Reimagining Plastic: The Second Life Fabric

 

Art Exhibition @ The National Museum of Singapore

Title: "Reimagining Plastic: The Second Life Fabric"

The school involved: ASPN Katong School and Bedok View Sec Sch (Special School and Mainstream School)

Artist & Educator: Tan Haur

Venue: National Museum of Singapore, Gallery Theatre Foyer, Basement.

Date: 25 May - 23 Jun, 10am - 7pm daily

(Free admission)

Introduction:

Welcome to the "Reimagining Plastic: The Second Life Fabric" exhibition at the National Museum of Singapore, where creativity meets sustainability in a celebration of responsible consumption. This innovative project seamlessly intertwines art, design, and environmental consciousness to breathe new life into discarded plastic materials. As we embark on this creative adventure together, let us delve into the concept behind this transformative initiative.

Embarking on a Journey of "Reimagining Plastic":

In a world where plastic pollution poses an increasingly urgent threat to our environment, it is imperative to rethink our approach to waste management. "Reimagining Plastic: The Second Life Fabric" seeks to address this challenge by introducing an innovative concept – extending the lifespan of plastic materials through repurposing and refabricating them into new, functional forms. Inspired by textile art and design, this project envisions a future where waste plastic transcends its disposable nature, finding renewed purpose and beauty as vibrant fabric creations.

The Unveiling of Purpose:

At the heart of our project lies a commitment to prolonging the functional lifespan of waste plastic, transforming it from a symbol of pollution to a beacon of sustainability. By embracing the principles of "Rethink, Reuse, Reintegrate, Refabricate, and Repurpose," we aim to redefine the narrative surrounding plastic materials. "Reimagining Plastic: The Second Life Fabric" is more than just an art initiative; it is a call to action, urging us to reimagine our relationship with waste and embrace a culture of conscious consumption.

A Symphony of Functionality:

Imagine a world where waste plastic is transformed into functional works of art – tote bags, coasters, aprons, cushion covers, and clothing that not only serve a practical purpose but also tell a story of renewal and reinvention. Through our project, we aim to demonstrate the boundless potential within materials that are often overlooked or discarded. "Reimagining Plastic: The Second Life Fabric" invites viewers to reconsider the value of waste and explore the transformative power of creativity.

Art as Therapy, Inclusivity as Art:

Beyond functionality, our project embodies a spirit of inclusivity and empowerment, particularly for students with special needs. The art workshop serves as a therapeutic space where students from diverse backgrounds (mainstream and special schools) come together to express themselves through creative collaboration. Every piece of plastic, every stroke of the marker pen, and every collaboration becomes a celebration of diversity and the universal language of art.

Art Workshop:

All the students went through the multi-sensory experience workshop concept titled 'Reimagining Plastic: The Second Life Fabric' with the artist and art educator, Tan Haur, at the learning spaces of Bedok View Secondary School and the National Museum of Singapore. These workshops included "learning and creating" activities that incorporate visual elements, music, sounds, and tactile components.

<Visual Elements> Shapes, colours, and forms of physical waste plastics and tapes + Visual tension, visual illusion, visual rhythm, and visual flow.

<Music> Baroque Music for workshops to inspire the creators.

<Sounds>  Sounds produced when handling flexible plastic materials and adhesive tapes.

<Tactile> The tactile component in arts and crafts projects refers to the sense of touch and the physical experience of handling different materials. It involves the sensations and feedback one receives through the sense of touch while working on a creative project. Tactile components in arts and crafts can include the texture, temperature, and malleability of materials like plastic, PVC sheets, PVC tape, or any other medium used to create an artwork. Engaging the tactile sense enhances the overall sensory experience and adds a physical, hands-on dimension to the artistic process.

Journey of discovery:

"Reimagining Plastic: The Second Life Fabric" is not just an exhibition but a testament to the potential for positive change when art, sustainability, and inclusivity intersect. We invite you to join us on this journey of discovery, as we explore new possibilities for repurposing plastic and envision a world where waste becomes a source of inspiration and innovation.

~ Tan Haur

Reimagining Plastic Exhibition @ The National Museum of Singapore

You are cordially invited to a Special Showcase @ The National Museum of Singapore:

“Reimagining Plastic: The Second Life Fabric”

25 May - 23 Jun, 10am - 7pm daily

(Free admission)

Gallery Theatre Foyer, Basement

Can we breathe new life into discarded plastic materials by repurposing them into new, functional forms? Be inspired by this special showcase, conceptualised by artist and educator Tan Haur, featuring collaborative artworks by students from APSN Katong School and Bedok View Secondary School. Witness their vision for a future where plastic waste transcends its disposable nature to become vibrant fabric creations.

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"The stars will never be won by little minds; we must be big as space itself." ~Robert A. Heinlein SPADICE (Surface Pattern Art & Design Interdisciplinary Collaborative Effort) Established in 2021, SPADICE is a new project concept initiated by its founder Tan Haur (Singapore) during the COVID-19 pandemic, whereby many art educators are facing quite a fair bit of challenges in the physical classroom teaching & learning, as well as brick-and-mortar space to showcase and share the artistic effort of the creators. The key idea of SPADICE is to enable the participants to have a feel of how their two-dimensional drawing (digital/ conventional media) can be transformed and realized in the form of a 3-D product after attending Tan Haur's NAC AEP courses and visual art workshops. As for phase one of the SPADICE project (November 2021 - 31st March 2022), the team is working with the Rainbow Centre (Margaret Drive School), River Valley High School, and Anderson Serangoon Junior College as a start. This project is to let the students experience a full journey from their learning to art creation and virtual presentation. SPADICE also works with several guests, including SEPs, musicians, artists with special needs, designers, crafters, and independent art creators who specialize in areas with their right and churn out something new with the surface pattern design methodology and craft technology via collaborative effort. Over this growing platform, we encourage communication, suggestions, and future collaboration. Together, we’ll be able to improve, grow, and benefit everybody in a long run. Hence, SPADICE encompasses a complete journey started from curriculum design, teaching, learning, drawing, painting, pattern-designing, printing, and crafting till finished 3-D products for sharing. We welcome your constructive input as well as all forms of support. Thank you very much! Contact founder (Tan Haur): tanhaur@gmail.com *SPADICE is a creative art project proudly supported by the National Arts Council, Singapore. 

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The Art of Collaboration

Congrats to all art students and art educators on their collaborative effort and exhibition at the National Gallery Singapore! We are all very proud of this meaningful event and enjoy the journey of creation and interaction.

As an artist & educator, I enjoy working through art collaboration and self-designed art-making processes to obtain unique artistic lingo. It fuels my art, pushes me by understanding a subject matter from different perspectives, and helps me grow by challenging me through group participation, interaction, and interpretation.

In this series of work, I worked with two separate groups of students to create two-dimensional spaces made up of elements that resonate between the familiar and the unknown. By employing different perspectives, I try to encourage an experiential view of the mindscape, as the landscape that exists for the viewer in the physical world, where sightlines are constantly shifting.

I was inspired by the NGS art collection “Under construction” created by Leng Joon Wong. His painting has an immense power to draw viewers into his subject matter through the painted perspective line works. I intended to focus on the art-making processes rather than the final outcome, so we started on-site sketching with pencil and Chinese ink on paper materials as a seeding unit, followed by planting the group's mindscape by working with acrylic paint on canvases. These painted mindscapes had grown organically and become a rhythmic labyrinth to enter and travel through, wherein the viewer experiences his or her own personal associations.

[Connection]

Email Tan Haur at:

tanhaur@gmail.com

WhatsApp & SMS:

(+65) 9070 2000

ASEAN COCI 2008 亚细安艺术交流营

Tan Haur represented Singapore for the ASEAN COCI ‘Art for All, All for Peace’ 2008 in Thailand organized by the Thai secretariat of the ASEAN Committee on Culture and Information to promote effective cooperation in the fields of culture and information for the purpose of enhancing mutual understanding and solidarity among the peoples of ASEAN as well as in furthering regional development.
陈豪参加了今年在曼谷举行的 ASEAN COCI 2008 “Art for All, All for Peace” 的艺术活动。
想要了解更多有关艺术活动，可联系陈豪。

这是一项亚细安师生交流艺术营活动。

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Author: muij / reported on Omy blog.

Global Eyes: Monsoon Rain

ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DE SINGAPOUR, 1 Sarkies Road – Societe Generale Gallery. It is 29th November 2013 and there is a monsoon outside. A monsoon. Rain, wind, beams of lightning. I keep looking out the window expecting a whale to fly by… or at the very least a dolphin. Sipping coffee when its raining and am now trying to trace the journey that has led me here, attempting to figure out how and where it all started. My life has certainly not followed any  prescribed path. I refuse to accept absolute answers in exchange for gentle truths, and I count my wealth in the ability to own my dreams and pursue them when I wake up each morning. I abandon any faith as being entirely right, but rather recognize the fact that each one contains so many truths and accept the goodness and compassion of each as the juice and gift of life. I challenge my students to be citizens of the world and to rejoice in the differences they experience and encounter. They are black, brown, yellow, and white. All as one family on this living planet where we sing, dance, music and art.

~ Tan Haur
iPhoneographer 

[ Travelogue ] Group Show 国际艺术合作项目

Photo-Art + Essay + Drawing + Poem

Pembukaan/ Opening: 13 December 2012, 7pm

Exhibition: 14 -28 December 2012

Mui & Tan Haur (Singapore)
together with special invited Guest Artists (Bol Brutu, Indonesia)
Putu Sutawijaya, Pande Ketut Taman, Feintje Likawati, Sandat Wangi, Ida Fitri, Ninuk Retno Raras, Boen Mada, Edy Hamzah, Nur Cahyati Wahyuni, Rani Februandari, Suci Pri Hatiningsih and Dyah Merta.

Curator: Kris Budiman (Indonesia)
Organizer : Jenni Vi Mee Yei (Indonesia)
Graphic & Creative Design Consultant: Tan Haur Studio, Singapore 

Today’s world has transformed into a terrain termed by Arjun Appadurai (1996) as the global ethnoscape. When someone’s attachment to a certain nation-state and homeland seems to fade away, human being then bears a brand new status as trans-migrant, non-temporary traveler creatures either in physical, intellectual, or imaginary conception. Tan Haur and Kit Mui are such kind of couple who barely ceases to travel from many departure points (with almost no return points). During their many travels, incessantly they bear in mind various ethnoscapes they ever witness through the aid of certain media, mostly photography, sketches, and other no less practical visual media. From this point onward, the seemingly incessant travels then turn into a working series of space construction, either for aesthetical production or appropriation purpose. In brief, citing John Urry’s terminology (1995), both of them has and been continuously involved in the activity of visual consumption.

From this standpoint, we can propose a sort of presupposition correlated to how the visual consumption they did can be similar or different, either between Tan and Mui themselves or between them and some colleagues from Bol Brutu (Gerombolan Pemburu Batu; band of stoneseekers) who are invited as the guest artists, as exposed in this exhibition entitled Travelogue. What are the visual consumption elements, through action that we call gaze, which unify or set them apart? Generally, we can hypothesize that on one side both Tan and Mui accentuate romantic gaze, but on the other side they tend to be anthropological. Their gaze exposes several characteristics such as solitary, becomes absorbed and drifted away by the moment, and involves vision, aura, and amazement over the exotics and extraordinary. This anthropological tendency will probably also be apparent in the process which involves scrutiny and active interpretation inside of themselves.

Knowing Tan and Mui since early 2012, I have witnessed how they arrange travelogue –a narrative genre interlacing the enchantment of traveling amidst the drama of victory and failure – through the visual perception towards and experience of encountering the Other in other places (Ijo Temple and Mangir Village in Yogyakarta; Merak Temple and Sendang Tirta Mulyani in Klaten; Klenteng Singosaren and Pasar Gede in Solo). By means of visual travelogue in the form of photos and sketches, they recount the perception and experience in a way I can call passionate. Especially in the sketches, this passion is manifested in the lines they scratch on pieces of papers. Tan, with his obvious philosophical vision, met and conversed with the biggest Buddhist monument worldwide; while Mui, with her intuitive and bold-minded lines, meditated over the tiny plain objects she encountered. Both seem to enjoy their traveling experience, the experience of ethnoscape disjunction liberated from the tendency towards factual accuracy in narrating.

Original Text in bahasa indonesia by Kris Budiman (Curator) / Translated by Ana Zahida


Sangkring Art Space
Nitiprayan rt 1, rw 20 no.88 Kasihan Bantul, Yogyakarta.

Supported by: Sangkring Art Space and Singapore International Foundation