AWKNDAFFR
Get to the Point, 2022
Islandwide Coverage, 2022
Singapore Biennale 2022 Commission
Islandwide Coverage is a multi-site, multi-authored project that investigates the circulation of bodies and data and explores the possibilities of getting lost in an age of conveniences and mobility, which are generated by infrastructural and information systems. The project activates various vantage points across the Singapore island and presents works by Areumnari Ee, Extended Asia, ila and Ang Kia Yee, and Ranu Mukherjee.
In keeping with AWKNDAFFR’s explorations around forms of gathering, the project brings together the various works in a large-scale vinyl print on the SAM Hoardings featuring symbols and shapes that represent networks and connectivity.
The project is also staged as exhibition consisting of a series of trailers and work-in-progress materials such as photographs and sketches of the presented works that will move across three Regional Libraries during the period of the Biennale. The roving exhibition Prologue will be staged at the following Regional Libraries:
- Woodlands Regional Library (9 Nov–26 Dec 2022)
- Jurong Regional Library (28 Dec 2022–26 Feb 2023)
- Tampines Regional Library (1 Mar–9 Apr 2023)
BIO
AWKNDAFFR (initiated in 2018) is an artistic operation situated at the intersection of art, theory and praxis. The operative logic of AWKNDAFFR revolves around relationality, agency and cooperation between peoples and practices, through different modes of gathering. Its first interpellation was A Weekend Affair (2019), a two-day symposium-festival at a chalet in Changi, Singapore, and, more recently, in book form through the edited anthology Can, Cannot, and Other Options (2021). It has also manifested in a string of short and long-term affairs, independently and through participation in local residencies with LASALLE College of the Arts (2019) and The Substation (2020–2021). AWKNDAFFR was initiated by Wayne WJ. Lim and Soh Kay Min.
Wayne WJ. Lim is a visual art practitioner who makes psycho-sensorial works relating to the everyday. He studies and is fascinated by the arrangements and logics of aesthetics, economy and ideology. Soh Kay Min’s practice weaves between semiotics, theory and fiction, and explores emergent modes of other-worlding through queering and reorganising. Both currently live and work in Singapore.
RESOURCES
INFORMATION
- Get to the Point. 2022. Video, single channel, sound; vinyl, paint and clear gloss on modified coin-operated machine. 5 min.
- Islandwide Coverage. 2022. Digital vinyl on print.