"Give Peace A Chance: Redux", Lee Wen with Kai Lam, 2006
Interactive/ Public Art
Most people see it important that we have broken the proscenium, jumped the barricades and discarded the pedestal and gone back to the streets with the real world where art is life and life is art and its all alive. However this is an area I feel most uncomfortable with in my practice. The diversities in terms of individuals making our misleadingly homogenous society put me in nervous uncertainty when opening up to interactions in public. Unless my idea fits that of attracting friendly intervention and participation, I had rather be left alone doing what I am good at. ie an exhibitionist if you please. But I had fun doing some which does arouse curious participations such as:-
1. Ping-Pong Go Round, “Construction in Process VI - The Bridge”, April 1998, Melbourne Australia, Organized by Artists Museum
2. AIM: Artists Investigating Monuments, 1) "Untitled: Raffles", June 2000, Raffles Landing Site, Singapore, 2) In response to Henry Moore's "Butterfly" sculpture at the House of World Cultures", Spaces and Shadows: Politics of fun, House of World Culture, Berlin, Germany 2005; Lee Wen in collaboration with Kai Lam
3. Chewing Gum Paintings, "Post-Ulu", The Substation, 2000, "Situations", Museum Of Contemporary Art, 2005, Mixed media: Acrylic on canvas, chewing gum and various materials, 91 x 61 cm each, Private Collection
4. "Give Peace A Chance: Redux", Lee Wen with Kai Lam, Singapore Management University, Underpass Concourse, September 11 to 15 Singapore 2006
5. Art vs. Art No.1 & No.2, Modified Vacuum Cleaner, Papier Mache, Modified Remote Control Cars, Papier Mache. Singapore Art Museum, 2012Hu
Most people see it important that we have broken the proscenium, jumped the barricades and discarded the pedestal and gone back to the streets with the real world where art is life and life is art and its all alive. However this is an area I feel most uncomfortable with in my practice. The diversities in terms of individuals making our misleadingly homogenous society put me in nervous uncertainty when opening up to interactions in public. Unless my idea fits that of attracting friendly intervention and participation, I had rather be left alone doing what I am good at. ie an exhibitionist if you please. But I had fun doing some which does arouse curious participations such as:-
1. Ping-Pong Go Round, “Construction in Process VI - The Bridge”, April 1998, Melbourne Australia, Organized by Artists Museum
2. AIM: Artists Investigating Monuments, 1) "Untitled: Raffles", June 2000, Raffles Landing Site, Singapore, 2) In response to Henry Moore's "Butterfly" sculpture at the House of World Cultures", Spaces and Shadows: Politics of fun, House of World Culture, Berlin, Germany 2005; Lee Wen in collaboration with Kai Lam
3. Chewing Gum Paintings, "Post-Ulu", The Substation, 2000, "Situations", Museum Of Contemporary Art, 2005, Mixed media: Acrylic on canvas, chewing gum and various materials, 91 x 61 cm each, Private Collection
4. "Give Peace A Chance: Redux", Lee Wen with Kai Lam, Singapore Management University, Underpass Concourse, September 11 to 15 Singapore 2006
5. Art vs. Art No.1 & No.2, Modified Vacuum Cleaner, Papier Mache, Modified Remote Control Cars, Papier Mache. Singapore Art Museum, 2012Hu