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Tan’s current research is the notion of touch as an indexical and invocative gesture. Inherent in the materiality of the fabric as a substrate to receive and retain traces is a certain resistance, which provides a counter- movement that simultaneously works along and against gestures of painterly touch. The final compositions are an interplay between design and chance which re(as)sembles traces and modes of Modernist abstraction while hinting at folds of the corporeal. Parallel to the paintings is a series of text-based videos that investigate the possibility of language to suspend the imaginary space between touching and not touching, speech and non-speech. Staging scenes between the haptic and the haunted, these works play with the conventions of reading and listening where voices register tones of intimacy and ambivalence in equal measures.]]>
Guo-Liang Tan]]> Tan Guo-Liang]]> Drawing]]> Painting]]> Southeast Asia]]>
History]]> Beyond Geography (2012) he looks at the National Geographic style of the anthropological but with the caricature of the natives and anthropologist played by the same race. Li has also looked at the idea of re using elements from projects and what it means to re contextualising work to comment on the circulation of cultures bringing to attention forms of mis/communication. For his research, Li will work closely with Singapore Management University faculty Rowan Wang to understand the dissemination of protestant ideals in Singapore, not only through the lens of theology, but as a form of ideological management. Li will build an open platform, re purposing works and structures from past work, incorportated into an interviewing structure.]]> Li Ran]]> Painting]]> Performance]]> Asia]]> Southeast Asia]]> Transnationalism]]> Mary Sherman]]> Painting]]> Sound]]> History]]> Materiality]]> Mr Tailor had a dream last night: a soft-sculpture installation made of raw linen fabrics that recreates a small tailor shop, a space for craftsmanship that is still common in Myanmar but fast-dwindling in Singapore. Addressing the alienation of the consumer from the garment-maker and the resilience of this kind of handicraft in the face of today’s industrial mass production, the artist intends to engage with local taylors and with the tools of the trade in order to create a new sculptural piece.]]> Min Thein Sung]]> Sculpture]]> Painting]]> Southeast Asia]]> History]]> Politics]]> Labour]]> Mona Vătămanu]]> Florin Tudor]]> Mona Vatamanu]]> Film]]> Painting]]> Europe]]> Southeast Asia]]> Materiality]]> ]]> Richard Streitmatter-Tran]]> Drawing]]> Painting]]> Performance]]> Southeast Asia]]> Tradition]]> Knowledge Production]]> Fiction]]> Saleh Husein]]> Object]]> Painting]]> Southeast Asia]]> Politics]]> siren eun young jung]]> Installation]]> Painting]]> Asia]]> Artistic Research]]> The Emotion. The 10-minute video installation, produced using locally sourced clay, is an experiment in time and texture. The work is part of the artist’s ongoing investigation into alternative forms of artistic creation, which inform his practice as an artist and educator and are especially significant in Laos, a country where visual art is focused mostly on painting.]]> Souliya Phoumivong]]> Curating]]> Painting]]> Southeast Asia]]> Ways of Seeing]]> The World of Suzie Wong (1960) to contemporary East Asian dramas. The fabrication of feelings and the normalization of romance in the mass media is the subject of a series of works which, through subtle gestures of over-layering, inscription, and re-imagining, reflect on the universal currency of romantic clichés, the subtle traps of translation, and the entanglement of desire and exoticism in the representation of the “East.”]]> Susie Wong]]> Installation]]> Painting]]> Southeast Asia]]>