Move For?ward (Unseen: Inside Out)
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10am–10pm (Fri–Sun)
10am–7pm (Mon–Thu)
Move?Forward is the result of Unseen: Inside Out, a disability-led project by visually impaired artist Claire Teo and artists Kira Lim, Clarence Chung, Samuel Woo, in collaboration with 12 visually impaired co-creators. Presented by Unseen Art Initiatives, this project aims to encourage conversations and question the public’s perspectives and assumptions about disability.
Credits
Lead Artist: Claire Teo
Key Artist Collaborator: Kira Lim
Music Composer and Audience Experience Lead: Clarence Chung
Installation Artist and Design Lead: Samuel Woo
Creative Producers: Alecia Neo and Jesslyn Lim (Unseen Art Initiatives)
Project Assistants: Jasmine Kamsul and Athirah Annissa
Co-creators
Cheyenne Phua
Cinderella*
Desmond Toh
Firdhaus Jaafar
Kendra*
Qiao*
Rendi Toh
Shermaine
Sherri Lim
Tan Zhi Lin
Tulip*
Wan Wai Yee
Alecia Neo develops long-term projects which involve collaboration with individuals and communities. Her socially engaged practice unfolds primarily through photography, video, and participatory workshops that address modes of radical hospitality, caregiving, and wellbeing. Her recent projects include ramah-tamah (2020), a dance film commissioned by the Asian Civilisations Museum, and Modern Resonance: Power to the People (2019), a site-specific art installation commissioned by Goethe-Institut Singapore. She is currently working on Care Index, an experimental platform that collects and features diverse practices of care performed by people from all walks of life. She is the founder of Unseen Art Initiatives and co-founder of Brack, a platform for socially engaged art and collaborative practices.
Claire Teo graduated from LASALLE College of the Arts’ Diploma in Performance in 2019, the first visually impaired person in Singapore to do so. Closely mentored by Artist-Educator and Disability Arts Specialist, Peter Sau, Teo saw the need for more communities to have access to arts education, and began developing and teaching drama curriculums for persons with diverse abilities. Teo is now the Academic Director of Talent Academy (a division of Singapore Raffles Music College), as well as a scriptwriter and director for PLAYInc Pte Ltd. In the long run, she hopes to work closely with her fellow disabled artists to advance the disability arts scene towards true inclusive practice, creating art with different communities that empowers and encourages awareness and social change.
Clarence Chung is a Singaporean composer who has produced soundscapes and movie film scores in China, Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, the United States and Singapore since 2011. After graduating with a degree in history from the National University of Singapore, he pursued music performance and composition in the advertising industry. Professionally, Chung has also been a user experience strategist and business analyst in the technology sector. Chung has represented Singapore as music director in the Chengdu International Twin Sisters Cities Music Festival in 2015, won first place in a design hackathon for mixed-reality mapping solutions, and designed Singapore’s first peer-to-peer solar energy trading platform.
Jesslyn Lim is a Psychology and Arts & Cultural. Management graduate from the Singapore Management. University. She has worked with the Esplanade, The Artground and The Red Pencil to produce and/or manage arts education programmes for young audiences. Between 2018 to 2020, Jesslyn was part of a research team at the National Institute of Education that partnered the National Arts Council (NAC) to examine children’s engagement and learning through the arts at The Artground.
Kira Lim is a contemporary classical soprano under the tutelage of Ms Khor Ai Ming. She placed first for all categories (Classical/Folk/Opera) in the American Protege Vocal Competition 2018 and was later invited to perform at Carnegie Hall, New York City. In 2019, Lim graduated from Lasalle College of The Arts with a Diploma in Performance and was accepted into the prestigious Manhattan School of Music in New York City to pursue her Bachelors in Music (Classical Voice) the year after. She has performed several times with many established conductors including Joshua Tan, Alice Farnham, Tsung Yeh and Justin Freer. Lim is the main storyteller in PlayINC’s The Classics Retold, telling fairy tales that also touch on issues that children may face today. She aims to inspire young children to be imaginative, creative and have the courage to chase their dreams.
Samuel Woo is a designer who enjoyscreating art and visual stories that make people think. He is one-third of Foundin, an interdisciplinary art collective known for interactive projects—including If Stars Could Talk, Love Lives Here and Foundin—that focus on building rainbows and bridging differences.
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