Since 2003, we have successfully and consistently organized “Future of imagination”, an annual international performance event that platforms local and international artists. We also organized "R.I.T.E.S" which is monthly performance art event. We have consistently engaging audiences and interested artists.
We would like to continue our activities to promote the art in Asia and connect society. We would like to see the art to reach more people and people start to appreciate and participate in the art activities for exchange and sharing experience. I think this will make Asia better living place.
2011- 2012
Artistic Director / Curator, ‘Rooted In The Ephemeral Speak’ (R.I.T.E.S) a monthly platform showcasing sound art, time-based and new media art in various galleries, museums, schools and public venues in Singapore.
R.I.T.E.S – www. rootedintheephemeralspeak.com
2009- 2013
Artistic Director / Curator, ‘Future of ‘Future of Imagination’ (FOI) International Performance Art Event. An international meeting of artists and organisers for live and Time based arts. Includes; production of event, exhibitions, artist’s talks & forums, Archival and publication of related documentations, held various art institutions and public venues like, Goodman Arts Centre, Sculpture Square, 72-13 (Theatre works), The Substation, Singapore.
Future of Imagination – www.foi.sg
2011
Artistic Director / Curator, ‘The Artists Village Pulau Ubin International Artists-in-Residency’ program, Singapore.
The Artists Village- www.tav.org.sg
2017
Performance Art Resource Orchestrator, Open call performance art event in Singapore
www.facebook.com/ PerformanceArtResourceOrchestr ator
Yuzuru Maeda is born in Ogaki, Japan in 1978. She had received a Music BA from the LaSalle Collage of Arts, Singapore in 2009 and currently lives in Singapore. Yuzuru Maeda explores moving images with contemporary music, photography, performance and her progressive outlook about art has also led her to start to organize engaged art projects since 2010. Some of the critically acclaimed projects includes “Black Water | White Water”, a multi-disciplinary concert that commemorates the Earthquake disaster in Tokuhu area of Japan (2011), “Electro-Acoustics Sessions” which is a series of experimental concerts that showcased International artists together with local talents; her belief in organization lies in her motivation of being able to share knowledge and discuss among practitioners, at the same time she’s introducing and promoting cutting edge art to public audiences in various art spaces in Singapore and abroad. In her ongoing series of work, Zentai Art Project (2009), it's a platform that brings together artists, and musicians together to explore multi-disciplinary expressions collectively.
Maeda believes that her art process extends out to organization of art as ultimately art as communication between human societies, where communities share memories, discuss the presence of being and heighten the sense of empathy for the future; As such, organizing has become a facilitation to other artists as well as a connection to the public realm, every little step is a move forward to complete the need to question and heighten the awareness towards the human condition, the artist’s consciousness and her immediate social environment.
Education:
2009
Bachelor in Music, 2nd Class Honours
LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore
2008
Diploma in Music
LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore
Curation:
23 May-5 June 2015
Japan Creative Center, Singapore
“Invisible whole 3”
2 April-10 May 2015
Institute of Cntemporary Art Singapore, LASALLE collage of the arts, Singapore
“Invisible whole 2”
07-15 Nov 2014
The Substation Gallery, Singapore
“Invisible whole”
27th December 2013
As we live our lives
Independent Archive & Resource Center, Singapore
20th March 2012
Electro-acoustic music sessions
Blu Jaz Café, Singapore
23th March 2012
Experimental Video & Soundworks
Straits Records, Singapore
30th March 2012
Electro-acoustic music sessions
Straits Records, Singapore
1st April 2012
You, and then me.
Upper Boon Keng Road, Block #20
20th April 2011
Black Water | White Water
Night & Day, Singapore
1st
September 2010
Kousaka Wataru
Going Om café, Singapore
Curator’s Statement:
I believe curation is about building a connection between the people. I see no difference between the artist and the audiences. I curate and organize the performances based on the idea of communication. When people at the same frequency and mindset meet and work together as artists, audience or any other form, the collective energy enhances the individual creative energy and the inspirations. It can produce greater results compare to the creation that had been done alone, the experience of collectivism inspires me to organise and curate like minded artists, musicians and writers on a shared platform, as such to me, organising has become a part of my art making process.
Within human society, there lays the communication. In language, art or in the silence there is form of communications too. The communication is about the energy between the people. With this understanding, I produce art as energy between people. It strengthen the artworks that the artist pursuit and it also strengthen the understanding of the world to rest of us.
Artist’s links-
Black water | White water http://blackwaterwhitewater.weebly.com Electro-acoustic music sessions http://teguodo.weebly.com Zentai art project http://yuzuru.weebly.com
Zentai art festival http://zentaiart.com
Chand Chandramohan
Born in 1992, Chand Chandramohan graduated from Lasalle College of the Arts in Fine Art. Through practice, she has an inclination towards a performance medium with surrealistic tendencies. Her main practice is exploring the medium of performance art whether be it deconstructing time, space, or the relationship between the audience and the performer. Her interests currently lie in in deconstructing aspects of performance art and reconstructing them again, through research or through the medium itself.