ARTISTS CARAVAN
Artists Caravan (AC) is an art collective that was established in 2008. AC invites creative individuals to travel with them, to momentarily be in a community, and respond to sites by creating works of art. Thus began the exciting period of residencies, collaboration opportunities, events and exhibitions for the collective. AC is part of The Substation's Associate Artist Programme 2020/21 cohort.
Genetic Landscape Zine
Synopsis
Genetic Landscape is an independent, full-coloured zine publication organized, edited and publish by Artists Caravan (AC), featuring 4 members from AC and 9 collaborators from our very own arts village. We chose the zine as an environment for this initiative primarily for the roots and spirit that zines embody.
Our collaborators were invited to explore and curate the zine environment the way they would with a physical exhibition space. Genetic Landscape #01’s theme engaged our collaborators to explore and exchange ideas – to propose solutions to rethink, reinvent and recover the social and cultural aspect of land and bodies.
The zine’s cover is a collaborative Artwork (using the exquisite corpse game method) as a collage of all participating artists in this zine. In the table of contents, you will find individual artists and their art works. There is also a link (Page 106) to an archive of video recordings of artists’ dialogues where the artists elaborate on their concepts, working processes and inspirations. Hence, we invite you to explore the art works presented, play around with those interactive art works and watched the archive of artists’ dialogues to experience this zine in its fullest output. An exhibition of new developed works expanding from GL issue #01 will also be put up in August 2020.
Collaborators
Ahdini and Liza are 2 young artists and recent alumnus of Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, each with very exciting practice and development. Ju-lyn is already publishing her own regular zine titled NOTION. Ahdini is currently taking the role of script-writing for short films and Liza is a co-founder of the cross culture/country collective @thedungbeeproject. Shuxia has participated in a series of AC projects. Kai and Timothy both work with photography. KeshuYe is a trained Arts Psychotherapist. Sharmeen/Sifar is a multi-disciplinary artist and works on social urgency issues. Jennifer is co-founder of Post-Museum. Mei Hsien, Joey.spl, Yinghan and Xiao Yun are from Artists Caravan. And we are honoured to have independent researcher and writer, Yeo Wei Wei to word the forward for us.
Genetic Landscape Artists Dialogues (GLAD)
This is a series of artists dialogues about their works in the zine.
Genetic Landscape Exhibition
4–18 Aug (Closed on 9 & 10 Aug), 12–8pm (Closed at 6pm on 18 Aug)
The Substation Gallery
Free admission
Genetic Landscape exhibition is an expansion of concepts and ideas from Artist Caravan's zine publication. Zine contributors were invited to expand upon their investigation of Genetic Landscape into the physical space of The Substation. Hence, the exhibition will present largely newly developed art works—expansion from their works in the zine.
Artists Caravan aspires towards moments where dots connect and the gestalt are revealed. Similarly with Genetic Landscape, Artists Caravan hopes to expand the conversation of land and human to include perspective and stories from the eyes of its people, especially from the arts and cultural community.
Joey SohPL
Sharmeen Sifar
Chan Mei Hsien
Lija Markus
Timothy Soh
Ong Xiao Yun
Long Yinghan
Keeshu Ye
Tai Shuxia
Jenniter Teo
Ahdini Izzatika
Lee Ju-Lyn aka meekfreak
Akai Chew