Pushing boundaries in art
Three of the latest art exhibitions in town will challenge your perceptions of the world
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Joo Choon Lin
Dance In The Destruction Dance
Singapore Art Museum, till Apr 16
Joo Choon Lin’s agreeably eccentric show at the Singapore Art Museum in Tanjong Pagar Distripark is easy to love but hard to comprehend. There are bizarre sculptures with collapsible legs, and rock slabs strung together by steel chains. Some installations have latches, hinges and wheels so that they can be broken up and reconstituted according to one’s whims. What’s more, the works are sometimes coupled with live performances of actors speaking gibberish.
The respectful room sheet describes the show as a “multisensory environment (that) draws attention to how industrial materials continuously change their shape, appearance and meaning in our contemporary world”. And it is certainly possible to read Joo’s playful absurdism as an investigation into our relationship with material (wood, plastic, metal) and technology.
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