Performativity 3

Screen shot of:
Relation in Time (2008)
Khairuddin Hori & Maria Chua

Two Coats of Paint - Performativity #3

Two Coats of Paint
Third installment of the Performativity series

What: Performance art video exhibition

Artists: Khai Hori (Singapore)
Veliana Veli (Indonesia)
Thao Nguyen (Vietnam)
Maria Chua (Malaysia)

Where: Praxis Space
LASALLE College of the Arts
1 McNally Street
Singapore 187940

Dates: 5 – 13 Nov 2008

Project Abstract
Derived from combining Performance Art and TV, Performativity was first jointly curated by Thanavi Chotpradit (Thailand) and Khairuddin Hori showcasing performance-centered video pieces by emerging artists from Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and The Philippines. It was launched at VER Gallery (Bangkok) belonging to internationally acclaimed artist and Hugo Boss Prize recipient Rirkrit Tiravanija in 2006. Last month, Performativity 2, consisting of video pieces by seven Singaporean artists had a one-month screening at 24HR Art, The Northern Territories’ Center for Contemporary Art in Darwin, Australia.

It’s upcoming third installation subtitled Two Coats of Paint will be exhibited at Praxis Space, an experimental gallery dedicated for students and alumnus of LASALLE College of the Arts from 5th to 13th November 2008.

Two Coats of Paint suggests a destruction (of sorts) through an action not dissimilar to laying fresh paint over a masterpiece. In this instance, the four artists will respond, adapt, appropriate, borrow and even steal from classic pieces of performance-centered video art by European and American avant-gardes from the 1960s to the 1980s such as John Baldessari, Marina Abramovich, Bruce Nauman and Yoko Ono.

This collaborative endeavor also extends the tutelage between former tutor and LASALLE alumnus (Khairuddin Hori) and his students (Veliana Veli and Maria Chua).

If you happen to be in Darwin, Australia in the next 12 days...

WHAT:
Performativity 2
A screening of performance based videos by 7 Singaporean artists curated by Khairuddin Hori.

ARTISTS:
Michael Tan, Siti Salihah, Lilpinkdevil, Kimberly Shen, Ezzam Rahman, Urich Lau & Khai Hori

WHERE:
24 HR ART, The NT Centre for Contemporary Art
Vimy Lane, Parap, Darwin NT 0820, Australia
www.24hrart.org.au/

DATE:
12 Sep – 18 Oct 2008

Teaching a Fish the Alphabet (abridged)

Performance video made to premiere at the Indonesia International Performance Art Event (IIPAE, Jakarta), 7-9 December 2006.

Emancikazee (documentation of 'live' performance, 2004)

'Live' performance at Asiatopia 6 in Bangkok and Chiang Mai (Thailand, 2004). In the performance, audiences were invited to whip the performer a total of 100 times. For each whip, the voluntary collaborator also gets a 20 Thai Baht bill and a thin, pink, leather ornament which could become adorned as a bodily accessory (like a bangle or necklace).

45 Armenian (documentation of 'live' performance, 2004)

Performance with Kai Lam, Rizman Putra, Isrizal and Zulkifle Mahmod at the public opening of 45 Armenian, my solo installation/performance project at The Substation, Singapore (2004). This edit focuses specifically on my performance.

God You Are A Fake (solitary performance, 2003)

Documentation of the destruction of 44 pieces of woodcut prints in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2003).