was different identities here with on d w. m, we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. ah, magic corner hotspot for food and some great cultural memorials to boot w travel off we go, ah, we have our if a city of dwelling identities, east and west odin, you tradition know, and contemporary as a young artist navigating these 2 isn't always easy. so for the next 48 hours,

i want to find out how my fellow artists make sense of these paradoxes to find their voice and identity. i'm yang, a singaporean, multidisciplinary artist and production designer always in pursuit of my artistic voice. i am in singapore historic civic district, old and new come together to create an intriguing trill in the heart of the c, a digital artist and pre maker j. c. live. please, contrasting elements of the urban landscape have provided a wealth of inspiration. today. j. c is bringing me on a 12 pacific district to see how to modern and the traditional co exist kimonos. lee, stacy is walking through the civic district. i've noted them all sculptures than

any other districts in singapore. yes, this true is caught days of your it makes us in heavy pitch is nice that the art can be minus, that they are the history and or this of our past as we live in this city that is developing so quickly. the people of the river is a series of sculptures depicting life in early 19th century, singapore. and now jesse is being made her favorite of the for to blows. and a great emporium is a sculpture by artist malcolm cold. i think the artist has done a great job in capturing the bottling trip thing that was happening here. that's cool. and another thing that i really enjoy are the details in the sculptures, especially the facial expression, the postures and a back is detailed like that really make it come alive. sitting right next to these

traditional sculptures is a thoroughly modern installation. 5 perfectly round, stainless steel spheres. the simple walk through singapore civic district has given me a small taste of my cities, various complexities i like as well at the exit. there is a bland of the old and immune and i find attention interesting. why don't you pick some porter? i have a surprise project for you. okay. with now, i'm heading back to j. c studio at the goodman art center. in thing of us ma beth and neighborhood. in my work, i am inspired by urban landscape in singapore, especially public housing in traditional brain making. what cop usually would cost

the with and enough to what we will get up and imprinted. however, i have transformed that nic and i pick an element up from it, which is a silly for me using com to car pops or what. and then afterwards, instead of printing it, i have pin 30 and i think you really enjoy the softness that comes from the medium . it is something unexpected from woodcut. and for me that is a surprising sensation. so now i want to challenge you to create an image that is both traditional and contemporary using the photos and you're thinking just now, okay, i decided to use the colonial your windows and jack, suppose it were, the skyscrapers with

this is really training my fingers rang my index finger, my thumb and control with the wrists and the whole arm, right? i can imagine how you do those bit with would you like a bit of help then? i can and for sure you found that? yes, please. i think that will be really helpful. so this is the read. so the vehicle is very good for more details. so incoming curve lines such as this, you can use the vehicle while you angry on from bernie around. i know this is a voted be my individual challenge for when it comes to the are being a mass of your medium in your tool is the only way to express freely. and if not for your how, i don't think i'll be able to bring these kids to lie. so thank you for everything

to be a bit nervous for right now, i think we are holding the cruise at a rectangle and you're able to comp longer voting. improving, thank you. practice really does make a difference with finally we were inc, the carving using a roller to enter a thin, even layer of paint. we are really far the big reveal. wow. or the highway for this moment? oh, wow. this is really good. i think this is really captures the contrast between or and new banking days. here for showing me the traditional wood cut, print making method envelope teaching me artist,

tips and tricks. the sheets of comp on glass. singer birds historic, almost lim, quarter have become a living canvas for murals, illustration, and graffiti. gallum gallery is the country 1st and commonly only outdoor gallery. today, curator kit one is giving me a tour of musket streets back alleys. with his walls adorned by frame artworks and detailed murals who have the perception of street art in singapore change over time . 3 art is among vandalism. who i think we have a perception lesson. yeah. there are many thinking vandalism, and that is of course. so if i feel i can see it really flourishing singapore, this is everywhere. now. everybody kind of read or is it just good for the environment does before. just the beauty of things or it how the stories of the people and culture, the belize. ah,

it is one of the favorite. yes. yeah. ottoman dallas kit one. can you show me more about the job of an outdoor gallery curator? what does it until? well, as the auto gallery curator, we just have to know objectives. the objective of this project is to make this back st. beautiful and also to support local arches. so what we did was that 2 lanes that we worked with. this one, we use it for a more emerging artists. those that just graduated from school. very excited, very enthusiastic, and gather cycle, more established artist. so for example, this is young. she just graduated not too long ago. so this is a watering can to remind us that we need more time. what is very important for us and for all living things. so people come here, hold out and you know, remember to pick her up because we are clean water all the time.

it one is, is the side with the more established artists because i can recognize some of these names. this is beside with the, i'm more of this artist center or for example, this one is june. i'm. he is primarily using oil pains. he thought, inspiration from movies, characters, movies, and kind of relate to real life. for this one is called a labyrinth, i think is like how we navigate through life and in all these characters or peers we have and everything just comfortable in this painting. while sheet art is celebrated today, there was a time when all this color and vibrancy would have been considered vandalism. creating art in public spaces without official permission is still illegal. even today, it has taken years for the authorities here to distinguish art from vandalism. one artist who has found the identity in this conservative progressive paradigm is sam low. in 2012, sam was arrested for vandalism after pasting stickers with cheeky messages on

traffic lights. yet today, sam is known for brilliant large scale murals commission by both the private and public sector from the on. thanks and was that have gotten you into trouble the long to now working with large brands with gail and visibility, how do you feel of it? so when i was arrested and then i had this like um, whole identity like people call me vandorn. first me an art is on the 2nd day and pretty much i had no background while he's doing things like this. i know i loved. so coming to this point, i was just lost, i didn't know why my identity was. so when it came to that expectation of being an artist and having none of those skills, i took a sabbatical for a bit just to try to learn how to be an artist in singapore, most of our murals are sanctioned. how does that affect the perception of wired

a street or this is vandalism, or if it is very much frowned upon here, based on what people know of what street are is, are graffiti is overseas. they romanticized that idea of what a street are using graffiti artist, isn't singapore. and so they actually expect, like, you know, practitioners to go against a log on a license number. there is a unique situation in singapore because we want to continue doing what we love, which is to paint walls and to let you know get paper and make a living for me, cause me to pay the bills. at the same time. we also. busy our balancing the purity or integrity of our craft. so those that tough line that we torn them and i, i hate it to the alley, all art center and i'm changing out into something more mess friendly for my next challenge. so what are the challenge? i really want you to try and create your own piece, experimenting in different shapes and forms. and right here we have a couple of 3 kinds, different colors and different caps. and because we know each other for a long night. so i'm going to show you a couple of tips here. let's do it so closely ago. the scenario goes,

the further you go, the 3rd is, it also depends on how hard you press the nozzle. i'm gonna go with creating the latch line, both just to create the light sheet. and then after that i'm going to fill them in the gradients. gradients. okay, gradient. i'm gonna try okay. okay, cool. that's the issue. not me. yep. okay. oh not too fast. can i go over again? yeah, sure. oh, good lord. i saw a colleague which is next. i believe all the paintings and the puzzles and a green. okay. go for it. with a 2 year old, right. you have to look at a big picture,

not give us more detail. you're right here, which you have in mind. like, you know, we're going to, i'm going with the flow ok with end where i am just going to need to have a color calling out to me. okay. so what do you mean? ok. well coming, you know, we're in confidence. yeah. again, it is what they look al clean. i was with it now. ok with that a little bit and i hope, my boy how may i put it properly with

thank you so much for today them and for being that was a part in by the same time chris, a friend, always a how i learned you know me well done on the yes, you do anywhere to singer for is no one for being a flu and clean and modern cubic release. and this young city office up is various complexities today. i learned how i like jesse lynn and sambo, expanding unique identities, 30 chosen mediums. now and curious what ada dualities are. does here haggling? oh is day to day and i'm enjoying a stroll, watching the waves come and go. when you that all these san could actually be a medium to tell beautiful stories and create fluid pieces of art.

as the definition of art continues to grow, many art is expressing themselves through non traditional mediums. stacy is one of thing about pioneers is an art and has performed around the world too much a clean. hi stacy. hi. thanks for having me. faith, her ease it pick it or then from the beach and clear these off beach then, but those are bits more special. those are corals then with a bit of caught people have asked me to like, yeah, it's a mix of different sheets of lou and all the different, no particles come from a leisure, some come from australia would have very, very fine, almost powdery. the san is it she softer than i thought?

and she could attach a, show me some tips and tricks as to how you get the position in your forms and shapes for so one of the most common ones is doing we've. so as a personal and laid off, you get this with up and down. but in the way up and down this way you low your head. yeah. and it's right. yes, i will give it a shot case or from the right to the left and then press down. yeah. move in. we've mina ah, 2 ways to cover the but one is, is fish. it immediately is covert. getaway is we like to do the wind flow. sometimes we will actually use our hand and we sort of filter in plain lines like this. or we can pinch a bit of sand and then as we go along, we dropped it in bit. are you all this fine details? how do you feel about using san for the unconventional medium and how do you feel

about that as your identity, as an artist, as an artisan thing, i would generally most of us struggle a lot. and like you mentioned, it is unconventional because it's so it's a medium that takes a lot of control and is by nature something is very fluid. so it's very difficult to actually maneuver it. but it does take technique. it does take skillset, most importantly, i need a bit of i bet wrong in order to for you to play around with it. otherwise it's very starting drawing. now this creates um, i feel a fantasy plus the move man in a performer is the drama that comes with it. definitely with me me.

ah. thank you for today, stacy, for showing me san as a medium it is unfamiliar. in fact, i've never used it before, so thank you so much. thank you. yang, thank you. in a nice an art city. traditional arts sensibilities have given way to unexpected new forms by young dynamic artist kelly. limerick is a visual artist with primary mediums or crochet and living. she is a prominent figure of this art form and singapore, with shins across various museums and art spaces. hey kelly, i understand you have been working a textiles since you were 7. and i'm wondering what is it about this media that you have stuck way for all these years?

so the thing about these thought is that some people refer to it as a sympathetic medium. and that means that is something that's very easily really paval to is because of this immediately to the surroundings. it also makes text are kind of like a double each thought because people were few, there is, you know, so in the earlier festival in our surroundings then what makes it different from, you know, just any old item in the house. i also this exact relationship dead i enjoy when i'm creating up that so you can time allowed 10 there if you want. what's the name of this piece? this piece is called, i was a landscape with my fingers and it's quite literal because like you can see all these lines right. and is it can you book from bottom to up? so when i'm doing pushy, i try not to join separate pieces. i try to do it in one direction, and as i'm creating it from left to right, i imagine myself walking on the left it with my fingers. it's wow, there's so many different. it's on to the layer of complexity, not just in texture, in the stories. and i think that is something that i strive to with as well.

kelly, i can keep on watching you bring their cushy hook in and out. is in minutes. they've been calling for you. yeah, i would say so, because especially as you can see, this piece is very repetitive and it's very light street. so i don't really think much about it. and i think crochet is quite mathematical on, you know, right in the roots of it. and when i thought that i had to follow headphones and i feel like you kind of have to know the rules, the other thing or how you want to break down. yeah, and that's why i am exploring in my car. so i am counting, i'm not counting it to me because if i know is just going round the wrong. so i'm just using my, i do see how big is going, know and how much green you want to go. yeah. is there a way to undo it? yeah. so i'm going to show you the singapore, the art seeing, reflect the paradoxical nature of this city. mark time is one of the

leading figures in contemporary chinese calligraphy, which is the artistic writing of chinese characters. this exquisite form can be traced back almost 2000 years. maps words unify traditional techniques with modern abstraction ism i yeah. with classical chinese calligraphy is both a visual and literary art. chinese po, often present it using calligraphy script, sometimes accompanied by motifs such as mountains, all bamboo. here we have a dip fit their self portrait. they represent 2 sides of me. this is me as a geisha building fall. and me as an old man with a walking stick. yes, you can. i definitely see i raising my finger. well, because i'm paying, you know,

what really strikes me wrong. the previous teenagers introduce is that i still see the calligraphic strokes, but is taking a more current, temporary approach and fall. how do you get? yeah, i think it's a natural progression using the same stroke, the same brush and same paper and there's no way i'm going to stay writing tendency poems or even my own poetry. i think more than i must have a sense of humor and myself. anger must have engagement with the well, so i just use the same brush the same material and knew exactly where ones i've seen so many sites of you as well as a modem in. yeah, you can't run away from who you are. you myers will embrace it. and express it right to day this innovative chinese thing artist has offered to give me a colleague or for your master class. so the chinese brush is

a special kind of breath is different from the western brass, and it's supremely sensitive and we have 2 identical brushes, one for you, it went from me. so why don't you load the pressure think? all right, our try. okay. the thought with very basic stroke, one e, okay. go across. ok. on the time sheet. oh, you wouldn't know your mind. just think about one thing. the brush tip and the word you want to write him. emptying my mind and then just the tip of the bread and a paper right and go for it. ah,

nice with the new go at font right now. i like to do right abstract things with it . oh and, and i'm going to pass the graph. so to do something with it, okay, in a way when you are doing that is my 1st time watching that and i can feel the energy and it's very exciting. and i, they don't have to be the same the same. no. so i'm going to suggest that what if i do, if my left hand so that i cracked this just completely let go because i'm right hand there and i'm so used to it really you are lego totally ok for that self expression . i would hire my, let go for it with ha, okay, i see what you mean. you carry on carry on the with

enough. i feel collaboration is a masterpiece. i think so. you know, with extra human figures up knowing when to stop. i think it's very important. i'm going to put my seal and since you didn't bring your seal, you're going to use your thumb print. yep. okay. it is very sticky. oh, wow. well done so much. whether the deadline a new mediums are keeping traditions alive, singapore, the artist, constantly creating to find a voice in a cd that is rapidly evolving. they aim to honor your roots while stay open to bold, a fresh ideas from beyond growing up. in thing of all,

i've always been caught between east and west, did indeed to look for my ruth and at the same time keeping out with his rapidly changing speed. but ultimately, these paradoxes, i what shit me into the i did that i am today. i'm happy to read them. after all, this is who i am with, hey, ah, ah, with

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