The Wire

The Wire Episode #10: Singapore Art Show

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:46:55 -0700

We struggled and at moments, we thought it was not possible but hey, here it is! A big hand to Bruce who done the editing.

So With lots of love...

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The Wire Episode #10: Singapore Art Show 07'

This episode is a podcast and hopfully, can also be a vodcast in the near future!

This episode features the Debbie Ding, Bruce Quek and Woon Tien Wei covering the Singapore Art Show '07. (Yes, it is late but we guess it is better than never.)

If you feel like airing your thoughts, do so by commenting on this thread or e-mail us: admin@dangermuseum.com. Meanwhile enjoy this episode!

Listen to Episode 10 of The Wire (podcast) download mp3 here!

Aloha

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:17:22 -0700

Hi all. Noticed that this place hasn't been updated in a while so I thought I'd pop in, as well as to take the opportunity to introduce myself. Well, not really - just saying hi. Anyway, Tien and I found ourselves at the opening of the Singapore Art Show at SAM the other week, and we got a fair bit of interesting material, so look out for a brilliant new episode of The Wire sometime soon. -Bruce

Episode 9: Annabel Chong --- OUT NOW!

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 14:03:25 -0700

We struggled and we kept at it and finally we brought out Episode 9 for you all!

With lots of love...
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The Wire Episode #9: Annabel Chong

This episode is a vodcast as well as a podcast.

This means that you can still enjoy The Wire in the usual way by downloading and listening to the MP3 file or watch the video version of the episode.

This episode features an exclusive interview on the street with Ng Yi-Sheng about his play 251 and some reflection on Annabel Chong. If you feel like airing your thoughts, do so by commenting on this thread or e-mail us: admin@dangermuseum.com. Meanwhile enjoy this episode!

Download Episode 9 of The WIRE (podcast)here!|| 6 mb / 17 mins 15 sec||

Watch Episode 9 of The Wire (vodcast) here! Or click directly on Live Digital window below

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View this on LiveDigital

Or this Youtube one (in case you did not activate your active-x)

* For the Vodcast, we gave two choices so as to 'spread the bandwidth'. Not everybody should go to Youtube, that's a dangerous future.

GRRRRrrrrrr aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:56:50 -0700

Yup, frustrated because - we are almost there with episode 9 but to find time to work on it. Been so busy with other projects, so please be patient with us. The dedication will shine through. The plan is to finish it this weekend! DOING IT.

Radio Silence?

Sun, 3 Jun 2007 14:19:45 -0700

Simon and me for then and now with more will join the team of dedicated journalists!

Hello viewers+listeners. Thank you for the comments and encouraging words.

We are ok and will definitely come up with more episodes. It just that we had to take some break because we were travelling and got more new journalists for THE WIRE.

Now it is no more just the 2 of us.

We got more keen journalists on the prowl looking for stories and perspectives for you! I will be introducing soon but first you will meet in our coming episode is Bruce Quek, his low vibrato voice will charm you I am sure...

ok, wish us luck on our next episode.

Yours
Woon Tien Wei

Episode 8 out now!!!! Finally.

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:55:43 -0700

It has been a crazy time the past few weeks. We struggled and we kept at it and finally we brought out Episode 8 for you all!

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The Wire Epsiode #8: Excess Baggage, Riots, Analog Girl & Warner Brothers.

This episode is a vodcast as well as a podcast. This is a new development for The Wire.

This means that you can still enjoy The Wire in the usual way by downloading and listening to the MP3 file or watch the video version of the episode.

Download Episode 8 of The WIRE (podcast)here!|| 3 mb / 10 mins 56 sec||

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Shownotes for Episode 8
====================== 1) Cyril Wong's website with reviews of Excess Baggage and Claims.

http://www.cyrilwong.com/Htms/reviews.htm

2) CREATIVE RIOT // Nanyang Academy of Fine Art Website

http://www.nafa.edu.sg/in_happenings/press/2007/March/14032007.htm

3) Analog Girl
http://www.analog-girl.net/news.html

The Adventure of Prince Acmed
http://www.nationalmuseum.sg/crescent_moon/event_cine_prince_achmed.html

All of The Wire's Episode here! So far...

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:50:02 -0700

For those who missed previous episodes of The Wire.

Here are the MP3s:

Episode # 1 - http://www.server-foundation.org/wire/wire1.mp3

Episode # 2 - http://www.virtual-marathon.net/wire/wire2.mp3

Episode # 3 - http://www.server-foundation.org/wire/wire3.mp3

Episode # 4 - http://www.server-foundation.org/wire/wire4.mp3

Episode # 5 - http://www.server-foundation.org/wire/wire5.mp3

Episode # 6 - http://www.server-foundation.org/wire/wire6.mp3

Episode # 7 - http://www.server-foundation.org/wire/wire7.mp3

The videos are as follows

Episode # 7

Episode # 4 - Got taken out by stoopid Warner Bros and Youtube.

Episode # 5

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The Wire: Episode 7 is out now!

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:29:40 -0700

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The Wire Epsiode #7: The Tunnerl, Geographical presence & Straits Times showdown.

We are late but that's because we are busy making some new improvements for The Wire.

This episode is a vodcast as well as a podcast. This is a new development for The Wire.

This means that you can still enjoy The Wire in the usual way by downloading and listening to the MP3 file or watch the video version of the episode.

Download Episode 7 of The WIRE (podcast)here!|| 3 mb / 10 mins 56 sec||

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||Leave some comments or vote for us on Podcast Alley|| For Show notes -> click on read more...

Shownotes for Episode 7
1) Imagining a Geographical Presence: A Study of Horizon in Contemporary Painting by Ng Joon Kiat

The first realised project under the Ignite series, Imagining a Geographical Presence is an exhibition that draws upon the history of mapping, specifically restored maps of Singapore 1819 to 1965.

In 2001, Joon Kiat received a Shell-National Arts Council scholarshiup to purse a Masters in Fine Arts at Kent Institute of Art and Design, United Kingdom. He has also received other scholarships such as Ericsson and Georgette Chen Scholarships.

Free Admission

Venue:
National Museum of Singapore
The Atelier

Date: Thu 8 March 2007 - Sun 6 May 2007

For more information please see:

http://www.nationalmuseum.sg/

Video version Wire Episode 5: available!

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:52:27 -0700

I bring you good news. Simon and myself is now making episode 7 of The Wire and we are trying to move towards a mix between 'vodcast' and 'podcast'. KEeping our audio listeners and reaching out to our new video viewers.

I certainly hope it will be soon when we can launch Episode 7.

For now - we have available for your viewing pleasure.

The video version of The Wire: Episode 5 (broken in 2 parts). Check it.

View this on LiveDigital

The Wire: Episode 6 out now!

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:27:53 -0700

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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
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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.