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Facing one another, each projection screen of the work Food Fight respectively features Tobias Fike and Matthew Harris preparing multi-course meals at a kitchen counter. As the artists dice, mix and plate meals, they begin throwing food at each other—the scene rapidly turning into a battlefield made of food projectiles, broken glasses, and dirty settings. Disruptive, playful, and aggressive, the protagonists’ actions fuse the spontaneity and innocence of children’s games with the force and reality of adults. Positioned in-between opposite projection screens, visitors become immersed in this conflict that is unfolding in a space where virtual and physical planes overlap.
Artists Tobias Fike and Matthew Harris regularly work together on collaborative projects. Encompassing video, performances, and other mediums, their collective work explores the relationships between forms and energies, as well as the concepts of play, performance, and masculinity. Fike’s individual work explores a range of notions, from concepts of family, place, and grief, to our temporal relationship with the universe and observations of time through an autobiographical lens. Matthew Harris’ sculpture-centric practice challenges the illusions constructed by social media platforms, inviting viewers to rethink how they deal with the reality of imperfection.
Charles LeDray: Securing memory – Two Coats of Paint Charles LeDray, Shiner, 2015–2023, wood, mat board, acrylic paint, enamel paint, watercolor, polyurethane, fabric, leather, embroidery floss, acrylic yarn, silicone rubber, Lava soap, mother of pearl, Fimo, pretzel bits, rabbit fur, bubble gum, wax, cinnamon oil, shoe dye, metal, copper wire, electrical tape, acrylic, foil, pumice, plastic, eraser, letterpress print, printed paper, 5 3/4 x 34 x 23 7/8 inches Contributed by Barbara A...
Air Con: Who Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up? | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints October 8, 2021 By Dhinesha Karthigesu (1,330 words, 5-minute read) Who do you want to be when you grow up? At the end of the play AIR CON , the character William (Nick Davis) asks the character Asif (Ryan Lee Bhaskaran) this question...
One Day in the Mountain is a bilingual calligraphic performance piece written in ink superimposed with food leftover from a meal...
The video Interrupted Passage presents a performance Morales staged in the former home of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, a mid-nineteenth-century Mexican general serving in California...
Butter Mountain is part of an ongoing series of works that combines a sense of painterly mass and substance with sculptural language to examine the synergy between a topographical landscape and a landscape of the human condition...
Cakap-Cakap: Interview with Daryl Lim for Local Flavours | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles May 28, 2021 In this month’s Cakap-Cakap (chit-chat), ArtsEquator speaks with poet and critic, Daryl Lim Wei Jie, who curated the poems featured in Local Flavours , an interactive site based on the concept of food delivery mobile apps...