Melantun Records was an artwork installed at a vacant unit of a Singapore shopping centre in 2017. Set up to look and feel like a record shop, the artwork allowed the audience to enter a place where the past, present and future of underground music culture in Singapore seemed to converge, through displays of historically…
Peninsula Malaysia is not Malaysia in its entirety. The peninsula stretching from the southern part of Thailand and located in the north of Singapore, has ironically constructed the mainstream historical narrative of Malaysia. Here is a story that begins with exile. A tune or a song being heard while in exile had then become a…
Hito Steyerl’s work Liquidity Inc. is a video installation presented in a site-specific architectural setting conceived by the artist — a curved ramp with blue judo mats and beanbags for seating. The 30-minute-long video is a montage of filmed footage, computer animation and moving images found online. Its story combines documentary and fiction. The film…
If there is a place I haven’t been to is a multifaceted installation emerging from Yu-Chen Wang’s personal archives and materials collected from artist residencies and field research over the past decade. With a particular focus on exploring the artist’s relationship with these places and associated individuals, the documentations are recontextualized and integrated with fictional…
Drumming is one of the oldest forms of music, one that can be seen all across cultures from shamanic rituals to signaling devices in warfares. The act of hitting objects to make sounds is also one of the most fundamental and earliest ways of how humans understand the world around them. In Structure Study VI,…