Tristan Lim
25 July – 9 August 2020
We continue our programming at I_S_L_A_N_D_S with Resigning Mass, featuring new video work by multimedia artist, Tristan Lim, with collaborators Rafi Abdullah and Darius Ou.
Resigning Mass centres itself around a script based on conversational scenes compiled from various films, forming a collaged conversation between two parties. This script is the material for which the presented characters are literally and metaphorically shaped on, affecting their forms and lives. It becomes the commandment that shapes every aspect of the characters. Images extracted from the same filmic scenes are then converted into 3D models, shaping the appearance of these anthropomorphic vessels.
This presentation serves as the debut of To New Entities(TNE), a long-form project which seeks to re-envision visual media as bodies, characters, and/or vessels. Positing that nothing truly original can be conceived in contemporary times, the project looks at media as a well-spring of material deconstruction. With each exercise, formal qualities are remixed and remediated to create new expressions of resonance and dissonance – interrupting the chain of translation to produce interesting results.
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