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Credit Suisse: Innovation In Art Series
President’s Young Talents
25 January 2013 to 15 September 2013
Singapore Art Museum

Inaugurated by SAM in 2001, the President’s Young Talents is Singapore’s premier commissioning exhibition, featuring the island’s most promising artists under the age of 35. Selected by an independent curatorial committee of local art professionals, these artists are mentored through the entire process of art creation, from concept development to exhibition realisation. This year’s exhibition features new commissions from Boo Junfeng, Liao Jiekai, Zaki Razak, Grace Tan, Ryf Zaini and Robert Zhao Renhui.
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Current Programmes
Credit Suisse: Innovation In Art Series President’s Young Talents
Lecture-Performances: What is Spirituality? Why Spirituality?
Part of Zaki Razak’s Revising Art: The Ten Year Series
Monday, 3 June and Thursday, 6 June 2013 | 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Registration required. Please email nhb_sam_programs@nhb.gov.sg to register.
Front Lawn, Singapore Art Museum

Presented by Sheenah Hamid
 
How can we reveal the inner essence or beauty in its purest form without conforming to social norms and filtering it through arbitrary acceptability criteria? Sheenah and partner will help participants to explore these questions through a yogistic experience, which aims to create deeper awareness of one's Self in the pursuit of a discovery of Inner Existence that will bring Simplicity, Balance, Unity, True Joy and Harmony.

Sheenah Hamid and Ludo Odier are practioners of Sahaj Marg, a practical, spiritual path based on inner experience through meditation. It is the modern-day form of Raja Yoga.

Credit Suisse: Innovation In Art Series President’s Young Talents
Lecture-Performances: Printing Matters
Part of Zaki Razak’s Revising Art: The Ten Year Series
Monday, 1 July and Thursday, 4 July 2013 | 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Registration required. Please email nhb_sam_programs@nhb.gov.sg to register.
Front Lawn, Singapore Art Museum

Presented by Shaiful Zerox

Through these sessions, Shaiful will facilitate the theory and practice of making zines, which aim to allow those who have something urgent, desperate and passionate to say, the opportunity to do so immediately. What can you do with pens, papers, tapes, other stationeries and copy machines?

Shaiful Risan, (sometimes referred to as Shaiful Zerox) is a punkrocker who published his own now-defunct zine, ZEROX, which covered various aspects of the global underground music scene, attaining a small following around the region in its active years of 1996 to 2004. Shaiful is also an occasional and professional performer; having been (or still could be) a stage actor, puppeteer, host and art project co-ordinator. He has had a hand behind countless DIY hardcore punk shows, parties and exhibitions over the past 10 years, often preferring to work in a near-anonymous level.

Credit Suisse: Innovation In Art Series President’s Young Talents
Lecture-Performances: Singapore Malay Historical Legends
Part of Zaki Razak’s Revising Art: The Ten Year Series
Monday, 12 August & Thursday, 15 August 2013 | 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Registration required. Please email nhb_sam_programs@nhb.gov.sg to register.
Front Lawn, Singapore Art Museum

Presented by Nuraisyah Muhammad Nur, Aiida Tubiman & Adila Mohckeram
 
Inspired by both literary and oral traditions, these sessions will see heroic characters coming alive in a living room theatre setting, fashioned from reused recyclable materials. Utilising sya'ir, a classical Malay singing style of storytelling in verse, and the moving tableaux form, the facilitators will lead participants in bringing scenes from history back to life. This performance integrates literary and oral histories and an awareness of the natural world - two philosophies that shape the Singapore Malay psyche.
 
Adila Mohckeram, Aiida Tubiman and Nuraisyah Muhammad Nur - graduates of English Literature, Arts Management and Acting, respectively - were the founding members of Keelat Theatre Ensemble's performing ensemble. They also continue to undertake projects outside the confines of Keelat Theatre Ensemble.

Past Programmes
Credit Suisse: Innovation In Art Series President’s Young Talents
Lecture-Performances: Human, Environment and Living Things
Part of Zaki Razak’s Revising Art: The Ten Year Series
Monday, 28 January and Thursday, 31 January 2013 | 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Registration required. Please email nhb_sam_programs@nhb.gov.sg to register.
Front Lawn, Singapore Art Museum
Presented by the Kaizan Crew
 
Emphasising a critical and empirical analysis on human gestures, Kaizan seeks to share and practice Sociology of Dance with the public. As an ongoing search to new forms and formations in dance, Kaizan will explore humans' behavioural traits, their social spaces and their relationships with nature.
 
Kaizan Crew, a name given by Osman Abdul Hamid, who is one of the pioneer and principal choreographers in Malay dance, comprises different personalities from diverse groups exploring new modes of practices in contemporary Malay dance.

Credit Suisse: Innovation In Art Series President’s Young Talents
Lecture-Performances: Non-Syllabus Education: Learning Through Hearing
Part of Zaki Razak’s Revising Art: The Ten Year Series
Monday, 4 February and Thursday, 7 February 2013 | 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Registration required. Please email nhb_sam_programs@nhb.gov.sg to register.
Front Lawn, Singapore Art Museum
Presented by Saifuddin Abd Rahman
 
Due to globalisation, many tertiary level and higher education schools have been opened to undergo the process of secularism and the output of those courses contribute to specialisation in different disciplines of knowledge. Saifuddin yearns, in the advent of this year, to revive education in the light of tradition – on how to comprehend a subject matter through hearing.
 
Saifuddin has a Diploma Arabic Proficiency of Institute of Language and a Degree in Arabic Literature from University of Imam Saud University, Riyadh. He was a translator of Arabic, English and Malay for the Prime Minister's office in Malaysia and is currently a freelancer in legal translation.

Credit Suisse: Innovation In Art Series President’s Young Talents
Lecture-Performances: The Art of Public Speaking
Part of Zaki Razak’s Revising Art: The Ten Year Series
Monday, 4 March and Friday, 8 March 2013 | 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Registration required. Please email nhb_sam_programs@nhb.gov.sg to register.
Front Lawn, Singapore Art Museum
Presented by Gene Sha Rudyn
 
Using classical texts as reading materials, Gene will share an introductory training in theatrical tools of public speaking with the participants and apply his techniques in presentations throughout the spaces of the museum.
 
Gene Sha Rudyn, educated at Raffles Institution, is a multi-faceted theatre director, writer, designer, educator, performer and award-winning actor with over 25 years of professional experience. Gene was Associate Director of Teater Ekamatra (1998-2000), Director-In-Residence of Education & Theatre Consultants (2001), Co-Artistic Director of Naga Pass-Ra (2002-2003), and founding Artistic Director and Ensemble Leader of Keelat Theatre Ensemble (2008-present).

Credit Suisse: Innovation In Art Series President’s Young Talents
Lecture-Performances: Rethinking Music
Part of Zaki Razak’s Revising Art: The Ten Year Series
Monday, 6 May and Thursday, 9 May 2013 | 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Registration required. Please email nhb_sam_programs@nhb.gov.sg to register.

Presented by Bani Haykal
 
This session will cover the re-imagining of perceptions about music and explore the climate and relevance of music made in Singapore.

Bani Haykal writes and experiments with texts and music. His work with music includes being the vocalist and principle songwriter for alternative rock band, b-quartet, writer for the performance/music collective, mux and a relatively new, unnamed, audio-visual collective. Bani is currently researching on music and culture, whilst developing several systems pertaining to storytelling and music, mirroring modern day Singapore.

Credit Suisse: Innovation In Art Series President’s Young Talents
Artist Workshop: Grace Tan
Saturday, 9 March 2013  | 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Singapore Art Museum

A multi-disciplinary practitioner specialising in wearable art and spatial structures, Grace Tan’s experiments often blur the lines between design, art and mathematics. This workshop with Tan explores the transformation of two-dimensional surfaces to 3D ‘structures’ through various methods of cutting, folding and crushing.

$12 (includes admission to the exhibition). Tickets available at SAM and SISTIC.
Limited spaces. For ticket availability at the door, please call SISTIC.

Credit Suisse: Innovation In Art Series President’s Young Talents
Curator Tour
Wednesday, 27 March 2013  | 7:30pm to 8:30pm
Singapore Art Museum

This tour of the President’s Young Talents exhibition showcases the works and practices of Singapore’s most promising young artists. Participants in this tour will get a sense of the issues and concerns of this new generation of Singapore artists, as well as an appreciation of their diverse approaches to contemporary art-making.

$12 (includes admission to the exhibition). Tickets available at SAM and SISTIC.
Limited spaces. For ticket availability at the door, please call SISTIC.

Credit Suisse: Innovation In Art Series President’s Young Talents
Artist Presentation: Robert Zhao Renhui
Friday, 26 April 2013  | 7:30pm to 8:30pm  | Free admission.
Registration required. Please email nhb_sam_programs@nhb.gov.sg to register.
Glass Hall, SAM
Cross-disciplinary artist Robert Zhao Renhui and his long-time collaborator, Yong Ding Li (a researcher at the Southeast Asian Biodiversity Society), will discuss the nature of their collaboration, and how their conversations through the fields of art and science have led to their work in the exhibition, The Quieting and the Alarming.

Credit Suisse: Innovation In Art Series President’s Young Talents
Artist Presentation: Liao Jiekai
Friday, 17 May 2013  | 7:30pm to 8:30pm  | Free admission.
Registration required. Please e-mail nhb_sam_programs@nhb.gov.sg for registration.
Glass Hall, SAM
This performance-screening presents excerpts from Liao Jiekai’s past films, rarely-seen footage from unfinished works, home videos and outtakes, accompanied by narration. The presentation traces the narrative threads and ideas that connect Liao’s works, the people and films that have inspired him, and his relationship with the world through the camera lens.  Liao was recently awarded the President’s Young Talents Credit Suisse Artist Commissioning Award 2013, which will see him producing work for the Singapore Biennale 2013. 

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