Regional
Animalities Part
I
Visual Art Show
The Substation Gallery
1-5 September 11am - 9pm daily
Free Admission
A five
day, video, sound, performance and
philosophical
exploration into our everyday relationships with
meat
and the killing of animals for food
by Zai Kuning & Yuen Chee Wai.
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Humanimal
Forum
The Substation Guinness Theatre
Saturday 11 September: 3 topics/sessions
10am-12pm, 1pm-3pm, 4pm-6pm
Free Admission
A lively
dialogue with over twenty invited scientists,
artists, academics, activists, TV & media
workers & public personalities in discussion
of:
Captive Animals, Captive Audiences & Captive
Imaginations
- Human-Animal relationships in Singapore &
Southeast Asia.
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Regional
Animalities Part
II
Visual Art Show
The Substation Gallery, Blue Room and
Garden
11-26 September 11am - 9pm daily
Official Opening 7pm, 11 September
Free Admission
Artists
from Singapore and Malaysia explore various aspects
of
human-animal relationships. Besides raising
awareness about
specific issues, they explore ways in which animals
provide
raw materials for our symbolic order, our
dreams
and urban imagination - putting pressure on the
boundaries between animals and
humans.
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Humanimal
Fair & Small Animal Adoption
Drive
Venue: The Substation Garden
11 September 3pm-7pm
Free Admission
Hang out
in The Substation Garden with animal and
conservation organisations to music by Zai Kuning,
EMOT, Yee Chang Kang and UBlues. Animal adoption,
conservation and environmental concerns, celebrity
talk show, a durational tree-dwelling, orang utan
nest-building performance, auctions, races for
charity, elephant totems armbands, temporary animal
tattoo, opening party of the Regional Animalities
part 2.
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In
collaboration with focas, Forum on Contemporary Art
& Society, this project seeks to initiate what
is hoped will be an ongoing dialogue between
environmentalists, animal groups, artists,
theorists and interested public about the ways in
which human-animal relationships are imagined,
represented and performed in the region
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For media enquiries please contact Audrey Wong on
6337 7535 or email audrey@substation.org,
or Lucy Davis, curator, on 9276 0796 or email
focas@pacific.net.sg
Some of the input
from this project will be published in a
forthcoming issue of the focas
publication
entitled Regional Animalities.
LUCY DAVIS
Editor: Forum On Contemporary Art & Society
[focas]
hp 9276 0796
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Contemporary Art & Society,
is a not-for-profit dialogue and publishing initiative that
engages issues
of contemporary art, politics and social change
- primarily but not exclusively - in Singapore and Southeast
Asia.
focas is dedicated to interdisciplinary, critical
exchange
among scholars, activists and practitioners.
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