On AiR with Hilmi Johandi
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2022-06-10
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Residencies AiRCAST Episode #9: Hilmi Johandi
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This episode features a conversation between two artists who work primarily with painting: our Artist-in-Residence Hilmi Johandi and Singaporean artist and educator Ian Woo. In this peer-to-peer exchange between thoughtful image-makers, Hilmi and Ian ponder over the significance of the studio in Hilmi’s practice revealing how walls, and spaces, can shape artistic mindsets and generate different patterns of thought. Throughout the conversation, they address the potential of a local residency to shift the perception of the familiar, open up new ways of seeing and refresh routines and rituals. They also touch upon the artist-audience relation and other core aspects in Hilmi’s practice such as the role of emptiness in the painted surface, the process of reframing, and the inspiration that comes from old films and photographs. Drawing on archival footage, old films, and other imagery produced for mass consumption, the artistic practice of Hilmi Johandi refigures the iconography of Singapore and our relation with images. His body of work is deeply rooted in painting but it also harnesses other mediums to mobilise symbols and sites where memory and nostalgia, leisure and desire become deeply entangled. Ian Woo is an artist influenced by modernist abstractions, the phenomenology of perception, and the sound structures of music improvisation. His paintings, painted objects, and drawings are traversed by a sense of gravitational change that makes the image function as a diagram of states of consciousness. The distinct use of frames, axis, and invisible grids is expressive of his “compartments and systems” approach, a methodology the artist has developed in his exploration of the painted space as activated time. <br /><br />Contributors: Hilmi Johandi, Ian Woo <br />Editor: Anna Lovecchio<br />Programme Manager: Nadia Amalina <br />Sound Engineer: Ashwin Menon <br />Intro & Outro Music: Yuen Chee Wai <br />Cover Image & Design: Arabelle Zhuang, Kristine Tan
2022-07-15
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Hilmi Johandi
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Starting off from an existing body of work titled Landscapes and Paradise—a painting series inspired by tourist postcards and posters depicting Singapore in the 1980s and 1990s—Hilmi Johandi intends to frame his long-term enquiry into the relation between the constructedness of images, memory, and the creation of meaning from different angles.<br /><span>Informed by art historical and philosophical discourses on the subject/object dichotomy and propelled by a growing interest in stage design, theatricality, and the phenomenology of perception, the artist intends to expand his own image-making process beyond painting, questioning his intuitive relation to the medium at the same time. This experimentation will potentially result into multimedia installations wherein formal and contextual aspects are merged and narratives unfold in space through a combination of visual layers and material components that elicit different modes of spectatorship in the viewer.</span>
4 April - 31 August 2022
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Transcript of Residencies AiRCAST #9: Hilmi Johandi
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This episode features a conversation between two artists who work primarily with painting: our Artist-in-Residence Hilmi Johandi and Singaporean artist and educator Ian Woo. In this peer-to-peer exchange between thoughtful image-makers, Hilmi and Ian ponder over the significance of the studio in Hilmi's practice revealing how walls, and spaces, can shape artistic mindsets and generate different patterns of thought. Throughout the conversation, they address the potential of a local residency to shift the perception of the familiar, open up new ways of seeing and refresh routines and rituals. They also touch upon the artist-audience relation and other core aspects in Hilmi’s practice such as the role of emptiness in the painted surface, the process of reframing, and the inspiration that comes from old films and photographs.
2022-07-15
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Residencies OPEN: Priyageetha Dia, Fazleen Karlan and Hilmi Johandi (all Singapore)
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Sat 20 August 2022, 1:00 - 7:00 pm<br />Block 37 Malan Road Gillman Barracks<br /><br />Come by the studios to meet our Artists-in-Residence Priyageetha Dia, Fazleen Karlan, and Hilmi Johandi (all Singapore) for a special insight into their art-making process! This session of Residencies OPEN will allow you to encounter works-in-progress, browse archival materials, and encounter the heterogeneity of research references that feed these artists’ imagination. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to talk to the artists in person!<br /><br /><p><strong>PRIYAGEETHA DIA</strong></p>
<p>Open Studio<br />Saturday, 20 August, 1:00 – 7:00pm<br />Block 37 Malan Road, #01-02</p>
<p>Studio Tour with the Artist<br />3:00 – 3:30pm <br />no registration required<br /><br />As the latest development of her ongoing enquiry into plantation histories in Malaya during the 19<sup>th</sup> and 20<sup>th</sup> century,<strong> Priyageetha Dia</strong>has turned to game engine software as a way to dig deeper into the questions and narratives uncovered during her research. For this Residencies OPEN, visitors can encounter the ways in which Priyageetha is exploring and experimenting with new systems and modes of thinking. From research materials to design drafts, her work-in-progress reflect two concurrent streams of research: the human and environmental exploitation inscribed in the history of Malayan plantations and the ethical implications of game engine software. Mirroring archival footage with a speculative ethno-futurist world, her work arises questions on: What does it mean to work with AI? How can an artist employ a game as a platform of representation? Can game engine software be used to return agency to the marginalised?<br /><br /></p>
<p><strong>HILMI JOHANDI</strong></p>
<p>Open Studio<br />Saturday, 20 August, 1:00 – 7:00 pm<br />Block 37 Malan Road, #01-03</p>
<p>Studio Tour with the Artist<br />4:00 – 4:30pm <br />no registration required<br /><br />For the past five months, <strong>Hilmi Johandi</strong> has transformed his studio into a sanctuary for alternative patterns of thought outside of the usual routines and rituals that define his practice. Visitors will step into a mind map of sprawling ideas, key words, and visual inspirations that come from old films, tourism postcards, and photographs depicting a long-gone Singapore. Next to this explorative mind map, this open studio session also shows how Hilmi’s experiments with form and modes of spectatorship have led him towards stop-motion video expanding his image-making process beyond painting.<br /><strong><br />FAZLEEN KARLAN</strong></p>
<p>Open Studio<br />Saturday, 20 August, 1:00 – 7:00 pm<br />Block 37 Malan Road, #01-01</p>
<p>Studio Tour with the Artist<br />5:00 – 5:30pm<br />no registration required</p>
<p>For this Residencies OPEN, the sediments of <strong>Fazleen Karlan</strong>’s experimentations with archaeological processes come alive in the studio. Expanding her inquiry into archaeology as a speculative framework and a mode of re-imagination, during the residency Fazleen has researched the appearance of archaeology in mainstream films and other media and she has conducted a number of workshops for the public to explore concepts of ‘artefact’ and ‘relic’. Her studio presentation will also feature the work-in-progress for <em>Obat Batu</em>(in Malay, literally, ‘medicinal rocks’), a collaborative video animation about traditional medicinal items. These medicinal objects and their uses, which are not archived as often as their western medical equivalents, are cast in a speculative narrative wherein native flora and fauna play a significant role.</p>
2022-08-20
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