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Jevon Chandra, Kei Franklin, Jungsuh Sue Lim

http://www.jevonchandra.org

Singapore, Singapore
The artists – based in Singapore, US, and South Korea – first met at an arts and technology unconference in Chiang Mai, Thailand. With expertise across sound, film, performance-making, and spatial design, the collective creates participatory inter-media experiences that blend research with affect. Their works draw from serious play, exploring the cause and effect between individual actions on/by inhabited environments, on topics that signal porosities between physical and emotional landscapes.

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Tomorrow's Islands


Shapes of Gathering and Solace

Tomorrow's Islands


Shapes of Gathering and Solace
“Tomorrow’s Islands” is an installation-performance about movement, connection, and attention. Using land reclamation, the work takes the migration and compaction of sand as metaphors for the displacement and reconstitution of community, reflecting on the promises and challenges of congregation.
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  • New alliances

World acclaimed smart-city Songdo (South Korea) is built on what was once deep-sea sand, over former coastal tidelands. Soil from Cambodian deltas makes Jurong Island, Singapore’s largest oil refinery. How does Cambodian soil become Singaporean? Who decides?

Our work considers genealogies of belonging, across microhistories of belief frameworks and materialities of built environments. Taking self as architecture, we reflected on our pasts in Indonesia, US, and South Korea, sharing artifacts from our childhood homes, some in sounds and scents. These memories are vivid to us, though they may stay amorphous for others. Even on the scale of the personal, power and information asymmetries abound.

We push for architecture beyond materiality, which cares to withstand the whims and foibles of bodies in it. How, if at all, does physical proximity morph into emotional connection? How does place become home? And when coming together is hard, what possibilities for solace remain?

The experience begins with participants working on individual prompts, reflecting on their associations to the word "home".

Using a range of provided materials, participants build little sculptures of "home" within the performance space.

Still from projection used. It depicts the buffering of Singapore and Incheon maps, side by side.

Still from projection used. Lyrics to a song we composed in each of our mother tongues: English, Korean, and Bahasa Indonesia.

A small space for solitude, tucked in a secret corner of our installation-performance.

Tomorrow's Islands


Shapes of Gathering and Solace

Tomorrow's Islands


Shapes of Gathering and Solace
“Tomorrow’s Islands” is an installation-performance about movement, connection, and attention. Using land reclamation, the work takes the migration and compaction of sand as metaphors for the displacement and reconstitution of community, reflecting on the promises and challenges of congregation.
File under
Type of project
  • New alliances

World acclaimed smart-city Songdo (South Korea) is built on what was once deep-sea sand, over former coastal tidelands. Soil from Cambodian deltas makes Jurong Island, Singapore’s largest oil refinery. How does Cambodian soil become Singaporean? Who decides?

Our work considers genealogies of belonging, across microhistories of belief frameworks and materialities of built environments. Taking self as architecture, we reflected on our pasts in Indonesia, US, and South Korea, sharing artifacts from our childhood homes, some in sounds and scents. These memories are vivid to us, though they may stay amorphous for others. Even on the scale of the personal, power and information asymmetries abound.

We push for architecture beyond materiality, which cares to withstand the whims and foibles of bodies in it. How, if at all, does physical proximity morph into emotional connection? How does place become home? And when coming together is hard, what possibilities for solace remain?

The experience begins with participants working on individual prompts, reflecting on their associations to the word "home".

Using a range of provided materials, participants build little sculptures of "home" within the performance space.

Still from projection used. It depicts the buffering of Singapore and Incheon maps, side by side.

Still from projection used. Lyrics to a song we composed in each of our mother tongues: English, Korean, and Bahasa Indonesia.

A small space for solitude, tucked in a secret corner of our installation-performance.

Idea by

Jevon Chandra, Kei Franklin, Jungsuh Sue Lim
Singapore
Singapore
The artists – based in Singapore, US, and South Korea – first met at an arts and technology unconference in Chiang Mai, Thailand. With expertise across sound, film, performance-making, and spatial design, the collective creates participatory inter-media experiences that blend research with affect. Their works draw from serious play, exploring the cause and effect between individual actions on/by inhabited environments, on topics that signal porosities between physical and emotional landscapes.
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