#kathleenditzig

The first time Pio Abad meets Kathleen Ditzig in person. #PioAbad #KathleenDitzig (at Tiong Bahru Singapore) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd2kT_clCKw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Heman Chong perhaps reads the Straits Times closer than anyone else. Abstracts From The Straits Times is a series of repetitive abstractions from Singapore’s primary daily newspaper. The artist’s abstracts are based on a cache of print-ready PDFs of the newspaper that he found online. Reading has always been a performance of a text and a remaking through instantiation. In Chong’s abstraction of a page from the Straits Times, an edition from the series about a broken down lift in a public housing estate, it becomes impossible to read the newspaper rather the repetition of the image illustrating the story ‘blacks’ out the text and cuts through it, insisting on the image as a self-evident statement. In a media landscape policed by the expanded understandings of political correctness, POFMAs (Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act), accusations of ‘fake news’, trials of public opinion and ‘deep-fake’ technology, Chong’s emphasis on the newspaper image critically points to the persuasiveness of the breakdown as envisioned in an elevator, a fireman and darkness at the expense of its context. Abstracts From The Straits Times are exceptional images in that they are impossible images. It is almost impossible to believe that Chong is able to create such an ‘alternative’ image of the newspaper because of the overt legal parameters that govern and define the newspaper business in Singapore. Beyond interrogating the modalities of news and the creation of public discourse based on marshalling compelling images, Abstracts From The Straits Times as conceptual object effects alarm in how it manifests the very literal limits of how we can read a newspaper. Text by @kat_ditzig #KathleenDitzig #StpiGallery #AbstractsFromTheStraitsTimes #HemanChong (at STPI - Creative Workshop & Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNpLheqlx5e/?igshid=1iim3gym4vq4o

My new book #PeaceProsperityAndFriendshipWithAllNations edited by @kditzig and produced by @rollingrach and published by @stpi_gallery is on sale @singaporeartbookfair over this weekend! Please go and buy a copy! #HemanChong #StpiGallery #KathleenDitzig #Bookstagram #BooksOfInstagram (at 72-13) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMBzAsOloQB/?igshid=1hnenvmt8usbi

Go and see @carlosquijonjr and @kditzig’s show if you haven’t! It’s awesome! @bing___hao for @artforum : Off the beaten path, I was encouraged to find rigorous, research-based projects exploring the nuances and tensions of global solidarity movements. “In Our Best Interests: Afro-Southeast Asian Affinities during a Cold War,” an ambitious group exhibition cocurated by Kathleen Ditzig and @carlosquijonjr at Nanyang Technological University’s ADM Gallery, juxtaposed works by promising regional artists with archival materials, attesting to the curators’ skillful intertwining of scholarship and praxis. #VuthLyno’s three-channel video, 25, 2021, records a poignant conversation between three individuals of Afro-Cambodian descent twenty-five years after their fathers—all of them peacekeepers for the UNTAC (United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia)—abandoned them for their respective home countries. In a particularly discomfiting scene, a protagonist’s frank confession of mixed feelings toward UNTAC is met with uneasy silence, an allusion to the awkward irresolution of #ColdWar legacies. #KathleenDitzig #HemanChong #ArtForum (at NTU ADM Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CK2vNt8lHyU/?igshid=1ue9dwfxoqjdd

Thanks to everyone who came to my panel discussion today with @joshcomaroff and #KathleenDitzig! Last day to catch the show tomorrow! #HemanChong #stateofmotionsg #Singapore #ArchivingSg #lekkerarchitects (at Kampong Bugis, Singapore) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt8fkFgF1m-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1kdzdu5lkyecj

Thanks to everyone who came to my panel discussion today with @joshcomaroff and #KathleenDitzig! Last day to catch the show tomorrow! #HemanChong #stateofmotionsg #Singapore #ArchivingSg #lekkerarchitects (at Kampong Bugis, Singapore) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt8fkFgF1m-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1kdzdu5lkyecj

Last chance to see works from my new series #ForeignAffairs at this year's @asianfilmarchive #StateOfMotionSg curated by #KathleenDitzig. I'm begging you, please make time to see the show. It's really worth your time! I'm speaking tomorrow at 3 pm with #lekkerarchitects @joshcomaroff so come! #HemanChong (at Kampong Bugis) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt5V584lLwU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11fzoie0azuni

It's the weekend! Please go and see my show curated by #KathleenDitzig #StateOfMotion at 11 Kampong Bugis now now now! #HemanChong #ForeignAffairs @asianfilmarchive (at Kampong Bugis) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtVBjMIlt79/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hqa4yme9mx3l