eye candies, mind boggles
Saw a friend's picture of chupa chups lollies doing a dance and thought of a dance sequence in Tsai Ming Liang's Hole. The power of suggestion!
What quickly followed: marvel at the evidence of dogged labour: 3 cm strokes in groups of equal size covering large expanses of paper into magic ink bursts of fruity colour - and what impressed: the severity of the composition, the harsh assault on the question of value in art - lightly veiled. I do not paint, I do not draw - I am outside of these issues - making art out of language has a different set of quarrels.
One of the artists was weaving his web when I visited. Seeing the threads worked from hand to wall to ceiling made me envious - writing is material in an inside space, weaving with words is always threatened with the tottering over into incompletion, and then the nothingness of the incomplete is not a void but it is not discernible to anyone except for the ill-disciplined or hindered writer self.
Works alluded to are at - Go see! -:
"The EXTRAordinary Tales of Skylarking" by Hong Sek Chern, Ernest Chan, Noni Kaur, Khiew Huey Chian, Lim Kok Boon, December Pang, Ian Woo and Ye Shufang
Singapore
2 Aug - 2 Sep 07, Thu - Sun, JENDELA (Visual Arts Space)
posted by wheyface at 11:20 PM
1 Comments:
wow, that looks like exceptionally sumptuous frivolity! good fun, i'm sure. :-)
for my part, i think i'm still pretty much taken with Am3 photography...not that i'm much good at it myself, but such a treat to wake up every morning to fresh sights and insights from around the world! i'm still quite astonished by it all. :)
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