Jevon Chandra is a transdisciplinary artist and designer. Through time and context-bound installations and interventions, his works estimate the push and pull between notions of doubt and belief, as present in acts of love, hope, and faith. He is currently an active member of Singapore-based socially-engaged art collective Brack. Across collaborative projects in the contemporary and performing arts, he works towards conceiving his practice as a long-term endeavour that values decency, honesty, and possibility.As a lead/co-lead artist, his projects have been presented at platforms such as Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) (2022), Leipzig International Art Programme (Germany, 2022), Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA) (2021), Singapore Art Week (2021), Fujinoyama Biennale (Japan, 2020), Incheon Art Platform (South Korea, 2019), Esplanade Flipside Festival (2019), Understanding Risk Conference 2019 (Chiang Mai), The Substation (2018), and OXO Tower Wharf (London, 2017).As a collaborator in the performing and media arts, recent credits include multimedia and sound design for Between 5 Cows and the Deep Blue Sea... (2022) for Esplanade’s Kalaa Utsavam Festival, multimedia design for Kepaten Obor – Igniting a Weathered Torch (2022) for Esplanade’s Pesta Raya Festival, _ Can Change (2021) with The Necessary Stage, and (un)becoming (2021) at T:>Works’ N.O.W. Festival. Recent sound design credits include An Impression (2021) with T.H.E. Dance Company, NO FLASH (2021), an audio-fiction podcast for National Gallery Singapore (NGS).
Kei Franklin is a facilitator, coach, organiser, and artist. Central to her practice is the belief that the power dynamics that sustain broad systems of injustice are reflected in our relational lives. Any meaningful change, therefore, must involve intervention in the inter- and intra-personal realm.
Kei’s creative practice takes on various forms - from performance to music to the written word. In her creative work Kei is currently exploring: the plurality of truth in the context of conflict; the futile quest for purity in a compromised world; humour as a tool for resistance; and the conditions that nurture political conscientisation. She does her best to involve food whenever possible. Kei is a co-lead and editor-in-chief of Brack, a Singapore-based art collective and platform for socially-engaged art.
Kei’s creative works have been presented at platforms such as: Singapore International Festival of the Arts (2021), Passage Festival (Denmark, 2020), T:>Works N.O.W. Festival (Singapore, 2020), Incheon Art Platform (South Korea, 2019), Understanding Risk (Un)Conference (Chiang Mai, 2019), National Gallery Singapore (2019), Asia Dive Expo (Singapore, 2019), Goodman Arts Centre (Singapore, 2014), Singapore Flamenco Festival (2014), and Grahamstown National Arts Festival (South Africa, 2012 / 2013). She was an artist-in-resident at the Live Art Development Agency (London, 2020) and Incheon Art Platform (South Korea, 2019). She is currently an artist-in-resident with Theater No Theater (formerly the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski).
Kei is a certified life coach and facilitates Family Constellations among other somatic and systemic coaching modalities. She is embedded in and sustained by a web of kin who are usually located in Singapore, the UK, Eswatini, and various parts of the USA. All that she does emerges from processes of dialogue with friends.
What Comes After (2019) is a participatory-performance created for Understanding Risk Field Lab 2019, an arts and technology un-conference on disaster risk management in Chiang Mai. Invited by co-organiser NTU Earth Observatory Lab, I created a work building off scientific and ethnographic material gathered by other researchers. Made with two other artists, the final work unfolded in two parts: 1) a communal, guided walk with an audio track, done blindfolded, followed by 2) a short workshop on rebuilding a community post-crisis. Collaborators: Kei Franklin, Jungsuh Sue Lim Image and footage credits: Rachel Siao Exhibited in: Chiang Mai Urban Flooding Field Lab, an arts and technology un-conference exploring design practices in disaster risk management.
What Comes After (2019)
Tomorrow’s Islands is an performance-installation about movement, connection, and attention. Using land reclamation as a subject, the work treats the migration and compaction of sand as a metaphor for the displacement and reconstitution of community, reflecting on the potential and challenges of communality amidst congregation. How, if at all, does physical proximity translate into emotional connection? How does a place become a home? When belonging and togetherness is tough, what possibilities for solitude remain? Collaborators: Kei Franklin, Jungsuh Sue Lim Supported by: Incheon Foundation Art and Culture (IFAC) Young Artist Grant Presented at: Incheon Art Platform, South Korea
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