LATENT SPACES

LATENT SPACES adopt idle spaces in Singapore and reinvent them as platforms for experimental art and

Temporarily situated at the historical Haw Par Villa theme park from April 2014 until June 2015, LATENT SPACES will curate a series of art exhibitions examining the relationship of human societies to objects. With its collection of large-sculptural exhibits, Haw Par Villa is a place with enduring material presence rich for analysis. With these investigations, LATENT SPACES hopes to encourage think

24/03/2017

Dream Storeys

Great book by local writer Clara Chow!

"A shopping mall self-destructs, and a single mother vanishes. A tree house for orphans and old folks is torn apart by an act of mercy. The Singapore Flyer is reinvented as a political prison. In this collection of nine tales, Clara Chow examines an alternative Singaporean landscape—one that exists only on paper—and the people we might be in it. A former newspaper correspondent, she interviews nine architects about chimeric structures and sets short stories in them. A hybrid of journalism and fiction, Dream Storeys documents the voices of urban visionaries, while taking their ideas into inventive, evocative new territories."

ethosbooks.com.sg by Clara Chow What if you could dream up any building you like? What would it be? How would constructing it change our lives? A shopping mall self-destructs, and a single mother vanishes.

22/03/2017

An embarrassment of riches in the latest ArtReview Asia, featuring, amongst a lot of other things, a feature on Ho Tzu Nyen, Le Brothers and Patricia Eustaquio, as well as reviews of the Singapore Biennale 2016, OH! Open House The Bizarre Honour, Chun Kai Qun's show at FOST Gallery, Kamin Lertchaiprasert at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum and Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore's reader in Singapore art.

20/03/2017

Trisha Brown Dance Company

RIP Trisha Brown.

It is with great sorrow that we share the news that artist Trisha Brown died on March 18th in San Antonio, Texas, after a lengthy illness. One of the most acclaimed and influential choreographers and dancers of her time, Trisha’s groundbreaking work forever changed the landscape of art.

She will be missed by all.

20/03/2017

What Happens to Deep Thinking in a Nation of Non-Readers?

"We are in dire need to empathy. Look up from your phone while in line and observe everyone else staring down at their phones. Gaze at your surroundings in a restaurant or on the road. Our navigational skills, physically and emotionally, are suffering greatly due to a growing inability to recognize others—physically and emotionally. We’ve never had so many stories available at the touch of a fingertip, yet the only story we’re concerned with is whatever one we’re living."

bigthink.com While digital technologies offer an unlimited well of knowledge to draw from at any moment, the medium is rooted in distraction.

19/03/2017

George Takei

This group of barbers is giving men a place to talk openly about mental health.

via Channel 4 News

12/01/2017

Hospitalfield

The deadline for our Visual Art Residencies is approaching - open to UK and UK based visual artists, the deadline is Monday 23 January at midnight. http://hospitalfield.org.uk/visual-art-residencies-2017-open-for-application/

25/12/2016

LATENT SPACES googles you a Merry Christmas and wishes you all the best in the New Year. Peace.

30/08/2016

【LATENT SPACES LASER LOBANG】

We love LASER LOBAAANG!

30/08/2016

【LATENT SPACES LASER LOBANG | How to Prepare Text】

Our first laser lobang is to laser cut text out of fabric!

The client is Rachel # # #, a student from Lasalle College of the Arts. Her terms of exchange for the laser cutting service would be helping Kai Qun out with his solo exhibition installation for a day in January!

This is how you prepare text on Adobe Illustrator, the little triangles and circles will fall off if they are not connected to the main piece of fabric. You could otherwise use stencil fonts too.

The written instructions will be included in the comments section below.

Thank you for engaging LASER LOBANG, a new initiative which marks the return of LATENT SPACES!

10/08/2016

【LATENT SPACES is back with LASER LOBANG】

We will provide basic laser cutting services at Lasalle from next week onward. The usual rate is $10 per hour usage, students will receive 50% discount.

By the way, a year ago around this time we had a glorious takeover of a laundromat transformed into temporary art space!

We will be more specific with the kind of materials it can cut, it is really just a simple machine, perhaps we could generate an income to get a better one in future!

27/07/2016

NEW WAVES | CHULAYARNNON SIRIPHOL: VANISHING MEMORIES – BETWEEN VIDEO ART AND CINEMA

Happening this evening! :)

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【Dialogue with Chulayarnnon Siriphol】

NEW WAVES: EMERGING VOICES OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN CINEMA
Chulayarnnon Siriphol [Thailand] in dialogue with Chun Kai Qun
on 'Vanishing Memories - Between Video Art & Cinema'
Wednesday 27 July 8.00pm, SCAPE Gallery

Chulayarnnon Siriphol was born in Bangkok in 1986 where he currently lives and works. An award-winning filmmaker and visual artist, he works in short film, experimental film, documentary and video installation and delves in between personal memory and social memory, documentary and fiction, reality and the supernatural. Chulayarnnon's works have been screened in many film festivals and exhibitions in Asia and Europe.

Chun Kai Qun studies object biographies to better our understanding of how they texture and inform human identity. He examines everyday objects as a reflection of personal tastes, attributes, moral principles and social ideals; which drive his artistic practice in sculptures and installations. Kai Qun is also co-founder of the curatorial collective LATENT SPACES which reinvents idle spaces in Singapore as platforms for experimental art. He received his Master of Fine Art from the renowned Glasgow School of Art, and was conferred the 2015 Singapore Young Artist Award.

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REGISTER via the link below. For group bookings, email [email protected].

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23/06/2016

LATENT SPACES's cover photo

23/06/2016

LATENT SPACES

23/06/2016

【Our Condolences to the Family of Local Film-maker Addul Nizam】

Nizam performed with Jeremy Hiah at one of the most legendary nights during our time at Haw Par Villa.

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SINGAPORE - Abdul Nizam, an award-winning Singapore indie film-maker and musician, died of liver, lung and pancreatic cancer on Tuesday. He was 50.

His contemporaries and friends remember the man, whose full name is Abdul Nizam Abdul Hamid, as someone who was highly talented and passionate about films and music. He had played in pioneering home-grown indie bands, The NoNames and The Oddfellows.

Singapore International Film Festival's (SGIFF) programme director, Mr Zhang Wenjie, says Nizam always had many ideas about films he wanted to make.

"The remarkable thing about Nizam is that he was always documenting. He would go to performance art events and concerts, and shoot a lot of footage. He never stopped working, he was always writing a script or refining his ideas.

http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/entertainment/local-indie-film-maker-and-musician-abdul-nizam-dies-of-cancer

【THE CURIOUS CASE OF HAW PAR VILLA - Wayang Kulit Performance】

Jeremy Hiah and Chun Kai Qun (with Abdul Nizam, Dennis Tan and Euginia Tan)

Wayang Kulit performance directed by Jeremy Hiah

Text contribution by Chun Kai Qun, narrated by Euginia Tan

Photo-documentation by Raymond Wu Jiahan

20/06/2016

Kapor Chatparty by the Octopus Residency

The Kapor Chatparty by the Octopus Residency connects community and creative energies in the Kampong Kapor neighbourhood.

How can a group of organisers, facilitators and artists help to provide creative excuses for the diverse groups in Little India to meet and do something fun together? Is there a way to break the ice? How do we help prepare the ground for deeper conversation?

We are initiating these efforts in the Kampong Kapor neighbourhood in Little India, from June 19 - August 13, 2016:

1) Open and free community events for all on Sundays, such as community picnics and Really Really Free Market (with various partners such as Stand Up for SG and Post-Museum)

2) Rangoli art workshops for Little India residents and regulars to get their hands dirty in making art from spices and ingredients often found in the neighbourhood, with celebrated artist Vijaya Mohan

3) Bindi's Roadside Spa that brings out the best skin and the best conversations around wellness and relaxation for migrant workers, with artist/filmmaker Ng Xi Jie and a team of volunteers

4) Fun and hands-on design sessions for Little India residents and regulars to imagine a better Little India and how to make it happen, with the affable Participate-in-Design (PiD) group

5) Walking Trails to explore past, current and future stories of Little India, with discussion facilitators from The Thought Collective group

6) Free community services, such as health assessments for migrant workers

Special thanks to our existing partners and sponsors:
Apsara Asia
HealthServe
Mekhala Living
National Arts Council
Post-Museum
Temasek Polytechnic
Singai Tamil Sangam Association
Stand Up for SG
Vel's Curry
Workhouse

The Kapor Chatparty by the Octopus Residency connects community and creative energies in the Kampong Kapor neighbourhood.

12/06/2016

An interview with art4d.asia almost a year ago, totally missed the article when it was published.

Errata: '$1.20 +$1.20 +$1.20 +$1.20 +$1.20 +$1.20 +$1.20 +$1.20 +$1.20 +$1.30 +$1.30 +$1.30 +$1.30' and 'Nameless Forms (Cabinets)' are works of Chun Kai Qun, not Chun Kai Feng as stated in the article.

art4d.asia

03/02/2016

【The year 2016 ahead】

Hey LATENT SPACES supporters,

Thank you for being with us since our humble beginnings in 2014 while we were in residence in Haw Par Villa.

We did not manage to secure a permanent space in Haw Par Villa, though we tried in vain to bid in the tender in December 2014. There were later plans to bring us back into the fold for a couple of weekends in 2016 as part of an art festival, among other developments for LATENT SPACES to work on more visible or international platforms, but somehow we are not able to and do not desire to respond to such a scale.

Since our exit from Haw Par Villa, we moved from spaces to spaces, getting ourselves involved in Art Stage (Potong Ice-Cream $2 | Jan 2015) and we sold ice cream in our booth and worked with over fifty artists on an collaborative art piece whereby they each created a fridge magnet. Then we hijacked a laundromat (Waiting at a Stopped Clock | Aug 2015) to create the now legendary case-study appropriation of commercial spaces as platforms for art in Singapore. Later in September 2015, we had a really great time when we worked with curator Lim Qinyi from Para/Site in Hong Kong to collaborate on the exhibition design of A Luxury We Cannot Afford and through this project we raised our international profile.

However, LATENT SPACES is essentially two brothers running the show and we enjoy keeping it that way. We like doing things small, like as if we are under siege from all external socio-political forces, and such pressures drive us to carve out truly authentic and grunge moments for sub-cultural art in technocratic Singapore.

As we found out in our dilemma whether to keep LATENT SPACES active, the cliche goes with us wanting to keep things 'real' and not fall into the trap of making templates, track-records driven projects, just for the sake of sustenance which in the process will enslave us to what would become a 'job'. Hence, we are going on a hiatus to better ourselves as individuals before we start getting the LATENT SPACES engine room running again.

Please do look out for things to come in the year 2016 by us as individual artists. Kai Feng has a solo exhibition in FOST gallery in March and I will be settling into a full-time teaching position while also preparing to present a survey of my art practice in 2017. We will still continue to write on Unproductive Online which is our LATENT SPACES online art journal and we will still respond to researchers and be open to meetings to discuss about what we have done and contemporary art in Singapore in general.

www.latentspaces/unproductive/

Thank you once again.

With Love,
Kai Qun
LATENT SPACES

25/01/2016

The Psychic Materiality of Dakota Crescent Estate

【Unproductive Online】

Objects in the Mirror Are Closer than They Appear is presented by curators Selene Yap and Joey Chin. It is a site-specific material and spatial exploration of Dakota Crescent which is one of twenty pioneer estates planned for demolition in the last decade. The curators seek to draw our attention to the intimate details of the estate which have been overlooked by the urgency and convenience in the process of icon production pandering to a collective narrative.

www.latentspaces.com Objects in the Mirror Are Closer than They Appear is presented by curators
Selene Yap and Joey Chin. It is a site-specific material and spatial
exploration of Dakota Crescent which is one of twenty pioneer estates
planned for demolition in the last decade. The curators seek to draw our
attention to the intimate details of the estate which have been overlooked
by the urgency and convenience in the process of icon production pandering
to a collective narrative.

06/12/2015

【LATENT ECONOMIES】

Our collaboration with Montreal-based Art-A-Porter is making great progress!

Art-A-Porter is the fusion of art and high fashion. The wearable art gallery showcases exclusive works of art from some of the world’s most respected artists, produced on high-end clothing made in Montreal (Canada) in limited and numbered editions.

Art-A-Porter’s curators work with the gallery’s signed artists on a selection of artworks and set the artistic intent of the collaboration. The designers then place the art on the wearable canvasses (dress, blouse, button-down shirt, etc.). The creations are grouped into bimonthly exhibitions presented to the Collectors via the online gallery.

https://www.art-a-porter.com/en/

06/12/2015

LATENT SPACES on Instagram: “A kill fee is a clause in your contract that says that if the...

【LATENT ECONOMIES】

A kill fee is a clause in your contract that says that if the client decides to back out or terminate the project mid-way through, after a contract has been signed and project begun, then a fee to “kill” the contract must be made.

instagram.com “A kill fee is a clause in your contract that says that if the client decides to back out or terminate the project mid-way through, after a contract has…”

06/12/2015

It is almost taken for granted that the food and beverage component is a natural fit to the sustainability of art spaces. This evening, we took up cooking classes at Ma Maison in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong to further examine the processes behind the F&B industry.

05/12/2015

LATENT SPACES on Instagram: “Job creep is a phenomenon in which employers continually require...

【LATENT ECONOMIES】

Job creep is a phenomenon in which employers continually require increasing amounts of work relative to the normal requirements of their operations.

instagram.com “Job creep is a phenomenon in which employers continually require increasing amounts of work relative to the normal requirements of their operations.”

03/12/2015

【LATENT ECONOMIES】

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◄ Who We Are ►

LATENT SPACES adopt idle spaces in Singapore and we reinvent them as platforms for experimental art and organisational entrepreneurship as active resistance.

The curatorial group is steered by Chun Kai Qun, Chun Kai Feng and Samantha Yap.

LATENT ECONOMIES is an ongoing venture aimed to explore a variety of business ideas which can complement art spaces and their sustainability.

With our individual art practices combined, we have over twenty years of experience in art installation, exhibition design, curating, festival directing and arts education.

◄ Contact Us ►

The LATENT SPACES Group
Goodman Arts Centre,
Block E, 90 Goodman Road, #03-30
Singapore 439053

Email: [email protected]

Visit us on the web: www.latentspaces.com
Find us on facebook: www.facebook.com/latentspaces

Please contact us for the availability of other screen sizes and audio visual equipment.

Thank you!

21/11/2015

【LATENT SPACES Hong Kong Research Trip】

Probably the best experience watching a film, we checked out the 碧街18號 18 Pitt Street space and this evening's screening was Tsai Ming Liang's Stray Dogs.

21/11/2015

【LATENT SPACES Hong Kong Research Trip】

Making friends by making things, today we made a table together.

We lent a few hours to Michael Leung who is part of the Very MK rooftop farm 旺角天台農場 to help create the Tree Gun Farm installation for the 2015 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture.

Tree Gun Farm is a 100 ft2 farm inside UABB(HK). The concept is to connect the public with local farming. Utilizing the quiet place in Kowloon Park, which is also located in the midst of a busy district in Hong Kong, in the hopes of expanding the imagination of the use of public place.

20/11/2015

【LATENT SPACES Hong Kong Research Trip】

We are on a research trip in Hong Kong, mainly checking out the Around sound art festival presented by Sound Pocket. Meantime, we also found time to talk to Michael Leung and visited his new shop at Yau Ma Tei. Fortunately, we also managed to visit the legendary Woofer Ten which will move out of their current space in a few days.

Around sound art festival
https://www.facebook.com/events/547567395392946/

Sound Pocket
http://www.thelibrarybysoundpocket.org.hk/

Woofer Ten
https://www.facebook.com/wooferten/

Michael Leung
http://www.studioleung.com/

19/10/2015

Cultural Medallion Young Artist Award 2015

【Cultural Medallion Young Artist Award 2015】

You may hear our winning speeches here and also get to know the rest of the talented young artists awarded this year. They are Diana Soh, James Tan, Kirsten Tan, Loo Zihan and Muhammad Riduan Zalani.

VIDEO: NATIONAL ARTS COUNCIL, SINGAPORE

19/10/2015

【Cultural Medallion Young Artist Award 2015】

Chun Kai Qun and Chun Kaifeng of LATENT SPACES are both conferred the National Arts Council Young Artist Award 2015.

We will continue to work hard to keep the curatorial outfit going and bring to you all exciting programmes in the future.

We're glad to see our local artists being recognised for their contributions in Singapore's arts and cultural scene at the Istana last night!

The Cultural Medallion award was conferred to four distinguished artists - Chua Mia Tee, Haresh Sharma, Lin Gao & Margaret Leng Tan. And guess what? You'll be able to meet and hear from them in the upcoming months ahead at the Cultural Medallion Speaker Series, so look out for that!

For making a mark through their artistic dynamism, the Young Artist Award was also conferred to seven artists aged 35 and below! Well done to Chun Kai Feng, Chun Kai Qun, Diana Soh, James Tan, Kirsten Tan, Loo Zihan and Muhammad Riduan Zalani.

Check out the photos below and give this post a Like (y) to support our local artists!

15/10/2015

【The Curious Case of Haw Par Villa】

Haw Par Villa is usually perceived as a place of a bygone era. In this country that prides itself on progressiveness and resourceful navigation of space constraints; old structures are constantly re-assessed on its usability. When something constructed in the past fails to keep up with the expectations of the society today, it is rendered obsolete. However, the true purpose of certain structures, perhaps even unforeseen by their creators, may only reveal itself over time and remain useful on a different dimension.

In considering that Haw Par Villa has outlived persons, this demonstrates the materiality of things to be more permanent than the materiality of the body. I would argue that it occupies a highly ambiguous position between life and death. Haw Par Villa was constructed with the Zeitgeist of the 1930s and much has been left unaltered. Unless it is demolished, the fact remains that Haw Par Villa will continue to outlive generations of Singaporeans, so it inherently functions as a tomb, a bridge for the living to access the past, a place where people can experience the tides of time.

While Haw Par Villa has lost much of its draw in attracting visitors today vis-à-vis the myriad of offerings down-town, it does not follow that its current role is that of a reduced function, to play second fiddle to more modern structures and sites. Rather, it is now bestowed an exclusively mythological reputation, in which its new added purpose is to refer to the past.

The distinctive features associated with the general fascination of Haw Par Villa seem to be the nostalgia for origins and the obsessions with authenticity. Currently awaiting redevelopment, attempts to regain the practical imperative of Haw Par Villa, such that it functions again as a public place of visitor-ship, may actually exhaust its sense of existence in a former time. It is precisely because of its old and worn-out appearance, that it is able to provide an ambient access into the past.

It was perhaps never created to continually evolve itself with time and to meet the needs of younger and trendier crowds. Haw Par Villa was meant to be a fallen giant. It was unknowingly built to be a source of nostalgia and melancholia.

A dominant utilitarian approach these days may represent significant opportunity costs in keeping Haw Par Villa as a quiet reflective space. Given Singapore’s limited land space, it is probably necessary to redevelop and contextualize Haw Par Villa within a contemporary framework. Its emotionally arresting state of silence provides an essential contrast to the intense mall culture in Singapore. Haw Par Villa’s sublime presence perhaps provides an access to feeling at home in Singapore with a sense of true being.

https://latentspaces.squarespace.com/unproductive/2014/4/14/the-curious-case-of-haw-par-villa

26/09/2015

We celebrated Mid-autumn Festival by making our very own Tang Yuan (glutinous rice balls) dipped in peanuts and ginger sauce! Special thanks to Independent Archive Ltd. for hosting us tonight.

17/09/2015

【OPEN CALL - Bad Places】
Dateline: 2nd October 2015 (extended till 31 October)
For its next wearable art exhibition, Art-A-Porter is collaborating with LATENT SPACES. We invite artists to submit works of art related to the following theme: BAD PLACES

【Curatorial】
’Dystopia’ is often translated or understood as ‘a bad place’. We are familiar with tropes of dystopia in fiction and film. A dark ravine, muddled territory, violence turned a blind eye to, blind obedience ensured by fear, forgotten spaces, the body as dispensable, mechanical lives. We understand these imaginary bad places, we know them also to be real, evocative of real-life situations, of aggressions carefully hidden away on the other side of the door. The liminal threshold between fiction and life is as fickle and papery as the turning of the pages.

Where is the dark ravine? Do we collectively dream of it then fear it? Does it already by default linger within quiet crevices of the mind, behind mottled black eyes?

What are bad places? A faulty space? A cursed locality? The conditions of a bad place - how we judge a bad place - ranges from the capitalistic to the emotional. An abandoned warehouse speaks of a dead business, a bad place of aborted ventures. The haunted apartment lined with the ghosts of its previous tenants is an ill-fated bad place.

We run from bad places, from trauma sites of irreconcilable memories or past mistakes. Sometimes, bad places pertain to a specific geography. Other times, we carry these bad places with us, an amorphous presence that lingers a little too closely. It shadows us, inhibiting and informing us, arming us with the knowledge of who we were before and of who we are now.
Perhaps, some bad places are not bad so much as they are misjudged and narrowly understood. A bad place could be an idle place, with hidden potential and the possibility to take on a different existence. A haunted apartment may appear a difficult property to liquidate but in a time of scarce land and resources, even a bad place can be capitalized on. With enough time, we may even shed the bad places from our skin.

In this collaboration between Art-A-Porter and LATENT SPACES, we are interested to explore the materiality of clothes, of how they carry our bodies and our experiences of life. In some ways, they mark us, and in other ways, we mark them.

Artists are invited to explore the temporality and idea of “bad places”. The adaptation of the artworks by AAP’s creative team onto the clothing canvasses aim to pursue this quest of the “bad places” reflecting it onto clothes and by extension, in ourselves.

【About Art-A-Porter】
Art-A-Porter is the fusion of art and high fashion. The wearable art gallery showcases exclusive works of art from some of the world’s most respected artists, produced on high-end clothing made in Montreal (Canada) in limited and numbered editions.

Art-A-Porter’s curators work with the gallery’s signed artists on a selection of artworks and set the artistic intent of the collaboration. The designers then place the art on the wearable canvasses (dress, blouse, button-down shirt, etc.). The creations are grouped into bimonthly exhibitions presented to the Collectors via the online gallery.

https://www.art-a-porter.com/en/

17/09/2015

【OPEN CALL - Bad Places】

Dateline: 2nd October 2015

For its next wearable art exhibition, Art-A-Porter is collaborating with LATENT SPACES. We invite artists to submit works of art related to the following theme: BAD PLACES

【CURATORIAL】

’Dystopia’ is often translated or understood as ‘a bad place’. We are familiar with tropes of dystopia in fiction and film. A dark ravine, muddled territory, violence turned a blind eye to, blind obedience ensured by fear, forgotten spaces, the body as dispensable, mechanical lives. We understand these imaginary bad places, we know them also to be real, evocative of real-life situations, of aggressions carefully hidden away on the other side of the door. The liminal threshold between fiction and life is as fickle and papery as the turning of the pages.

Where is the dark ravine? Do we collectively dream of it then fear it? Does it already by default linger within quiet crevices of the mind, behind mottled black eyes?

What are bad places? A faulty space? A cursed locality? The conditions of a bad place - how we judge a bad place - ranges from the capitalistic to the emotional. An abandoned warehouse speaks of a dead business, a bad place of aborted ventures. The haunted apartment lined with the ghosts of its previous tenants is an ill-fated bad place.

We run from bad places, from trauma sites of irreconcilable memories or past mistakes. Sometimes, bad places pertain to a specific geography. Other times, we carry these bad places with us, an amorphous presence that lingers a little too closely. It shadows us, inhibiting and informing us, arming us with the knowledge of who we were before and of who we are now.

Perhaps, some bad places are not bad so much as they are misjudged and narrowly understood. A bad place could be an idle place, with hidden potential and the possibility to take on a different existence. A haunted apartment may appear a difficult property to liquidate but in a time of scarce land and resources, even a bad place can be capitalized on. With enough time, we may even shed the bad places from our skin.

In this collaboration between Art-A-Porter and LATENT SPACES, we are interested to explore the materiality of clothes, of how they carry our bodies and our experiences of life. In some ways, they mark us, and in other ways, we mark them.

Artists are invited to explore the temporality and idea of “bad places”. The adaptation of the artworks by AAP’s creative team onto the clothing canvasses aim to pursue this quest of the “bad places” reflecting it onto clothes and by extension, in ourselves.

【Submission】

This call is open to all visual art professionals including but not lim-ited to: visual artists, illustrators, writers, graphic designers, etc.

【Application Datelines】

Specifications

All applications much be made at the following address: www.art-a-porter.com/showcase. To ensure an easy application process, here are the information you will be required to submit:

_ Creation of an AAP account

_ Short biography (100 words maximum)

_ A maximum of 10 images ( titled properly*)

_ Link to your website or blog

_ Contact information including an official and functioning email

*ATTENTION : To ensure that your artworks are associated to the current open call from Latent Spaces, please insert _LS at the end of your artwork title.

Eg.

Untitled 01_LS

【Selection】

Only selected artist will be notified by email. Please beware that, upon selection, we will request high resolution documentation of artworks (TIFF or RAW files mandatory). AAP will require exclusive rights on the selected artworks for reproduction on clothing and fashion accessories. For more information, see to the terms and conditions section of AAP’s website.

【About Art-A-Porter】

Art-A-Porter is the fusion of art and high fashion. The wearable art gallery showcases exclusive works of art from some of the world’s most respected artists, produced on high-end clothing made in Montreal (Canada) in limited and numbered editions.

Art-A-Porter’s curators work with the gallery’s signed artists on a selection of artworks and set the artistic intent of the collaboration. The designers then place the art on the wearable canvasses (dress, blouse, button-down shirt, etc.). The creations are grouped into bimonthly exhibitions presented to the Collectors via the online gallery.

For any other inquiry reach us via email at: [email protected]

WWW.ART-A-PORTER.COM

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A Singapore-based Art Gallery by Clay Journey curating both local and international ceramic works. 位于新加坡的一家陶艺展示厅,展示着国内外艺术家们陶艺作品

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Est. 2020

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Latin Art Singapore Latin Art Singapore
Singapore

LatinArtSingapore works with more than 20 contemporary Latin American artists, promoting and showing their art in Singapore.

Wasuka Art Wasuka Art
Singapore

Wasuka Art is a visual artist management agency that advises and manages artists to help them develop their practice and careers. We customise programs to promote their work while ...