SeptFest 2021: Opening performance | Tea Leaves Glowing in the Wind

by The Substation Singapore

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SeptFest 2021's opening performance by Tang Da Wu and Zai Tang

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Tea Leaves Glowing in the Wind

4 Mar / 6.30pm - 7.30pm / The Substation Facade / Free admission via registration

Tang Da Wu (b. 1943, Singapore) is a multidisciplinary artist acclaimed for his public art projects and performances that raise individual and collective awareness on social, environmental and institutional issues through the use of thought-provoking narratives. Tang co-founded The Artists Village (TAV) in 1988, a collective that radically shifted the possibilities of art-making in Singapore towards the contemporary. In 1999, Tang was awarded the Arts and Culture Prize at the 10th Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize and in 2007, he was one of four artists who represented Singapore at the Venice Biennale. Tang’s recent solo exhibitions include Cunxin Cuntie Cunxin (2021) at Comma Space, Sembawang: The D. D. Land and Sembagraphie (2019) and Hak Tai’s Bow, Brother’s Pool and Our Children (2017) at NAFA. His work They Poach the Rhino, Chop Off His Horn and Make This Drink (1989) featured in Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s–1990s (2018-2019) at National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea, and National Gallery Singapore.

Zai Tang (b. 1984, United Kingdom) is an artist whose practice spans sound, drawing, animation, and performance. He creates immersive affecting experiences that explore notions of awareness and connectivity between human and nonhuman worlds. His process begins with field recordings from wildlife-rich habitats under threat, which are then abstracted and visualised using both analogue and digital techniques. His recent works have been presented at the Busan Biennale (2020), NTT InterCommunication Centre (2020), London International Animation Festival (2020), Singapore Biennale (2019), SGIFF (2019), Yinchuan Biennale (2018), Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film Festival (2018) and Singapore International Festival of Arts–The O.P.E.N (2017). Zai’s latest work, Escape Velocity V is currently showing at National Gallery Singapore until 14th March 2021.

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Singapore, 179936

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