Education
2005 Masters In Fine Art (MFA) student, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan, on a scholarship from the Japanese Chambers of Commerce & Industry (JCCI).
1998 Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK. As the first Shell-National Arts Council Art Scholar. Top student of the year every year, with Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art, 1st Class Honours.
1996 Exchange student at School of Art Institute of Chicago, USA.
1993 Art Elective Programme, National Junior College, Singapore.
Selected Exhibitions / Activities
Cities. To speak at the AVICON 2003 (Asia Video Art Conference) organised by Video Center as well as to conduct a workshop for participating artists. Premiering a new live collaboration with Butoh dancer and musicians. Tokyo, Japan, 2003.
Windy Small Heart Attacks, a new work performed with live video mixing in a live collaboration with renowned concert pianist Keiko Sato on piano, Christophe Charles on computer, hearing-impaired Mr Yonoiyama with body, Visual Music for the Deaf, Sony Building, Tokyo, Japan, 2003.
Dying For…, a new collaboration with Christophe Charles, also a performance of a new 40-minute work at an Art & Environment Symposium in Iwaki, 2003.
Invited to perform live: PRE-TEXTS, with live audio mix (by Christophe Charles) video at the Tokyo Designers Week. Tokyo, Japan, 2003.
Open 2003, 6th International Exhibition of Sculpture and Installations with FEELING SO WHAT (CONTRADICTORY IN TERMS), Venice, 2003. http://www.artbox.gr/open_2003.htm
One of 4 artists selected to participate (erected 2 installations) in the bi-annual President’s Young Talents Exhibition at the Singapore Art Museum (SAM), Singapore, 2003. http://www.theartsmagazine.com.sg/current/reviewart2.html
Sonic Process, a ‘mixer’ in a European-Asian collaborative exhibition held at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, 2002.
September 6 & 13: Talks & screening of Chlorine Addiction, “Yamagata in Tokyo” Festival, POST-FICTION!, Box Higashi Nakano, Tokyo; Chlorine Addiction tours “Yamagata in Kansai” Festivals in Osaka & Kyoto. Japan, 2002.
Speaker in a round table discussion on Asian documentary in POST-FICTION!, Box Higashi Nakano, Tokyo. New Work, TOKYO TREMOUR TRIPLET, premiered to enthusiastic response. Japan, 2002.
Talk and Screening of Chlorine Addiction, Parthenon Tama Asian Documentary Festival, Tama Center Cultural Complex, Tokyo, Japan, 2002.
Installation MOBILITY at Site & Sight, as part of the Singapore Arts Festival, Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore, 2002.
60s Now!, an exhibition at the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) in conjunction with the Heritage Festival. 3 new works commissioned including a ‘wall collage-installation’. Singapore, 2002.
I Am Fit For Life, a 4-projection video installation as part of the Nokia Singapore Arts 2001, Singapore Art Museum (SAM), Singapore, 2001.
Premiering SPRING.BEAUTY.LOVE., a 3-projection video installation. One of 4 artists in Shot In The Face, Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore, 2001.
Chlorine Addiction competes at Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival’s New Asian Currents, Japan, 2001. http://www.city.yamagata.yamagata.jp/yidff/2001/cat043/01c068-e.html
Open Singapore Arts Festival 2001 with Ivan Heng’s production of Ovidia Yu’s Woman On A Tree In A Hill as visual / video artist, with Korea’s Gong Myong percussion band and others. Jubilee Hall, Singapore, 2001. Click link here.
A Blue & A Yellow Movie, a segment from Chlorine Addiction, is screened at the Transmediale.01, an international media art festival in Berlin, Germany, 2001.
A showcase of international new media works organised by A Prior, the artist has several works exhibited at Video Take in Brussels, Belgium, 2000.
D E N S E, a joint video exhibition at The Alliance Française de Singapour, Singapore, 2000. Premiered Chlorine Addiction, the 1st video-art exhibition with an interactive DVD! Thereafter the work was to be shown in several parts of the world including the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan in media festivals, film festivals and galleries.
PARDON MY FRENCH, a solo exhibition of works at The Alliance Française de Singapour, Singapore, 1999.
Slade School Summer Degree Show. 5 sets of works exhibited: Trilogy of ‘visual essays’ (47minutes), 4 audio pieces as installations, a 23-page satirical questionnaire with 400 questions regarding the politics of the ‘art world’ and an installation of large hypertextual website & online videoworks. UK, 1998.
Short structuralist-ic film Brookfield Zoo screened during the British Short Film Festival at the Empire Leceister Square, UK, 1997.
Awards
Purchase of copies of 5 video tapes: ALL CHANGE!!!, High Resolution, Low Resolution, Alien Nation and Vertigo, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan, 2000.
42nd San Francisco International Film Festival Golden Gate Awards: New Visions category: Certificate of Merit (3rd prize) for ALL CHANGE!!!, USA, 1999.
Winner in the 8th Panasonic Video Awards with stop-motion animation, The Creation, Singapore, 1994.
The Most Promising Young Artist Award, United Overseas Bank (UOB) 12th Painting of the Year Art Competition with mixed-media painting Sams, Singapore, 1993.
Certificate of Distinction with water-colour painting Nirvana II, Phillipe Charriol Contemporary Art Competition 1992/1993, Singapore, 1993.
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About the artist / Artist's Statement
WHY SWIM BUT WHY NOT? WHY MAKE ART BUT WHY NOT?
(SINCE DARLING, THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENCE!)
I Am A Sinker Not A Do-er /Making Work That Is Sincere In Its Total Pretentiousness & Suffers No Delusion About Its Worthlessness & Banality/Cycles of Lives, Deaths, Doing It All Over Again-s/Meaning; Lessness, Meaninglessness/Critical Distances, Campyness & Iron-Knee/ The Refusal To Tie Up Loose Ends; The Absurdity of it All!/Could Do This Could Do That Had Lived In A Certain Way Could Just As Well Lived In Other Ways Had Done This Hadn’t Done That. So What./Language Lies & The Search for Meaning & Spurious Remedies For Fake Pre Occupations/Compulsive Interrogation, Self-Reflexivity & Self Mockery/No Criterias, In Inverted Commas & Italics, & Always Pending/And There Is Absolutely Nothing One Cannot Live With (Or Without).