Lee Wen (Singapore)
Lee Wen has been working primarily in the Singapore local contemporary art scene as well as participating in various international art events since 1989. His works comprises paintings, mixed media performances and installation art. His early drawings and paintings were expressionistic and deliberately raw and unpolished. Associated with The Artist Village activities since 1989, he later forged a more individuated artistic career. Lee is most popularly associated with his yellow man persona in a series of work Journey of a Yellow Man wandering into different environments, countries and testing shifting contexts. Lee often exposes and questions the ideologies and value systems of individuals as well as social structures, through art and hopes to do the same through his writing. He is an Associate Artist with The Substation and an honorary member of The Artists Village. Since 2000, he has been participating with Black Market International.

Lin Kai Lie (Singapore)
Lin Kai Lie has been practicing sculpture since 1995 and installation art, video art and performance art since 1998. In 2002, he was awarded a study grant from Lee Foundation and education bursary from National Arts Council, and graduated from the LaSale-SIA College of the Arts ( Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) Bachelor of Arts where he majored in Sculpture. Lin Kai Lie has worked in various countries including Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Japan, Germany and United Kingdom. His works are created as a social commentary and creative response to urban pluralistic society. To him as an artist, Art-making is a tool for better understanding of the environment where he lives in and an exploration of life and social human conditions. He is currently an active committee member of The Artists Village and Sculpture Society, Singapore.

Dennis Tan (Singapore)
Dennis is an interdisciplinary artist who is trained in Fine Art in Singapore and Architecture in Tasmania, Australia. He is back since 2002 and is currently working on a series on assemblage/bricolage/folly, which he modifies, re-assembles or arranges ‘readymade’ into follies as art. He approaches his works by adopting the behavior and psychic of a bricoleur in a ‘make-do’ situation. The works examine the rituals/habits and the relation with the material culture within specific habitat. He sketches the ideas while allowing it to morph or collapse as possibilities in life-like situation.

Lynn Lu (Singapore)
The specific rearrangement / recontextualization of familiar elements for the purpose of creating a discourse around specific issues is the basis of Lynn Lu's exploration. Lynn Lu has worked and exhibited / performed in the United States, France, Japan and Singapore since 1995. She is currently a Ph.D. research student at the Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music.

Juliana Yasin (Singapore)
Yasin is a visual and performance artist whom has continually exhibited and performed solo and group exhibitions locally and internationally since 1989. She is an active member of The Artists Village, Plastique Kinetic Worms and A.P.A.D (Angkatan Pelukis Aneka Daya - Association Of Artists Of Various Resources). In most of the events, Yasin has collaborated with local and international artists. Fusion Strength 2003, Indonesia; Kampong 2000, Singapore, Asiatopia, Thailand and CP open Biennale, Indonesia in 2003 are a sample of venues/platforms that Yasin has used to integrate her strong viable art practice in current times.

Jeremy Hiah (Singapore)
Jeremy Hiah has been involved in the arts since 1993. After graduating with a Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Degree, he started doing paintings, installation and sculpture. His works questions social systems and the individual’s place in society. Hiah’s practice as an artist employs art as an exploration into different media such as installation, performance and collaborations with artists from different fields. From 1997 to 2000, Hiah’s experience in working in foreign countries has made him more aware of the importance of working inside Singapore. Coming back to Singapore after such foreign endeavors has reassured him of the various possibilities and uniqueness of art making within the context of contemporary culture in Singapore. His interests includes observing how this country will develop into the future with its history arising from immigrant cultures and attempting to build a new society with utopian ideals.

Andrée Weschler (Singapore)
Weschler’s work is essentially sociological. She is interested in pudeur a French word that does not exist in English, but is close to the meaning of modesty, i.e. being ashamed and shy about your own body. Weschler have studied the notion of a cleaned, purified body according to the norms of a glabrous body. The body is treated as a wax that is shaped, modeled and molded into a social form. Weschler’s work turned into a new direction with the installation of the Sexual Landscape, when she covered public places in cities with Pubic Hair such as a ramp going down to the underground as well as door handles in a gallery. Weschler works in mixed media, which consists of Drawings-Videos-Photos-Sound-Installation-Performance

Jason Lim (Singapore)
Jason Lim attempts to bridge the boundary of audience and performer, giver and receiver of meanings, the exotic and the banal, sensual and erotic, the private and public and other opposites that creates tension within the boundaries of our social and political realm. The bridging/blurring of these boundaries is created through audience provocation and interaction. Lim aims at opening closed windows and forgotten doors hidden in the back of our head through direct provocation and interaction. Through interaction, Lim intends to communicate, respond and exchange ideas in all positive and negative ways.
 

Moderator : Lee wen director of FOI#2


Forum Speakers
Ray Langenbach (Malaysia)


Alfian Sa’at (Singapore)
Sa’at is one of Singapore’s most well recognized and award winning writer, playwright, theater practitioner and poet.

Ho Tzu Nyen (Singapore)
Ho is a painter, filmmaker, and writer who is currently completing his MA in the Southeast Asian Studies Program at the National University of Singapore. He is also known to have written extensively on Singapore’s recent contemporary art and exhibiting regularly.

Cheo Chai Hiang (Singapore)
Cheo is a practicing artist. He graduated from the Royal College of Art before becoming a Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome, Italy. He was a senior lecturer at the School of Contemporary Arts, University of Western Sydney. He is currently working on a book project with the Contemporary Asian Arts Center, Singapore.