BEDLAM
GET YOUR HEAD SHOT
HAMMOCKS
URBAN LINES
A performance-installation of hammocks exploring liminal spaces and nomadic lifestyles. Can one truly be relaxed in a hammock if constantly fearful of being caught for building a home anywhere?
A series of line experiments and exercises made using specific alternative methodologies based on linear investigations of urban spaces in Singapore.
A collection of headshots of Yale-NUS College students photographed by myself after short interviews with each subject. These were exhibited twice: first as a large-scale installation in a Residential College Hall in National University Singapore and second as a site-specific video projection.
A performance piece commenting on the illegalism of homelessness in Singapore.
A series of oil paintings I made over a year under the instruction of pioneer Singaporean artist Lai Kui Fang.
OIL PAINTINGS
Singapore is an urban city that lays claim to being clean and green, yet, the latter definition is hardly realized due to space constraints. Rest in Peace is a life-sized portable grass bed that was situated in an urban public thoroughfare, inviting local Singaporeans to enjoy what has been absent in an urban setting, consider the ephemeral and confront notions of mortality. Audience members were encouraged to record their experiences by writing on the bed, which also made its way onto a local forum website STomp, demonstrating its impact on both Singaporeans and foreigners alike. Unfortunately, it had to be taken down after a year, and its demise saw a performance held in the fashion of a funeral procession, except with lots of fun and laughter.
REST IN PEACE
installation
2011
Grass, wood, soil
200 x 70 x 20 cm
Suspended at an angle that demonstrates the peak of happiness in a swing’s oscillation, Mood Swing reveals an utopian vision of desirable happiness that allows for joy and hope. However, a sense of unattainability and futility also surfaces in its portraiture, where its stagnation at a climax tempts a breakdown, revealing my own frustrations at not being able to install a functional swing for audience enjoyment within institutional confines.
MOOD SWING
site-specific installation
2012
Wood, Manila rope, nylon
Dimensions Variable
MILESTONES
audio-walk experience and installation
2017
Shibori, Clouds, Personal Items
20'30"
Milestones is an audio-guided journey up a stairwell, reflecting on life and death, and what it means to walk alongside someone struggling with difficult suicidal thoughts - the experience of compassion fatigue. Note: This is the video documentation of the piece, and does not represent the piece in its entirety.
TANDEM
movement piece
2016
Performed by Janel Ang and Mei-Mei Tan
Music by Jevon Chandra
A movement piece devised after Lee Krasner's painting, Crisis Moment (1972-80).
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
interactive digital interface
2017
Arduino, Projection, Sensors
Dimensions variable
For your eyes only is an audience participatory piece made by Jevon Chandra, Sherlyn Goh and Janel Ang, which invites people to experience a shared consciousness of sending and receiving thoughts, highlight the problems in digital intimacy.
The installation is split into 2 parts, one an input site where participants are invited to complete the sentence“I wish I could”, and the other an output site where these messages are projected. The messages distort as the number of people in the space increase, evading recognition. The privileged viewer who is able to obtain these messages would be someone who comes to the site in private, without the company of others. ​