Object Image:
Artwork No. 203 (2.03 %) (2018)
Beech Wood Brush, Red Cotton Thread, and Human Hair.
Object Label:
Artwork No. 203 (2.03%) was an artwork created on the occasion of the exhibition “Got Your Name Or Not?” held on 26th of May 2018. The artwork was created as a performance art piece over a duration of 3 hours and 27 minutes by artist Ethrisha Liaw. The performance was part of the opening/closing exhibition of The Artists Company (TAC)’s participatory art project “Got Your Name Or Not? (GYNON)” held at Your Mother Gallery (YMG), Singapore.
The experimental month-long project was supported by the National Arts Council (NAC) of Singapore in exploring “Time as Currency; Labour as Art” through a “post-autonomous” project space where interaction, participation, and co-authorship took place. TAC transformed the art gallery (YMG) together with collaborators working in fields like design, research, arts management, and education into an “art factory”.
Object Biography:
Artwork No. 203 (2.03%) was created as a part of a performance art piece that spanned 3 hours and 27 minutes. The artwork was later sold on the same day during TAC’s “B.E.A.U.T.Y Auction (May 2018)” by Your Mother Gallery (YMG), Singapore.
Artist(s) Biography:
Ethrisha Liaw (b.1994, Singapore) is an artist who has exhibited locally and regionally. Formally trained in Fashion Design and Textiles, she has collaborated with artists like Amanda Heng and Jennifer Ng and co-runs her fashion label “Will & Well, a design cooperative that focuses on textile therapy for wheelchair users.
The Artists Company (TAC) is the re-imagined vision of a group of artists about precisely what a company made up of artists can and should be. Founded in 2017, TAC was started to undertake the ongoing “Got Your Name Or Not?” project. In this project, TAC aimed to work using co-operative and open-ended methods in conceptualising an art, social and research-based project that enabled “everyone to be an artist”. Working across areas of education, research, and art, TAC embarks on durational or locational projects, both creating things and things happening through their collaborative approach. Currently, TAC is working towards a publication of critical essays, photographic documentation and design interpretations of artworks as part of the “Got Your Name Or Not?” project.
Additional Information:
Artist(s): The Artists Company (TAC), Singapore and Ethrisha Liaw (b.1994, Singapore)
Title: Artwork No. 203 (2.03%)
Structure: Hand-made in singular quantity and re-traded during the exhibition auction.
Date: 26 May 2018, produced after a 3 hours and 27 minutes performance artwork
Material(s): Beech Wood Brush, Red Cotton Thread, and Human Hair
Dimension(s): W 5.0 x H 12.0 cm x D 4.5 cm
Provenance: Your Mother Gallery, Hindoo Road, Singapore
Credit Line: Private Collection of Jennifer Ng Su Yin