Loo Zihan

Loo Zihan is an artist and academic from Singapore working at the intersections of critical theory, performance, and the moving-image. He received his Masters of Fine Arts in Studio Practice from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Masters in Performance Studies from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

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No. 5153

Fourth Series + 20 Jul 2019

51 Waterloo Street

Re-enactment of an action from Seelan Palay's 32 Years: The Interrogation of a Mirror

"I have often dreamed of those fires, and have occasionally imagined certain men and certain works in front of those fires, as a way of testing men and works. Well, our era is one of those fires whose unbearable heat will doubtless reduce many a work to ashes!

But as for those which remain, their metal will be intact, and, looking at them, we shall be able to indulge without restraint in the supreme joy of the intelligence which we call “admiration.” One may long, as I do, for a gentler flame, a respite, a pause for musing. But perhaps there is no other peace for the artist than what he finds in the heat of combat.”

- Albert Camus, Create Dangerously, lecture delivered December 14, 1957 at University of Uppsala in Sweden