Celebrating everything cultural, national and aesthetical, DOPE has been invited to curate Afterhours: Grounded! An Art Party at the Singapore Art Museum this 18th March 2011.
Featuring a stellar lineup of home-grown and regional experimental musicians, video artists and performance artists in a collective effort to overthrow your usual routine, be sure to expect crazy interactive visuals, experimental live acts and DJs, contemporary performing arts and a flea market to top off the icing on the cake.
Get set for something a little less ordinary this Friday 18th March…
The Singapore Art Museum is located at 71 Bras Basah Road, Singapore 189555.
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FEATURED ARTISTES:
I Am David Sparkle takes its name from a tongue-in-cheek anglicisation of popular ’70s Malaysian disco king, M. Daud Kilau. Its music however, is an entirely different beast. Presently consisting of Amran Khamis, Djohan Johari, Farizwan Fajari and Zahir Sanosi, the band is one of the pioneers of the instrumental post-rock scene in Singapore. Since its inception in 2001, it has garnered a strong underground following in Singapore and internationally with its music and emotionally charged live sets. To date, I Am David Sparkle has played tours and festivals in countries such as Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Hong Kong and the United States.
Kevin started out in 2002 at “Platform 2”. It was at this open mic that he enjoyed positive reviews and numerous call backs. He continued to create a buzz and scored a featuring role in local sensation, TripleNoize’ s second album; Noisy Fm. In 2005 he joined “Bonafide Vintage Flav’r” and had commercial as well as critical success with the release of the e.p. “The BVF Project” featuring the number 1 radio hit “Feels Good”. The group has since disbanded but Kevin took this opportunity to fulfil a career long dream. He helped form SIXX, a hip hop band played with live instruments.
PUSHIN’ ON (DJ SHELLSUIT & MC MASTERPIECE)
Pushin’On is the longest-running, independently promoted funk night in Singapore. At the heart of Pushin’On are DJ Shellsuit, DJ Chunk and MC Masterpiece. The trio performs as a dynamic ‘live’ act, combining funk, disco, boogie and hip-hop breaks with ‘live’ vocals, synth and percussion. Since 2006, this explosive collaboration has rocked bars, clubs and festivals worldwide.
DJ KO FLOW & MD NOOR
Wayne Liu aka DJ KoFlow, having started DJing and competing in 2001, by 2002, he was placed 1st Runner Up at the Singapore DMC Technics World DJ Championships 2002. The following year, he went on to win the coveted title of Singapore DMC Champion 2003, where he proceeded to battle at the infamous Brixton Academy, London, alongside over 40 of the World Champions. DJ KoFlow maintained his hard work and dedication to DJing, and continued to win numerous awards. He was given honorable mention for Juice Magazine Best New DJ 2003, named Best Musician at the Nike StreetStyle Awards in 2004, Honorable Mention for Juice Magazine Best Independent DJ 2004 and won the Heineken Thirst Singapore 2005. And by 2008, he was mentioned Best DJ by Juice Magazine.
RACE
Someone to look out for in the realms of visual goodness, Race challenges the limits of visual arts with his insane projections.
First conceived in 1998, during the nascent years of the 2nd wave of B-Boyin’ to hit Singapore, the name Radikal Forze has since become synonymous with the local hip-hop scene. The current 14-man strong Radikal Forze will continue to storm through every competition, every b-boy battle, every b-boy jam, and make the presence of Radikal Forze felt and remembered.
Artihc:
artihc” (real name “Firman Chitra”, crowned JUICE DJ QUEST 09 CHAMPION, hails from Singapore and has been dropping choons to both the commercially pampered and discerning ears for the past eight years. A junglist at heart, he has since the last few years, taken his love for the universal language to various level, with Minimal, Tech House, and Techno as his new soundscapes, joining the league of his usual sound of Drum & Bass, Breaks, Broken beat, Triphop and Down Tempos.
EJ Missy:
This deckmistress (the only local female dj so far) who’ve scored the JUICE DJ Quest Champion title since it’s inception in 2002, breathes by the dj console, meddling diligently with downtempos, bargrooves, house, deep house, tech house, minimal and techno. Above all else, EJ, prides herself for having the belief that you can always buy skill but not taste.
AVNEESH:
Drowning into different music genres for years has bestowed this newly-crowned Juice Dj Quest Champion 2010 the skill in turning raw sounds into tunes that will not only push your emotional buttons, but lingers around you even until the music has ended.
LEE WEN
Lee Wen’s Anyhow Blues Project exhibits his earliest forays into poetry and singing. His gutsy and poignant lyrics are personal but also relate to the current social and cultural climate.
RAZI RAZAK
Razi Razak’s Beyond the lines uses dance music and the movement of body language to explore contemporary art, expressing the human condition and the concept of music post-production.
ZAI KUNING + ZAI TANG
Zai Kuning and Zai Tang’s collaborative Words Passing Through Us works with sound, painting, drawings, installation art, sculpture, film, video, music and performance. Dialogue is the essence of the performance.
VAJIRA
Rabbithood Studio ‘s 18/UNDER: Fall On Deaf Ears Party is a definitive one-hour session which contains music and videos from under-18 Thai artists, which questions the political implications of their existence in society.
AFTERHOURS: GROUNDED! AN ART PARTY is associated to Negotiating Home, History and Nation: Two Decades of Contemporary Art from South East Asia, 1991-2010.
More about the exhibition:
Negotiating Home, History and Nation presents the work of fifty-five seminal practitioners in contemporary art from six Southeast Asian countries (Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, The Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia) created over the last two decades. The exhibition showcases pieces of art spanning the early years of contemporary art-making in the region to the present, drawn mostly from the Singapore Art Museum collection. This extensive survey gives audiences the opportunity to form a cogent picture of the diverse realities and threads linking Southeast Asia and its art through inquiries into topics such as nation building, urbanisation, religious and gender discourse from an Asian perspective.
The exhibition is a parallel event of the Singapore Biennale 2011 Open House. For more info, please click HERE.
