Artist talk by Heman Chong will be held on 2 May 2013. In keeping with Chong’s world of ideas, this artist talk will address three forms of artistic/curatorial strategies to projects produced between 2003-2012 within a spectrum of institutions including archives, artist-run spaces, biennales, bookshops, commercial galleries, libraries, museums and schools. Given that Chong’s work consciously sits at the intersection of a variety of genres: visual art, curating, performance, installation and science-fiction, he has chosen a lyrical and associative approach to this talk that engages with and unravels these categories and terminologies rather than upholding them.

 About the Artist

Heman Chong is an artist, curator and writer based in Singapore. He received his M.A in Communication Art & Design from The Royal College of Art, London in 2002. His art practice involves an investigation into the philosophies, reasons and methods of individuals and communities imagining the future. Charged with a conceptual drive, this research is then adapted into objects, images, installations, situations or texts. The artist has developed solo exhibitions at Wilkinson Gallery (London), Rossi & Rossi (London), SOTA Gallery (Singapore), NUS Museum (Singapore), Kunstverein Milano (Milan), Motive Gallery (Amsterdam), Hermes Third Floor (Singapore), Vitamin Creative Space (Guangzhou), Art In General (New York), Project Arts Centre (Dublin), Ellen de Bruijne Projects (Amsterdam), The Substation (Singapore), Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), Sparwasser HQ (Berlin). He has participated in numerous international biennales including Asia Pacific Triennale 7 (2012), Performa 11 (2011), Momentum 6 (2011), Manifesta 8 (2010), 2nd Singapore Biennale (2008), SCAPE Christchurch Biennale (2006), Busan Biennale (2004), 10th India Triennale (2000) and represented Singapore in the 50th Venice Biennale (2003).