CARE Forum Series Registration - The Arts and Special Education: Redirecting Personal Narratives through Art making (Unseen: Constellations)
The Arts and Special Education: Redirecting Personal Narratives through Art making (Unseen: Constellations)
By Alecia Neo
Date: 25 Feb 2016, Thursday
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Venue: Open Stage, Library@Esplanade
8 Raffles Avenue, #03-01, Singapore 039802
The Arts and Special Education is a series of forums that aim to discuss and investigate teaching methods and strategies in Arts Special Education; this includes but not limited to special needs and the gifted. Each forum will feature artists or practitioners from various disciplines of arts to share their works and experiences in Special Education.
In the second session of this series, our speaker, Alecia Neo, will share about the "Unseen: Constellations" project, an on-going long-term art project that provides a platform for seven youths living with visual-impairment (VI) to explore self-identity and their future selves through a creative process led by the artist and her collaborators. The artist will share the process of developing the project and the challenges in reshaping internal narratives and creating collaborative projects.
About the speaker:
Alecia has been developing projects centering on sight-impaired communities since 2013. Working together with project participants and collaborators, they explore how meaning and narratives are translated in the absence of sight. She is also an Artist Lead with Brack, a trans-border arts platform for socially engaged artists.
Alecia’s debuted in 2011 with a site-specific project at the residence of the late Dr Nalla Tan. She has since been active in group exhibitions including Sensorium 360 (2014, Singapore Art Museum) and Art & Faith (2012, M1 Fringe Festival, Singapore). In 2012, she spent four months in artist residency with Cittadelarte-Fondazione Pistoletto’s UNIDEE programme (Biella, Italy).