FUTURE OF IMAGINATION 7

Contributors

Future of Imagination 7 - Artistic Director

Jason Lim (Singapore)

Jason Lim was born in Singapore in 1966. He studied at Central St Martins College of Art & Design, 1989-1992. Attained his Master of Fine Arts Degree from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (LaSalle College of the Arts), 2001-2003. He's repertoire of works encompasses ceramics, video art, installation art and performance art. He has organized and created various platforms for alternative art practitioners to meet and collaborate. He was co-Artistic Director of Future of Imagination 2 & 5, an international performance art meeting held in Singapore in 2004 and 2008 respectively. In 2007, he presented his work, Walking Sticks, at the 4th World Ceramics Biennale in Korea winning the Juror's Prize. In the same year, he presented Just Dharma and Light Weight at the Singapore Pavilion in the 52nd Venice Biennale. In 2010, He was invited as guest artist to join performance art collective, Black Market International, in their 25th Anniversary celebration in a tour of Poland, Germany and Switzerland. In 2011, he will present 4 solo exhibitions in Ceramics (Singapore and Bali), Installation (Poland) and Photography (France).

Essay Editor / Event Advisor

Lee wen (Singapore)

Lee Wen has been exploring different strategies of time-based and performance art since 1989. His work has been strongly motivated by social investigations as well as inner psychological directions using art to interrogate stereotypical perceptions of culture and society. He is a contributing factor in The Artists Village alternative in Singapore and had been participating in Black Market international performance collective. He helped initiate and co-organize "Future of Imagination" (2003-), an international performance art event, "R.I.T.E.S.- Rooted In The Ephemeral Speak" (2009-), and Pulau Ubin Artist-in-Residency Program (2011) as vehicles to support and develop alternative art practices, discourse, infrastructure and audiences in Singapore. He has never been to Hawaii.

Writer

Daniela Beltrani (Singapore/Italy)

Classically educated in Italy, a doctor in Law and a docent for the Singapore Art Museum, Daniela gained a Master of Arts in Contemporary Asian Art Histories in 2011 from LaSalle CIA, Singapore. Since 2010 Daniela has curated four exhibitions and written articles for art publications. In June 2011 she initiated an artist-run performance art platform by the name of SPAM. Her interest in performance art both as spectator and performer allows her to explore different levels of communication.

Bruce Quek is a young artist whose projects tend to take the distribution and dissemination of information as starting points for various conceptual investigations, critiques of artistic infrastructure, and other wanderings. He takes an interest in many things, but maintains an unhealthy fascination with emergent behaviour, the metaphorical transfer of pathologies from one type of body to another, bad puns and annoying alliterations. All of his endeavours are frequently threatened by the seductive allure of reading random things online, out of a vague belief in the singular importance of consuming as much information as possible.

Iola Lenzi (Singapore/France)

Iola Lenzi is a Singapore-based researcher and critic specialising in Southeast Asian contemporary art. She takes a synthetic view of regional practice, her texts and exhibitions seeking to compare regional themes, expressive languages, and conceptual approaches. She has curated exhibitions in Singapore, Jakarta, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur focusing on art commenting Southeast Asia's socio- political landscape of the last 15 years. Lenzi writes for Asian Art newspaper, London, is a contributing editor of C-ARTS Jakarta/Singapore, as well as a contributor to other international art publications and anthologies. She guest- curated the recent Singapore Art Museum show Negotiating Home, History and Nation: two decades of contemporary art in Southeast Asia 1991-2011, is a founding member of AICA Singapore, and the author of two books.

Grace currently resides in Singapore. Her performance-based pieces are physical manifestations of personal dispositions, transpositions and interpretation of subjects, particularly concepts relating to the verisimilitude of visual representations. Her latest project, "Private-Public" (2011), is an ongoing online performance piece that examines the role and structure between the Internet platform and the physical space as concepts for documenting and disseminating "performance art" through an observing eye.