Yen Phang

Yen Phang obsesses upon on the biological. He was a recipient of the Winston Oh Grant (2016), Winston Oh Travel Research Award (2016), and was awarded the Cliftons Art Prize (2015) and the UNSW Julius Stone Prize (2006). His work has been collected by the Singapore High Commission in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Singapore), British Airways for their Terminal 1 Lounge at Changi Airport (Singapore). He has also initiated projects such as “I.D. (The Body’s Still Warm)” (2018), Displacements: 13 Wilkie Terrace“ (2013),“The Peony And the Crow“ (2016), and “Repurposing Nostalgia” (2016) under the Displacements banner.

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Admin

Second Series +

9 Mar 2019

Stamford Arts Centre

Admin looks at the relationship between a person in a period of grieving, and the body and objects of the deceased. It examines the balance between acts of control and surrender during a time of mourning, and the embrace of absurdity in one’s efforts at efficiency and methodology.

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Performance Review

with Hyrol Sami'on Fourth Series + 20 Jul 2019 51 Waterloo Street

Performance Review is a collaboration which was first sparked off by conversations about Human Resource. Hyrol employs Microsoft Excel as a Lo-fi medium of data aggregation, providing input which shapes the ensuing gestures of Yen-as-Flesh-Analog.

Through this process, the artists ruminate upon the place of the body within evolving management systems increasingly informed by APIs (Application Programming Interface), our associative unconscious in the workplace, and Singapore's obsession with surveys and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators).

“Performance Review" is the first prototype of an ongoing dialogue about the idea of feedback.

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Condition Precedent

Eighth Series +

9 May 2020

Online

'Condition Precedent' follows through from Yen Phang’s series of investigations on death anxiety ('Small Monuments', 2016-2019), where he morphs our relationships with the functions and materiality of everyday domestic toiletries, such as toilet paper, soap, and petroleum jelly. Commentary