The project is based on the central theme of re-looking at historical events that escape our people's memories, seemingly deemed insignificant in our invention of a vibrant, global city. V.I.S.T.A Lab Cycle 1 is a series of 3 presentations resulting from workshop and experiments with the 10 Singapore-based artists/designers across the wide spectrum of artistic discipline. There will be a Q & A session after the presentation. The third presentation will be held in February 2008. INTERFERENCE is the second of three presentations of V.I.S.T.A Lab Cycle 1. INTERFERENCE is done in collaboration with Grace Tan-kwodrent, Joavien Ng, Khoo Eng Tat, Lim Woan Wen, Ling Hock Siang, Mohd Fared Jainal, Ng Yi-Sheng, Patricia Toh, Torrance Goh-FARMWORK and Zulkifle Mahmod. 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. INTERFERENCE is a space as well as an organism. This presentation researches our techniques of remembering and the recollections of irrelevant episodes of unrecorded history. INTERFERENCE explores the concept of listening to the noise of history: moments that are insignificant in our collective memory. It is about the interventions of patterns in history, time, signal and noise. INTERFERENCE is about unwanted signals that disrupt or construct movements of nature. Or should we resist, in our representations of insignificant events, our instinct to render them significant? Is our goal then to reclaim the forgotten into the field of recorded time? Herein lies a paradox.Īs artists, as humans, we have a natural impulse to transmute chaos Our project is therefore to listen to the noise of history, moments, which yield no discernible signal: the insignificant events. If history is signal, then time itself must be recognised as noise: an infinitely complex mess of data that resists interpretation.
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