Serenade is a music concert conceptualised for the Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition. This  special performance offering by the Psalmideo Choral  hopes to touch on feelings and imagined memories through music. Enjoy the serenade of voices and embrace the experience on board the first class exhibition journey.

PsalmiDeo Chorale is composed of Singapore-based Filipino professionals, brought together by their passion for singing and their love for choral music. The group of 30-strong members, which started out in church choir in 2002, is currently under the musical direction of Kiko Dimalanta. The choir performed in a sold-out concert entitled “Behind the Scenes’ at the Singapore Concert Hall (SCH) in October 2011. The chorale’s other concert credits include “Celebrate Christmas” at The Esplanade, and “Seasons in Song” with Babes Conde at the Singapore Arts House. The group has also performed at the Kallang Theatre, the Singapore Arts Museum, the Asian Civilizations Museum, and at various official functions organised by the Philippine Embassy.

For ticket enquiries, click on Marina Bay Sands’ ArtScience Museum.

Bringing in the tides of emotion through her voice, Ana Feleo will be performing a two-night solo concert with arias inspired by the Titanic voyage. Audiences will be transported into a musical experience as part of their visit to the Titanic exhibition.

Ana Guillen Feleo, A Lyric Soprano, received her education at the College of Music, University of the Philippines under the tutelage of Professor Emeritus Fides Cuyugan- Asensio. She has recently returned from her rigid vocal training in Juilliard School of Music under W. Stephen Smith. She has performed in numerous oratorios, concerts, operas and musicals under production companies. Ana has represented her country as a classical performer for the Philippine Embassies and Diplomatic Corps in numerous concerts and music arts festivals in countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, The United Kingdom, Spain, Monaco, France, Vietnam, Brunei, China, Germany and Netherlands.

Steven Lim's "Global Warming"

Museum Rendezvous aims to engage the audiences of the ArtScience Museum in a dialogue reflecting the crossings between art and science. For its third edition, Museum Rendezvous: will explore the theme “To Set Sail” in response to the current Titanic: the Artifact Exhibition. Panelists comprise of Steven Lim, a ship designer turned artist; Elizabeth de Roza, theatre practitioner; and Captain Warren Blake, a sailor/adventurer. The guest speakers, who have a very special relationship with boats, will share their personal journeys that allowed them to set sail.

This public forum is co-organised by Belarmino&Partners for the Marina Bay Sands ArtScience Museum.

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T'ang Quartet featuring The Ensemble Dimension Project

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Belarmino&Partners is pleased to announce that Vanini Belarmino has been granted an ISPA Fellowship (International Society for the Performing Arts), for the upcoming New York Congress Art in Action, Community, Crisis & Change scheduled on 10-12 January 2012. Vanini joins a cohort of 14 emerging leaders from the performing arts field selected from 77 applicants worldwide.

As a returning ISPA fellow, Vanini looks forward to the opportunity to engage and exchange of ideas with leaders from some of the world’s most significant presenting organizations, performing arts organizations, artist management agencies, cultural policy groups, foundations, consultants, and related professionals.

Click here for more information on the ISPA Congress 2012.

photo courtesy of Joavien Ng

This installation performance Is created in response to the artist, Vincent van Gogh and his work.
It is a playful attempt to align intentions and interpretations.
PLAY! is a collaborative effort of 5 artists:

Chan Sze Wei
Lee Yixyn Bernice
Ng Bong Na Joavien
Toh Yiling Patricia
Yak Aik Wee

PLAY! will guide the audiences to the imaginative world of Van Gogh. With the performance set in the rain-oculus, where an open flow of air, water and light naturally meet, the performers will create a Van Gogh sensation through this dance installation.

Note: The choreographer confirms that the audiences with not get wet.

For ticket enquiries, visit<http://www.marinabaysands.com/Singapore-Attractions/ArtScience-Museum/Activities/

Timensions by Linda Sim

Museum Rendezvous is a public forum, co-organised by Belarmino&Partners for the Marina Bay Sands ArtScience Museum. It aims to engage the audiences of the ArtScience Museum in a dialogue reflecting the crossings between art and science. Panelists comprise of professional curators and artists operating within the realm of the two disciplines. The second series will focus on the theme “Borders of Perception”.

Panelist:
Lise Macdonald is the Project Manager of the ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands. She serves as curator as well as the main coordinator in conceiving and mounting the exhibitions for the museum. She is currently working on a number of major exhibitions including Dali: Mind of a Genius – The Exhibition. Lise brings to Singapore, 13 years of museum industry experience from Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Prior to joining the ArtScience Museum, she worked for the National Art Gallery of Singapore for over two years. Lise worked at UNESCO in Paris for one of the organisation’s flagship projects – the creation of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization where she developed cultural and museum projects in the Arab Countries, covering countries like Egypt and Sudan. In addition to all these, Lise has produced and managed several publications. She has worked at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice and French Academy in Rome, Villa Medici. Lise read Art History and Museum Studies at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris, and holds an M.A in Philosophy of Arts from the Sorbonne University in Paris.

Lonce Wyse has a background in music and received his Ph.D. in Cognitive and Neural Systems from Boston University in 1994 with a dissertation on neural computation of hearing and pitch. He is currently an Associate Professor in Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore teaching in the areas of sound, interactive media, and the arts and is the Director of the Arts and Creativity Lab at the Interactive and Digital Media Institute. He coordinated the Artist-In-Residence program at NUS for the International Symposium on Electronic Arts in 2008, and has recently initiated a new Art/Science residency at the university. He serves on the editorial boards of the Computer Music Journal and Organized Sound. His is currently conducting research in communication, visualization, listening, and performance practices in sound and media.

Linda Sim is a Swedish-Austrian artist whose practice in fine art photography and installation focuses on psychological evolutionary thematics and contemporary physics. Her work is orientated around shaping audience-internal atmosphere and potential for perceptive immersion. She has exhibited internationally in numerous solo, collaborative and group exhibitions; framed by extensive travels and artist residencies. Concluded at her most recent residency at the NUS Centre for Quantum Technologies, the current video installation TIMENSIONS is an investigation the possibility of multiple parallel existences, giving interpretative analogies for quantum physics theories and string theory. Linda earned her BA in Media Arts from RMIT in Melbourne and is currently studying for her MA researching Scent Art at Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore.

Alice Miceli creates conceptual visualizations for extreme, often socio-political, issues, dealing with subjects such as time, memory and death. With an interest in the meanings inherent to media and the production of documentation, she seeks to re-signify facts and stories, creating a poetics that lies in the realm of the “unportrayable”, rethinking strategies of perception. Alice was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She graduated in 2001 from the Ecole Supérieure d´Etudes Cinématographiques, in Paris, and has since then created and exhibited projects widely, in venues such as TRANSITIO_MX festival, Mexico City, 2009; transmediale.09 festival, Berlin; Museum of Modern Art-Bahia, 2008; Sydney Film Festival, 2008; Place@Space exhibition, Hasselt, 2008; 2008 Images Festival, Toronto, among others. Alice developed the Chernobyl Project for a period of three years between Germany and Belarus, whereby she created a radiographic series of images of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, depicting the invisible radiation that contaminated the area since the Chernobyl disaster, 25 years ago, on April 26th, 1986.

© Masahiko Taniguchi

Kae Ishimoto will bring to life one of the subjects of Vincent Van Gogh’s famous painting “The Courtesan (after Eisen). “ The Japanese performer will present the Singapore-premiere of a solo-dance piece created for the visitors of the ArtScience Museum’s Van Gogh Alive. This butoh-contemporary performance, choreographed by Yukio Waguri, will journey between the crossing of cultures and times.

For ticket enquiries, visit http://www.marinabaysands.com/Singapore-Attractions/ArtScience-Museum/Activities/

Courtesy of Ballet Philippines

Ballet Philippines will present a series of dance sketches at the Marina Bay Sands ArtScience Museum on 3 September 2011, Saturday, 7:30 p.m. called Jamming with Dali. Choreographed by the company’s Artistic Director, Paul Morales, fifteen dancers will explore the museum space to gather the energy that converged over the 3-month Dali: Mind of a Genius exhibition. Dancers will explore the relationship between time and space through improvised movements and guide the audiences’ imagination.

To be used in the performance are original contemporary music compositions by Nilo Alcala, Shen Ye, Americ Goh and the late former Spanish Ambassador to Manila and ASEF Executive Director, Delfin Colome.

Jamming with Dali is conceived as part of a series of artistic crossings developed by Vanini Belarmino. This project is co-organised and produced by Belarmino&Partners for the ArtScience Museum.

Bogomir Doringer Ferrofluid Sculpture Research. Supported by the Fonds BKVB

Do you think that astrology can measure the compatibility between ART & SCIENCE? Perhaps chemistry has the better answer? You can opt to go to the fortune teller or the lab alone. But hey, you have the chance to go on a date with a bunch of exciting and passionate individuals who are keen to share their secret relations with art and science.

Join us at the ArtScience Museum for Museum Rendezvous: When Art met Science.

Panelists:
Jane Allan, Dean of Faculty for the Creative Industries, LASALLE College of the Arts
Denisa Kera, Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
Urich Lau, Visual Artist
Bogomir Doringer, Multi-media Artist

Moderator: Jade Maravillas, World Explorer/Photographer/Writer