RECTANGULAR DREAMS
June 01, 2008
April 03, 2008
DanceDanceDance Video Trailer
DanceDanceDance VideoPoster
Dance Dance Dance 3-5 Apirl 2008
January 18, 2008
Interference_ performance video excerpts
January 15, 2008
Interference_ performance photoVideo
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
November 03, 2007
Tokyo Exhibits
dualcitysession exhibit in Tokyo
October 25, 2007
dualcitysessions
for preview of all the artwork by the 28 artist! >>
www.dualcitysessions.com
Opening 31st October 2007 at
giuliano Fujiwara Boutique, Tokyo
Held in conjunction with DesignTide Tokyo 2007
curated by Silnt Singapore/original concept by Artless Inc Japan
October 20, 2007
IMPETUS PERFORMANCE PHOTO DOCUMENTS
September 03, 2007
IMPETUS_V.I.S.T.A lab1.0
21/22 Sep 2007_8pm
Venue: 72-13
Admission: $5
V.I.S.T.A Lab 1.0
IMPETUS
Installation_performance
By Choy Ka Fai, Zulkifle Mahmod, Ng Yi-Sheng, Patricia Toh, Joavien Ng
and Torrance Goh/FARMWORK
IMPETUS is about the moment before something happens, the catalysis of actions, and the enactment of impulses.
IMPETUS explores how insignificant events in our history are being recorded, forgotten and fabricated. These occurrences often escape people’s memories, yet are impetuses to our invention of a vibrant global city.
IMPETUS researches on the origin of data transmission and how information can be made consumable. Using analog audio-visual technology and self-made/customized devices, IMPETUS is a performance deprived of digital flexibility and embraces the unpredictable nature of analog simplicity.
IMPETUS is the first of three presentations of V.I.S.T.A Lab Cycle 1; the second and third presentations will be held in December 2007 and February 2008 respectively.
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72-13 Mohamed Sultan Road (located next to The Pier) Singapore 239007
Web: www.theatreworks.org.sg www.72-13.com
Call (65) 6737 7213 or email tworks@singnet.com.sg for reservation.
Supported by
National Arts Council, Lee Foundation, Hong Leong Foundation and 72-13
V.I.S.T.A Lab
THEATREWORK present
V.I.S.T.A Lab
Visual. Interactive. Sound. Text. Architecture
A laboratory for performative experiments
A multiform exploration of aesthetics, forms and possibilities
A space for artists to interact, create and present ideas
V.I.S.T.A Lab focuses on the experiential interactions, the potential of live performance and the interplay between image, sound and space.
V.I.S.T.A Lab employs a modular workshop structure where the diverse energies of the various artists are engaged in the same space. These incubation spaces open up at irregular intervals, inviting the public for process-presentations. The modular cells may coalesce into a full-scale multimedia production. However, the modular workshop structure encourages a continuing growth beyond any product that may arise out of these interactions. V.I.S.T.A Lab curates ten artists who work unconventionally in their realm. Each of these artists work across disciplines, creating work that defies classification, in turn casting fresh perspectives onto conventional forms.
V.I.S.T.A Lab series
is conceived and directed by
TheatreWorks Associate Artistic Director Choy Ka Fai
in collaboration with
1.Zulkifle Mahmod (Sound Artist)
2.Ng Yi-Sheng (Writer/Performer)
3.Torrance Goh/FARMWORK (Space Maker)
4.Patricia Toh (Actress/Performer)
5.Joavien Ng (Choreographer/Performer)
6.Mohd Fared Jainal (Graphic Designer/Performer)
7.Khoo Eng Tat (Interaction Engineer/Designer)
8.Lim Hock Siang (Musician)
9.Grace Tan/kwodrent (Clothing Designer)
10.Andy Lim (Lighting Designer)
21-22 SEP 2007
V.I.S.T.A lab 1.0
Process Presentation
14-15 Dec 2007
V.I.S.T.A lab 2.0
Process Presentation
28-29 Feb 2008
V.I.S.T.A Lab 3.0
Full Version Production
September 01, 2007
Circuit Bending_D.I.Y experiments
Ideas for the D-I-Y electronic for V.I.S.T.A. Lab
Circuit-Bending::Re-inventions of the ready-made
Circuit-bending is an electronic art which implements creative audio and video short-circuiting. This renegade path of electrons represents a catalytic force capable of exploding new experimental musical and visual aesthetic forward at a velocity previously unknown. The circuit-bent instrument, often a re-wired audio toy or gameConsole, is an alien instrument that is unpredictable and extremely analogy in the world of digital art in pixel.
June 06, 2007
ROJAK8
Presenting at FARM'S Rojak8 this Friday, will be talking about my interactive audio-visual
projects.Do drop by the National Stadium if you are interested ...
March 11, 2007
Drift Net
TheatreWorks presents
DRIFT NET
29 - 31 March 2007 at 72-13, 8pm nightly
www.driftnet.sg
An expedition into blogosphere...
Drift Net explores a man's second life on the internet,
drifting between desires and dreams...
Drift Net is a sensorial experience that triggers your imagination...
Drift Net is an interactive performance exploring the concept of the blogging phenomenon; where blogging is a virtual way of living and re-living a moment in time or perhaps even as future memories.
The performance uses unconventional instruments - LED and muscle sensory device - to interact with a performer's body and the movement of the body is translated into quantitative data that manifest via the elements of sound, light and video.
Drift Net is conceived and directed by Choy Ka Fai,
TheatreWorks' Associate Artist for 2007.
In collaboration with
Daito Manabe (Sound / Visual Design & Programming),
Fujimoto Takayuki (Lighting and Set Design),
Rizman Putra (Performance & Choreography),
aspidistrafly (Music & Visual Performance),
Torrance Goh (Graphics & Web Design),
Satoshi Horii (Visual & Network Programming),
Motoi Ishibashi (Interaction Design & Programming)
Tickets, at S$8, are on sale now!
Call 6737 7213 or email tworks@singnet.com.sg to book your tickets.
January 31, 2007
Object & Desire
Objects & Desire is a conceptual visual art project challenging eight international talents to present works inspired by the Straits Chinese lifestyle.
The artists are Victoria Cattoni (Australia), Bettina Johae (Germany), Andrea Teo, Khoo Eng Tat (Malaysia), Mauricio Alejo (Mexico), Adrian Chua, Choy Ka Fai (Singapore) and Fal Allen (United States of America).
October 12, 2006
Not for exhibition purposes
September 20, 2006
Diaspora
Diaspora
TheatreWorks / Ong Keng Sen
Official Cultural Performance of Singapore 2006
18 – 21 September 2006
Esplanade Concert Hall
Conceived, written and directed by Ong Keng Sen
Video Installation by Choy Ka Fai
Electronic Composition by Toru Yamanaka
August 11, 2006
Diaspora - in the making
image by Dinl Q. Le -
The Final phase of Diaspora- with a series of talks held at 72-13
Schedule of conversations
11 Aug 2006, Fri, 8pm, 72-13
Talk by Dinh Q. Le
18 Aug 2006, Fri, 8pm, 72-13
Screening of Dragons Beget Dragons
Conversation with film maker Ariani Darmawan
25 Aug 2006, Fri, 8pm, 72-13
Opening of New Painting Exhibition
Talk by Navin Rawanchaikul
March 20, 2006
NAOPD
NOT AVAILABLE ON PRINT DATE
a muti-media performance by KYTV
24th March 8 pm Free
Esplanade Theatre Studio
www.naopd.info
March 18, 2006
Empiric Woods -Website
Empiric Woods Website is Up!!
http://empiricwoods.ka5.info
You can find texts and a visual sketchbook.
Hopefully you will find some contiunity
from the live performance.
March 05, 2006
Empiric Woods
Empiric Wood + - 01
An Audio Visual Performance By Choy Ka Fai
WEB/PAGE launch
16th MARCH 2006
16th March 2006 _7pm
Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore
Mosaic Music Festival
Opening Performance for
Quiet Is The New Loud
By KINGS OF CONVENIENCE(Norway)