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“Sea Birth” screening in Singapore

December 24, 2018/in Recent Activities /by James Jack

 

SCREENING SEA BIRTH SELECTIONS

What lies beneath the surface of the sea on the Pacific side of Okinawa? Despite many efforts to erase the past, sea spirits protected by generations of shamanesses can be heard. Part one begins with the story of a still unidentified ship wreck that went down near South Ukibaru Island circa 1876. Based on faint records of an encounter between survivors and Okinawans, the artist enacts rituals in their actual meeting sites. Part two of the story revives a song of unrequited love between lovers living on separate islands trying to find a way to meet. In part three a new life is born from the sea amidst impending threats from military exercises. Together this three-part work weaves historical facts along with personal anecdotes from the artist’s own maritime ancestors within the contemporary realities of Okinawa today.

 

Date
Thursday, 
24 Jan 2019
5:15 pm

Followed by a discussion with artist, James Jack
Chairperson | Minna Valjakka, National University of Singapore

 

Venue
AS8 Level 4, Seminar Room 04-04
10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260
National University of Singapore @ KRC

More details:
https://ari.nus.edu.sg/Event/Detail/60154d63-a30d-40a1-955e-77476eec40cd
https://ari.nus.edu.sg/Assets/repository/files/events/PelagicProgramAbstracts_Dec%2011.pdf

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James Jack on Searching for Rumours, Reimagining The Framework and Mapping Alternative Histories

December 9, 2018/in Recent Activities /by James Jack

Studio Interview with Artist James Jack by Object Lessons Space

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James Jack is an artist who has created socially engaged works for the Setouchi International Art Festival, Busan Biennale Sea Art Festival, and Institute of Contemporary Art. His works have been exhibited at TMT Art Projects, TAMA Gallery, and Beppu-Wiarda Gallery. He was an artist in residence at the Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, Ku Art Center, the Vermont Studio Center and holds a PhD from Tokyo University of the Arts. Now he is an Assistant Professor of Art at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. We meet with him in his studio to discuss his recent works, exhibitions and upcoming projects.

 

 

Full article HERE

 


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