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Arts

Published February 18,
2011

Around Town

Kathakali and Bharatanatyam dance
performances

MUDRA Cultural Society presents Kathakali - A
Journey to Prekshaka, a performance and
demonstration by a five-member team from India led
by renowned Kathakali artist Ettumanoor Kannan
(left). Ancient Sanskrit texts on dramaturgy
divide spectators into prekshaka (the connoisseur)
and nanolaka (the layman). This Kathakali dance is
meant to bridge the two. Kannan has more than 25
years of experience in the research and
performance of Kathakali. The show begins with a
full-fledged performance, followed by a section
where the actor will enact selected popular themes
and explain Kathakali's nuances. Saturday night's
7pm performance is at TRCC Studio, Republic
Polytechnic, Woodlands; Sunday night's 7pm
performance will be at Queenstown CC Auditorium.
Tickets - $15 per day; $25 for both days. Call
9027-9720/9450-8097 or go to www.mudrasociety.org
for details.

Accomplished Singaporean Bharatanatyam dancer
Lavanya Raghuraman, a disciple of the Dhananjayans
and the grand-daughter of renowned scholar and
musician, Sangita Kalanidhi Dr S Ramanathan, will
perform Neythal - The Continental Shelf, a solo
Bharatanatyam performance. Coastal areas, enriched
by trade, are melting pots of art and culture,
analogous of the confluence of rivers in oceans.

The solo will offer a glimpse into the cultural
ethos of these coastal lands and explore the
stories associated with ocean, the significance of
rivers, rain, water in all forms as venerated by
Hindu mythology. The dancer has been performing at
various Sabhas since her Arrangetram at Bharatiya
Vidya Bhavan, Chennai in 1999. Lavanya was
conferred the prestigious Natya Chudar title by
Karthik Fine Arts, Chennai in 2009.

Neythal - The Continental Shelf will be
performed tomorrow, 8pm at the Esplanade Theatre
Studio. Tickets at $28 available from Sistic

Catch Indonesian art shows in town

Temple of Threshold is a solo exhibition by
Bandung-based artist Albert Yonathan, featuring
recent works that cover his diverse artistic
practices from ceramic sculptures, installation,
drawings, to performative, site-specific work that
responds to the gallery situation. Yonathan, 28,
is a graduate of the Faculty of Art and Design,
Bandung Institute of Technology. His approach to
ceramics is such that he's developed visual idioms
that relate to the idea of the 'liminality',
namely a state of transition at the boundaries.
His works often appear as hundreds of ceramic cast
modules in geometric outline such as triangle,
circle, hexagon or square (right).

In Melting Memories, West-Sumatran artist
Jumaldi Alfi is driven by progressive rock music,
poetry, experiences and memories to voice the
human condition in the raw visual power of
iconography, painterly immediacy and stunning
colouristic expressivity. Through the chaos of
lines, coloursand symbols, Alfi explores life,
death, the spiritual, the supernatural and the
physical in a concrete, visual space.

Departing from the familiarity of painting,
Alfi's experimentations with paper-and-printmaking
processes at STPI led to the creation of
illusionistic yet highly realistic
'paintings'.

Over at the NUS Museum, Bandung-based artist
Tisna Sanjaya's Cigondewah: An Art Project centres
on the complex relationships between artist, his
environment and public.

Urban growth, industrial expansion, and their
impact on the environment is a common experience
often faced by smaller village communities
occupying city peripheries, including Cigondewah,
a village south of Bandung, Indonesia. How is art
practice reconstituted when it is immersed in the
potentials and predicaments of place and
community; economic and political ecology that
constrains, mediates or enable actions, and more?
To what productive outcomes and what limits?
Sanjaya, 53, is German-trained and his works are
in the public collections of the Museum of
Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; the Singapore Art
Museum, Singapore; and the Fukuoka Asian Art
Museum, Japan.

Albert Yonathan: Temple of Threshold runs
from Feb 12 to 27 at Valentine Willie Fine Art,
Artspace@Helutrans, 39 Keppel Road, Tanjong Pagar
Distripark, #02-04, tel: 8133-1760. Gallery hours:
Tues-Sat, 11am to 7pm, Sun, 11am to 3pm. Closed on
Mondays and public holidays.

Melting Memories: Jumaldi Alfi runs from Feb
26 to March 28 at STPI Gallery, 41 Robertson Quay,
tel: 6336-3663. The artist will give an exhibition
walkthrough on Feb 26, 2.30pm. Gallery hours: Tues
to Sat, 10am to 6pm; closed on Sun and public
holidays. Mon by appointment only.

Cigondewah: An Art Project by Tisna Sanjaya,
from Feb 18 to April 24, NUS Museum, University
Cultural Centre, 50 Kent Ridge Crescent, tel:
6516-8817. In conjunction with this exhibition, a
conference on art activism will be held on March
12 from 1.30 to 4.30pm at The Salon at the
National Museum of Singapore. For details and
registration, go to www.nus.edu.sg/museum.

Compiled by CHEAH
UI-HOON

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