in Singapore April 2006
10 April 2006
Rizman Putra (Singapore)
Rizman Putra (Singapore)
FOI3: Future of Imagination 3
in Singapore April 2006
10 April 2006
Rizman Putra (Singapore)
Rizman Putra (Singapore)
Rizman Putra
b.1978 Singapore
Since 1997 Rizman Putra has been actively working in performative experimentation, crossing between different genres, including poetry, photography, video, music, burlesque, and dance. Rizman has made his name as a performer both in his solo work as well as various@collaborations.
Putra's work engages with issues of identity and stereotyping. He created
the alter-ego Manic Jango to explore the complexities that underlie his
multiple identities as a young Singaporean, Malay Muslim, contemporary
artist. He is also a founding member of a muiti-disciplinary art group
KYTV (Kill Your Television), and front man of local musicgroup,Tiramisu.
As the founding member of KYTV he is the main creative source of the performance
elements and interdisciplinary project. Rizman had performed in all the
KYTV performance, short films and interactive project. He received the
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology's (RMIT) Most Outstanding Award
2002-2003. Recently, he was awarded the President's Young Talents Award
2005 and participated in the 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2005.
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