Lynn Lu and Melinda Lauw. Raisins in the Audience Dough: Final Movement, 2022. Film stills: Ana de Matos, Jootz.
Premiere: 19 March 2022
Presented in conjunction with the Gallery’s special exhibition 𝘕𝘢𝘮 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘪𝘬: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘕𝘰𝘸, the third and final movement of 𝘙𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘋𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 sees artists Lynn Lu and Melinda Lauw performing a series of scores to a video camera. These scores were written by participants who previously took part in the second movement of this work.
Filmed separately in London and Singapore, Lu and Lauw subject a variety of everyday objects to “creative misuse” in the deadpan delivery style of Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman. The resulting footage—alongside documentation of participants responding to their prompts in the second movement—is combined to draw out gestural synchronicities and serendipitous occurrences that connect the two artists and the participants, as well as Paik and Moorman's exploits across the vast expanse of time and space.
This performance on film will premiere on the Gallery’s Facebook and YouTube pages on 19 March 2022.
𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝙍𝙖𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝘿𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝:
𝘙𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘋𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 is a three-part project by artists Lynn Lu and Melinda Lauw referencing the shared artistic history of long-time collaborators Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman. The first movement of Raisins In The Audience Dough is available for viewing at the Gallery as part of 𝘈𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦-𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦: 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘕𝘢𝘮 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘪𝘬. Click here for screening information: http://tiny.cc/AfterludePreludeBooklet
𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:
𝘕𝘢𝘮 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘪𝘬: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘕𝘰𝘸 is a large-scale institutional exhibition of the visionary artist which surveys five decades of his pioneering work in the use of television and video in art. A key figure in the avant-garde movements of the 20th century, he was also one of the first international superstars in the art world. Find out more here: https://www.nationalgallery.sg/namjunepaik/.