Single-channel video: 21 minutes. Commission for "Nam June Paik: The Future is Now"; National Gallery Singapore, 2022.
Presented in conjunction with National Gallery Singapore’s special exhibition Nam June Paik: The Future is Now, the third and final movement of Raisins in the Audience Dough saw Melinda Lauw and I performing a series of scores to 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, Melinda and I subjected 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—was combined to draw out gestural synchronicities and serendipitous occurrences that connected us to our participants, as well as to Paik and Moorman's exploits across the vast expanse of time and space.
This performance on film was directed, filmed, and edited by Ana de Matos.
𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝙍𝙖𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝘿𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝:
Raisins in the Audience Dough is a three-part collaborative project by myself 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.
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.