Turbulence. Nothing new. The roughest one I’ve had so far, though. The woman sitting next to me held on tightly to her seat. She closed her eyes tightly, and mumbled something. A prayer, maybe, obviously. Or perhaps promises? Her heart beat faster, by the look of it. I thought of Kiki, her recently-developed, self-grown fear of flight […]
I’m working on Schumann’s Intermezzo (No. 4 from Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26), written in 1839 when he intended to settle with his future wife Clara, whom he married the year after. A poetic piano piece, in the only recording I’ve listened to so far it is played extremely fast, with whirlwind-like arpeggios providing background […]
A pudgy black Fold Away Tesco Green Bag, a silvery blue hard disk, two plastic bottles, a hazy Tate Aug/Sep booklet, a colourful Transport for London June 2009 brochure, a black umbrella, an empty tall glass, a little black mouse, several daisies dyed blue in a jar, a grey box of man-size tissues, an off-white […]
Make spaghetti. For sauce, melt butter in frying pan, put in garlic and onion until golden brown, mix in chopped tomato, cubed broccoli stem, chopped champignon, a bit of cream cheese, a bit of white wine, a bit of nutmeg, a bit of basil leaves, a bit of crushed cashew, and a pinch of salt. […]
What is it that you want me to promise you my dear: that I will never suddenly die? I can promise you the whole earth in my hand my love, but that would be simply a lie. “Faith is the courage to live with uncertainty.” Thank you, Daniel Wolfson. And thank you again.
In my dreams, logic goes in reverse. Once, in there, I saw my ID card — which was slightly bigger than it was in un-dream (or, the waking world, to avoid using the word “reality”), therefore might be fake and, in fact, was confirmed as (in that dream) only a reproduction — slipped away from […]
We walked the platform. As we pass the first class carriages, or perhaps a bit before then, you tried to initiate a conversation. Sorry that I can’t look at you in the eyes, you said, I’m too nervous. I nodded and pretended to understand, too nervous to ask more. A young couple stood near the […]
Presented as a party game, Terra incognita, et cetera (2009, interactive performance and wall installation) is an exercise in collective painting and, simultaneously, a play of collaboration and territorial marking. The interactive performance is an art exhibition opening party game where audience members can participate in cutting up a blank map of the world into […]
Lure (2009) is a spatial installation using handmade miniature passports, handmade real-size passports, and a claw vending machine. The installation consists of two coherent parts — the Intro and the Main part. The Intro is a long line of colourful miniature passports that is composed along the exhibition space, analogous to Hansel and Gretel’s trail […]
The production of Lure involved a curator (Eva McGovern) based in Kuala Lumpur, a production supervisor based in Yogyakarta, and a production assistant based in Melbourne, as well as subcontractors in Guangzhou and Yogyakarta. This valuable experience of a multinational production had to be made possible because I could not go out of Australia in […]