19/02: The Wire: Episode 6 out now!
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The Wire Epsiode #6: Art and Design, Focas for Documenta, National Gallery, what the?
Download Episode 6 of The WIRE here!|| 7 mb / 17 mins 52 sec|| ||Leave some comments or vote for us on Podcast Alley|| For Show notes -> click on read more...
Shownotes for Episode 6 1)The Search for Isrizal competition.
Answer this question: Where is Isrizal?
Mail your creative answer to admin@server-foundation.org
You will stand a chance to win a Singapore Biennale Belief Mug.
We will annouce the winner in the next episode.
2) Voices from the Street:
Question: What the difference between art and design in Singapore?
3) Current Affairs Section:
A) The new National Gallery?
B) FOCAS cash strapped?
Message from Editor (Lucy Davies). Focas
Dear Arts Institutions, Artists, Projects & NGOs
As you probably know (CF the article in The Straits Times Life! section today http://www.yousendit.com/download/dklxT20wMVhVVGw1VEE9PQ ),
FOCAS situation is pretty dire at present and we are holding a fundraiser at the Substation on 25 Feb in a make-or-break last attempt to save the publication.
If we do not make our donation goal by 5th March, we have decided we will have to close shop as we simply cannot go on like this.
This is of course particularly ironic when we have this year been asked to participate in documenta 12's magazines project. But we cannot participate without a publication!
One way we are trying to scrape together funds is [and thanks Heman for the push on this :)] to offer advertising space for artists, arts institutions, projects and NGO's.
A number of you have contributed adverts to FOCAS in the past and in those days we gave you advertising space for free.
We would like to keep FOCAS as a space where artists, arts institutions and NGO's can profile themselves and exchanges and equivalences can be made between different interests and groups.
We are asking you (as a service to a publication that has perhaps served you in the past), whether you would like to buy an advert in FOCAS this time around--and see it as a donation of sorts to the only print publication in the region which consistently takes up questions of art and activism.
Our full page ads are going at $250SGD
Half page $150SGD
Progressive readership guaranteed!!!
And of course all donors will receive a complementary copy of the publication when it comes out.
If there are any arts institutions or websites I've left out of the loop here do let me know! Or better still, forward to them with a recommendation!
Warmly,
Lucy
(Of course if you just want to give us a donation--and some of you very kindly have already done so, that would also be most welcome!)
Full story on FOCAS pending closure/ fundraiser below
focas
Forum On Contemporary Art & Society
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
365 D Serangoon Rd, Singapore 218117.
focas@pacific.net.sg. +65 6297814092760796
Reminder: Appeal for Personal Donations: FOCAS Fundraiser 25 Feb 07,
The Substation Theatre 7-9pm,
(Donations to The Substation enjoy double tax exemption)
"FOCAS can claim to be Southeast Asia's only publication that is independent of establishment political, academic, cultural, and economic organizations in the region. The sporadic nature of its resource base is inherent in this independence, but FOCAS has,nonetheless, survived five years with its editorial integritiy intact. This integrity is vital in a region where the construction of community is overdetermined by strategic interests rather than informed by debate and critical imagination. Allowing FOCAS to persist with its work, by supporting its next issues, will be a contribution to an emancipatory sense of region."
Prominent Philippine Art Writer, Marian Pastor Roces,
Email to FOCAS board January 07
We are writing to you to ask for your donation in order to help the FOCAS publication series survive.
As you are probably aware, we have not been able to bring out an issue of the FOCAS since the Singapore National Arts Council (NAC) withdrew all our funding in 2004 following a disagreement over an article on censorship. From this time, we have been unable to raise funds for the publication in Singapore.
Nevertheless, our editorial has been working on the next issue of the publication, Regional Animalities, since the hugely popular SEPTFEST Artists & Other Animals art show, NGO fair and forum, held at The Substation in 2004. This event brought together an unprecedented number artists, activists, and intellectuals from Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia on questions of culture and nature, humans and animals in Southeast Asia.
FOCAS 6 Regional Animalities will continue this Southeast Asian dialogue with an ecological, culture/nature bent. It is also a response to recent crises such as SARS, Avian flu and Indonesian rainforest destruction.
Our response to these crises is to attempt to understand contemporary and historic dreams, discourses and representations of one of the most fundamental inter-dependencies Southeast Asia—that between humans and nature.
In the Regional Animalities volume, writers in Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and beyond celebrate and interrogate contemporary and historic climates, categories, expulsions and excavations of: jungles and sand dunes,monkey kings and demons, elephants and tigers, dogs and street cats, backyard poultry, cockroaches and mosquitoes, in media, film, animation,urban culture, art, theatre, dance, textiles, folklore and everyday life.
We hope that the FOCAS Regional Animalities volume will contribute to a growing awareness of just how critical relationships between humans and nature are to our material and symbolic existence in Southeast Asia. Both nature and natural disasters are inherently inter-Asian. They rarely recognise geopolitical boundaries.
Alongside our Regional Animalities themed section, FOCAS 6 will also continue our emphasis on art activism and censorship in the region. The second section of FOCAS 6 contains reports on "Art & Activism in Singapore" with reports from, for example, The Substation SEPTFEST Artists & Other Animals, Transient Workers Count Too, Migrant Voices, Animal Concerns Research and Education Society, Songs for Sam and The Singapore Anti Death Penalty Campaign.
A third section, "FOCAS On Censorship" will contain country reports on"Art and Censorship 2006-7" from Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.
This year, FOCAS has been invited to participate in the German art show documenta 12 ['s] magazine project. But we will not be able to do so without a publication!
We hope with FOCAS 6 to launch the publication online and thereby significantly expand the our "forum".
The cost of bringing out one print and web volume of FOCAS is $20,000 SGD. Currently we are down to zero.
All our funds go to copy editing, proof reading, design and printing the publication. FOCAS editors and writers all contribute time and writing to the publication for free. FOCAS moreover has a policy of sending complimentary copies to institutions in the region which may not be able to purchase the journal. Donations will go towards the postage costs of these comps.
To bring out FOCAS 6 Regional Animalities, we will be hold a
No-Frills Fundraising Event on
25 February, 7-9pm at The Substation Theatre.
We have no comedian emcees .. and we cannot afford to wine and dine you either!
However, Alfian Bin Sa'at has agreed to dress in a cat suit in order to read "Theorising Aksi Mat Yoyo", presented previously at the Artists &Other Animals forum and to be published in FOCAS 6 Regional Animalities. Ho Tzu Nyen will be screening The Bohemian Rhapsody Project, shown during The Singapore Biennale. And as FOCAS Editor, I will provide an introduction to FOCAS 6 and ourhopes and aspirations for the publication in future.
We would like to appeal to our readers and supporters to give generously to ensure the survival of FOCAS Forum On Contemporary Art & Society--the only English-language publication in Singapore, perhaps in the region, which consistently questions the role of art in Southeast Asian cultural politics.
Please join us in solidarity on 25 February 7-9pm
And I would like to call you about FOCAS in the next week or so
Warmly,
Lucy Davis
Editor, FOCAS, Forum On Contemporary Art & Society
Cheques are to be made out to “The Substation Ltd” with “FOCAS DONATION” written on the back. Should you wish for a receipt for double tax exemption purposes, please include your full name and IC along with your cheque.
C) Sniffy the Cat @ Perumal Road.
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A Danger Museum Project
The Wire Epsiode #6: Art and Design, Focas for Documenta, National Gallery, what the?
Download Episode 6 of The WIRE here!|| 7 mb / 17 mins 52 sec|| ||Leave some comments or vote for us on Podcast Alley|| For Show notes -> click on read more...
Shownotes for Episode 6 1)The Search for Isrizal competition.
Answer this question: Where is Isrizal?
Mail your creative answer to admin@server-foundation.org
You will stand a chance to win a Singapore Biennale Belief Mug.
We will annouce the winner in the next episode.
2) Voices from the Street:
Question: What the difference between art and design in Singapore?
3) Current Affairs Section:
A) The new National Gallery?
B) FOCAS cash strapped?
Message from Editor (Lucy Davies). Focas
Dear Arts Institutions, Artists, Projects & NGOs
As you probably know (CF the article in The Straits Times Life! section today http://www.yousendit.com/download/dklxT20wMVhVVGw1VEE9PQ ),
FOCAS situation is pretty dire at present and we are holding a fundraiser at the Substation on 25 Feb in a make-or-break last attempt to save the publication.
If we do not make our donation goal by 5th March, we have decided we will have to close shop as we simply cannot go on like this.
This is of course particularly ironic when we have this year been asked to participate in documenta 12's magazines project. But we cannot participate without a publication!
One way we are trying to scrape together funds is [and thanks Heman for the push on this :)] to offer advertising space for artists, arts institutions, projects and NGO's.
A number of you have contributed adverts to FOCAS in the past and in those days we gave you advertising space for free.
We would like to keep FOCAS as a space where artists, arts institutions and NGO's can profile themselves and exchanges and equivalences can be made between different interests and groups.
We are asking you (as a service to a publication that has perhaps served you in the past), whether you would like to buy an advert in FOCAS this time around--and see it as a donation of sorts to the only print publication in the region which consistently takes up questions of art and activism.
Our full page ads are going at $250SGD
Half page $150SGD
Progressive readership guaranteed!!!
And of course all donors will receive a complementary copy of the publication when it comes out.
If there are any arts institutions or websites I've left out of the loop here do let me know! Or better still, forward to them with a recommendation!
Warmly,
Lucy
(Of course if you just want to give us a donation--and some of you very kindly have already done so, that would also be most welcome!)
Full story on FOCAS pending closure/ fundraiser below
focas
Forum On Contemporary Art & Society
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
365 D Serangoon Rd, Singapore 218117.
focas@pacific.net.sg. +65 6297814092760796
Reminder: Appeal for Personal Donations: FOCAS Fundraiser 25 Feb 07,
The Substation Theatre 7-9pm,
(Donations to The Substation enjoy double tax exemption)
"FOCAS can claim to be Southeast Asia's only publication that is independent of establishment political, academic, cultural, and economic organizations in the region. The sporadic nature of its resource base is inherent in this independence, but FOCAS has,nonetheless, survived five years with its editorial integritiy intact. This integrity is vital in a region where the construction of community is overdetermined by strategic interests rather than informed by debate and critical imagination. Allowing FOCAS to persist with its work, by supporting its next issues, will be a contribution to an emancipatory sense of region."
Prominent Philippine Art Writer, Marian Pastor Roces,
Email to FOCAS board January 07
We are writing to you to ask for your donation in order to help the FOCAS publication series survive.
As you are probably aware, we have not been able to bring out an issue of the FOCAS since the Singapore National Arts Council (NAC) withdrew all our funding in 2004 following a disagreement over an article on censorship. From this time, we have been unable to raise funds for the publication in Singapore.
Nevertheless, our editorial has been working on the next issue of the publication, Regional Animalities, since the hugely popular SEPTFEST Artists & Other Animals art show, NGO fair and forum, held at The Substation in 2004. This event brought together an unprecedented number artists, activists, and intellectuals from Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia on questions of culture and nature, humans and animals in Southeast Asia.
FOCAS 6 Regional Animalities will continue this Southeast Asian dialogue with an ecological, culture/nature bent. It is also a response to recent crises such as SARS, Avian flu and Indonesian rainforest destruction.
Our response to these crises is to attempt to understand contemporary and historic dreams, discourses and representations of one of the most fundamental inter-dependencies Southeast Asia—that between humans and nature.
In the Regional Animalities volume, writers in Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and beyond celebrate and interrogate contemporary and historic climates, categories, expulsions and excavations of: jungles and sand dunes,monkey kings and demons, elephants and tigers, dogs and street cats, backyard poultry, cockroaches and mosquitoes, in media, film, animation,urban culture, art, theatre, dance, textiles, folklore and everyday life.
We hope that the FOCAS Regional Animalities volume will contribute to a growing awareness of just how critical relationships between humans and nature are to our material and symbolic existence in Southeast Asia. Both nature and natural disasters are inherently inter-Asian. They rarely recognise geopolitical boundaries.
Alongside our Regional Animalities themed section, FOCAS 6 will also continue our emphasis on art activism and censorship in the region. The second section of FOCAS 6 contains reports on "Art & Activism in Singapore" with reports from, for example, The Substation SEPTFEST Artists & Other Animals, Transient Workers Count Too, Migrant Voices, Animal Concerns Research and Education Society, Songs for Sam and The Singapore Anti Death Penalty Campaign.
A third section, "FOCAS On Censorship" will contain country reports on"Art and Censorship 2006-7" from Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.
This year, FOCAS has been invited to participate in the German art show documenta 12 ['s] magazine project. But we will not be able to do so without a publication!
We hope with FOCAS 6 to launch the publication online and thereby significantly expand the our "forum".
The cost of bringing out one print and web volume of FOCAS is $20,000 SGD. Currently we are down to zero.
All our funds go to copy editing, proof reading, design and printing the publication. FOCAS editors and writers all contribute time and writing to the publication for free. FOCAS moreover has a policy of sending complimentary copies to institutions in the region which may not be able to purchase the journal. Donations will go towards the postage costs of these comps.
To bring out FOCAS 6 Regional Animalities, we will be hold a
No-Frills Fundraising Event on
25 February, 7-9pm at The Substation Theatre.
We have no comedian emcees .. and we cannot afford to wine and dine you either!
However, Alfian Bin Sa'at has agreed to dress in a cat suit in order to read "Theorising Aksi Mat Yoyo", presented previously at the Artists &Other Animals forum and to be published in FOCAS 6 Regional Animalities. Ho Tzu Nyen will be screening The Bohemian Rhapsody Project, shown during The Singapore Biennale. And as FOCAS Editor, I will provide an introduction to FOCAS 6 and ourhopes and aspirations for the publication in future.
We would like to appeal to our readers and supporters to give generously to ensure the survival of FOCAS Forum On Contemporary Art & Society--the only English-language publication in Singapore, perhaps in the region, which consistently questions the role of art in Southeast Asian cultural politics.
Please join us in solidarity on 25 February 7-9pm
And I would like to call you about FOCAS in the next week or so
Warmly,
Lucy Davis
Editor, FOCAS, Forum On Contemporary Art & Society
Cheques are to be made out to “The Substation Ltd” with “FOCAS DONATION” written on the back. Should you wish for a receipt for double tax exemption purposes, please include your full name and IC along with your cheque.
C) Sniffy the Cat @ Perumal Road.
Chris wrote:
Thanks for comments on FOCAS. Things must be balanced in Singapore... more balanced allocation of funds please! Singapore!