Artfields @ Gone Fishing
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ARTFIELDS
An Art Festival of Sorts
at Gone Fishing
June 2004 to June 2005
Art
can no longer be contained in museums and galleries. It has to be lived.
It has to be woven, infused, constructed, and even blogged into our lives.
For
one whole year, four contemporary artists
- Twardzik Ching Chorleng, Brigid K. Watson, Peng-Ean Khoo and Lee
Tet Keong – invite you to join them to explore the age old questions of
‘what is art’ and ‘what does it do?’ through making, breathing,
living art. Through Artfields,
For
one whole year, four contemporary artists
- Twardzik Ching Chorleng, Brigid K. Watson, Peng-Ean Khoo and Lee
Tet Keong – invite you to join them to explore the age old questions of
‘what is art’ and ‘what does it do?’ through making, breathing,
living art. Through Artfields, they
hope
to further breakdown the separation between art and life by placing art in
a living space where neither dominates the other.
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ARTFIELDS
> Breathing Art to Gone Fishing...
Have you ever wondered how an art installation is conceptualized and eventually assumes its final form in a site-specific environment? For the first time in Singapore, a group of artists bring you behind the scenes, demystify contemporary art and make living, breathing art a complete reality to
all. Can you truly say you have tasted art? When was the last time you drank art? Or woven a fabric of architecture? Would you like to blog artists in return for placemats? How about constructing walls and defacing them to your hearts’ content? If playing with spray paint is not quite your cup of tea, how about manufacturing some grass tea and infusing your existence in poetic space instead?
Over twelve
months, four contemporary artists - Twardzik Ching Chorleng, Brigid K. Watson, Peng-Ean Khoo
and Lee Tet Keong – invite you to join them to explore the age old questions of ‘what is art’ and
‘what does it do?’
through making, breathing, living art.
Through Artfields, we hope to further breakdown the separation between art and life by placing art in a living space where neither dominates the other. Instead there will be a true interplay of art and life; the café’s activity becomes part of the art and vice versa. We hope you will
join our vision and quest of living and breathing art into the Singapore
public. ~ Peng-Ean Khoo
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Wave
by
Twardzik Ching Chorleng
Cotton string strung from wall to wall repetitively back and
forth, throughout the entire cafe from the front entrance to the back
exit, as if it was a fabric weaved into the architecture. This
‘fabric’ will stretches throughout the entire cafe from the front
entrance to the back exit. The viewer/patron will get a sense of entering
into a dreamscape where the whole architectural structure of the cafe will
be transformed into a giant undulating wave.
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Blogged
by
Brigid K. Watson, Peng-Ean Khoo
Pages and pages containing 90+ entries
from months of email exchanges between Boston and Singapore covered the
entire interior of the cafe. Words literally take
over the entire space in the form of 'salt carpets', wall paper, window
treatments, and table settings.
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The Player
by Lee Tet Keong
Strips of walls of different widths and heights, some stretching from floor to ceiling, will be constructed for this installation. With the café’s existing wall as the backdrop,
the artist hopes to extend its energy to the whole café and build a complete playground for the patrons to relive a second childhood, and for the younger patrons, to live a piece of childhood that was unavailable to
him: to make marks on those untouchable HDB flats wall. Visitors interact
by adding their graffiti and words of wisdom onto the walls.
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Visit
http://landingspace.homestead.com/index.html
for other works by these artists.
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