{"product_id":"now-again-exquisite-corpse-issue-03","title":"Now \u0026 Again: Exquisite Corpse (Issue 03)","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/files\/N_A_Exquisite_Corpse_Preview_2-compressed.pdf?v=1759254894\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLook inside the magazine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition of \u003cem\u003eNow \u0026amp; Again\u003c\/em\u003e adopts the approach of the \u003cem\u003eExquisite Corpse\u003c\/em\u003e, a collaborative art exercise in which drawings are assembled in sequence to form a complete composition. Each piece in the issue was created in response to the work before it, thus exploring how ideas flow through individual creative processes, and documenting how a single point of inspiration can lead to many other perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNow \u0026amp; Again\u003c\/em\u003e is a celebration of new ideas - the sudden outburst of inspiration that comes from the least likely of places. It's a platform for collaboration, creative discussion and pushing the boundaries of what we know. Using \u003cem\u003eNow \u0026amp; Again\u003c\/em\u003e as a sort of sketchbook, each edition reflects on the many ways of interpreting a simple theme through a mix of individual projects and collaborations, reflecting our diverse personal perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAdriena Fong \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdriena is an illustrator recently graduated\/evacuated from university. After leaving the UK to move back to Singapore, she is currently finding herself floating between multiple places and concepts of ‘home’, never really settling on any particular headspace. She specialises in narratives for a young audience, in which she also tries to reconcile her own sentimentality and nostalgia for a simpler time. She loves working with both digital and traditional media, mixing gouache, colour pencils and textured Photoshop brushes. Her other interests include animation, video games and reality TV shows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlexandra Cheung \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo Alexandra, time passes in strange ways. As an English Literature undergraduate, she spends most of her time sieving through books. Her time is always shaped by the ever-shifting temporal and spatial zones of narrative spaces. She absolutely adores contemporary writers like Ali Smith and Jeanette Winterson because of their self-reflexive narrators. Currently, she’s doing research on contemporary writing in the context of aesthetic analysis. In particular, on ekphrasis, beauty and form. She thinks about what beauty is and how we come to recognize it, such that with certain relations to forms, our aesthetic emotions are stirred.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnnice Lim \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnnice considers herself as an aspiring writer, currently devoted to dabbling in various literary mediums from poetry to screenwriting, with a rule never to write about personal histories (she breaks this rule constantly). Call it contemplation or broodiness, but her undivided attention in ruminating on her sensibilities stems from the desire to chase away the clouds of incomprehension and unknowingness. Her recent projects reveal her fixation with certain failures in our contemporary condition, that is, disconnect between people and within the self. When her eyes are not glued to paper or screen, her body receives pain and pleasure from her former lover, dance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBenita Leong \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased in Singapore and Toronto, Benita is a photographer and videographer whose art practice spotlights the gap between reality and popular representations. Mediating through the effects of this gap on our sense of self and communal identification in repurposing the mundane, soft dreamscapes are fashioned as uncannily reminiscent, though frustratingly only a simulacrum of our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoell Ang \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoell is an illustrator and graphic designer that loves drawing bold shapes and silly faces. He is greatly influenced by video games, old cartoons and pattern-making. Currently, his illustration work attempts to contrast the discomfort of dark imagery with the use of whimsical cartoons. In his free time, Joell enjoys pondering about existential crises and doodles as a coping mechanism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKhairullah Rahim \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKhairullah is a multimedia artist working across painting, assemblage, video and photography. His practice is concerned with the stories and experiences of marginalised communities whose identities do not subscribe within societal normativity. Incorporating everyday and found objects from spaces in which these specific communities inhabit, his works allude to the veiled and lived experiences of his varied subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKimberly Kiong \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKimberly is a Singapore-based visual artist, using photography as her primary medium. Her practice revolves around tactile processes that anchor her introspections to her physical reality. This is often done by manipulating images as a means of mark-making her explorations in materialising the visceral. She tends to explore emotional and intimate narratives that often go dismissed or overlooked at family dinner tables. Aside from working on the visual side of projects, she co-runs an art platform – Our Softest Hour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCally Tan \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCally likes to consider herself a maker, not an artist. Currently based in Tokyo studying Textile Design, she tends to make things on impulse and out of sheer curiosity. She also has an inclination to analyse human relationships and reflect on the ones that she has formed on her own. As such, her creations often revolve around the theme of relationships — the 'individual' and how we position ourselves in the bigger sphere called 'society'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLi Jia Cheng \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJia Cheng is an artist who is currently studying at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. The primary medium he works with is wood, but recently he has been experimenting with painting. He looks at themes that question the mundane — the beauty of things that are immediate to us, and reorientating their perceived mundane nature by creating something visually interesting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEthan Sim \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEthan currently studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He works with both traditional and new media — creating comics, prints and paintings that evoke artificial histories and enigmatic worlds that are uncanny, yet familiar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Now \u0026 Again","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51275453858089,"sku":"2630-5186","price":30.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/files\/N_AECCoverCompressed.jpg?v=1759254695","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/now-again-exquisite-corpse-issue-03","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}