Part online viewing room, exhibition and art and design multiples and editions gallery, Nicot & Tang, “the premier auction house for taste-makers seeking the most eclectic art and luxury objects” is presenting the 2068 mocktion of the collection of the EoS10^15.
New Book Release + Smoke Trails on view at 601Artspace ! →
Collaborative Survival Group Show at 601Artspace curated by Danni Shen
Collaborative Survival
Curated by Danni Shen
601Artspace, 88 Eldridge St
18 June - 14 August 2021
Jenny Brockmann
Beatrice Glow
Tahir Karmali
Goldie Poblador
Michael Wang
Please join us for the opening on Friday, June 18th, 2021, 6-8pm.
Curator’s Statement:
Collaborative Survival explores the environmental narratives and ecological relationships that often get overlooked in mainstream consciousness. From dystopian sci-fi films to green technocapitalism, what often trickles down from scientific research on climate change into popular culture are dire visions of Earth’s future. The proposed scientific designation of our present geological epoch as the Anthropocene, in which humans are capable of driving the planet on a universal death track toward extinction, fuels these cultural narratives. However scientifically valid the concept of the Anthropocene may be, such an unfathomable, monolithic framework offers little room for the nuances of human and non-human relationships. While human activities are indisputably over-extracting from the earth, there are other stories to be told amid the ruins.
The artists in this exhibition mine the complex connections between humans and the lifeworlds of plants, revealing social, historical, political, personal, and material histories in the process. By joining feminist, decolonial, and indigenous scholars in taking to task the Western framework that positions “human” and “nature” as distinct and oppositional categories, these artists critique the erasure of other ways of living in the world that are inherently environmentally conscious or sustainable. In Collaborative Survival, plants and humans are bound together through specific, complex, and reciprocal relationships defined by interconnected processes of survival and displays of resilience that complicate the Anthropocene narrative.
”Beatrice Glow interrogates the visual languages of luxury and power as they are derived through the exploitation of natural resources. Smoke Trails (2021) features the catalogue, objects, and virtual smoking room of a fictional private family collection in the near future. Named Empire of Smoke (EoS10^15), this mysterious quadrillionaire legacy has self-enriched through centuries investing in businesses related to airborne substances, from tobacco and gunpowder to vape culture and bioweapons. “
See more here: https://601artspace.org/Collaborative-Survival
Beatrice Glow and the Botanical Intimacies of Empire →
Very grateful to scholar and professor Hsuan L. Hsu for taking time to think with my work and pen the brilliant insights while contextualizing it within the broader “Asian American Art, Pasts and Futures” special issue of Panorama Journal! I nearly cried when I read the first draft!
PALA Exhibition at the Westfries Museum, Hoorn, Netherlands →
I am thrilled to be participating in this online exhibition PALA, meaning “nutmeg”, at the Westfries Museum in the Netherlands that takes a multi-vocal approach to telling the impactful story of the Banda Islands.
See the online exhibition here: https://pala.wfm.nl/echo/
OPEN STUDIOS | May 1-2, 2-6pm | Gillman Barracks
See the full press release here: https://www.yale-nus.edu.sg/newsroom/yale-nus-college-artist-in-residences-open-studio-and-podcast-series/
Download the pdf version here.
Oceans as Archives: Disrupting Imperial Geographies
Thrilled to be presenting my work as part of the “Disrupting Imperial Geographies” panel at the Oceans as Archives Symposium at the University of British Columbia on May 7.
Panel speakers:
May Joseph
Beatrice Glow
Kristie Flannery
Moderated by Rosana Carver
Learn more here https://www.oceansasarchives.org/work/brine-e7hw8-hral3-43ffs
Banda 1621-2021 International Roundtable Series →
The year 1621 marks a turning point in the colonial conquest of the Banda Islands in Indonesia, which accomplished a principal aim of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to establish a monopoly on the valuable spice trade in nutmeg and mace. On May 8th, it will be exactly 400 years ago that Jan Pieterszoon Coen ordered the execution of prominent Bandanese and subsequent raids which led to the depopulation of the archipelago. Subsequently, the VOC brought in enslaved people from various parts of Asia and East-Africa, including a small part of the previously expelled Bandanese. The Banda Islands served as a precedent for later Atlantic conquests of the Dutch West India Company (WIC), founded in the same year.
Aims of the International Roundtable Series:
To approach the historical events on the Banda Islands from various interdisciplinary academic, artistic, and international angles.
To make connections across national borders and disciplinary fields.
To address the violent actions in 1621 and assess the designation genocide.
To foster scholarly and artistic conversations in dialogue with the general public.
Aromatic Realities – a portrayal of narratives via multimedia and multisensory experiences by Artist-in-Residence Beatrice Glow
“I titled this talk Aromatic Realities to evoke what is often unseen, yet pervades our lives,” Ms Glow shared. “I also wanted to signal all the ‘AR’s in our lives. ‘AR’ is known as augmented reality technology, but what does it really mean to augment our realities? It’s not just a new technological experience, it’s also about expanding our senses,” she added, noting all the ‘ARs’ that she’s fascinated by including ‘Asian/Americas relations’ and ‘archives reimagined’.
Aromatic Realities, Yale-NUS Artist-in-Residence Public Lecture →
Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship Finalist Award
Thank you Jerome Foundation for the support!
Here is the full press release: https://www.jeromefdn.org/latest-jerome-hill-artist-fellowships-announced?utm_source=Jerome+Foundation+Program+Interest&utm_campaign=4da05c34a9-Jerome-Hill-Artist-Fellows-Announcement_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_85577d4a11-4da05c34a9-531955409
Artist Beatrice Glow joins Yale-NUS College Artist-in-Residence (AIR) programme
18 January 2021
Yale-NUS marks new partnership with NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, Glow to be featured in NTU’s Residencies OPEN
Yale-NUS AIR is supported by the Tan Chin Tuan Chinese Culture and Civilisation Programme
Multimedia artist Beatrice Glow has joined the Yale-NUS College Artist-in-Residence (AIR) programme and will be in residence from January to May 2021.
Grounded in community practice, Ms Glow’s multimedia and multi-sensory work explores circulations of objects, people and cultures. During her residency at Yale-NUS, Ms Glow will collaborate with students and community members on a research-creation project that delves into Chinese, Singaporean, and greater Southeast Asian visual and olfactory culture in relation to trade histories that continue to impact our present and environmental futures. She will trace the pathways in which Chinese decorative arts as well as migration flows have influenced global cultural productions. Proposed sites of investigation include the collections at the Asian Civilisations Museum, NUS Museum, NUS BABA House, and the famed William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings consisting of botanical watercolours by anonymous Chinese artists commissioned by William Farquhar at the dawn of Singapore’s colonial era under British rule.
In a new partnership with Nanyang Technological University Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA), artists in the Yale-NUS AIR programme will now pursue their creative works in a studio at Gillman Barracks and collaborate in upcoming programmes. Ms Glow will be Yale-NUS’s first artist-in-residence participating in NTU CCA’s Residencies OPEN held on 22 and 23 January 2021, as part of the Singapore Art Week.
Yale-NUS Instructor of Humanities (Documentary, Photojournalism and Visual Communication) and AIR Coordinator Tom White said, “The AIR programme embodies the networked, collaborative ethos at the heart of the liberal arts and sciences. This is something needed, now more than ever in these challenging times, when our engagement with art and its intersection with various disciplines consistently reminds us of the essential role art must play in our society. Furthermore, the new partnership with NTU CCA is an opportunity to strengthen the College’s connections with the arts community in Singapore, and enables us to contribute more widely to their efforts.”
At Yale-NUS, Ms Glow will also be teaching an art practice studio course titled Media Arts for Just Futures. Through art theory, practice and students’ own creative output, the course will teach students how to use art to engage actively and meaningfully with the existential crisis of climate change. This will be informed by what they have learned about climate change through the College’s interdisciplinary curriculum, including our Common Curriculum.
On her artwork, Ms Glow said, “I leverage interactive multimedia experiences, olfactory and sculptural installations, paintings and drawings, and participatory workshops as storytelling tools to shift dominant narratives and highlight human interconnectivity. Through my residency at Yale-NUS, I hope to further my collaborations with the vibrant communities in Southeast Asia and anchor my work within the histories of the spice trade while uncovering new contemporary relevance.”
Ms Glow is part of the Yale-NUS AIR programme, following inaugural artists Andrew S Yang and Christa Donner, and Singaporean artist Chen Sai Hua Kuan who were in residence in 2020. Ms Glow completed a BFA in Studio Art at New York University and has received awards from Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Artist-in-Residence at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Emerging Artist Fellow, and was a Fulbright Scholar for Performance Art. Her past works have referenced the forms and histories of decorative art objects that reveal colonialist histories such as porcelain and mantones de manila, embroidered Chinese silk shawls that became readapted as a Spanish traditional shawl.
As the first Artist-in-Residence programme positioned within a liberal arts and sciences college in Asia, the Yale-NUS AIR programme supports meaningful community engagements with artists to contribute towards nurturing a vibrant arts community in Singapore, hosting local and international artists engaging with a diverse artistic community within the College and beyond. Supported by the Tan Chin Tuan Foundation through the Tan Chin Tuan Chinese Culture and Civilisation Programme, residency artists each teach a course at the College and create new artworks that reflect upon Chinese culture and civilisation. The AIR programme will host additional artists each semester through 2022. Upcoming artists include those working in installation, theatre and photography.
Yale-NUS Dean of Faculty and Professor of Social Sciences (Public Health and Psychology) Jeannette Ickovics shared, “We are delighted to welcome Beatrice Glow to our College community, her work is beautiful and inspiring in its expression of multi-culturalism and use of multimedia. We also are grateful to the Tan Chin Tuan Foundation for their ongoing support.”
For past press releases, see “Yale-NUS College launches Artist-in-Residence programme” and “When going means staying.
For media enquiries, please contact publicaffairs@yale-nus.edu.sg.
Rector's Tea, January 21
January Newsletter: Residency Updates from Yale-NUS, Singapore →
Dear friends and colleagues,
I hope you are keeping well during these wild times. I’ve recently landed in Singapore as a visiting Artist-in-Residence at Yale-NUS College. I feel extremely grateful and lucky to be able to continue to travel and build new friendships in person. After spending Christmas and New Years in quarantine, I have been warmly welcomed into campus life, began teaching a Media Arts for Just Futures course, and set up shop in an enormous studio at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art at Gillman Barracks. This week, I will be participating in Singapore Art Week and will be introduced to larger college community through a Rector’s Tea event. Please find below the press release for my participation in the Yale-NUS College Artist-in-Residence Programme. I will be giving a public lecture in February that will be accessible online, so please stay tuned! Thank you for your continued support and sustained dialogues!
Warm wishes,
Beatrice
National Arts Coalition Against Censorship - Benefit Auction
I am proud to be part of this auction to benefit the National Coalition Against Censorship. Bidding has begun and culminates on Nov. 13! The artist list is stellar with 130 generously donated works. Many of the artists are my art heroes and cherished art comrades ;-) Thank you to Kathy Brew for curating this project!
The piece that I am offering is "Banda Island Archipelago (Nutmegs and Cloves)" (2016) from my Spice Routes/Roots Series. It is a 24 x 24 in. digital print on silk and is part of my multiyear research-creation where, through the social history of plants, I bring forth histories of dispossession and enslavement that continue to impact our present environmental injustices.
See more here: http://vugalleries.com/product/beatrice-glow/
Fall 2020 Updates: Open House NY, Yale-NUS Residency, and MassArt Lecture →
Dear friends and colleagues,
I hope you and your loved ones are healthy and safe as we head into Indigenous Peoples' Weekend. Thanks to many of you, HEAL-IN raised $250 for the Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm. Quoting Clan Mother Michaeline Picaro Mann (Turtle Clan, Munsee Ramapough Lunaape Nation), "Each drop in the bucket is a full pail of water and the support is appreciated." We are grateful!
I am excited to share that I have been appointed the Spring 2021 Artist-in-Residence at Yale-NUS College. I am looking forward to creating, connecting, and teaching in Singapore!
Please join me for these upcoming events:
October 17-18: Along with my LMCC Workspace cohort of artists-in-residence, we will be having virtual studio visits as part of Open House New York. I will be participating in the Oct 18, 12pm session. Despite the pandemic, we have continued to stay creative and deepen our camaraderie. I edited the video below as an homage to cherished artist friends.
November 17: I will be sharing my practice as part of MassArt's Climate Change and Contemporary Art lecture series.
Additional details are below. I am grateful for your ongoing support that keeps the creative embers alive!
Warmest wishes,
Beatrice
Virtual Studio Visits with LMCC Workspace Artists-in-Residence →
Virtual Studio Visits with LMCC Workspace Artists-in-Residence
Part 1 : Saturday, October 17th, 12pm EST
Theme: architecture, systems of power, public art, form/body in space, psychospace
Zaq Landsberg
Zac Hacmon
Naomi Safran Hon
Sydney Shen
Christine Wong Yap
Part 2: Sunday, October 18th, 12pm EST
Theme: colonialism, identity, performance, mythologies, shifting narratives and histories, place, healing
Amy Lee Sanford
Sara Jimenez
Beatrice Glow
Gabriel Garcia Roman
Kevin Quiles Bonilla
Join LMCC for virtually-reimagined studio visits with 2019–2020 Workspace Artists-in-Residence. During the OHNY weekend, LMCC will host two live sessions, each featuring five members of the current cohort. During these sessions, the artists will each present their work, conduct fireside-style chats with one another, and answer questions from the live audience.
The 10 participating artists work across a number of different mediums including drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and performance, each examining new ways to express and refine their practice in unique and diverse ways. While never grouped within Workspace by theme, their shared experience as part of the residency program has provided a generative space of discussion around shared topics of interests, as well as an equally important place to build a network of support with and for one another. In an effort to directly share the collective knowledge and connection fostered during their time together, during the two LMCC OHNY sessions, the artists will be in unmediated conversation with one another, so as to provide the viewer with an intimate and direct understanding of each artists work individually, as well as touch on the nuances that link their work and practices in more overarching ways.
LMCC’s flagship program, Workspace is a nine-month studio residency based in Lower Manhattan that focuses on creative practice development for emerging artists. Workspace offers space for experimentation and dialogue with peers and arts professionals, as well as career-advancement opportunities.
MassArt Climate Change and Contemporary Art Lecture Series Nov. 17, 2020
HEAL-IN — A Multisensory Experience + 9.2.2020 Online Event
Artist Talk "Searching for Inclusive Futures in the Capitalocene" at Apexart as part of Meteorological Mobilities
Link: https://apexart.org/tsionkilecture.php