S. Chandrasekaran

Singapore

STATEMENT OF ARTIST PRACTICE

The artist is a creative individual. He has an “auto-relationship” with society; a process whereby the Self is continuously regenerating itself in dealing with the Others. Here, the definition of Others refers to the socio-construction of society ranging from a socio-political system to a person on a street.

As part of contemporary art practice, artists translate their life experiences to form new meanings in their artworks. In other words, life experiences gathered through dealing with Others become a narrative for artists. With the narratives, the artist feels they can represent the voices of Others. It is within this context the narratives of the Others form the framework for creating new meaning for their aesthetics which also brings forth the “multiple realities” of the society

As an artist, the aesthetic should be representing the voice of Others. It is because our life is confronted with multiple realities, and therefore there is no one way of interpreting our aesthetics. The layers of images interpreted through the collage allow us to interpret various forms of life experiences. In doing so, it allows one to view everyday life in a different reality.

I work in various forms of medium. Presently, I am working on video performance.

ARTIST BIO

S. Chandrasekaran has been represented in major exhibitions, such as Havana Biennial (Cuba), 1st Asia Pacific Triennial (Brisbane), Asia-Pacific Performance Art Festival (Canada), International Performance Art Festival (Poland), 49th Venice Biennale (organised by International Artist’s Museum). His performance titled Bioalloy and Body was nominated for APBF Signature Art Prize (Singapore). In 2015, he was invited as a keynote speaker for Cross Media Arts 2016 – 1st international Conference on Social Arts and Transdisciplinarity at University of Evora, Portugal. In 2019, he performed at Taipei University of Arts for New Ben Arts Festival. He was invited to exhibit at ‘The new (ab)normal’, RMIT, Melbourne, 2020. In 2022, he was invited to First International Performance Art Festival of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, ‘LATITUDES HYBRIDAS’ (Bolivia), Lacuna Contemporary Art Festival- Clash (Spain), Canvas Venice International Art Fair (Venice), Postproduction: From the Art Collection of the Art Stays Festival (Slovenia), Nothing is Forever – Rethinking Sculpture, National Gallery Singapore and 4th International Forum of Performance Art, Greece. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer at McNally School of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts. He is a Founder/Artistic Director for Biological Arts Theatre (BAT), which is a new media experimental theatre for Life Science, and Arts. His research interests are Cross-Cultural Studies, Asian Aesthetics, Life Science and Experimental Theatre.

CONTACT

schandrasekaran.com

EMAIL

Examples of Collage in Motion

STOP THE DESTRUCTION, “You are one of the Many”

In the new world order, we are confronted by various forms of destruction happening around us. The melting of the Arctic due to climate change, border conflicts, the killing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, flooding in Pakistan, the Ukraine war, and conflicts between Israel and Palestine. With or without our involvement, we are still experiencing the common form of pain in our mind space and body around us. It is because everything and everyone is interconnected, interdependent and interrelated in this world. Therefore, we are one of the many who are responsible for the destruction around the world.