Cumfort Zone . 2010

Cumfort Zone (2010)

Berita Harian 2. The Surreal, Comtemporeal, Cosmoreal

ICA Gallery 2

A chair represent the comforts that a man can get from sitting on it. This product manufactured and designed by man, by itself possess qualities that is further enhanced in accordance to the person’s taste, preference and liking. A man brings a chair back home to provide comfort whenever he needs it. The product is brought into his personal space, the sanctity of his home. He pays for the quality, workmanship and level of comfort. The price for comfort is often not cheap.

 

This a commodity of man.

 

Pornography is a means of comfort that man can get simply by watching. This business is a product manufactured and designed by man, possessing qualities that further enhances in accordance to the person’s taste, preference or liking. This product is produced by man, for man. He brings pornography back home to provide comfort whenever he needs it. The product is often brought into his personal space, the sanctity of his home. He pays for the quality, and level of comfort that the pornography can provide. The price of cumfort is often cheap.

 

This a commodity of man.

Lollipop B’Lust . 2009

Lollipop B’Lust (2009)

ditchmyroutine (deb, man, ryf) - collaborative effort.

Singapore Art Museum, SAM, Art in the sand.

ZOUK OUT 2009, Sentosa.

The siren, often a figure for the ultimate male fantasy, possesses the power in the art of seduction. In her, the male finds himself lost in sweet reveries, captivated by the boldness she carries.

Lollipop B’Lust  looks at the sirens’ call of today. Composed with elements from Greek mythology, the hybrid creature is back with a B’lust! releasing men of their repression, yet at the same time enslaving them to their weaknesses. A sweet lolly won’t harm you. Go on, have a lick...

Creation : The book of Kolff . 2009

Creation : The book of Kolff (2009)

1^st Small Sculpture Exhibition

Sculpture Square

The Sculptural work involves a black book that has a small figure at the cover. The figure is suspended via wires that seemingly is attached to the book. The driving force seems to be a tiny pulsating light that emanates from the figure’s chest. It seems that the pulsating red beacon resonates very closely to the human heart.

 

The source of life seems to be from the book. Its labeled Creation, the book Kolff. Kolff was the pioneering force behind the artificial organ transplant. Being an inventor and scientist, his creation extended and saved the lives of many. It questions the advanement of technology as we know today.

 

Technology has evolved to a stage where it uses robotics and electronics to sustain human life. The anatomy does not understand formulas but these machines compute and converse using these formulas. We overlap our organs with these technologically advanced devices with the hope that they will enhance our life.  The artificial heart will definitely function as accurate as its original anatomy but will it ever beat faster when we feel guilty, anxious or in love? Will an artificial heart feel any emotions?

We are discussing some serious matters . 2009

We are discussing some serious matters (2009)

ditchmyroutine (deb, man, ryf). collaborative effort.

Plotline Series.Institute of Contemporary Arts.

21 Apr 2009 LASALLE college of the arts, new campus..

This work examines a statement on Jung’s social theory pertaining to collective unconscious. The theory reflects the unwitting imitation of social norms. It argues that norms exist because we cling to beliefs that are imparted to us from previous generations, which will conventionally be transmitted as well to our posterity, as these norms help us operate in the society. With one hundred colorful monkeys hanging from the beams, the work was modeled on the Barrel of Monkeys game, requiring a balancing act of cooperation and individual ability to win. Yet, clinging to each other for support and, not to falter, questions if the paradigm shift in the collective unconscious is truly possible. 

Displaced . 2009

Displaced (2009)

Theme: Welcome to the New World

14 Jan 2009 SMU Arts Festival.

A set of 7 television displays that illustrates the various properties of MEDIA. Illusion, repetition, emphasize, ambiguity, power, distraction and implication.

 

The user will sit on a couch infront of the television set. By sitting on the couch, the user will activate all the television sets. Sound will be played from the internals of the couch with sounds from the television sets. The sound will increase when the user sits long enough, making him/her uncomfortable. A camera is built into the television set to capture the user’s response as soon as he/she sits and will be broadcasted via live feed elsewhere.

 

This work is to suggest that we are comfortable with the information that we are gathering from these media devices, that we do not challenge them, rather simply by absorbing, and accepting them. 

SPIN . 2008

SPIN (2008)

Theme: The control of art by social construct

23Feb 2008 Memory Studios Gallery

Using ordinary, identifiable object, this work resembles a windup musical box. But the theme is more political than whimsical. The idea of how ideologies are being broadcast to an almost melodious tone that we will eventually come to accept them subconsciously. 

Skype Bomb . 2007

Skype Bomb (2007)

Theme: The Negativity of Technology

VISUAL RAGE Exhibition (DEG.hons)

Institute Of the Contemporary Arts Singapore 

Technology creates bombs, to protect or to destroy?

This artwork revolves with the idea of subliminal destruction. We have technologies that enable terrorists to activate and inflict their destruction, via internet and wireless and anonymously.

 

This artwork resembles the tubes of a biohazard chemical byproduct. And it can only be activated VIA internet access, SKYPE technology. When someone calls this device via SKYPE, the artwork will respond by emitting bubbles instead of destruction. The SKYPE caller would also be able to spy on its victim via a web cam connected, and thus will have full control of the amount of bubbles emitted while remaining anonymously. The bubbles responds to the caller’s voice. Louder pitch, increases the amount of bubbles.

 

The idea that anyone in the world can connect and activate this device, through such a readily available program (SKYPE), which can be freely downloaded.