Baby Tropical Lab 2016

"Fictive Dreams" Opening!

Exhibition Set-up!

Working collaboratively to make art!

Visit to Haw Par Villa | Discussion of ideas | Mini curatorial workshop by Karen Yeh | More ideation and off to get materials!

Introduction | Seminar presentations by guest speakers Susie Wong, Faith Ng and Yeo Chee Kiong | Campus tour | Guided tour at Prue Dixon and Steve Dixon: Things in translation … ἀθηρηλοιγός | Concurrent guest artist workshops by Milenko Prvacki and Sophia Natasha Wei | Ice-breaker games

Fictive Dreams
Exhibition 19 to 27 November 2016 at Creative Cube, LASALLE College of the Arts (McNally campus)

"Performance is an intentional dream. The visual encounter between the human body and materials. The presence in time and space guided by live action. The belief in the physicality of expression. The artefacts as evidence of experience. The hope for a connection."

Guest performance artist, Sophia Natasha Wei, will be conducting a special workshop for the BTL participants!

More about the artist:
http://www.tav.org.sg/natasha-wei.html
http://www.sophianatasha.com/

Milenko and the Tropical Lab 10 participants shared their experiences and thoughts about this year's Tropical Lab.

Tropical Lab 10: Fictive Dreams 'Tropical Lab 10: Fictive dreams' is the 10th edition of an annual international art camp and exhibition organised by LASALLE College of the Arts. Twenty-eig...

Susie Wong is an artist, writer and curator who has contributed to several publication in Singapore. She has published two special edition art books: Trace (2008) and Tracing Land (2014). In 2014, she also edited and published [The Machine] Contemplating the Body after a group exhibition she curated at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) Museum.

Susie Wong will be sharing with us on Day 1 of BTL more about herself and ways to approach this year's theme: "Fictive Dreams".

'like an attempt to gather the past', Sherman Sam reviews Susie Wong at Space Cottonseed Despite the regularity of her mark-making, each of these images nevertheless conveys a sensitivity of touch. On the occasional drawing, jotted on the bottom near the image, are numbers corresponding to the types of pencil used…

Food for thought...

Susan Hiller, Dream Mapping (1974)
Dream Mapping, 1974 was an art event provocatively poised between an experiment (social or scientific) and a performance without an audience. Seven dreamers slept for three nights inside “fairy rings” in an English meadow marked by an abundance of circles formed naturally by Marasmius oreades mushrooms, a landscape feature that occurs in a number of British folk myths. The field became a site for dream experiences which were discussed and mapped the following morning. The dream maps of each participant were collected and copied onto transparent paper, sandwiched together, and traced to compile a composite group map for each night. A number of shared features were noted. More about the artists and her work: http://www.susanhiller.org

Dream Mapping Yesterday I read the entirety of A Secret Service: Art, Compulsion, Concealment, which is a book exploring 15 different artists and groups whose practices focus on the creation of secret worlds, or…