Artist talk with anGie Seah (Singapore)
Title: Sing an ocean, flying like a fish
Time: Oct 20, 2021 06:00 PM Vienna
In the talk, anGie will introduce her art practice making performance art, sound art, participatory works, and cross-disciplinary practice with theatre collaboration. She will also discuss the artist's role in society. Through her art practice, the audience will be able to learn about some facets and recent developments of contemporary art in Singapore.
As an interlocutor, Sara will join this online art talk and speak with anGie about her own latest art project and some reflections on the role of artists in the post-epidemic era.
anGie seah
Born in 1979, anGie seah is an artist working in a range of mediums, trasversing drawing, sculpture, sound, video, and performance. In 2000, she was awarded an education bursary from National Arts Council, graduating from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology’s Bachelor of Arts, majoring in sculpture. She was also awarded a cultural scholarship from the Goethe Institute Berlin, in 2005.
Embracing the porousness of life and art is a hallmark of anGie's art practice, where notions of being and art-making act as an agency to the elements of constant uncertainty. Since 1997 anGie has exhibited works, taken part in artist residencies, and participated in art festivals in locations such as Germany (Goethe Institut Berlin, ZKM Centre for New Media), Japan (Fukuoka Asian Art Museum), Australia (Asialink, VCA), France (CITE International Des Arts, Palais De Tokyo, MAC Lyon), Singapore (Singapore Biennale), USA (New York Asia Society Triennial). For more than a decade, she has been creating participatory art projects for diverse communities, allowing her to step outside and into the realm of the social, engaging and sharing her art with people.
Sara Lanner
Sara Lanner (1991) is a dancer/choreographer and performance artist in the field of performing arts as well as visual arts. Her work deals with topics of the body in relation to its context and the self as social choreography and sculpture. Her works take place on stage, in exhibitions, galleries, the public space or off-spaces. Recently she received the H13 Niederösterreich Price for Performance 2021 as well as the Ö1 audience price in the frame of the Ö1 Talentebörse 2020 at Leopold Museum Vienna.