NOOR EFFENDY IBRAHIM
Born 1973
Noor Effendy Ibrahim is a director and playwright and has worked prolificly in Malay Theatre with Teater Kami, Teater Ekamatra and Teater Artistik since 1991. Effendy is also a performance artist and body-based performer since 1994, having performed extensively as a solo artist and in collaborations with various artists in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Chicago and Poland. He initiated and co-founded a Chicago-based performance collective Broken Cello with both degree and graduate students and faculty members while pursuing his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Effendy now practices theatre and performance under the name Katak Kudung.
Currently, Effendy is the
Artistic Director and Executive Producer of Teater Ekamatra. Effendy graduated
from the 2nd batch of the Theatre Studies and Drama course at Victoria Junior
College (1990-1991), and possesses a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of
the Art Institute of Chicago (1997-2000). Effendy is also a free-lance arts
educator (drama) having taught at the pre-school, primary, secondary and
tertiary levels in
Singapore.
Noor Effendy Ibrahim has served on the Singapore Arts Festival 2003, 2004 and
2005 Programme Advisory Committee and the Resource Panel for Esplanade-Theatres
on the Bay Pesta Raya 2003, as well as in various other discussion panels on the
Singapore Arts scene since 2001. Three of his plays are published in Bisik -
Antologi Drama Melayu Singapura, a co-publication of Teater Ekamatra and Pustaka
Cipta (Malaysia) and he is also featured in People at the Peak 2002 and 2003.
Source: Substation Singapore
7th Castle of Imagination
Noor Effendy Ibrahim (USA /
Singapore) - performance "Memory for Loss: Study II"
For the memory of loss, for the memory of Hjh. Esah Bte. Dalib, 1909 (?) - 1996,
for the memory of love. After this dedication, the public were given
instructions for the performance:
"Hold a glass full of clear and potable water in your right hand. Go to the roof of a building on a clear, still, sunny and dry day. Stand at the edge of the roof. Pour a drop of water, the size of a clot of blood, over the edge of the roof. Return to the foot of the building and wait for the drop of water. Catch the drop of water in the glass with your right hand. Repeat action once at different buildings of different heights until glass is empty."
The naked artist was
attached to a doorknocker of the Castle's tower by his neck, arms and legs with
pieces of elastic. He held a glass of water in his hand. In a slow motion,
alluding to an attempt to wrench himself away and to free himself from fetters.
Every few minutes he poured a few drops of water out of the glass. He followed
the instructions of the author with his simple action. The only difference is he
did not stand at the edge of the roof or run down to catch falling drops.
KAMPUNG 2000
'The Veil', solo and performance collaboration with Rizman Putra, Kampung 2000,
curated by Noor Effendy Ibrahim and organized by Ekamatra, Substation, Singapore
STOPOVER
Japan-Singapore Performance Art
Meeting
18th & 19th May, 2005
Venue: Orita.Sinclair.Intl Front Room Gallery 12A,Pahang street, Singapore
Supported by: Japan Foundation , National Arts Council Singapore , BenQ and
Orita.Sinclair.Intl FrontRoom Gallery
STOPOVER, Singapore’s First Performance Art Meeting of Japanese performance
artists. On the 18th and 19th of May, we have invited emerging and established
performance artists from Japan and Singapore to meet at Front Room Gallery to
offer new performance works
Initiated and organized by performance artist Jason Lim, STOPOVER proposed to
offer an international and professional showcase of performance art and
time-based works that fall outside the traditional boundaries of established
fine art and performing arts genres. STOPOVER is dedicated to represent a wide
and comprehensive range of works, and is also committed to presenting both
breadth and depth of performance art as a genre.
18th May 2005
6.30pm
Live presentation of art performances by
3 Japanese artists and
5 Singaporean artists
19th May 2005
6.30pm
Live presentation of art performances by
3 Japanese artists and
5 Singaporean artists
Participating artists
Japan
SEIJI SHIMODA
MAKOTO MARUYAMA
MIDORI KADOKURA
AZUSA OKUMURA
KAZUHIRO NISHIJIMA
REI SHIBATA
Singapore
JASON LIM
LEE WEN
KAI LAM
ZUL MAHMOD
RIZMAN PUTRA
CHUA CHIN CHIN
TODD TOK
NATASHA WEI
ANDREE WESCHLER
EFFENDY IBRAHIM
STOPOVER makes available a platform for the meeting of performance art practices
by Japanese and Singaporean artists. This meeting seeks to achieve a positive
reception and discourse in Singapore.
For the first time, 10 Japanese performance artists from NIPAF (Nippon
International Performance Art Festival) will present their works in Singapore.
Mr. Seiji Shimoda, Director of NIPAF, has recently organized the 12th Nippon
International Performance Art Festival ( http://www.avis.ne.jp/~nipaf/ ),
touring four major cities in Japan. He has created many performance art networks
in Asia and initiated many performance art festival in Asia, example, PIPAF
(Philippines International Performance Art Festival, JIPAF (Jakarta
International Performance Art Festival) and TIPAF (Taiwan International
Performance Festival) just to name a few.
From Singapore, we have invited 10 established and new faces to make live
presentation in STOPOVER. I believe that an event like this will help to
increase international cultural exchange and understanding, as well as being an
accentuation of our artistic practice, research and development.
Jason LIM
Artist/organizer
STOPOVER
Japan-Singapore Performance Art Meeting
