HO TZU NYEN - 4X4 EPISODES OF SINGAPORE ART

The practice of Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen (1976) defies easy categorisation. Ranging acrosspainting, video, performance,lecturing and writing, Ho blurs the boundaries between these genres, creating a complex interdisciplinary practice. 4x4- Episodes of Singapore Art is an attempt to re-present four worksof art by four Singaporean artists.These works are represented across three different platforms : a forum discussion, a foldable postcard cube for distribution anda television series, which was aired on Singapore’s Arts Central channel. This project grew out of the artist’s desire to address two cultural deficits in Singapore: the missing public of visual arts and the absence of historica lmemory. The television series, on show here, straddles video art,mass-media intervention, cultural sleuthing, polemics and pedagogy.Set as dialectic arguments between a man and a woman, theprogram attempts to popularise techniques of visual analysis and art historical interpretation.

2005, 4 x 24’, video, colour, sound, English spoken