Fringe Highlights

Let's Walk Amanda Heng (Singapore)
Fringe Highlight ● Fringe Commission
Let's Walk Amanda Heng (Singapore)
Fringe Highlight ● Fringe Commission
Free Admission
Amanda Heng began her practice in the late 1980s, an epochal moment in Singapore art history that saw the beginnings of contemporary art, where she worked in performance, installation and other multi-disciplinary projects. A lecturer and full-time art practitioner, Heng was also awarded the prestigious Cultural Medallion award in 2010.

Let’s Walk was first presented outside the campus of LASALLE-SIA College of Arts at Goodman Road on 9 December 1999 as part of the exhibition Ambulations at the campus’ Earl Lu Gallery. Five female audience-participants joined Amanda in the walk. The performance has since been travelled to Spain, Indonesia, Japan, Sweden and France.

“It is an honour to have Let’s Walk selected to be featured as the theme in this new series of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. In appreciation of the kind gesture offered by the Fringe and The Necessary Stage, I would like to join in the celebration with the following events as part of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2018.” —Amanda Heng

Presented with support from Objectifs, Cultural Matching Fund and Arts Fund.

I WALK FROM THE SOUTH TO THE NORTH

Durational live performance
September to November 2017

“I walk to look for art...”

I Walk from the South to the North continues Amanda's interest in rituals and exchanges, and their relations with the practice of Live Art in the everyday setting.

Amanda will embark on this walk on her own between September to November 2017, and you may chance upon her walking from Clifford Pier and ending at the Causeway checkpoint in Woodlands.

Documentation of this performance will be exhibited in A Walked Line Can Never Be Erased (see below).

REVISITING LET’S WALK

Live performance
20 January 2018, 9am (about 120—180 minutes
Meeting point: Outside The Substation at 8.30am for briefing
Admission is free

As part of her Walking Workshop with art and design students from various institutions, Amanda will revisit the 1999 version of Let’s Walk in a live performance with the student-participants, beginning at The Substation and ending at the Merlion Park.

Members of the public are welcome to participate in the walk as well.

Amanda and the students will be developing further walk ideas and art works as a response to this live walk with the public, which will be exhibited in A Walked Line Can Never Be Erased (see below).

A WALKED LINE CAN NEVER BE ERASED

Exhibition
10—27 May 2018
Tue–Sat: 12—7pm
Sun: 12—4pm
Objectifs
Admission is free

This exhibition presents documentation of and artistic responses to the above events. It also includes documentation of some of the earlier walking projects done by Amanda Heng.

CONTEMPORARY ART AND THE EVERYDAY

Panel Discussion
12 May 2018, 2–4pm
Objectifs
Admission is free

Amanda Heng, Woon Tien Wei and M. Zaki Razak will discuss issues on contemporary art and the everyday, facilitated by Anca Rujoiu. The art and design student-participants from the Walking Workshop will also be sharing their experiences and responses to Revisiting Let’s Walk.

Click here to find the route to Objectifs.

Let’s Walk was first presented outside the campus of LASALLE-SIA College of Arts at Goodman Road on 9 December 1999 as part of the exhibition Ambulations at the campus’ Earl Lu Gallery. Five female audience-participants joined Amanda in the walk. The performance has since been travelled to Spain, Indonesia, Japan, Sweden and France.

“It is an honour to have Let’s Walk selected to be featured as the theme in this new series of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. In appreciation of the kind gesture offered by the Fringe and The Necessary Stage, I would like to join in the celebration with the following events as part of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2018.” —Amanda Heng

Presented with support from Objectifs, Cultural Matching Fund and Arts Fund.

Free Admission
Amanda Heng began her practice in the late 1980s, an epochal moment in Singapore art history that saw the beginnings of contemporary art, where she worked in performance, installation and other multi-disciplinary projects. A lecturer and full-time art practitioner, Heng was also awarded the prestigious Cultural Medallion award in 2010.

I WALK FROM THE SOUTH TO THE NORTH

Durational live performance
September to November 2017

“I walk to look for art...”

I Walk from the South to the North continues Amanda's interest in rituals and exchanges, and their relations with the practice of Live Art in the everyday setting.

Amanda will embark on this walk on her own between September to November 2017, and you may have chanced upon her walking from Clifford Pier and ending at the Causeway checkpoint in Woodlands.

Documentation of this performance will be exhibited in A Walked Line Can Never Be Erased (see below).

REVISITING LET’S WALK

Live performance
20 January 2018, 9am (about 120—180 mins)
Meeting point: Outside The Substation at 8.30am for briefing
Admission is free

As part of her Walking Workshop with art and design students from various institutions, Amanda will revisit the 1999 version of Let’s Walk in a live performance with the student-participants, beginning at The Substation and ending at the Merlion Park.

Members of the public are welcome to participate in the walk as well.

Amanda and the students will be developing further walk ideas and art works as a response to this live walk with the public, which will be exhibited in A Walked Line Can Never Be Erased (see below).

A WALKED LINE CAN NEVER BE ERASED

Exhibition
10—27 May 2018
Tue–Sat: 12—7pm
Sun: 12—4pm
Objectifs
Admission is free

This exhibition presents documentation of and artistic responses to the above events. It also includes documentation of some of the earlier walking projects done by Amanda Heng.

CONTEMPORARY ART AND THE EVERYDAY

Panel Discussion
12 May 2018, 2–4pm
Objectifs
Admission is free

Amanda Heng, Woon Tien Wei and M. Zaki Razak will discuss issues on contemporary art and the everyday, facilitated by curator Qinyi Lim. The art and design student-participants from the Walking Workshop will also be sharing their experiences and responses to Revisiting Let’s Walk.

Getting Here

Click here to find the route to Objectifs.