Residencies Insights: Dictation with artist Weixin Chong
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Residencies Insights: Dictation with artist Weixin Chong
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7 Nov 2015, Sat 6:00pm - 7:30pm Studio #01-07, Block 38 Malan Road
During her residency, Singapore artist Weixin Chong is exploring perspectives and portrayals of tropicality in a Singaporean context, from projections of exoticism and escape to the post-colonial self-conscious gaze of the tropical being, to how the natural growth of wildlife represents ‘undevelopment’.
For her current project, Chong is calling for participants to take part in a dictation event within the Gillman Barracks “jungle”. Chong will read aloud a text in which participants will be asked to transcribe from her dictation. These texts will be translated by the artist into an artwork. After the dictation, guests are invited to a read in the artist’s studio.
Weixin Chong graduated from the Royal College of Art, London with a MA Fine Art, Printmaking. In 2015, Chong was an Artist-in-Residence at Laboratori Artistici Nicoli and Studio Fitz-Carrara, Cararra, Italy. She has exhibited in START 2015, Saatchi Gallery, London, The Third Print, TOTAL Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul and was a showcased artist at the Southeast Asian Platform at Art Stage Singapore.
During her residency, Singapore artist Weixin Chong is exploring perspectives and portrayals of tropicality in a Singaporean context, from projections of exoticism and escape to the post-colonial self-conscious gaze of the tropical being, to how the natural growth of wildlife represents ‘undevelopment’.
For her current project, Chong is calling for participants to take part in a dictation event within the Gillman Barracks “jungle”. Chong will read aloud a text in which participants will be asked to transcribe from her dictation. These texts will be translated by the artist into an artwork. After the dictation, guests are invited to a read in the artist’s studio.
Weixin Chong graduated from the Royal College of Art, London with a MA Fine Art, Printmaking. In 2015, Chong was an Artist-in-Residence at Laboratori Artistici Nicoli and Studio Fitz-Carrara, Cararra, Italy. She has exhibited in START 2015, Saatchi Gallery, London, The Third Print, TOTAL Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul and was a showcased artist at the Southeast Asian Platform at Art Stage Singapore.
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2015-11-07
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English
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Residencies Insights: Dictation with artist Weixin Chong
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“Residencies Insights: Dictation with artist Weixin Chong,” NTU CCA Singapore Digital Archive, accessed April 20, 2024, https://ntuccasingapore.omeka.net/items/show/3024.
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