4 DIRECTIONS FROM ASIA
8 Oct. 2010
Grace Exhibition Space @Brooklyn
Lee Wen (Singapore)
gAnyhow Bluesh
Lee Wen (Singapore)gAnyhow Blues # 5h Do folk songs belong in performance art? I have just begun a new series of work called gAnyhow Bluesh as a follow-up to my earlier gToo Late The Hippieh started in 2007. Itfs my take on a conservative society trying to be hip, expressed so neatly in the tourism boardfs slogan of eUniquely Hip Singaporef and is a vehicle for various issues that need voicing out in this troubled world, which I have put into songs and hence the gAnyhow Bluesh. I started to play the acoustic guitar again for this project, and hope to work out with a band in time to come, hopefully my guitar playing improves. At the same time I am working on a tongue-in-cheek book where I will outline the gAesthetics of Anyhowh or the art theory of the eanyhowf principle of art making.
Lee Wen has been exploring different strategies of time-based and performance art since 1989. His work has been strongly motivated by social investigations as well as inner psychological directions using art to interrogate stereotypical perceptions of culture and society. He is a contributing factor in The Artists Village alternative in Singapore and had been participating in Black Market international performance collective.
He is co-organizer of gFuture of Imaginationh (2003), an international performance art event and gR.I.T.E.S.- Rooted In The Ephemeral Speakh (2009), a platform to support and develop performance art practices, discourse, infrastructure and audiences in Singapore. He has never been to Patagonia.
The Future of Imagination website: www.foi.sg
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