the saddest place on earth by mimipong @ booksactually, singapore (dec 12)
Local design collective Mimipong will showcase their Hug Your Sorrow plush toys in a month-long exhibition: titled The Saddest Place on Earth - with an opening / launch party on December 12th (8pm) @ BooksActually, 5 Ang Siang Road, Singapore (exhibits thru Jan 12th 2009).
The Saddest Place on Earth is a collaborative effort between Mimipong’s successful line of tear dolls together with international and local creative professionals. The writers – selected from a diverse range of backgrounds – were invited to pen their unique interpretations of sadness on the dolls’ cloth tags [DETAILS].
Hug Your Sorrow tear dolls are a conceptual plush creation of Mimipong, an outfit consisting of Ms Mimi and Mr Pong. Featuring an assortment of embroidered features, each tear plush allows the user to jot down his or her most intimate miseries on an embroidered tag before giving the doll a big hug of comfort. These plush tears, fulfilling the basic function of plush toy as comfort objects in moments of despair, are a winning entry in Next Big Thing 2008, Fred Flare’s annual design competition. They are currently sold across the United States by Kidrobot.
The exhibition runs from 12 December 2008 to 12 January 2009 at BooksActually, 5 Ang Siang Road, and is open to all art and plush enthusiasts. On sale at the exhibition will be Hug Your Sorrow tear dolls and limited edition box sets containing both a replica of an exhibited doll and a hand-stitched book.
Among the international luminaries participating in The Saddest Place on Earth are Swedish singer-songwriters Jens Lekman and Pelle Carlberg, senior writer of Frankie magazine Mia Timpano, critically acclaimed UK indie songstress Laura Marling and Hong Kong-based toy designer of popular Treeson vinyl figures Bubi Auyong. On the homegrown front, the exhibition features April Lee of ambient duo aspidistrafly, award-winning poet Cyril Wong, prolific filmmaker Wee Li Lin, singer-songwriter and frontman of The Observatory Leslie Low and Singapore Literature Prize nominee Ng Yi-Sheng.
Bubi Auyeung (Hong Kong)
Pelle Carlsberg (Sweden)
Janet Chui (Singapore)
Rwitobrato Datta (India)
Mike Foo (Singapore)
April Lee (Singapore)
Jens Lekman (Sweden)
Leslie Low (Singapore)
Jason Lundberg (Singapore)
Roxy Marj (USA)
Laura Marling (UK)
Joe Ng (Singapore)
Ng Yi-Sheng (Singapore)
Ellery Ngiam (Singapore)
Shannon Ong (Singapore)
Poppy Pachinko (Singapore)
Amy Tsilemanis (Australia)
Mia Timpano (Australia)
Jeremy Warmsley (UK)
Wee Li Lin (Singapore)
Cyril Wong (Singapore)
Joe Ng and Jon Fong (of Karl Maka) have kindly complied a CD each of "sad tunes" for the launch.
The Saddest Place on Earth is a collaborative effort between Mimipong’s successful line of tear dolls together with international and local creative professionals. The writers – selected from a diverse range of backgrounds – were invited to pen their unique interpretations of sadness on the dolls’ cloth tags [DETAILS].Hug Your Sorrow tear dolls are a conceptual plush creation of Mimipong, an outfit consisting of Ms Mimi and Mr Pong. Featuring an assortment of embroidered features, each tear plush allows the user to jot down his or her most intimate miseries on an embroidered tag before giving the doll a big hug of comfort. These plush tears, fulfilling the basic function of plush toy as comfort objects in moments of despair, are a winning entry in Next Big Thing 2008, Fred Flare’s annual design competition. They are currently sold across the United States by Kidrobot.
The exhibition runs from 12 December 2008 to 12 January 2009 at BooksActually, 5 Ang Siang Road, and is open to all art and plush enthusiasts. On sale at the exhibition will be Hug Your Sorrow tear dolls and limited edition box sets containing both a replica of an exhibited doll and a hand-stitched book.
Among the international luminaries participating in The Saddest Place on Earth are Swedish singer-songwriters Jens Lekman and Pelle Carlberg, senior writer of Frankie magazine Mia Timpano, critically acclaimed UK indie songstress Laura Marling and Hong Kong-based toy designer of popular Treeson vinyl figures Bubi Auyong. On the homegrown front, the exhibition features April Lee of ambient duo aspidistrafly, award-winning poet Cyril Wong, prolific filmmaker Wee Li Lin, singer-songwriter and frontman of The Observatory Leslie Low and Singapore Literature Prize nominee Ng Yi-Sheng.
Bubi Auyeung (Hong Kong)
Pelle Carlsberg (Sweden)
Janet Chui (Singapore)
Rwitobrato Datta (India)
Mike Foo (Singapore)
April Lee (Singapore)
Jens Lekman (Sweden)
Leslie Low (Singapore)
Jason Lundberg (Singapore)
Roxy Marj (USA)
Laura Marling (UK)
Joe Ng (Singapore)
Ng Yi-Sheng (Singapore)
Ellery Ngiam (Singapore)
Shannon Ong (Singapore)
Poppy Pachinko (Singapore)
Amy Tsilemanis (Australia)
Mia Timpano (Australia)
Jeremy Warmsley (UK)
Wee Li Lin (Singapore)
Cyril Wong (Singapore)
Joe Ng and Jon Fong (of Karl Maka) have kindly complied a CD each of "sad tunes" for the launch.
