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Date: Thu 6 Nov - Thu 13 Nov 2008
Time: 10am - 5pm, Mon - Sun
Type: Exhibition
Venue: Praxis Space, Block H Level 1, LASALLE College of the Arts
Admission: Free
Derived from combining Performance Art and TV, Performativity was first jointly curated by Thanavi Chotpradit (Thailand) and Khairuddin Hori showcasing performance-centered video pieces by emerging artists from Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines. It was launched at VER Gallery, Bangkok, belonging to internationally acclaimed artist and Hugo Boss Prize recipient Rirkrit Tiravanija in 2006. Last month, Performativity 2, consisting of video pieces by seven Singaporean artists had a one-month screening at 24HR Art, The Northern Territories’ Center for Contemporary Art in Darwin, Australia.
Its upcoming third installation subtitled Two Coats of Paint suggests a destruction (of sorts) through an action not dissimilar to laying fresh paint over a masterpiece. In this instance, the four artists will respond, adapt, appropriate, borrow and even steal from classic pieces of performance-centered video art by European and American avant-gardes from the 1960s to the 1980s such as John Baldessari, Marina Abramovich, Bruce Nauman and Yoko Ono.
This collaborative endeavor also extends the tutelage between LASALLE Fine Arts alumnus Khairuddin Hori and Level 3 students of the BA(Hons) Fine Arts programme Veliana Veli, Maria Chua and Thao Nguyen.
