004
Website: http://verticalsubmarine.multiply.com/

31
Full name : John Low
Designation : Visual Artist  
Artist since : 1991

32
Full name : Low Yuen Wei
Organization (if any) : In Source Theatre
Designation :  Theatre Director/Performer
Artist since : 1992
Website : www.insourcetheatre.com

33
Full name : lynn charlotte lu
Organization (if any) : musashino art university, doctoral candidate (fine arts)
Designation :  visual artist
Artist since :  1998
Website : http://www.lynnlu.info/

34
Full name : Gilles Massot aka Ma de Marma
Designation :  harg!!!!!!!!!! those little boxes....!
Artist since : first show was in 1973. But maybe from day one or even before. My mum says that while she was expecting me, she was looking at an empty room of the house, and for no specific reason would say to herself: “that would be a nice studio for the child if he or she is an artist”. But maybe it is that thought of her that induced the behaviour. Who knows?
Website : www.asimages.com

35
Full name : Parvathi Nayar
Designation : artist, writer
Artist since : birth
Website :www.parvathinayar.com

36
Full name : NG Joon Kiat
Designation : Visual Art practitioner
Artist since : 1996
Website : www.ngjoonkiat.com

37
Full name : Ng Yi-Sheng
Designation (Visual artist, theatre director, writer, etc) : Poet, playwright, freelancer
Artist since : 1998 (full-time since August 2006)
Website : lastboy.blogspot.com

38
Full name : Matthew Ngui
Designation : Visual Artist
Artist since : 1989

39
Full name :   ong keng sen
Organization (if any) : theatreworks, 72-13
Designation :  artistic director??
Artist since :  ok, i will not be cynical.  1988.
ublication) :   72-13, mohd sultan rd, singapore 239007
Website :    www.theatreworks.org.sg / www.72-13.com
               
40
Full name: Ruby Pan Xuequn
Designation: Theatre practitioner (performer/ writer/ director)
Artist since: 2004

41
Full name : ALVIN PANG KHEE MENG
Organization (if any) : --- (former founding director of The Literary
Centre; no longer assoc w that org)
Designation : Poet/Writer/Editor
Artist since : 1985 / 1st published 1990 / 1st book 1996
Website : www.verbosity.net

42
Full name : Ana Prvacki
Organization (if any) : Ananatural Production
Designation (Visual artist, theatre director, writer, etc) : CEO
Website : www.ananatural.com

43
Full name :  Milenko Prvacki
Organization (if any) : LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts
Designation : (Uh !), Visual Artist, Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts
Artist since :1975
Website : milenko.prvacki.com

44
Full name :  BEN PUAH
Designation :   Artist
Artist since :   1997
Website :   www.playben.com  

45
Full name : Paul Rae
Organization (if any) : spell#7
Designation (Visual artist, theatre director, writer, etc) : Theatre director, writer
Website : www.spell7.net

46
Full name: Shubigi Rao
Organization (if any): -
Designation: Visual artist, writer and part-time lecturer
Artist since: early nineties, approx.

47
Full name : Rizman Putra Ahmad Ali
Organization : Kill Your Television Art Collective
Designation :  Visual Artist/Performer
Artist since : 1997
Website : www.killyourtelevision.info/ www.tendarkones.blogspot.com

48
Full name : Jeremy Sharma
Designation : Visual Artist 
Artist since : Professionally since 1999
Website : www.thelacunasofgrace.com

49
Full name : Ricky Sim Seow Kiat
Organisation : Independent artist & Associate Director of Moving Arts
Designation : Dance
Artist since : 1995
Website : www.moving-arts.net

50
Full name : Jacklyn Soo Meian
Designation :  Visual Artist/Musician
Artist since : How shall I say this?
Website : www.jacklynsoo.farm.sg

51
Full name :  Alvin Tan Cheong Kheng
Organization: The Necessary Stage
Designation: Founder and Artistic Director
Artist since : 1987
Websites : www.necessary.org / www.singaporefringe.com

52
Full name :  TAN Beng Tian
Organization (if any) :  The Finger Players Ltd
Designation (Visual artist, theatre director, writer, etc) :  Artistic Director
Artist since : 1996
Website : www.fingerplayers.com

53
Full name : Tan How Choon
Organization (if any) : ECNAD Project Ltd
Designation (Visual artist, theatre director, writer, etc) : Dance Artist
Artist since : 1996
Website : www.ecnad.org

54
Full name : TAN KAI SYNG
Designation: Visual Artist
Artist since : 1989

55
Full name : Margaret Tan Ai Hua
Designation : Visual artist
Artist since : 1999
Website : http://www.witas.org/artists/margetan/

56
Full name : Paul Tan
Organization (if any) : NA
Designation (Visual artist, theatre director,
writer, etc) : Writer, poet.
Artist since : 1991? (since I am not a fulltime
artist, it's hard to pin a date down; I have been
writing since my late teens...:-)

57
Full name : TAY SIEW HUI VERENA
Organization (if any) : ASSOCIATE ARTIST, THE SUBSTATION
Designation : How to answer this? Please see text of essay about why…
Artist since : 1986

58
Full name : The Analog Girl
Designation : Musician
Artist since : 2002
Website : www.analog-girl.net

59
Full name :  Jason Wee
Organization (if any) : Okno Gallery
Designation (Visual artist, theatre director, writer, etc) : Artist
Website : www.blurty.com/~jasonwee

60
Full name: Andree Weschler
Designation: Visual Artist
Artist since: 2000
Website: www.andree-weschler.com

61
Full name : Wong Chen Seong
Artist since : Commercially, 2006; at heart, since 1996

62
Full name : Cyril Wong
Designation :  poet/vocalist
Artist since : 1977
Website : www.softblow.com

63
name: ming wong
artist since: 1971
website:  www.mingwong.org

64
Full name :  Susie Wong
Designation :  visual
Artist since : 1987
Website : www.suwongart.com

65
Full name : Ian Woo
Designation : Visual Artist
Artist since : 1991

66
Full name : Woon Tien Wei
Organization (if any) : p-10, The Artists Village, The Danger Museum and Server Foundation
Designation:  visual artist
Artist since : 1998
Website : www.p-10.org

67
Full name: Joshua Yang
Group: vertical submarine         
Designation: Visual artist 
Artist since: 2003
Website: verticalsubmarine.multiply.com

68
Full name :     Ye Shufang
Organization :    Lecturer and Programme Leader,
Postgraduate Studies, Faculty of Fine Arts,
LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore.
Designation :    Artist, educator 
Artist since :    1995

69
Robert Yeo;
DESIGNATION Writer ( poetry, drama, fiction, musical text & libretto);  ARTIST SINCE 1971:  
if relevant: he teaches Creative Writing in the S'pore Management University.

70
Full name : Yeo Shih Yun
Organization (if any) : instinc
Designation : visual artist
Artist since : 1999
Website : www.instinc.com

71
Full name : Yit Mun Khwan (Agnes)
Organization (if any) :
Member of The Artists Village Singapore since 1998
Designation : Installation & Performance Artist / Interior Designer
Artist since : 1998

72
Full name: Yong Shu Hoong
Designation (Visual artist, theatre director, writer, etc): Poet  
Artist since: 1992

73
Full name : Zai Kuning
Organization (if any) : pirate of Riau Archipelago
Designation (Visual artist, theatre director,
writer, etc) : the left wing of lord  Daeng Marewah
aka Captain Jack Sparrow.
Artist since : 1664
Website : zkuning.blogspot.com

74
Full name: Zizi Azah Bte. Abdul Majid
Designation:  Playwright, theatre director and lighting designer.
Artist since: Freelance theatre practitioner since 2000