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Choy Ka Fai (and June Yap)
Prospectus for a Future Body: Video and Performance 2010–2012
19 – 28 October 2012
Song-Ming Ang (and Guo-Liang Tan)
Cover Versions
2 – 11 November 2012
Andrée Weschler (and Lee Weng Choy)
The Memory of Water
16 – 25 November 2012
Charles Lim (and David Teh)
Sea State 2: As Evil Disappears
30 November – 9 December 2012
As an eight-week long programme of exhibitions and forum discussions, Future Perfect’s ‘The Singapore Intensive’ series might be more fitting for an art museum or public institution than a private gallery. Perhaps it sees itself as filling a necessary lack in the country’s visual arts ecology, where attention spans and conversations on and about art can be worryingly fitful and fleeting.
Like its suggested name, this series is about taking that deep plunge into looking at art and artists in Singapore, beginning with four artists who are invested in different media and areas of contemporary practice. Individually selected for show by four curator-peers, each artist was given a two-week slot at the gallery, which included an afternoon of conversation with interested audiences. And unlike the art museum’s penchant for showcasing a survey of upcoming young talents or mid-career retrospectives, ‘The Singapore Intensive’ does not function as a laudatory vehicle. It instead demands that work be done, through the making of new artworks that cross new lines of thought (or habitudes for the artists), and that viewers find themselves suitably challenged by what is posed in front of them. And I note too that none of the four are painters or sculptors in the usual sense, practitioners of disciplines which are more traditionally coveted by