What is TAGS?

The Articulate Gallery Series [TAGS]:
• a showcase of local artists' work, involving the performance, research and practice into text, storytelling, movement and visual installation.
• can be academically construed also as performance, research and practice through the spatial creation of its work and dialogue.

TAGS targets:
• fellow artists,
• art students,
• creative arts personnel in institutions or organisations e.g.schools, churches etc.

TAGS aims: to unlock the creativity of the arts within the newer segments of the local scene and to equip them by allowing for artistic discourse between them.

TAGS niche: creating an unrestrained dialogue between artists. Where performance is used as a discussion facilitator, introducing artistes to unconventional ways of art and expression. Allowing for the members of the arts community to present share and inspire in an informal and casual setting.

TAGS nature: is not unlike a seminar or roundtable. We don't present performances of finished products, merely a showcase of different works by different participating artists.

TAGS can be academically construed also as performance, research and practice through the spatial creation of its work and dialogue.

More about TAGS
TAGS provides artists with a space to collaborate in interdisciplinary work and experiment with new forms of performance via a two week ‘research jam’. The jam will nurture the TAGS space for performance, practice and research. Each jam will have a theme/ topic, some popular topics include general art, artist training techniques, interactive/forum theatre, aestheticism, semantics versus semiotics through the body etc.

TAGS aims to introduce bimonthly, artists from the different sectors of visual, performing and literary arts. By profiling, featuring and empowering these artists through a visible platform, TAGS hopes to bring the awareness and quality of artists and related audiences to an unprecedented level. Target audiences include fellow artists, creative and artistic directors, art students, theology students as well as the usual interested participants.

Bimonthly, for two weeks, artists who have been headhunted, or auditioned for TAGS would brainstorm on pulling an interdisciplinary performance through their mediums of work. The idea of the performance is to let the audience taste different and new forms of artistic expressions; introducing to the local arts community a regular space for dialogue, feedback and critiquing; and mobilizing various artists to be aware and to work with one another. All TAGS performances would have a brief introduction and a Q & A session after.

All TAGS performances will be shown at the The Third Place Café, Hope Center, 231 Outram Road, on Friday nights at 8pm. There is also a small budget set aside for each TAGS, kindly by The Hope Center.

Step by Step Illustration of how TAGS (usually) works:

The Theme. The Artistic Director will lay out a theme at least two months before the next TAGS performance.
The Team. The Artistic Director sources for possible contributors. He/she is responsible for coordinating the TAGS artists and crew.
The Jam. The TAGS artists will brainstorm over how they can seamless structure their works, most of which are still in progress, together under the theme. The jam will consists of late night talking cock, emailing, and rehearsing. The TAGS crew, on the other hand, will brainstorm over how to bring manipulate the limited resources of the café and juggle the demanding artists.
The Bump. The TAGS Crew is bestowed with only a day’s grace of setting up the space on Thursday.
The Tech Rehearsal. The TAGS artists and crew, working with the artistic director will meet to rehearse in the café either the Thursday before the show, or on the Friday evening.
The Performance. The TAGS artists showcase the resulting jam. The whole TAGS team gets to dialogue with the audience.
The Parting. The TAGS crew will immediately take down the set after the TAGS show.