Dates:
9 Jun 2017
People:
Location:
Venice
Project:
In response to the critical themes explored by the artists of the Diaspora Pavilion exhibition, MAP1: WATERWAYS presented a day of indoor and outdoor performances activating sites alongside water. MAP1 utilises the critical metaphor of “water” as conceptual locus to investigate the relations with three cities – Venice, Singapore and London – that have historically been hubs and gateways of trade and cultural exchange between different regions since medieval times to the present. Transition and movement via water also underpin the lived experiences of the artists and find manifestation in their projects, and is the imaginary metaphor in which to pull together diverse stories, aesthetics and cultural contexts.
Into this context MAP1: WATERWAYS asked the question as to how memories and meanings were collected and preserved in transition, when departure, resettlement and assimilation across vast distances fragment any sense of continuity, or materials are lost or destroyed, therefore refocusing on the idea that the ‘archive’ can be fluid and transposed in the living persons, who bear witness and wilfully reconstruct and pass on meaning in the historical present. MAP1: WATERWAYS brought 4 live performances that draw attention to the artist as personal archivist of transitory collective and personal meanings of the past, present and future.
MAP1: WATERWAYS was a public live art programme conceived by curator Annie Jael Kwan in collaboration with Something Human that explored current notions of Diaspora connecting Singapore, UK and Italy. WATERWAYS is presented in collaboration with ICF’s 2016-8 Beyond the Frame programme, which Kwan was participating in at the time.
People:
Project:
In response to the critical themes explored by the artists of the Diaspora Pavilion exhibition, MAP1: WATERWAYS presented a day of indoor and outdoor performances activating sites alongside water. MAP1 utilises the critical metaphor of “water” as conceptual locus to investigate the relations with three cities – Venice, Singapore and London – that have historically been hubs and gateways of trade and cultural exchange between different regions since medieval times to the present. Transition and movement via water also underpin the lived experiences of the artists and find manifestation in their projects, and is the imaginary metaphor in which to pull together diverse stories, aesthetics and cultural contexts.
Into this context MAP1: WATERWAYS asked the question as to how memories and meanings were collected and preserved in transition, when departure, resettlement and assimilation across vast distances fragment any sense of continuity, or materials are lost or destroyed, therefore refocusing on the idea that the ‘archive’ can be fluid and transposed in the living persons, who bear witness and wilfully reconstruct and pass on meaning in the historical present. MAP1: WATERWAYS brought 4 live performances that draw attention to the artist as personal archivist of transitory collective and personal meanings of the past, present and future.
MAP1: WATERWAYS was a public live art programme conceived by curator Annie Jael Kwan in collaboration with Something Human that explored current notions of Diaspora connecting Singapore, UK and Italy. WATERWAYS is presented in collaboration with ICF’s 2016-8 Beyond the Frame programme, which Kwan was participating in at the time.
Dates:
9 Jun 2017
Location:
Venice
