Kar-men Cheng & Zai Tang

Exhibition

The Other Detour

Kar-men Cheng & Zai Tang

11 January 2025 to 26 January 2025

1pm - 7:40pm daily with registration

Free admission with registration

Register at "The Other Detour" Visitor Registration

Synopsis

In this multimedia installation, the audience journeys through the fantasies that fuel dehumanisation, discrimination, and other forms of Othering. A psychoanalyst invites a forest to recount things it has witnessed, taking the points of view of different subjects.

The experience of Othering combines repulsion and the enjoyment that the Other is imagined to horde. It is this enjoyment that the film engages with.

We paint several Othering fantasies that brutally sustain identities, industries and hierarchies. Notably, many scenes are informed by the administration of animals in colonial Singapore.

Dialogue is primarily communicated through wildlife sounds. The warbles, whines, growls and creaks provide a sonic mirror of the living feelings we are capable of creating, disregarding, and exploiting.

Instagram: @panoptikonnyaku / @zai.tangent

Public programmes:

Artist Tours: January 11th & 18th, 3.30pm
Opening: January 11th, 4.30–7pm

 

Participating artists/curators:

Kar-men Cheng, Artist
Zai Tang, Artist

 

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