M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2017: Art and Skin

M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2017 – Art and Skin: Call for Applications
Deadline: 04 Mar 2016
Time of festival: 04 – 15 Jan 2017

From the open call:

The M1 Singapore Fringe Festival is an annual festival of theatre, dance, music, visual arts and mixed media created and presented by Singaporean and international artists. Themed differently each year, the Festival aims to bring the best of contemporary, cutting-edge and socially-engaged works to the Singapore audience.

The theme for M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2017 is Art and Skin. We are looking for works in all disciplines that will fall within that theme.

We accept applications from professional Singapore and international artists / companies.

Excerpts from Curatorial Brief by Sean Tobin – Artistic Director of the Festival:

The largest organ of the human’s body is the skin. A vessel for protection, identification, attraction and stimulation.

It sweats, stretches, tears, heals and scars. It defends, dies, shreds and regenerates. It crawls and tingles, calluses and ruptures.

The skin is a landscape, a playground, a minefield, a map, a text, a canvas. Some of us recoil in naked shame, and others strip and strut with exhibitive celebration.

To toughen up is to grow thick skin. To get under someone’s skin is to know them more intimately. Touch can be abusive, but it can also be healing and even boost our body’s immunity.

Animals, fruit, cigarettes and mobile phones have skins too. Who among us isn’t wearing, housing or carrying an animal skin of one sort or another?

Art and Skin.
4 – 15 January 2017.
Get involved.

For more information and application form please visit the organizer’s website.

*NOTE: Hanoi Grapevine merely announces the open calls and cannot help in the application process. For further inquiries, please direct to the organizers.