An artist’s working process is a hidden yet significant journey: it is where ambiguous and uncertain knowledge(s) are given the opportunity to bediscovered through materiality and encounter. The artist’s process itself is also a highly valuable practice of research, actively enabling new yetpotentially slippery knowledge(s) to emerge through reflection, the synthesis of ideas and the [...]
Author: jennifernsy
Art as a Practice of research seminar: Prof Erin Manning
We are delighted to welcome Professor Erin Manning to present the second talk as part of this series: Erin Manning is a professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). She is also the founder of SenseLab (www.senselab.ca), a laboratory that explores the intersections between art practice and philosophy through the [...]
Call for ‘Works in progress’
We are currently looking for contributions from cluster members to feature your works in progress on the Material Encounters website. It would be really helpful if you could let us know what you are working on at the moment by sending us some images and texts about your works. It may sound ambitious, but we [...]
Whisperings
From 10 - 17 December 2020, Jennifer Ng presented 'Peranakan Whispers' at The Substation Gallery in Singapore. The "Blackboard Schemes" Exhibition featured artists of the Fertile Art Refinery (FAR), creating an experimental and process-centric platform to promote collective reflexivity and connectivity. This organic unity with a multiplicity of practices by 30 artists include themes such as society [...]
