Open to Interpretation

The Asian Art Institutum (AAI) and Gasworks London are proud to present Open to Interpretation, a series of five short videos by five local artists.

Smearing Impulsion - Rizman Putra

Recorded within a span of 3 days, demonstrating how drawing can function as a performative device – focusing on immediacy and ephemerality, connecting related themes on motion and time, body and energy, light and space, imagined and observed.

On Dec 22, 2019, thousands of birds appeared in front of my home, darkening the sky and covering the open field next to a construction site. Their appearance was a great sign, but what of, to this day, I’m not sure.

And A Great Sign Appeared - Robert Zhao

On Dec 22, 2019, thousands of birds appeared in front of my home, darkening the sky and covering the open field next to a construction site. Their appearance was a great sign, but what of, to this day, I’m not sure.

New findings in epigenetics suggest that we inherit ancestral memories. Could we then possibly inherit images and sounds—audiovisual signals—through DNA transmissions?

A tree rings, a tree sings 树龄°述铃 - Boedi Widjaja

New findings in epigenetics suggest that we inherit ancestral memories. Could we then possibly inherit images and sounds—audiovisual signals—through DNA transmissions?

Using printouts to create stop motion animation, this work is a composition of images borrowed from tourist advertisements and travel documentary clips produced in the past.

Two Minutes of Island Paradise (Sun Set to Rise) n.2 - Hilmi Johandi

Using printouts to create stop motion animation, this work is a composition of images borrowed from tourist advertisements and travel documentary clips produced in the past.

What are artists to do when they are just not needed? With hindsight, visual artist Yanyun Chen and singer-songwriter Chia Yaim Chong offer a glimpse of a Singaporean artist’s life under lockdown, in the only way they know how: a new work.

Hindsight is 20/20 - Yanyun Chen & Chia Yaim Chong

What are artists to do when they are just not needed? With hindsight, visual artist Yanyun Chen and singer-songwriter Chia Yaim Chong offer a glimpse of a Singaporean artist’s life under lockdown, in the only way they know how: a new work.