Shangri-La Art Podcast
by CHAN + HORI CONTEMPORARY
2 NEW EPISODES: Featuring artists Ivan David Ng and Jay Ho, in conversation with curator Clara Peh, theatre director Lewin Benard and Chan + Hori's own Deborah Lim. These two episodes shed light on the solo exhibitions and artworks by the artists presented in conjunction with Singapore ArtWeek 2022. Hosted by curators Khai Hori and Deborah Lim, live-streamed 16-hours non-stop from the nest of Chan + Hori Contemporary in Singapore, the Shangri-La Art Podcast (SLAP) launched deep, raw, unfiltered and unedited with 25 episodes worth of mind-bending conversations on YouTube on 21 Nov 2020.
Episodes
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2022, EP. 2: Jay Ho, artist, with Lewin Bernard, theatre director and Deborah Lim, curator
Theatre Director Lewin Bernard and Curator Deborah Lim has a conversation with Jay Ho on the occasion of ‘Oumuamua’s Tale, his second solo exhibition, presented by Chan + Hori Contemporary as part of the Singapore Art Week January 2022 at Gillman Barracks in Singapore. Music by Kinemesis_Music at...
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2022, EP. 1: Ivan David Ng, artist and Clara Peh, curator
Curator Clara Peh has a conversation with Ivan David Ng on the occasion of Roads Around A Mountain, his first solo exhibition, presented by Chan + Hori Contemporary as part of the Singapore Art Week January 2022 at Gillman Barracks in Singapore. Music by Kinemesis_Music at Pixabay
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NEW WEAVE EP5 - SUBLINGUA, SUBMACHINES, Artists
SUBLINGUA, SUBMACHINES is the experimental arm of Ivan and Pauline Despi’s studio The Acid House, with an artistic philosophy to change how animations, film and visuals can be experienced by audiences. Fuelled by collaborations across different genres, their artwork titled Dream Weavers for NEW...
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NEW WEAVE EP4 - MACHINEAST, Artists
Rezaliando and Fizah Rahim helm a team at MACHINEAST that has swayed brands such as NIKE and IBM to their distinctive style. With personal links to Padang, Sarawak and the regions that host weaving centres for the Maybank Women Eco-Weavers programme, memories of childhood, histories and home...
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NEW WEAVE EP3 - LOUDSQUEAK, Artist
Working towards a more convincing illusion, three-dimensional artworks by LOUDSQUEAK have a filmic quality to them that captures colour, light, shadows and motion. Made up of particles in a digital weave, they bring to mind pixels and serve as greater statements of who we are as people, how we...
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NEW WEAVE EP2 - SHAHRIL AZUAR JIMIN, CEO, Maybank Foundation
A fascinating deep dive into the mind of SHAHRIL AZUAR JIMIN, the first CEO of the Maybank Foundation moved from law to running factories to insurance to eating leaves in Sawahlunto, which all served as defining moments. Identifying weaving as an aspect that ties the countries of ASEAN together…
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NEW WEAVE EP1 - STEVE LAWLER, Guest Curator
STEVE LAWLER is an artist, curator and organiser all rolled into one but - more than anything else - he is a connector of people. Having brought together a creative community of international illustrators, graphic designers, artists and animators through projects and events across his career, his...
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CHRIS MOONEY-SINGH, Founder, Poetry Slam in Singapore & AJAY GOVINDA MENON, Host, Poetry Slam in Singapore
Episode 23 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream. AJAY GOVINDA MENON, host of the Poetry Slam in Singapore, speaks with CHRIS MOONEY-SINGH, poet extraordinaire and co-founder of the Poetry Slam in Singapore, on reviving the rabab - once a leading instrument in Sikh sacred music…
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BRADLEY FOISSET, artist and business development manager, Hatch Art Project
Episode 25 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream. The fate of the lone migrant, travelling to the edge, recognising the frontier, mitigating it. BRADLEY FOISSET pulls the curtain to the first season of our Shangri-La Art Podcast with deep questions of purpose and personal compass.…
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AHILYA KAUL, dancer, choreographer, dance & fitness instructor
Episode 24 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream. Would you place yourself in a well-known conflict zone to fill yourself with knowledge and fulfil your passions? It is Israel at the Batsheva Dance Company (BDC) that dancer and choreographer AHILYA KAUL finds herself connected with...
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SEBASTIAN MARY TAY, artist
Episode 22 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream. Could an artist ever leave the thought of art, for a moment, especially when he is engrossed with lifelong passions, such as fishing? We speak with avid angler and artist SEBASTIAN MARY TAY on what it is like to fish and make art...
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DIPALI GUPTA, artist
Episode 21 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream. DIPALI GUPTA makes videos and drawings with magic sticks and eggs, the kind that makes many people feel good, ecstatic even. A mother, homemaker and a woman who grew up in a culturally conservative environment, the artist activates…
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DUSADEE HUNTRAKUL, artist
Episode 20 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream. DUSADEE HUNTRAKUL published a book based on a true-life childhood story as told by his wife. His wife, young son and the son of a friend contributed drawings for this book. The book is titled Grandma, I Want A Penis. song credit:...
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ALEXANDRA DOMART, docent - Friends of Museums
Episode 19 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream. What do you do when since young, lived your life in multiple countries, immersed yourself in native cultures, speak multiple languages and then fall in love with art? Meet ALEXANDRA DOMART, a great friend of artists, curators,...
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MELISA TEO, photographer
Episode 18 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream. You move to Paris to live a dream and learn the language, then fate throws you a challenge, through a viewfinder. Paris based photographer MELISA TEO recollects personal encounters and epiphanies that led to the unconventional...
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REENA DEVI, Arts Journalist & Critic for New York & Hong Kong Media / Artsy / Hyperallergic / CoBo Social & ArtAsiaPacific
Episode 17 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream. To expand our horizon, we often have to make incisive yet often uncertain decisions. For critic REENA DEVI, the past year was spent observing and writing on the politics and economics of visual arts outside of home and into the…
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HUNTER PANTHER DEERFIELD, artist & researcher
Episode 16 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream. His first formal school experience was at a university in Singapore. Listen to HUNTER PANTHER DEERFIELD, the Vermont native on his hands-on experience in assembling KIRTI, chasing after art, artists, curators and that all elusive…
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DAVID CHEW, festival director, Singapore Heritage Festival & Night Festival & RANDY CHAN, architect, Principal – Zarch Collaboratives
Episode 15 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream. When you curate for an institution, could you simultaneously do so with the headspace of an 'outsider'? Having worked together in various large-scaled and ambitious projects, long-time friends and collaborators DAVID CHEW, RANDY CHAN...
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PEY CHUAN TAN, founder, I_S_L_A_N_D_S
Episode 14 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream. Independent, self-funded and going at it solo. We speak with PEY CHUAN TAN, founder of the micro exhibition platform I_S_L_A_N_D_S at the 1970s built Excelsior Shopping Centre. How does such an initiative posit itself when sandwiched...
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BERNIE OO & NADIAH HAIRUDDIN, executive director and director of Genesis Artech
Episode 13 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream. Often overlooked, fine art handlers and freight specialists are often crucial to the sound and timely presentation of art in museums, art centers, galleries and homes of the most demanding artists and clients. We listen to BERNIE OO...
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ALAN KOH, fair director, Affordable Art Fair, Singapore
Episode 12 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream. Affordable Art Fair Singapore director ALAN KOH takes us through his journey diving into the visual arts landscape and in making the ownership of art more approachable, affordable and available to art lovers of every type. song…
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SPEAK CRYPTIC, artist
Episode 11 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream. Muralist, painter, sculptor and best known for his transitory, large-scale public art pieces, artist SPEAK CRYPTIC shares ideas on living in tandem to reflections of musical beats. Bassist for the post-rock band I Am David Sparkle…
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DR HOE SU FERN, assistant professor, arts & culture programme coordinator, Singapore Management University
Episode 10 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream. What does space mean for artists and why should artists do more to conceive their own? We speak with DR HOE SU FERN, academic, researcher and observer of how space has been managed and allocated for artists in Singapore. song credit:...
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DATO' KHAIRUL ANWAR SALLEH, CEO, Media Prima Television Networks (MPTN)
Episode 9 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream. We hear from DATO' KHAIRUL ANWAR SALLEH on the role of education in Fine Arts from LASALLE, a little known Singaporean art school back in the 1980s, in setting the foundation for this artist turned CEO of Media Prima Television...
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AUDREY LIM, creative consultant
Episode 8 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream. What exactly does law-trained, creative consultant and running candidate for Singapore Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) AUDREY LIM do as one of the movers of the Singaporean music scene? song credit: Aggronaught by Khai Hori
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MARIE PIERRE-MOL, co-founder of Intersections Gallery
Episode 7 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream. Focused primarily on the presentation of contemporary art from Myanmar, Singapore-based French gallerist and ex-academic MARIE PIERRE-MOL tells us why running an art gallery matters for her, for artists and for the public. song…
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SYED MUHAMMAD HAFIZ, independent curator
Episode 6 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream. Before the rise of co-shared workspaces, legendary writers and philosophers were known to hub from cafes such as the famed Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots in Paris. From a local coffee shop or kopitiam as they are known as in...
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SHIRLEY SOH, art practitioner, educator, former journalist
Episode 5 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream. Mid-career artist SHIRLEY SOH embeds her art within purpose, reflects on inter-generational scenarios and the self-reflexive impact from working with women inmates incarcerated at the Singapore prisons. song credit: Aggronaught by…
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YEN PHANG, the beauty in the boring, the place of art and law in mediating human relationships
Episode 4 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream. Lawyer turned artist, YEN PHANG observes the overlooked, our right to fallibility and how even the law is not as black and white as many think it to be from the confines of a jamming studio in Singapore. song credit: Aggronaught by…
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ANDY YANG, making an island for yourself
Episode 3 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream. Singapore based artist ANDY YANG moved from work in applied arts to fine arts and shares with hosts Deborah Lim and Khai Hori how he operates from an 'island' of his own. opening song credit: Mundane by Andy Yang end song credit:...
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DR STEPHANIE CHOK & GUSTI SERUNI, the case of Parti Liyani
Episode 2 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream. In reference to their work on the groundbreaking court case of Indonesian domestic worker Parti Liyani, Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics (HOME) volunteer and independent researcher Dr STEPHANIE CHOK with fellow...
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TUCK MUNTARBHORN, artist and poet on sounds of the soul
Episode 1 from the 16-hour Shangri-La Art Podcast live-stream. London based artist and poet TUCK MUNTARBHORN, kicks off the Shangri-La Art Podcast (SLAP) that featured a line-up of 25 continuous sessions totalling 16 hours. Originally live-streamed on YouTube on 21 Nov 2020 in conjunction with…
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About this show
2 NEW EPISODES: Featuring artists Ivan David Ng and Jay Ho, in conversation with curator Clara Peh, theatre director Lewin Benard and Chan + Hori's own Deborah Lim. These two episodes shed light on the solo exhibitions and artworks by the artists presented in conjunction with Singapore ArtWeek 2022. Hosted by curators Khai Hori and Deborah Lim, live-streamed 16-hours non-stop from the nest of Chan + Hori Contemporary in Singapore, the Shangri-La Art Podcast (SLAP) launched deep, raw, unfiltered and unedited with 25 episodes worth of mind-bending conversations on YouTube on 21 Nov 2020.
Hosted by
CHAN + HORI CONTEMPORARY