#ashortstoryaboutgeometry

[hemanchong]

I’ll be speaking tomorrow (Saturday 8 May) at 1 pm (Singapore Time) on Zoom with #SeleneYap @nosyvelvet as part of the current group show at #SingaporeArtMuseum @singaporeartmuseum. The talk will cover a number of works that have been acquired by the museum. The link is in my stories! Or just DM me for the link! Please come! - #DataEntries In this talk, artist #HemanChong will reflect on the processes of his works that touches on the ideas of data collection, performance and politics in our everyday lives. The prevailing discussions on the presentation and mediation of his work are often addressing the fluctuating boundaries of what constitutes a performance, or a photograph, or a sculpture or a text. But can they be all of the above? And if so, what are the strategies involved in beginning to look and think about these forms? Focusing on his works, #AShortStoryAboutGeometry, #Calendars20202096, #ForeignAffairs, #GodBlessDiana, #TheLibraryOfUnreadBooks and #EverythingWikipedia, Heman will also address the use of written instructions as a method of document for the re-staging of these works that are presently in the collection of The Singapore Art Museum. The talk will be moderated by exhibition co-curator, Selene Yap. (at Singapore Art Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/COjhkWfFOSx/?igshid=b8h32tzouqnn

[hemanchong]

I’ll be speaking this Saturday at 1 pm on Zoom with #SeleneYap @nosyvelvet as part of the current group show at #SingaporeArtMuseum @singaporeartmuseum. The talk will cover a number of works that have been acquired by the museum. The link is in my stories! Please come! - #DataEntries In this talk, artist #HemanChong will reflect on the processes of his works that touches on the ideas of data collection, performance and politics in our everyday lives. The prevailing discussions on the presentation and mediation of his work are often addressing the fluctuating boundaries of what constitutes a performance, or a photograph, or a sculpture or a text. But can they be all of the above? And if so, what are the strategies involved in beginning to look and think about these forms? Focusing on his works, #AShortStoryAboutGeometry, #Calendars20202096, #ForeignAffairs, #GodBlessDiana, #TheLibraryOfUnreadBooks and #EverythingWikipedia, Heman will also address the use of written instructions as a method of document for the re-staging of these works that are presently in the collection of The Singapore Art Museum. The talk will be moderated by exhibition co-curator, Selene Yap. (at STPI - Creative Workshop & Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/COfGjxJFJaS/?igshid=xda7713b2x5k

[hemanchong]

@taytong63 and @keehongwestkowloon eavesdropping on my performance, #AShortStoryAboutGeometry, the first of 9 #shortstories I wrote back in 2009 @tworkssg. It entails memorising a text of about 500 words, and to be able to retell it to the instructor without making any mistakes. Most participants have found it incredibly difficult and would generally take about 3 hours or more to memorise it. This performance was born out of a conversation with #BorisCharmatz @terrain_bc and #OngKengSen for #expozero. #HemanChong #Memories (at 72-13) https://www.instagram.com/p/CL3vNK1FdmE/?igshid=td72hwgyry9

[hemanchong]

#Tomorrow is the #last #performance of my #work @ntu_ccasingapore. In #AShortStoryAboutGeometry, there is no #audience to the work but a #participant and an #instructor who will help him or her #memorise a #shortstory #500words in length. The performance ends only when the participant is able to repeat the #story back to the #instructor #word for word. Not for the #fainthearted. I don't make things #easy. Special thanks to #ShannenJane @irunaroundnaked for being my #personaltrainer. #HemanChong #Singapore #ArchivingSg (at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpuA3BVFntQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=h601xpxk91so

[hemanchong]

@ancarujoiu's incredible #notations of #AShortStoryAboutGeometry where she signed up today to #memorise a #500word #shortstory @ntu_ccasingapore. Come and spend some hours with us in @gillmanbarracks one of these weekends and see if you can #inscribe a #work of mine into your #head. Contact @magdousha to find out how to sign up! #HemanChong (at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore) https://www.instagram.com/p/Booq22EhOte/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1kz6a33003bos

[hemanchong]

**COME MEMORISE A SHORT STORY** Be a part of #HemanChong’s durational performance as part of our upcoming exhibition 'Stagings. Soundings. Readings. Free Jazz II' at #NTUCenterforContemporaryArt @ntu_ccasingapore in #GillmanBarracks @gillmanbarracks in #Singapore. Heman Chong’s ‘#AShortStoryAboutGeometry' is a #transaction between an instructor and a participant, with the main “protagonist” being a #shortstory written by the artist in 2009. It is the first of seven #stories, each approximately #500words long and specifically #written to be #transmitted via #memorising the story, #wordforword. The story is taught only #verbally by the instructor, who holds the text in her #hands. Participants are requested to not leave the #room until the transaction is completed, and they have #memorised the story by #heart. Chong has promised that this #story will #never be #published neither on paper nor digitally; the content remains known only to the instructor and the participants. As they offer their time and energy to receive the gift of the story, a unique way of ‘reading' it emerges each time this #situation occurs. Transactions will take place Saturdays and Sundays over the course of the exhibition period, 21 September – 6 November 2018, starting each day from 1.00pm. To book a slot with your personal coach @irunaroundnaked #ShannenJane, please email your preferred day and time to: [email protected] (at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnaz6uWBFRP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=omwryo46nl8g