Major + Critique #2

Zombie Dogs Chew Tze-chuan (2004)
• Based on Toh Hai Leong
• Strong Language
• Controversial contents
• Juxtapositions
o Gore music
• Angst (anger)
o Butcher house
• Raw meat
o Supermarket
o Restaurant
• Sells human flesh
o Instant noodles
• Necessity
• Basic/primitive
o People, crowds, malls
o Cartoon images
• Cheap way of storytelling
• Film inside a film
o Self reflexive
• Like a mirror

Charles Sandison
• Plays with words/text
• Ars 2006 - Kiasma Museum Helsinki, Finland
• Interactive
• Philosophical words
o Crowd around you
• Processing, MAX/MSP

Works from the Singapore Biennale 2006

Mariko Mori
• Sound can define, establish the space
• Glowing object in dark room

Myth of the Sisyphus - Tomas Ochoa 2006
• 2 channel video installation
• 2 different points of views
o juxtaposition
• misinformed comments
• deliberate
• argument

Appropriation
• Borrowing an idea

Brian Gothong Tan
• Built a runway for the audience to walk on
o Audience becomes models
• Cut-up Merlion

Sleepwalkers Doug Aitken
• work projected in NY Times Square
• High Ansi-Lumens (bulb strength) Projector
o expensive
o Bright places dilute light – work is only shown at night
• Frosted glass works better projected
• The whole space is the installation
• Doug’s way of humanizing the city

Maya Deren 1946 Classical Surrealist Techniques
• Non-linear
• Freeze frame
o In comparison with statues
• Slow Motion
• Negative images (x-ray)
• Repeated sequences
o Déjà-vu
• One character Two actors
• Stylised, unnatural movement

More about Surrealism
• Disdain for traditional aesthetics
• Influenced by theories of psychoanalysis
• Representation of unconscious mind dream logic
• French Surrealists + German Expressionists
• View from distorted lenses
• Use of superimposition
o When the heroine of Menilmontant stands on a bridge, contemplating suicide, the superimposition of the river over her face.
• Out of focus
o In Le Brasier ardent, the image gets out of focus to suggest the heroine’s mental abstraction

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Germany,1919)
o German expressionism
o Emphasis on visual design
o “landscapes imbued with soul”
o eliminate nature form state of absolute abstraction
o leaning/angular
o mental disturbance