Lynn Lu. a(t)tribute, 2021. A durational performance for a single audience, commissioned by performingborders. Photo credit: Lynn Lu
Artist talk at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh USA.
Date: Wednesday 4th November, 2020
Venue: Online
Invited by: Prof Bob Bingham
OH! presents The distance between us, a unique point-and-click game featuring art and stories. DESKTOP ONLY EXPERIENCE / LIMITED TIME ONLY!
About this Event
The distance between us is the second season of OH!’s three-part digital art walk on the effects of COVID-19 on Singapore. The season investigates how we now experience ‘distance’ has changed, for example how we maintain and find new relationships in a pandemic. Seven local artists respond to the way distance manifests in our current reality.
In this experience, audiences will continue to explore the story in the Sleeping Man (first shown in Season 1)’s bedroom over four episodes. Each episode will feature new objects in the Sleeping Man’s bedroom that reveal new artworks and narratives. Each episode will also be available only for a week at certain times to enhance the viewing experience.
DESKTOP ONLY EXPERIENCE. Available from 6PM, Friday, 19 February 2021 onwards at ohopenhouse.online.
E1: Reality & Rest
19 Feb - 25 Feb, 6pm - 12am (all time zones) daily
Features works from Denise Yap and Lynn Lu
Estimated experience length is 2 hours
In this episode, the Sleeping Man is faced with a sobering reality. This pandemic is just one of many in human history. He escapes this reality by playing video games.
E2: Home Alone
26 Feb - 4 Mar, 12pm - 6pm daily
Features work from Ezzam Rahman
Estimated experience length is 1 hour
The Sleeping Man ruminates on how his home feels bigger but lonelier during such times. A text message from a friend sharing an artwork relieves some of the loneliness.
E3: Distance Kept, Distance Bridged
5 Mar - 11 Mar, 6am - 12pm daily
Featuring work from Berny Tan and a collaborative work from Churen Li, Hell Low, Subhas Nair, Tim De Cotta, and Weish
Estimated experience length is 2 hours
The Sleeping Man negotiates where he draws the line in such times. He stresses on keeping physical distance, but continues to reach out virtually to find love and companionship.
E4: Working Do, Making Through
12 Mar - 18 Mar, 12am - 6am daily
Featuring a collaborative work from Bailey Wait, Lim Shi-An, Robert Wait, Tan Kheng Hua and a work from Yen Phang
Estimated experience length is 2 hours
The Sleeping Man discovers that relationships are held together by various rituals people perform. And that maybe, that’s how he can overcome the pandemic.
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Days — and counting is an on-going portrait of COVID-19 that captures the surreal and strange times we live in through the lens of art and artists. The programme unfolds in three seasons each taking the form of an immersive digital experience that explores our new reality under the pandemic.
The digital art walk takes the metaphor of a dream. The seasons mirror Singapore slowly awakening and having to adapt to new measures and an inescapable reality. These experiences unpack the effects of COVID-19 on a personal and collective level.
From 29 October to 29 November 2020, AAA presents Till We Meet Again IRL, a programme curated with hopeful longing and through a process of emergent collective dreaming about how we might re-invent globalized and capitalist-driven relational structures that have proven dysfunctional and untenable.
6 Oct 2020 | ENGAGE - Performance and the Maternal
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The Palace of Ritual
Palazzo Donà Brusa, Campo San Polo 2177, Venezia
9-11 May 2019, 2 – 6pm
An Arts Territory Initiative
Co-Curated by Annie Jael Kwan, Denis Maksimov, Michał Murawski and Kasia Sobucka
Featuring Isadorino Gore, Enam Gbewonyo, Florence Keith-Roach, Alena Ledeneva, Karolina Łebek, Lynn Lu, Nissa Nishikawa, Sabina Sallis, Zorka Wollny, Khadija Von Zinnenburg Carroll and Mengting Zhuo
The Palace of Ritual is a programme of immersive, intimate performances, screenings and discursive workshops that aims to activate heterodox knowledges and practices of healing, sourced from myths, ritual and cosmology. Participants are invited to awake from the artificial psychological coma of the accelerating and verticalizing present, via healing rituals of care, levelling, perversion and futuring.
The programme explores why a return to ‘nature’ is an increasingly pressing need for many people today. Does our ‘post-contemporary’ (or metamodern) world, mediated as it is by unprecedented layerings of artificially intelligent technologies, paradoxically make so-called ‘traditional’ practices and rituals more desirable? What do the concepts of attachment to ritual, spirituality and nature mean today? We will revisit older, more divisive rituals, investigating what can be learned and appropriated from their obsolete and hierarchical but seductive styles, shapes and rhythms; and we will explore how rituals have been invented, reinvented and adapted today.
Ritual brings together aesthetic creation and a mythos-reinforcing re-enactment of collective histories; it caters to our primeval need to belong; it consolidates but also – in liminal moments – perverts established social norms and hierarchies. The typology of the Palace – whether a Venetian Palazzo, a Qing dynasty summer residence looted by Lord Elgin or a socialist-era “people’s palace” – provides a grandiose and spectacular backdrop for rituals of every kind. The Palace of Ritual – and its interregional, intersectional programme – will explore some winding paths for forging new ritual bodies, ritual aesthetics and ritual politics: perverted, progressive and planetary.
The Palace of Ritual is initiated by Arts Territory and it launches its new pathway of nomadic, fluid and open agency: offering new models of arts commissioning and curating, supporting radical artistic experimentation, research and collaboration, alongside testing the new forms of curation.
The programme is devised by Arts Territory together with PASAR (Post-Asian School of Alternative Rites), a new practice-based research project curated by Annie Jael Kwan; Perverting the Power Vertical, a research and arts initiative led by Maria Mileeva, Denis Maksimov and Michał Murawski; by the FRINGE Centre at University College London and Avenir Institute.
The Palace of Ritual is supported by Adam Mickiewicz Institute, The School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, The FRINGE Centre for the Study of Social and Cultural Complexity and Istituto Polacco in Rome. PASAR (Post-Asian School of Alternative Rites) is presented in collaboration with Something Human and Asia-Art-Activism and additionally supported by Arts Council England and Diverse Actions.
Date: Saturday 9 March, 2019
Venue: King's College London - Guy's Campus, SE1 1UL London
I will be performing a variation of Tend from noon-2.30pm, location tba.
For the Oxytocin's second edition, Procreate Project enters into a partnership with Birth Rites collection located at Guy’s Campus, King’s College London, to deliver a performance programme responding to a curatorial theme questioning iconography, cultural connotations and stereotypes associated with the word ‘Mother/Mothering’ and how they effect as well LGBTQIA families.
This year’s curatorial approach will look to unpick urgent issues that are still hardly discussed and represented in public contexts. These include; gender and rights in reproductive and maternal health and reflections around the use of the word 'Mother' and its historical connotations. This will be initiated through an essential artistic dialogue between artists reclaiming this word and their role as ‘mothers’ in their art practises and public lives, and LGBTQIA parents who have refused to be recognised in those terms and pushing for other ways of self identification, expression and care.
The symposium panels will host academics, health professionals and artists examining these subjects as well as start a discussion about sensitivity to the the LGBTQIA and non binary parents, research about gay and lesbian parents experiences of maternity services and also surrogacy. In addition we will look at issues for new mothers in how they find ‘motherhood’ framed as an institution and media narratives.
The artistic programme will re-stage existing performances in and around Guys Campus responding to the curatorial theme and premier three newly commissioned works. Full programme, artists and project's information will be announced soon.
Visit www.oxytocinbirthingtheworld.co.uk to check last's edition speakers and performing artists.
For any enquiries please contact events@procreateproject.com
*** Children are very welcome and must be supervised by their parents/carers. There will be an area with toys and materials for children to use and engage with. Further details to be announced in due course.
In good company / Kicking off this series of artist talks at Canterbury Fine Art!
Date: Monday 28 January, 2018
Venue: University for the Creative Arts, UCA Canterbury. New Dover Road, Canterbury, Kent CT1 3AN
Date: 23 Nov 2018
Venue: David Game College, London UK
PsychART is a national conference celebrating the links between Psychiatry, Mental Health and the Creative Arts. This year’s keynote speaker is actor, writer and director Stephen Fry.
King’s College neuroscientist Prof Carmine Pariante and I are invited to present our prize-winning collaboration, For of all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘it might have been’.
This durational performance and installation won first prize in The Art of Neuroscience competition 2018, an annual contest directed by the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, and was covered by Scientific American in August.’