I Want My T-Shirt!

T-shirts from the Restitution project is now here! Available at the moment in 3 sizes (S,M & L) on white Hanes Beefy Youth t-shirts with individually hand-signed label on the front-bottom-left. Email me if you want it. In very llimited edition - at SG$35 only, who says you can't afford contemporary art?!



The hand-signed label:

Dirty My Linen (2007)

Performance at Yani's Laundromat, Cullen Bay, Darwin, Australia
Interpositions (performance event featuring Australian and Singaporean performance artists) as part of Darwin Festival 2007
Presented by 24HR Art (www.24hrart.org.au)




above pics by Juliana Yasin












above pics by Lynn Lu

Restitution - Cards Available NOW at The Substation Box Office, FREE!

Take it back right now!
For the favours owed, objects borrowed, emotions stolen, injustices performed and rights withheld, demand Restitution.

In the Restitution project, I will be giving away limited edition, specially designed postcards for public use. However, if you are not personally able to grab the Restitution cards from The Substation but wish to engage with the project, drop me an email with name and mailling address. I will personally snail-mail the card to you as soon as it is delivered to me hot out of the press!

Pre-orders for the Restitution t-shirt will be accepted soon. Watch this space! :)

Trading Craft - A Performance of Curators

Pictures from the Singapore event at The Substation gallery
(photos: Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore)















Performance by Dr Thomas J Berghuis (China/Netherlands/Australia)
(photo: June Yap)


Performance by Dr Thomas J Berghuis (China/Netherlands/Australia)
(photo: June Yap)


Performance by Wong Hoy Cheong (Malaysia)
(photo: June Yap)


Performance by Mikke Susanto (Indonesia)
(photo: June Yap)



Pictures from the Bangkok event at The Art Center, Chulalongkorn University
(photos: Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore)








Performance by Adeline Ooi (Malaysia)



Performance by Chumpon Apisuk (Thailand)

Participate (2007)

21 x 25 cm, watercolour and bubblejet photoprint on paper
Collection: Rirkrit Tiravanija

Not Very Important... (2007)

21 x 25 cm, watercolour and bubblejet photoprint on paper
Collection: Wong Hoy Cheong

I wanna live in a city where...

These works by French-British artist Martin Firrell seems so much more relevant for the Singapore Biennale (2006) compared to the novelty-mug-selling Barbara Kruger and one-night-only-wonder Jenny Holzer!

www.martinfirrell.com

Portrait of a Wag (2006)

21 x 25 cm, watercolour, graphite and bubblejet photoprint on paper

Hori Family circa 1969 (2006)

21 x 25 cm, watercolour and bubblejet photoprint on paper

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“An overseer’s eye fell on the cage one day and he asked the attendants why this perfectly good cage should be left standing there unused with dirty straw inside it; nobody knew, until one man, helped out by the notice board, remembered about the hunger artist. They poked into the straw with sticks and found him in it. “Are you still fasting?” asked the overseer, “when on earth do you mean to stop?” “Forgive me, everybody,” whispered the hunger artist; only the overseer, who had his ear to the bars, understood him. “Of course,” said the overseer, and tapped his forehead with a finger to let the attendants know what state the man was in, “we forgive you.” “I always wanted you to admire my fasting,” said the hunger artist. ”We do admire it,” said the overseer, affably. “But you shouldn’t admire it,” said the hunger artist. “Well then we don’t admire it,” said the overseer, “but why shouldn’t we admire it?” “Because I have to fast, I can’t help it,” said the hunger artist. “What a fellow you are,” said the overseer, “and why can’t you help it?” “Because,” said the hunger artist, lifting his head a little and speaking with his lips pursed, as if for a kiss, right into the overseer’s ear, so that no syllable might be lost, “because I couldn’t find the food I liked. If I had found it, believe me, I should have made no fuss and stuffed myself like you or anyone else.” These were his last words, but in his dimming eyes remained the firm though no longer proud persuasion that he was still continuing to fast.”

from A Hunger Artist (1922)
Franz Kafka

Teaching a Fish the Alphabet (abridged)

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

K & A (2006)

Illustrated view of K & A at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore (ICA) commissioned for the New Contemporaries exhibition curated by June Yap. 'New Contemporaries: The Second Dance Song' was a satellite event of the Singapore Biennale 2006.



K & A is the second collaborative work between Ahmad Abu Bakar and myself. Each of these potraits were 3 x 3 metres in size and situated at the entrance of the gallery. A pink K & A neon sign was placed on a wall in the middle of the gallery and could be seen from outside of the glass door.