Latest Events in Tanjong Pagar(August Updated)

Shaun and Ambra, esteemed love coaches, are here to share their dating stories and relationship wisdom at the upcoming Ladies Night Comedy Show in Singapore. You won't want to miss the laughter and chaos brought to the stage by global headliner Sasha Frank. This dynamic duo guarantees an entertaining night filled with dating disasters, singlehood shenanigans, and relationship mishaps. Prepare yourself for a comedy extravaganza that will leave you in stitches. With Shaun and Ambra's unique blend of wisdom and humor, you'll learn valuable lessons about love while enjoying a night of non-stop laughter. Get ready to have your love life put into perspective as you witness relationship revelations unfold before your eyes. Don't take love too seriously, and let Sasha Frank's international charm sweep you off your feet. The Ladies Night Comedy Show will take place on December 6, 2023, at 116a Tanjong Pagar Road, Singapore. Unfortunately, tickets for this highly anticipated event are already sold out.

Experience a night of laughter and entertainment at the ONLY FRIENDS COMEDY SHOW in Singapore. Join Shaun Tupaz and his talented friends on April 17, 2024, at 116a Tanjong Pagar Road for a stand-up comedy extravaganza like no other. This uproarious show promises non-stop laughter, heartfelt moments, and unexpected tears, all accompanied by delicious cocktails. Be prepared for a blend of comedy, camaraderie, and spirits lifted to leave your funny bone thoroughly tickled. Tickets for this unforgettable evening are sold out.

Get ready to crack up at the upcoming Comedy Trivia Night in Singapore! This uproarious event is set to take place on May 29, 2024, at the lively venue located at 116 Tanjong Pagar Road. The ticket price for this night full of laughter is only $25, offering a fantastic deal for a fun-filled evening. With a perfect blend of comedy and trivia, attendees can expect an entertaining and engaging experience that will leave them rolling with laughter. Whether you're a comedy enthusiast or a trivia buff, this event promises to deliver a night to remember. So mark your calendars and make your way to 116 Tanjong Pagar Road for a side-splitting evening at the Comedy Trivia Night. Get ready to test your knowledge and tickle your funny bone at this must-attend event in Singapore!

Experience the epitome of character performance at the SHAUNDIU Comedy Show in Singapore. This drag comedy extravaganza offers an unforgettable evening filled with laughter, entertainment, and glamour. Get ready for a night like no other, featuring side-splitting performances, outrageous acts, and exciting prizes to be won throughout the event. Expect a high-energy atmosphere with unexpected twists and plenty of surprises along the way. Join us at the venue located at 116a Tanjong Pagar Road, Singapore, 088530, on June 19, 2024, for a wild ride of ratchet fun. Immerse yourself in the fantastic blend of humor and excitement while enjoying great drinks and delicious refreshments available at Lost Vintage Bar. Please note that tickets for this exclusive event have already been sold out, making it a highly anticipated and sought-after experience. Don't miss out on the SHAUNDIU Comedy Show - a night of pure entertainment and joy.

Venue: INSTINC,39 Keppel Rd, #03-10 Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065 Exhibition Duration: 19-27 October 2024 & 07-17 November 2024 Opening Reception: 18 October 2024, 6PM-8:30PM | RSVP Link Curator Talk: 19 October 2024, 2PM-3PM | RSVP Link Artists Talk: 19 October 2024, 3PM-5PM; 26 October & 09 November 2024, 3PM-4PM | RSVP Link Opening hours: Wed-Fri 1-7pm, Sat and Sun 1-6pm. Closed on public holidays. Curator's Words: INSTINC has played a pivotal role in shaping Singapore’s contemporary art scene. By serving as a platform for experimental and collaborative artistic endeavors, it has significantly contributed to cultivating a diverse and dynamic artistic community. Its dedication to interdisciplinary practices, artist residencies, and community engagement underscores its importance as a resource for artists and a catalyst for cultural exchange and innovation within Singapore. As INSTINC commemorates its 20th anniversary, it is essential to reflect on the thematic rhythms that have characterized its journey—rhythms that resonate with the essence of life. The persistent lub-dub, lub-dub of the heartbeat emerges as a powerful metaphor, encapsulating the complexities of love, art, family, and friendship, alongside broader socio-cultural tensions. This exhibition delves into the heartbeat's duality, reflecting the balance of creation and destruction, inspiration and frustration that permeates the artistic process. The heartbeat, with its ceaseless rhythm, symbolizes not only our physical existence but also the emotional and psychological forces that drive human creativity. It mirrors the push and pull of relationships, the tension between love and conflict, and the ongoing quest for harmony in a world fraught with discord. This duality, central to both life and art, is poignantly captured in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, where the tension between aspiration and reality, connection and separation, is laid bare. Ishiguro’s reflection, “What I’m not sure about is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save... Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through,” speaks to the universal human experience and the continuous process of creation and re-creation that defines both life and art. Reflecting on two decades of INSTINC’s contributions, the heartbeat emerges as a potent symbol of the connections forged and the impact made. Just as blood nourishes and sustains the body, art weaves connections among individuals and communities, enriching the cultural fabric of society. The rhythm of the heartbeat transcends its biological function, symbolizing the cyclical nature of life, creativity, and the relationships that shape our existence. The lub-dub rhythm, stable yet dynamic, parallels the elements of contemporary aesthetics, which, though diverse, are united in their pursuit of meaning and expression. In contemporary art, this rhythm is echoed in the fusion of styles, mediums, and ideas, resonating on multiple levels. Just as the heartbeat sustains life, contemporary art sustains culture, circulating ideas, emotions, and experiences throughout society. It is a dynamic force, ever-evolving, reflecting the complexities of the human condition while challenging us to perceive the world in new and innovative ways. The inherent tension in the heartbeat—the interplay between contraction and relaxation, lub and dub —is emblematic of the tensions within the artistic process. Creation is not linear; it is fraught with challenges, setbacks, and doubts. Yet, it is this very tension that endows art with its power, compelling artists to explore new ideas, take risks, and push the boundaries of possibility. In this exhibition, the heartbeat also symbolizes the intimate connection between artist and viewer. Just as the heartbeat is a deeply personal aspect of our physical being, the experience of art is a personal encounter, a dialogue between creator and observer. The rhythm of the heartbeat becomes a shared experience, bridging the gap between artist and viewer, forging a connection that is both profound and meaningful. Information Source: INSTINC Art space | eventbrite

Get ready to groove to the beat with Road Dog Revue Band: LIVE at Mac's! This arts event is set to rock the stage on October 26, 2024, at 7 Tanjong Pagar Plaza #01 105 in Singapore. With a ticket price of US$40.25, music enthusiasts can enjoy an electrifying performance by this talented band. The venue promises a night filled with soulful melodies and foot-tapping rhythms that will leave the audience wanting more. So mark your calendars and head over to Mac's for an unforgettable evening of live music. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to experience Road Dog Revue Band in action. Get your tickets now and be part of a musical extravaganza like no other!

On the Same Page: Artists’ Books as a Site of Intersection *Featuring Darius Ou, Oscar Salguero & Claudia de la Torre Moderated by Berny TanDate: 27 October 2024, Sunday Time: 3:00PM – 4:30PM Venue: The Engine Room @ Singapore Art MuseumWithin the realm of artists’ books, these three independent practitioners have connected with each other across continents and across disciplines. Discussing compelling individual projects as well as their collaborations, this conversation will shift between the perspectives of artist, designer, curator, researcher, publisher, archivist, and so on, demonstrating how artists’ books can be a rich space of hybridity and experimentation. Speakers: Darius Ou | Graphic Designer Oscar Salguero | Founder, Interspecies Library Claudia de la Torre | Artist & Publisher Moderated by: Berny Tan | Curator, Singapore Art Museum * Presented in partnership with the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) Design Collection Information Source: Singapore Art Book Fair | eventbrite

Botanical Paradigms presents a series of imaginary plants that Chen developed during her three-month residency at INSTINC. The exhibition takes its title from the concept of a ‘paradigm’—a distinctive set of ideas or thought patterns that serve as a lens for observing and understanding the world. Through the paradigm of fictional botany, Chen seeks to challenge and reconsider conventional perceptions of nature and reality, conducting a dialogue that bridges the natural and the synthetic, the traditional and the technological. Following the transformation of these imagined plant species across multiple media, from traditional techniques such as drawing, and embroidery to digital technologies like 3D animation and videography. The interplay between craftsmanship and contemporary digital practices serves as a metaphor for the evolving nature of thought, showing how our perspectives shift with technological advancements. This exhibition is part of Chen's ongoing transmedia storytelling project, FACTORY, which explores a transmedia storyworld centered on a fictional biological laboratory called ‘FACTORY’. In this evolving storyworld, FACTORY functions as both a research center and an archive for Chen's creative experiments, offering a space where scientific inquiry and artistic expression converge. About Artist Chen Dongyan is a multidisciplinary artist based in Singapore. Her practice is primarily based on video and installations, but also consists of various media such as drawing, writing, sculptures, and photography. Her current research is focusing on exploring narrative methodologies through storyworld with the mechanism of transmedia storytelling. Chen received a Bachelor(Hons) of Fine Art (First Class) from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London in 2018, and Master of Arts Fine Arts (Distinction) from LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore in 2024. Part of her past exhibitions include Deja Vu at Freud Museum (London), Orphaned Memories and Pressure Drop at SomoS Arts House (Berlin), Across Pieces of Sky at Trocadero Art Space (Melbourne), Bidirectional Intervention at JinChuang Art Space, (Nanjing), and This is not a monster at Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (Singapore). She is the recipient of Dr Winston Oh Postgraduate Study Grant and LASALLE MA Merit Award in 2023, Winston Oh Travelogue Award in 2024, and participated in Tropical Lab 2024. Chen is also a freelance videographer specialising in social videos for exhibitions, lifestyle, and events, she creates marketing and documentation videos for the Singapore Art Museum and LASALLE College of the Arts. Information Source: INSTINC Art space | eventbrite

Beyond 无边 is a two-person exhibition that brings the work of Boo Sze Yang and Yeo Shih Yun together for the first time, creating a novel conversation between two artists whose work speaks to the antique – even ancient – past as well as to this metamodern moment in contemporary art. The display showcases innovative mark-making and painterly expression through the sometimes surprising use of unconventional tools and techniques. Boo Sze Yang employs the squeegee devices you see in screen printing shops or ceramics studios to make his colorful abstract paintings. Boo uses various squeegees to spread, swirl and splash oil paint across paper and canvas. Using these tools and techniques, Boo creates marks and textured surfaces that evoke printmaking effects, blending the tactile quality of the printing processes with the fluidity of oil paint. “The Crossing #1” looks purely abstract at first glance, but can also be thought of as an abstract landscape. The slanted lines and colorful parallelograms at the bottom of the piece look infrastructural and architectural. The gooey blue and white smears that make-up the upper part of the painting appear as sky and clouds, even snow and ice. Boo’s work comments on the displacement of the natural world by urban development, and his formally gorgeous surfaces only make their content more engaging. Yeo Shih Yun has a reputation for innovation. Her experimental ink paintings connect ancient Asian calligraphic traditions to 21st century technology, and she’s best known for utilizing mechanically designed tools such as robots and other devices as painting assistants. For Beyond 无边, Yeo deploys robots that were fabricated using 3D printing. Yeo’s artsy droids make the first random, expressive marks and designs for the works in her Beyond the Visible series. The robots’ contributions are photographed before they’re printed on transparent neon yellow fiberglass using reverse UV printing technology. The finished works are sculptural, but also graphic as well as painterly. They’re literally machine-made, but still expressive and enigmatic. Beyond 无边 offers a vibrant dialogue between the two artists as they engage viewers – and one another – in the space between figuration and abstraction. The display prompts a discussion about rethinking art categories, redefining art practices, and reconsidering the roles of new technologies and age-old traditions in contemporary visual art. Most importantly, the show creates a conversation about what painting has been and what it may become in this new century. About the Artists \ Boo Sze Yang \ Boo’s paintings deal with a broad range of subject matters, from mundane domestic objects to images of car and airplane crash-scenes, derelict interiors of cathedrals and unpeopled chambers of shopping malls. Boo treats banal objects, modern architectural interiors and destructive scenes as metaphors for the human condition. His series of semi-abstract paintings conjure a natural world gradually dissected and displaced by urban development. The monochromatic handling of linear structures resembling scaffoldings, partitions and platforms are created through the delicate process of pulling and pushing wet paints across the canvas using a squeegee. These imageries do not evoke real moments of memories but refers to a special, in-between zone of the real space and the utopia; a baffling place where reality and fantasy coexist. In his portraiture series, Boo integrates his personal experiences with everyday’s social and political events to generate uncanny and idiosyncratic expressionistic portraitures serving as comic observations in our everyday life. Boo Sze Yang graduated from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) in 1991; completed his Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art at the University of Reading, UK in 1995 and received his Master’s in Arts Degree from Chelsea College of Art & Design, the University of the Arts London in 2004. \ Yeo Shih Yun \ Yeo Shih Yun (1976, Singapore) is a highly regarded Singaporean artist whose innovative approach to ink painting has garnered international acclaim. After obtaining a Bachelor degree in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore in 1998, Yeo pursued a Diploma in Communication Design at LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts in 2001, followed by the Post Baccalaureate Programme in painting at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2002. Yeo's experimental fusion of traditional ink painting with contemporary mediums such as new media and performance art has resulted in dynamic and unpredictable works that challenge conventional notions of the medium. Her unique creative process has earned her recognition, including a 2011 commission by the Singapore Art Museum and the People's Choice Award for Conversations with trees, which was nominated for Sovereign Asian Art Prize Finalists in 2012 and auctioned by Christie's Asia. She has also won the UOB Painting of the Year Competition (Distinction in Abstract category) twice, in 1999 and 2007. Yeo has held exhibitions in major cities including Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, Shanghai, Tokyo, and New York, and has completed numerous commissions, including National Gallery Singapore's My Ink-credible Adventure and her solo exhibition at Esplanade, titled Chance Encounters, in 2021. Her groundbreaking works have been showcased in Generative Art and the Future, hosted by Poly Auction China, and she participated in the NFTs + The Ever-Evolving World of Art Tezos exhibition at Art Basel Hong Kong in May 2022. Yeo was also invited to participate in the Digital Baroque exhibition and auction curated by 4ART NFT+ marketplace and minted on Palm network. Yeo's innovative approach to ink art has made a significant impact on the development of the medium both in Singapore and internationally. Her contributions to the art world have been widely recognized and she continues to push the boundaries of the medium with her unique approach and experimental techniques. Information Source: INSTINC Art space | eventbrite

Beyond 无边 is a two-person exhibition that brings the work of Boo Sze Yang and Yeo Shih Yun together for the first time, creating a novel conversation between two artists whose work speaks to the antique – even ancient – past as well as to this metamodern moment in contemporary art. The display showcases innovative mark-making and painterly expression through the sometimes surprising use of unconventional tools and techniques. Boo Sze Yang employs the squeegee devices you see in screen printing shops or ceramics studios to make his colorful abstract paintings. Boo uses various squeegees to spread, swirl and splash oil paint across paper and canvas. Using these tools and techniques, Boo creates marks and textured surfaces that evoke printmaking effects, blending the tactile quality of the printing processes with the fluidity of oil paint. “The Crossing #1” looks purely abstract at first glance, but can also be thought of as an abstract landscape. The slanted lines and colorful parallelograms at the bottom of the piece look infrastructural and architectural. The gooey blue and white smears that make-up the upper part of the painting appear as sky and clouds, even snow and ice. Boo’s work comments on the displacement of the natural world by urban development, and his formally gorgeous surfaces only make their content more engaging. Yeo Shih Yun has a reputation for innovation. Her experimental ink paintings connect ancient Asian calligraphic traditions to 21st century technology, and she’s best known for utilizing mechanically designed tools such as robots and other devices as painting assistants. For Beyond 无边, Yeo deploys robots that were fabricated using 3D printing. Yeo’s artsy droids make the first random, expressive marks and designs for the works in her Beyond the Visible series. The robots’ contributions are photographed before they’re printed on transparent neon yellow fiberglass using reverse UV printing technology. The finished works are sculptural, but also graphic as well as painterly. They’re literally machine-made, but still expressive and enigmatic. Beyond 无边 offers a vibrant dialogue between the two artists as they engage viewers – and one another – in the space between figuration and abstraction. The display prompts a discussion about rethinking art categories, redefining art practices, and reconsidering the roles of new technologies and age-old traditions in contemporary visual art. Most importantly, the show creates a conversation about what painting has been and what it may become in this new century. About the Artists \ Boo Sze Yang \ Boo’s paintings deal with a broad range of subject matters, from mundane domestic objects to images of car and airplane crash-scenes, derelict interiors of cathedrals and unpeopled chambers of shopping malls. Boo treats banal objects, modern architectural interiors and destructive scenes as metaphors for the human condition. His series of semi-abstract paintings conjure a natural world gradually dissected and displaced by urban development. The monochromatic handling of linear structures resembling scaffoldings, partitions and platforms are created through the delicate process of pulling and pushing wet paints across the canvas using a squeegee. These imageries do not evoke real moments of memories but refers to a special, in-between zone of the real space and the utopia; a baffling place where reality and fantasy coexist. In his portraiture series, Boo integrates his personal experiences with everyday’s social and political events to generate uncanny and idiosyncratic expressionistic portraitures serving as comic observations in our everyday life. Boo Sze Yang graduated from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) in 1991; completed his Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art at the University of Reading, UK in 1995 and received his Master’s in Arts Degree from Chelsea College of Art & Design, the University of the Arts London in 2004. \ Yeo Shih Yun \ Yeo Shih Yun (1976, Singapore) is a highly regarded Singaporean artist whose innovative approach to ink painting has garnered international acclaim. After obtaining a Bachelor degree in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore in 1998, Yeo pursued a Diploma in Communication Design at LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts in 2001, followed by the Post Baccalaureate Programme in painting at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2002. Yeo's experimental fusion of traditional ink painting with contemporary mediums such as new media and performance art has resulted in dynamic and unpredictable works that challenge conventional notions of the medium. Her unique creative process has earned her recognition, including a 2011 commission by the Singapore Art Museum and the People's Choice Award for Conversations with trees, which was nominated for Sovereign Asian Art Prize Finalists in 2012 and auctioned by Christie's Asia. She has also won the UOB Painting of the Year Competition (Distinction in Abstract category) twice, in 1999 and 2007. Yeo has held exhibitions in major cities including Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, Shanghai, Tokyo, and New York, and has completed numerous commissions, including National Gallery Singapore's My Ink-credible Adventure and her solo exhibition at Esplanade, titled Chance Encounters, in 2021. Her groundbreaking works have been showcased in Generative Art and the Future, hosted by Poly Auction China, and she participated in the NFTs + The Ever-Evolving World of Art Tezos exhibition at Art Basel Hong Kong in May 2022. Yeo was also invited to participate in the Digital Baroque exhibition and auction curated by 4ART NFT+ marketplace and minted on Palm network. Yeo's innovative approach to ink art has made a significant impact on the development of the medium both in Singapore and internationally. Her contributions to the art world have been widely recognized and she continues to push the boundaries of the medium with her unique approach and experimental techniques. Information Source: INSTINC Art space | eventbrite