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I couldn’t sleep all night and finally left my flat at 6 am and walked 17.5 km from Katong to our fucking world class airport. Happy weekend! Life is painful and disappointing! Suck it up! Don’t let it bring you down! #EastCoastPark #Walking #AmbientWalking #ChangiAirport #Singapore #Walker #Walk #WalkingSg #SingaporeWalks #LongWalk #StravaWalk #StravaWalking (at East Coast Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg5zTbrFnd5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Great to know that my work in the safe hands and discerning eyes of @louabelasamson and @michelangelosamson. They are installing a selection from their collection at @helutrans_artmove from 16 Sept to 17 Oct. Please take some time to have a look! #SafeEntry is a national digital check-in system that logs an individual’s visit to venues; it was introduced during #COVID19 in #Singapore. The service is a means for contact-tracing should an outbreak in a location occur. These QR codes are invisible interfaces that govern physical access to public spaces. In 2019, the @singaporeartmuseum (SAM) closed for renovations. During Singapore’s 2020 Circuit Breaker, the museum turned the hoardings that covered its construction into a commissioning space and approached Chong to develop an artwork specifically for this space. One of the two works that Chong developed was Safe Entry (2020) — enlarged repetitive black and white QR codes that spanned the entire perimeter around SAM, and along Bras Basah Road. While this artwork recalled the QR codes of the SafeEntry programme, it did not lead to the national registration system. Rather, it led to an hour-long video of a walk that Chong took at Changi Airport Terminal 2 on YouTube as part of the series @ambientwalking. #AmbientWalking is a depository of videos hosted on YouTube of long walks shot with a DJI Osmo Pocket. Each walk takes place in a city of personal significance to the artist. During COVID-19, Ambient Walking garnered new meaning. Chong provided public information about the #CircuitBreakerSG, advocated for people to stay home and offered them a series of walking tours of Singapore that they could access from the safety of their homes. The #ChangiAirport Terminal 2 video that Safe Entry directly links to was posted on 30 April 2020 — the day before the terminal closed for renovations. Filmed on 16 April 2020, the 10th day of the Circuit Breaker, it was also a document of the airport at a time when international travel ground to a halt. Chong’s video is eerily silent because the airport is empty. It was the sound of global capitalism faltering. Text by @kat_ditzig. #HemanChong (at Helutrans Relocation) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTt3sNGlg_G/?utm_medium=tumblr
“All art is documentation,” says concept artist #HemanChong. During the circuit breaker period, the 43-year-old has shot 20 new videos for his #AmbientWalking @ambientwalking channel. The videos, lasting from 30 minutes to more than an hour each, are shot on his #OsmoPocket camera. They are point-of-view shots of environments, with only #ambientnoise as the #soundtrack. “I see them as historically important #documents of our shared urban fabric during the #covid_19 crisis,” Chong says. It is surreal to see #ChangiAirport’s Terminal 2, which closed on May 1, #deserted and abnormally #silent in his almost-80-minute video. But earlier videos, such as the #library series and some of the mall walks, are strangely #nostalgic and #comforting, filled with people going about their #daily routines. They are a reminder of a lost era. Text by #OngSorFern @jazzhut for @straits_times #TheStraitsTimes #2020 #CircuitBreaker #CircuitBreakerSg #circuitbreakersg2020 (at The Green Corridor) https://www.instagram.com/p/CP6RDkiFTFI/?utm_medium=tumblr
Last week to see my show at @stpi_gallery! Catch it before it disappears! Forever! #SafeEntry is a national digital check-in system that logs an individual’s visit to venues; it was introduced during #COVID19 in #Singapore. The service is a means for contact-tracing should an outbreak in a location occur. These QR codes are invisible interfaces that govern physical access to public spaces. In 2019, the @singaporeartmuseum (SAM) closed for renovations. During Singapore’s 2020 Circuit Breaker, the museum turned the hoardings that covered its construction into a commissioning space and approached Chong to develop an artwork specifically for this space. One of the two works that Chong developed was Safe Entry (2020) — enlarged repetitive black and white QR codes that spanned the entire perimeter around SAM, and along Bras Basah Road. While this artwork recalled the QR codes of the SafeEntry programme, it did not lead to the national registration system. Rather, it led to an hour-long video of a walk that Chong took at Changi Airport Terminal 2 on YouTube as part of the series @ambientwalking . #AmbientWalking is a depository of videos hosted on YouTube of long walks shot with a DJI Osmo Pocket. Each walk takes place in a city of personal significance to the artist. During COVID-19, Ambient Walking garnered new meaning. Chong provided public information about the #CircuitBreakerSG, advocated for people to stay home and offered them a series of walking tours of Singapore that they could access from the safety of their homes. A man who was disabled wrote to Chong that his videos allowed him to finally #walk and see the world. The #ChangiAirport Terminal 2 video that Safe Entry directly links to was posted on 30 April 2020 — the day before the terminal closed for renovations. The artist made it as a historical document of Terminal 2. Filmed on 16 April 2020, the 10th day of the Circuit Breaker, it was also a document of the airport at a time when international travel ground to a halt. Chong’s video is eerily silent because the airport is empty. It was the sound of global capitalism faltering. Text by @kat_ditzig. #HemanChong (at STPI - Creative Workshop & Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNc66ttlDEl/?igshid=1xf1fgmt0ise6
#6625 #withoutwhich #labradorparkmrt #ambientwalking #depotroad #lines #itsgonnarain #24october2020 #alotatstake #anxieties #autobiography #covid_19 #archivingsg #Singapore #SingaporeCovid19 #HappyNewYear2021 #hemanchong (at Depot Road) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJlMU51FeBC/?igshid=1jbobwh7zdojm
#6624 #withoutwhich #labradorparkmrt #ambientwalking #depotroad #lines #itsgonnarain #24october2020 #alotatstake #anxieties #autobiography #covid_19 #archivingsg #Singapore #SingaporeCovid19 #HappyNewYear2021 #macritchiereservoir #2january2021 (at MacRitchie Reservoir) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJlMMZVFnLc/?igshid=4afgczc9wrat
#6622 #withoutwhich #labradorparkmrt #ambientwalking #depotroad #lines #itsgonnarain #24october2020 #alotatstake #anxieties #autobiography #covid_19 #archivingsg #Singapore #SingaporeCovid19 #HappyNewYear2021 #nolimits #canttouchthis #signage #pandemicblues (at Tampines Eco Green) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJlMDtglvGR/?igshid=1gtok389t0o12
#6622 #withoutwhich #labradorparkmrt #ambientwalking #depotroad #lines #itsgonnarain #24october2020 #alotatstake #anxieties #autobiography #covid_19 #archivingsg #Singapore #SingaporeCovid19 #SunnyTheCat #SunnyCat #HappyNewYear2021 (at Depot Road) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJib8vblUdo/?igshid=1pzpvffm6d5ye
