4 X 4 – EPISODES OF SINGAPORE ART

The practice of Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen defies easy categorisation. Ranging across painting, video, performance, lecturing and writing, Ho’s work blurs the boundaries between these genres, creating a complex interdisciplinary practice. 4x4 - Episodes of Singapore Art is an attempt to re-interpret four works of art by four Singaporean artists. These works are represented across three different platforms: a forum discussion, a foldable postcard cube for distribution and a 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: a public for the visual arts and historical memory. The television series, shown here, encompasses video art, mass-media intervention, cultural sleuthing, polemics and pedagogy. Set as dialectic arguments between a man and a woman, the program attempts to popularise techniques of visual analysis and art historical interpretation.
'4 X 4 - Episodes of Singapore Art' is an attempt to re-interpret four works of art by four Singaporean artists. These works are represented across three different platforms: a forum discussion, a foldable postcard cube for distribution and a 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: an audience for the visual arts and a collective historical memory. The television series, shown here, encompasses video art, mass-media intervention, cultural sleuthing, polemics and pedagogy. Set as dialectic arguments between a man and a woman, the program attempts to popularise techniques of visual analysis and interpretation in the context of history of art. Each of the particular modes of off-screen spaces is thereby related to each of the art works in question.