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Monday, August 13, 2007
You are not a tourist
The Singapore Art Show kicked off at the beginning of August. Should it be called "Singapore: not the Biennale"? Plenty of work in public spaces, including a series orchestrated by Sculpture Square called "You are Not a Tourist". Also a work by two artists known as Vertical Submarine (Joshua Yang and Justin Loke), a rought cement model of a migrant worker confronting the Raffles Statue on Boat Quay. As you can read from the article in Today, or the artists' blog, the piece was knocked over and damaged by a delivery van.
This is not the first time artists have confronted the Raffles statue. An Artists Village project called "Artists Investigating Monuments" performed a confrontation with the work on the same Boat Quay site in 2000 and presented it in a museum setting in 2005. I found these a bit more rewarding.
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