Performance Documentation (Curio Cabinet of Self)

The following are photographs and videos I voluntarily took to document "Curio Cabinet of Self", which was a performance held at NTU ADM as part of a final year project by Diana Toh, a graduating student from the Interactive Media major.

The artist continued to hold the performance over the course of the whole week until the end of the ADM Grad Show (from 7th May - 17th May).  Seeing a performance piece as a final year project was something that was very rare (atleast from what I had known so far at ADM), and that just made it all the more compelling to be there to witness the performance go underway first-hand. Due to the nature of the performance, having perfomance props breaking in two or having paint splatter flying towards to unsuspecting audience while the artist struck the canvas with all kinds of objects was all part of the experience.

The artist invited onlookers to tag the canvases on the wall, and I obliged by spraying her name.

One of the audience members having a moment with the artist's wall which is part of the installation encapsulating the performance space.

The artist taking a breather post-perfomance outside at the cafe at NTU ADM.

The artist in action during the performance which lasted for about 30mins.

Screencapture of the livestream feed pre-performance from the webcams installed in the artist's space.

I was lucky enough to follow the artist outside after one of her performances with my camera and record her conversation with a pair of audience members ala a casual Q and A (hence the video above). More documentation and details of her performance can be accessed here.

New Year, New Post

Well, it's been a while! (and it's already 2015, wow)

Things have been going along swimmingly. I've been pretty much occupied with work and personal projects since graduation, and that's been a good thing. The last thing I need is to end up being stagnant without having anything to do. While I'm busy with work during the weekdays, I've been equally busy during the weekends with indulging myself in small little experiments.

Like this one.

Head construction. Focused more on overlapping angles and shapes. More accidents. #design #art #glitch

A photo posted by Prakash Perumal Haridas (@prakashph) on Nov 11, 2014 at 12:39am PST

I've since started archiving my little experiments on a small corner on the Internet, which you can find here on my Tumblr. I never really had the time to explore newer things during my days in university, let alone during whatever vacation breaks I got during my time then. Right now, it's the best time to get myself to basically do stuff and keep doing stuff. I think it's becoming more of a habit now. Not too sure just where else my mucking about with glitch aesthetics will take me to, but I'm just going to enjoy the ride for now.

Sunday at the National Museum

Lately my mum's been the one actively looking for interesting things to go to or check out over the weekends. It just so happened that she came across news of the "WE: Defining Stories" exhibition which was happening at the National Museum. Being very much attracted to all things nostalgic, she wanted to go check out the photographs of old Singapore and since today was the very last day of the exhibition, we both went there to check it out.