A Selection of Performance Art Relics (from The Artists Company)
This exhibition presents a selection of performance art relics by The Artists Company. The selected relics were part of performances held at Your Mother Gallery from the 1st of May to the 28th of May 2018. The performance art relic is a term used for objects, which are results of the transformation from states of “mere” material to “autonomous” artworks created or used during performance art. The curated display attempts to give the performance art relic an aura beyond the connections with their situational taxonomy, “labour hours” put in and the time taken to make.
Associated Programming for A Selection of Performance Art Relics (from The Artists Company)
The programming for this exhibition consists of:
Education
- Artist and Curator Tour
- Artists Workshop
Activation
- Tour of Performance Art Spaces in Singapore
- Artwork Responses
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Education
Artist and Curator Tour
Join a tour of the exhibition with TAC and the curator, and gain an insight into the concepts of the exhibition and processes involved in the creation and curation of Performance Art Relics.
Ticketed Event | Suitable for all ages.
Artist Workshop
How does one respond to Performance Art? What do you write about? How do you describe the experience?
In this workshop led by artist-educator Jennifer Ng, participants are invited to pen down their responses to the physical works and documentation of the performance artworks, where their responses are shared and reshaped through dialogue and re-writing.
Ticketed Event | Suitable for ages 12 to 18. Participants are required to sign up, where consent will be sought from participants on the exhibition and archiving of their written responses.
Activation
A Tour of the atmospheres and environments of the Performance Art spaces of (Chinatown and Little India), Singapore
Explore the urban spaces with TAC in this talk and tour of the locations of performance art spaces in Singapore. Using the environment of Your Mother Gallery as a starting point, learn about the spatial configurations of Performance Art spaces and re-experience the atmosphere that was generated through this guided tour by TAC.
Ticketed Event | Suitable for all ages.
Artwork Response
Explore the themes of the exhibition through a response to the exhibition by two artist-researchers:
Toh Hun Ping (Singapore)
A video artist, film research and writer, Toh has screened his video works at international film festivals and presented video installations in art venues including The Substation and Sculpture Square. Currently, Toh is researching the history of film production in Singapore and will share his archive of videos that contain scenes from Chinatown and Little India.
Koh Nguang How (Singapore)
Singapore artist and art archivist, Koh was a founding member of The Artists Village. He is a pioneering researcher and archivist of Singapore’s contemporary art history and has a focus on documenting performance artworks by The Artists Village and other Singapore artists. Currently, Koh works on his “Singapore Art Archive Project” where he assembles photographs and other forms of documentation in formats of catalogs, newspaper articles, and books in forming a narrative of Singapore art. He will be sharing his experience in documenting performance art in Singapore.
Ticketed Events | Suitable for all ages.
These are all very strong – particularly the writing workshop with Jennifer Ng, the artist responses, and the tour of performance art spaces in Little India/Chinatown.
My main comment at this point is how do these three programs (writing performance art/documenting performance art/the space of performance art) influence the structure of the exhibition in terms of the supplementary material shown? The three in a way seem to circulate the central area of inquiry which is the object/relic. The programs could be developed so as to further explain all this supplementary material (if, indeed, your argument is that it is supplementary to the relic?)