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V.I.S.T.A Lab 2.0: INTERFERENCE_Trailer
December 14, 2007
V.I.S.T.A Lab 2.0: INTERFERENCE
14-15 Dec 2007_8pm_72-13
Tickets at $5_Call (65) 6737 7213 or email tworks@singnet.com.sg for reservations.
TheatreWorks presents
V.I.S.T.A Lab 2.0 : INTERFERENCE
A Process-Presentation by
Choy Ka Fai
In collaborations with
Joavien Ng, Mohd Fared Jainal, Patricia Toh, Ling Hock Siang,
Ng Yi-Sheng, Zulkifle Mahmod, Khoo Eng Tat, Lim Woan Wen,
GraceTan/kwodrent, and Torrance Goh/FARMWORK.
INTERFERENCE is about unwanted signals that disrupt or construct movements of nature. It is about the interventions of patterns in history, time, signal and noise.
INTERFERENCE explores the concept of listening to the noise of history: moments which are insignificant in our collective memory. This presentation researches our techniques of remembering and the recollections of irrelevant episodes of unrecorded history.
INTERFERENCE is a space as well as an organism. This mediated space functions as an interactive installation and a performance environment where moving bodies, electronic sounds, visual documents and light are interwoven into a constantly changing artefact of unhistorical events.
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If history is signal, then time itself must be recognized as noise: an infinitely complex mess of data that resists interpretation.
Our project is therefore to listen to the noise of history, moments, which yield no discernible signal: the insignificant events.
Herein lies a paradox. As artists, as humans, we have a natural impulse to transmute chaos into art.
Is our goal then to reclaim the forgotten into the field of recorded time?
Or should we resist, in our representations of insignificant events, our instinct to render them significant?
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INTERFERENCE is the second of three presentations of V.I.S.T.A Lab Cycle 1; the third presentations will be held in February 2008.** There will be a Q & A session after the presentations.**
V.I.S.T.A Lab
Conceived and created by Choy Ka Fai, V.I.S.T.A Lab is a series of presentations
resulting from workshop and experiments with the 10 Singapore-based artist/designer across the wide spectrum of artistic discipline. This project is based on the central theme of re-looking at historical events that escapes our people’s memories, seemingly deemed insignificant in our invention of a vibrant, global city. We are interested in the lapses of our recent histories and the understanding of the past to imagine the future.
Support by
National Arts Council, LEE FOUNDATIONS, Hong Leong Foundations,
Web-vision, power 98 and 72-13
With additional support from
Mixed Reality Lab, NUS