Chris Chong Chan Fui
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Title
Chris Chong Chan Fui
Description
During the residency Chong will develop The Economy of Birds (and Maximum Standard of Living), a research-based project that looks at how contemporary societies in Southeast Asia determine the minimum standard of living. The artist investigates the notion of “human dwelling” through a comparison between the human and the animal world by drawing a parallel between the practice of farming swiftlet birdhouses for sale and consumption and the typology of the metropolitan apartment block. In the artist’s vision, a comparative analysis of airflows, relative humidity, air temperature distribution, and light intensity that characterize the farming of edible bird’s nests and the technical requirements that make a human dwelling comfortable and efficient, is instrumental to rethink the guidelines for socially acceptable living environments as well as their implications in terms of economics and human rights.
Date
6 March – 28 April 2017
Contributor
Coverage
Residency Item Type Metadata
Short Description
The artist investigates the notion of “human dwelling” through a comparison between the human and the animal world by drawing a parallel between the practice of farming swiftlet birdhouses for sale and consumption and the typology of the metropolitan apartment block.
Cycle
Location
Onsite (CCA)
Collaboration
No
Commissioned Work
No
Files
Collection
Citation
“Chris Chong Chan Fui,” NTU CCA Singapore Digital Archive, accessed April 25, 2024, https://ntuccasingapore.omeka.net/items/show/1247.
Item Relations
| This Item | Is Part Of | Item: The Making of an Institution — Artistic Research. Talk by Chris Chong Chan Fui (Malaysia), Artist-in-Residence |
| This Item | Is Part Of | Item: Residencies OPEN on the occasion of the Singapore Art Book Fair 2017 |
| Item: Chris Chong Chan Fui | References | This Item |