Kai Lam
dal 21/6/2011 al 1/7/2011
Segnalato da
21/6/2011
Kai Lam
The Substation Gallery, Singapore
A work-in-progress performance and installation, this work explores Kai Lam's outlook on consumerist materialism and the anthro-zoological aspects of the relationship between humans and the environment. His installation consists of an array of recycled materials, recreating an artificial 'natural' wilderness, made from objects used in daily life.
A work-in-progress performance and installation, this work explores Kai Lam’s outlook on consumerist materialism and the anthro-zoological aspects of the relationship between humans and the environment. His installation consists of an array of recycled materials, recreating an artificial ‘natural’ wilderness, made from objects used in daily life. Kai Lam will perform interventions lasting between 2 and 6 hours daily, within the installation environment.
Kai Lam, based in Singapore, has proved an active innovator since his artistic involvements in 1995 during which he was majoring in Sculpture at LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts in Singapore. In 2001, he was awarded a study grant from Lee Foundation and an education bursary from National Arts Council, and graduated from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology’s Bachelor of Arts where he majored in Sculpture. Through his varied art practice in drawing, painting, sculpture, mixed-media installation and performance, art-making to Kai Lam is a tool for a better understanding of his living environment.
As president of alternative art group, Artists Village from 2000 to 2003, he initiated “Artists Investigating Monuments”, presenting installations and performances in various public sites. This was later presented again in Singapore Art Museum, 2004 and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and House of World Culture, Berlin, 2005. Engaging in art organizational work form an essential extension to Kai Lam’s versatile art practice. Since 2003, He had co-founded and organized with his Singaporean art colleagues, “Future of Imagination” (FOI) an international performance art event, and in 2009 he had co-initiated, “Rooted In The Ephemeral Speak” (R.I.T.E.S), which is a regular platform that focuses on performance and time-based art, with an objective to explore and present performative art projects, exhibitions and events in galleries, museums, site-specific spaces and alternative venues.
image: “Anthology Blues”, solo-exhibition at Post-Museum, Singapore, 2007 (photo by Chua Chye Teck)
Reception: Wednesday 22 June, 7pm
The Substation Gallery
45 Armenian Street, Singapore 179936
Open daily 12pm-9pm, closed on public holidays
Admission Free