in Singapore April 2006
10 April 2006
Singlish Punk (Singapore)
Singlish Punk (Singapore)
FOI3: Future of Imagination 3
in Singapore April 2006
10 April 2006
Singlish Punk (Singapore)
Singlish Punk (Singapore)
Kai Lam
b.1974, Singapore
Kai Lam was trained in sculpture in 1993, practices installation,
video, and sound art and has started making performance art since
1999. In 2005, He started performing as "Singlish Punk." His work is a
respond to the identity of being a 'global citizen' in the city where he lives and work as a visual artist.
"Singlish Punk" is a critical inquiry into the ideas of cultural appropriation and the assimilated 'global' identity. This work is a manifestation of the artist's intent to understand the various ways of presenting performance art as well as a contradictive analogy of the artist's role towards his immediate social environment. Art making is an approach for Kai to understand the human conditions surrounding him and through his personal experiences, realized as a social commentary and a creative exploration of the urban pluralistic society. Kai is one of the co-organizers of critical artists-initiated projects like "Artists Investigating Monuments", a public art project and "Future Of Imagination", International Performance Art Festival and an active member of The Artists Village and Sculpture Society, Singapore.
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