http://rhizome.org/editorial/3045
http://www.harrislieberman.com/alexandre_singh/alexandre_singh-2009-splash.html
Questiona so answer:
Question 1:
In your own words could you describe the use of letters and images in your "Assembly Instructions"? I am still very fogy on the relationship of images and letters in this work.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ALEXANDRE SINGH: ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS (TANGENTIAL LOGICK) 17 October – 14 November 2009 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 17, 6-8 pm Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 11 – 6pm
Harris Lieberman is pleased to present the New York gallery debut of Alexandre Singh. A skilled storyteller, Singh delivers wry archaeologies of spiritual, intellectual and consumer cultures through narrative forms as eclectic as the academic lecture and Gothic horror novel. The resulting works – spanning sculpture, collage, video, installation and performance – reveal an outsize vision to match the dizzying array of anecdotes and characters that populate Singh’s tales.
For this exhibition, Singh displays Assembly Instructions (Tangential Logick), one chapter from an ongoing series of installations and lectures addressing such topics as the catholic confession, the Ikea store as mnemonic device, Yves Klein’s lungs and equestrian statues. Departing from conventional, linear narrative structures, Singh presents a room of framed, Xerox collages, linked by chains of hand drawn pencil dots, that create a web of interconnected images and ideas. As one grouping extends out along dotted lines to other collages, a small chain-of-thought gives rise to a larger theory, marked by Singh’s characteristic whimsy.
Assembly Instructions (Tangential Logick) investigates the thought processes of the sleeping or narcotically infused mind. Singh suggests that in a heightened state of interconnectivity, the dreamer constructs ever more elaborate images, word-plays and connected notions, which upon waking, naturally evaporate away, leaving us with only the most perplexing vestiges of a rich and often bizarre imaginative journey.
At the conclusion of the exhibition, Singh will deliver three of his Assembly Instructions lectures over successive nights at White Columns, New York. Alexandre Singh: 3 Lectures + 1 Story = 4 Evenings is curated by Matthew Higgs in association with Performa09.
Alexandre Singh received his BFA from the Ruskin School of Drawing Fine Art, at Oxford University, UK, and his MFA from the School of Arts, New York. He has had solo exhibitions at White Columns, New Ballroom, Marfa, and Museu da Electricidade, Lisbon. Recent group exhibitions include Fax, which originated at The Drawing Center, New York, and will travel to Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, and Torrance Art Museum, Torrance; NO SOUL FOR SALE at X-Initiative, New York, curated by Rhizome; The Columns Held Us Up, Artists Space, New York; Of This Tale I Cannot Guarantee A Single Word, The Royal College of Art, London; and EAST International 17, Norwich Gallery, Norwich.
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Question 2
In your collaborative past work, how did you go about collaborating with the other artists?
he mentioned that he was friends with the individuals he collaborated with
- What was the most interesting quote of the lecture and why?
to paraphrase an answer about how he makes work; take every practice about being alive and make work
- Using three words, define the core of the artist's practice and artwork.
imaginative, fluid, anthropomorphism
- What is the most interesting thing you learned about the artist that you did not know before?
well I had no idea what he was trying to do just by reading and viewing photographs of his work
- What image or artwork do you find the most compelling and powerful after hearing the artist describe it?
I enjoyed his lecture, I wish I could have seen his piece about the Meth Lab in person. I feel that he is a speaker, a lecturer, a story teller above all else.
