With around 20 participants, 'Have a Speed-Date With Kai – Let’s Re-Imagine Our (Collective) Future Together': Part of exhibition 'Ordinary Things'
With around 20 participants, 'Have a Speed-Date With Kai – Let’s Re-Imagine Our (Collective) Future Together': Part of exhibition 'Ordinary Things'
As part of the exhibition Ordinary Things curated by Professor of visual Politics Louise Siddons, I held speed dates. Here, participants sit with the artist to re-imagine our (collective) future, and/or strategise artful ways to fight colonialism. Our dates were speedy. Around 20 people dated me between 02-25 November 2023. The dates took place:2nd November Thursday: Private View evening3rd November Friday: 12:00-13:009th November Thursday 15:00-16:0013th November Monday 12:00-13:00 22nd November Wednesday 15:00 – 16:00. This work continues from my Speed-Date with artist Bob and Roberta Smith (How to Thrive in 2050, 2021), neuro-queering proponent Nick Walker (2023) and more. This work casts a sideway glance at Marina Abramovic’s iconic and very serious The Artist Is Present, as well as, more generally, her particular brand of durational performance, currently showing the Royal Academy (and during the duration of our exhibition too). Speed-dates are perfect for the time-poor and the novelty-chasing/risk-desiring person, like one Kai Syng Tan. Kai became a die-hard, hard-core optimist and serial (speed-)dater because she is allergic to boredom. Kai is not just pro-active but hyper-active in seeking to brain-storm and create fire-works with others about better ways forward, because she refuses to take things lying down. This (anti-)durational performance is a new iteration of a body of creative research that Kai has been working on since 2016, outputs of which include a speed-date with visionary artist Bob and Roberta Smith (in How to Thrive in 2050!, BBC Culture in Quarantine 2021) (below, left), and an exhibition-cum-performance on a ‘Neuro-futuristic 2050’ at Attenborough Arts Centre (below, right). Our deadline is 2050, which is less than one generation away. We’re running out of time, so, hurry.
Tan, Kai Syng
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2 November 2023
Tan, Kai Syng
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Tan, Kai Syng
(2023)
With around 20 participants, 'Have a Speed-Date With Kai – Let’s Re-Imagine Our (Collective) Future Together': Part of exhibition 'Ordinary Things'.
Abstract
As part of the exhibition Ordinary Things curated by Professor of visual Politics Louise Siddons, I held speed dates. Here, participants sit with the artist to re-imagine our (collective) future, and/or strategise artful ways to fight colonialism. Our dates were speedy. Around 20 people dated me between 02-25 November 2023. The dates took place:2nd November Thursday: Private View evening3rd November Friday: 12:00-13:009th November Thursday 15:00-16:0013th November Monday 12:00-13:00 22nd November Wednesday 15:00 – 16:00. This work continues from my Speed-Date with artist Bob and Roberta Smith (How to Thrive in 2050, 2021), neuro-queering proponent Nick Walker (2023) and more. This work casts a sideway glance at Marina Abramovic’s iconic and very serious The Artist Is Present, as well as, more generally, her particular brand of durational performance, currently showing the Royal Academy (and during the duration of our exhibition too). Speed-dates are perfect for the time-poor and the novelty-chasing/risk-desiring person, like one Kai Syng Tan. Kai became a die-hard, hard-core optimist and serial (speed-)dater because she is allergic to boredom. Kai is not just pro-active but hyper-active in seeking to brain-storm and create fire-works with others about better ways forward, because she refuses to take things lying down. This (anti-)durational performance is a new iteration of a body of creative research that Kai has been working on since 2016, outputs of which include a speed-date with visionary artist Bob and Roberta Smith (in How to Thrive in 2050!, BBC Culture in Quarantine 2021) (below, left), and an exhibition-cum-performance on a ‘Neuro-futuristic 2050’ at Attenborough Arts Centre (below, right). Our deadline is 2050, which is less than one generation away. We’re running out of time, so, hurry.
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Published date: 2 November 2023
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/492822
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