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Closes on 12 May (Sun), 2359hrs (GMT+8)
A contemporary Malaysian photography showcase by seven artists
An image-based exhibition by five emerging artists
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Artist SpotlightThe DECK Associate Creative Programme offers creative thinkers from around the world an opportunity to create and disseminate new knowledge pertaining to the photographic medium, its associated practices, and its transformations. The programme seeks to connect voices in the global exchange of visual culture through the development of new research and programming.
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Artist-in-ResidenceA year-round programme at DECK that aims to nurture new and experimental photographic endeavours in Singapore and Asia.
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FestivalSingapore International Photography Festival (SIPF)
In each biennial edition, the Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) hosts some of the biggest names in photography, uncovers new talents, and promotes understanding of the world and society through creative photographic expressions.
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EducationDECK Student Education Programme was launched in 2012 with the primary goal of elevating the levels of visual literacy amongst our primary, secondary and tertiary level students. We firmly believe that Photography is a powerful means of personal expression and an intuitive way to communicate how we see our world. By developing our student’s photographic line of inquiry, our courses are designed in mind to not only to equip our young people with the essential technical skills, but to also enable them with the visual vocabulary to express creative ideas through Photography.
On the evening of 18 May 2024, DECK held its inaugural Benefit Dinner 2024 titled “From the Ground Up” to fundraise for its new and permanent building for photography arts. The night was filled with conversation and mirth with our donors, supporters and new friends of DECK.
From The Ground Up: DECK Benefit Dinner 2024 was graced by the presence of our Guest-of-Honour, Ms Usha Chandradas (@ushachandradas ), Nominated Member of Parliament and Co-Founder of Plural Art Mag, who shared about the profound impact of DECK and its photography arts programming in the community and beyond. The evening continued with sharing from Ms Gwen Lee (@gwenleegimlay), Co-Founder and Director of DECK, and Mr Kelvin Mun (@muntainbiker), Board Chairperson of DECK and Managing Director of AVS Technologies Pte Ltd (@avsprinting), who delivered heartfelt speeches on DECK’s vision to create a permanent home for photography arts in Singapore, for the people and by the people.
With the generous patronage of our donors and guests, we are pleased to share that $327,000* was raised through donations and artwork sales at From the Ground Up: DECK Benefit Dinner 2024. (*The sum is inclusive of the matched grant from MCCY’s Cultural Matching Fund.)
From everyone at DECK, we would like to thank our sponsors and supporters for making the evening a success ❤︎
Sponsors:
AVS Fine Art Printing @avsprinting
Body Inc. @bodyinc
The Outpost Hotel Sentosa @theoutposthotel
Conrad Singapore Orchard @conradsingaporeorchard
Artwork Donors:
Daido Moriyama Foundation
Mr Ho Kah Leong
Dr Colin Lim
The Associate Creative Programme’s Open Call has been extended!
Final Deadline, 22 May 2024, 2359hrs (SGT, GMT+8)
Submit your Project Proposals to
deck.sg/happening/acp24-opencall (Link in Bio)
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The DECK Associate Creative Programme offers creative thinkers from around the world an opportunity to create and disseminate new knowledge pertaining to the photographic medium, its associated practices, and its transformations. The programme seeks to connect voices in the global exchange of visual culture through the development of new research and programming.
OPEN CALL 2024: DECK ASSOCIATE CREATIVE PROGRAMME
🌏 Running for the 3rd year, DECK invites Singapore and internationally-based artists, curators, cultural producers, collectives and creative thinkers from around the world, wishing to carry out an original photography-based project to participate in the Open Call.
🤳🏼 Taking photography as both the vantage point and point of departure, we welcome proposals that uncover our contemporary community values and ideals that generate new knowledge, whilst bridging cultural divides.
➡️ Swipe right to see what our Associates have done for the 2023 edition of the programme!
⏳Send us your proposals by 12th May 2024, Sun, 2359hrs (GMT+8, Singapore Time)
👉🏼 For more information about the Open Call and submission guidelines, please visit deck.sg or #linkinbio
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The DECK Associate Creative Programme offers creative thinkers from around the world an opportunity to create and disseminate new knowledge pertaining to the photographic medium, its associated practices, and its transformations. The programme seeks to connect voices in the global exchange of visual culture through the development of new research and programming.
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It’s the last weekend to catch “Archipelago: Paradise Revisit” at the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre (@threeshadows_official). This exhibition is presented as part of the 2023 Jimei X Arles International Photo Festival in Xiamen, China.
DECK extends its gratitude to the institutional partners who made this original curation of contemporary image-based works by Southeast Asian artists possible — the National Arts Council (@nacsingapore) for their support and the organising team from Three Shadows Photography Art Centre (@threeshadows_official). And, of course, special thanks to design studio FACTORY (@work.byfactory) for their work on the exhibition design.
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Archipelago: Paradise Revisit
15 Dec 2023 to 16 Mar 2024
Three Shadows Photography Art Centre
Jimei District, Xiamen, Fujian Province
“Archipelago: Paradise Revisit” presents a contemporary revisit to strangely familiar sights and conditions situated within Southeast Asia. Loosely based on a cluster of islands with reference to their geographical traits, the exploration extends across space and time, exploring man’s pursuit of paradise and the realisation that true paradises are those we have lost.
The journey depicts a series of encounters centered on the human quest for utopia, the societal flux in the name of development, disruptions from natural calamities and acts of man, and the perpetual yearning to ascertain one’s belonging and identity. Winding through the islands, the persistent currents of personal anecdotes, diaspora, and colonial past act as invisible forces that continue to shape these paradises.
Artists
Ang Song Nian @songnian
Charles Lim Yi Yong @deadfishlongkang
Eiffel Chong @eiffelchong
Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee @elizabethgabriellelee
Lim Sokchanlina @limsokchanlina
Miti Ruangkritya @11cbkk
MM Yu @mm.yu_
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Wawi Navarroza @wawinavarroza
Wilfred Lim @_wilfredlim
Poklong Anading @sharedresidence
Curator
Gwen Lee @gwenleegimlay
Organiser: Three Shadows Photography Art Centre @threeshadows_official
Institutional Partner: DECK
Supported by National Arts Council @nacsingapore
Now showing: Undescribed 09
Exhibiting till 25 February 2024 at GR.iD Singapore (Level 7)
Open Tue to Sat: 11am to 7pm, Sun: 11am to 4pm
An image-based exhibition by five artists, challenging and rethinking new ways to approach photography and the moving image within the field of art today.
Undescribed is an annual platform conceived to support emerging artists based in Singapore who have recently graduated from local and overseas art institutions.
Artists:
Angelica Ong @catchingsunlight_
Cheryl Yip @lllyrehc
Isa Pengskul @therealvirtualpengskul
Jassilyn Ng @jassilyn_
John Marie Andrada @andradamarie
This edition is helmed by Robert Zhao Renhui @robert_zhao and John Tung @johnsavage.fromthewoods.
https://deck.sg/happening/undescribed-09/ #linkinbio
Now showing: In Times to Come
Exhibiting till 25 February 2024 at GR.iD Singapore (Level 7)
Open Tue to Sat: 11am to 7pm, Sun: 11am to 4pm
A contemporary Malaysian photography showcase by seven artists exploring reflective moments and inviting contemplation, to gain new inspiration and to reimagine the possibly ‘new’ Malaysia in times to come.
“In Times to Come” is the third edition of the CROSSING SEA series, examining the development of contemporary photography in the Southeast Asian region.
Artists:
Ahmad Fuad Osman @osmanahmadfuad
Eiffel Chong @eiffelchong
Minstrel Kuik @practise_merdeka
Nadirah Zakariya @nadirahzakariya
Sherman Ong
Vincent Leong
Wilfred Lim @_wilfredlim
Curated by Gwen Lee @gwenleegimlay
https://deck.sg/happening/in-times-to-come/ #linkinbio
Undescribed 09 Artist Tours ☻
“”Undescribed” is more than an annual showcase; it is a poignant exploration into the profound connection between artists and the images they create. The essence of this exhibition lies in the belief that image makers, far from merely choosing their craft, are chosen by the images themselves. In the aftermath of academia, these five emerging artists stand at the crossroads between intention and serendipity, their creative journeys unraveling as a symbiotic dance with the images that have selected them.” — Robert Zhao Renhui @robert_zhao
TOUR DATES
● 17 Feb (Sat)
4pm - 5pm (Duration: 1 hour)
Angelica Ong @catchingsunlight_, John Marie Andrada @andradamarie, Jassilyn Ng @jassilyn_, and Isa Pengskul @therealvirtualpengskul
● 24 Feb (Sat)
3:30pm - 5:30pm (Duration: 2 hours)
John Marie Andrada @andradamarie, Jassilyn Ng @jassilyn_, Isa Pengskul @therealvirtualpengskul, Cheryl Yip @lllyrehc
Register at undescribed9-tour.eventbrite.sg #linkinbio
𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐎𝐧𝐞’𝐬 𝐎𝐰𝐧
6th & 7th March 24 (Wed), 8pm SGT
13th & 14th March 24 (Wed), 8pm SGT
Online, via Zoom
Register now at aooo-deck.eventbrite.sg #linkinbio
Curated by Sean Cham, 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐎𝐧𝐞’𝐬 𝐎𝐰𝐧 examines the works of photo and moving image artists who challenge, contemplate, interrogate, re-imagine, re-purpose the colonial archive in their own works. The colonial archives are records — both textual and visual — that have reduced lived lives to numbers, fragments, and shorthands; they are remnants of an imperial past that continues to shape experiences and lives today. The camera is a colonial tool that is violent and oppressive. How do artists engage with such material to contribute to a more nuanced reading of history? How do such contemporary works make visible and present the previously invisible and silenced colonised people, stories, and voices?
The programme, consisting of a series of artist talks and critical responses, hopes to generate new knowledge on potential histories found in the colonial archives — not what is recorded in the archives, but rather what is absent, silenced, and invisible.
For more information, please head to #linkinbio
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Speakers & Respondents
Abednego Trianto (@abednegotrianto)
Sajan Mani (@sajan_mani)
Stephanie Syjuco (@ssyjuco)
Nydia A. Swaby (@nydiaswaby)
Sim Chi Yin (@chiyin_sim)
Freya Schwachenwald
Nurul Huda Rashid (@nurulh_rashid)
Rio Creech-Nowagiel
𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐎𝐧𝐞’𝐬 𝐎𝐰𝐧
Presented by DECK
Curated by Sean Cham
A DECK Associate Creative Programme
Featured Image: Stretched Light and Muted Howls. 2023. Sajan Mani (@sajan_mani). Image courtesy of the artist.
Bookbinding Workshop (Waterfall Flipbook) 🌊
17 Feb (Sat), 11am—1pm
GR.iD Mall (Level 7)
Create a waterfall flipbook using your own prints with artist Angelica Ong @catchingsunlight_. Each participant will walk away with a demo book of their own featuring their images.
What to prepare for the workshop:
✱ Each participant is required to bring 8 to 10 prints of their own.
✱ These prints should be made on thick, sturdy paper (approx. 230gsm).
✱ Alternatively, if unable to print directly onto thicker paper, participants may reinforce their prints by adhering them to thicker paper.
✱ Prints can be of different lengths but must be of the same width. The recommended maximum length and width of your prints is 15cm and 10cm respectively.
Register at waterfall-flipbook.eventbrite.sg #linkinbio
$80 per pax | Materials and tools are provided
Limited slots available
#workshop #bookbinding #flipbook #photography #prints #binding
𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 / 𝗱𝗿𝗮𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 is a photo research project by Singmoolsung (Minsoo Bae and Anonymous Collaborator) exploring queer ways of seeing — beyond the form; inherently holding room for instability and expansion; and as an act of care.
Taking queer phenomenology as grounding literature, we posit the queer gaze as kind of unseeing. Since nothing in the world is quite fixed, and everything is in flux — our interiority, our self-understanding, our relationship to the world — it is more accurate to honour that flux by holding information gently in your hands. Not rushing to make sense of it. In fact, making room for the sensorial forms of knowing - looking behind and around you.
This open studio is a space for people to engage with the materials of our photo-research zine, which comprises photographs, collages, and interview transcripts, crafted in collaboration with the Queer Life Drawing Circle community. Participants are welcome to engage with the original collage works, photographs, and drawings to witness how our project came to be.
𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 / 𝗱𝗿𝗮𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼
17 Feb to 25 Feb 2024
Tues - Sat: 11am to 7pm
GR.iD Singapore (Level 7)
1 Selegie Rd, Singapore 188306
𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸
17 Feb 2024, 2pm to 3.30pm
Free, by registration at qld-deck.eventbrite.sg or #linkinbio
𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
17 Feb 2024, 3:30pm to 7PM
Free, no registration needed, come as you are!
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Design by @likefireatsea
Photography by @mintskaa
Models Featured: Mischa & Anonymous
𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 / 𝗱𝗿𝗮𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 is presented as part of the DECK Associate Creative Programme, with venue support from GR.iD Mall & GAW Capital.
☀️ The sun was out and we traversed the ground around our neighbourhood with Jerome Lim @jeronimoloco leading the pack. Walking the roads from yesteryears and exploring the heritage of buildings was even more special with the new faces who joined the tour.
If you enjoyed this activation, continue your spirited exploration of this neighbourhood with “GoDECK: ARTventure at Bras Basah”, a self-exploratory outdoor game played on WhatsApp. #linkinbio
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