ARTISTS
Charmaine Poh (SG)
(b.1990) works across photography, film, and performance to create spaces for narratives in the margins. Central to her practice is considering the performativity of the everyday, the body, digitalselves, and the use of tenderness as resistance and repair. Her practice often employs ethnographic methods in working with communities to establish processes of co-authorship and sharing. Her work has been supported by the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, the Singapore International
Photography Festival, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, The Taipei Arts Festival,The International Center of Photography, Photoville, WeTransfer, Channel News Asia, i-D, The NewYork Times, and Adobe. In 2019, she was recognised as one of Forbes Asia 30 under 30 - The Arts.
Soultari Amin Farid (SG)
Amin Farid Soultari (b,1986) is a choreographer, arts educator and researcher. He is the co-founder/Joint-Artistic Director of Bhumi Collective, multidisciplinary performing arts company. In addition, he is also the co-founder and current president of a 20 year-old Malay dance organisation, DIAN Dancers. He is currently finishing his Ph.D candidacy with Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
Amin's artistic endeavour involves practice-based research as choreographic methodology to investigate Malay dance as a practice of potentialities. He uses different elements of the form to create critical works and to ask questions about complex issues pertaining to minority representations and the liminality of identities.Amin’s experience as a practitioner-scholar has gained him international recognition and awards namely the India-ASEAN Youth Award (2018); Singapore Youth Award (SYA) (2017); and the Goh Chok Tong Youth Promise Award (2017).
