In this day and age where data and transportation networks make up the vernacular of everyday life, infrastructural and information systems generate conveniences, mobility, and the circulation of bodies and data while also bringing about acceleration and sensory overload. But within the dense tangle of predetermined pathways and programmable routines, is it still possible to get lost?
Intrigued by this question-provocation, AWKNDAFFR explores the circuitry of movement in the multi-site, multi-authored project, Islandwide Coverage. Activating a variety of vantage points (on the move, from above, within this existential plane and from somewhere other), AWKNDAFFR attempts to delineate from a well-worn terrain, navigating towards a sense of nowhereness (but not lost), as they invite audiences to wander on and off beaten paths around the island as a passenger-viewer.
Teaming up with artists and collaborators who act as interlocutors in different vehicles and venues, the artworks are asynchronously integrated into the movement and mechanism of each vehicle or venue. This way, it transforms an encounter that takes place in familiar surroundings, and transports the passenger-viewer into new frames of relational and sensorial experience on each journey and at each portal.
AWKNDAFFR
is an artistic operation led by Wayne Lim and Soh Kay Min. For Islandwide Coverage they collaborate with Areumnari Ee (KR), ila (SG) and Ang Kia Yee (SG), Ranu Mukherjee (US), and Extended Asia (ID).
AWKNDAFFR
Wayne Lim & Soh Kay Min
Islandwide Coverage
Hoarding Board @ SAM-SJI
16 October 2022 - 19 March 2023
Get to the Point
Level 1, Singapore Art Museum @ Tanjong Pagar Distripark
16 October 2022 - 19 March 2023
Woodlands Regional Library
9 November 2022 - 26 December 2022
Jurong Regional Library
28 December 2022 - 26 February 2023
Tampines Regional Library
1 March 2023 - 9 April 2023
Woodlands Regional Library
9 November 2022 - 26 December 2022
Jurong Regional Library
28 December 2022 - 26 February 2023
Tampines Regional Library
1 March 2023 - 9 April 2023
Cloud Ruin
Woodlands Regional Library
9 November 2022 - 26 December 2022
Jurong Regional Library
28 December 2022 - 26 February 2023
Tampines Regional Library
1 March 2023 - 9 April 2023
Ext Asi: Archive
Level 5, Singapore Art Museum @ Tanjong Pagar Distripark
16 October 2022 - 19 March 2023
Woodlands Regional Library
9 November 2022 - 26 December 2022
Jurong Regional Library
28 December 2022 - 26 February 2023
Tampines Regional Library
1 March 2023 - 9 April 2023
ila & Ang Kia Yee
Woodlands Regional Library
9 November 2022 - 26 December 2022
Jurong Regional Library
28 December 2022 - 26 February 2023
Tampines Regional Library
1 March 2023 - 9 April 2023
Ensemble for Non-Linear Time
Capsule 13 & 28 @ Singapore Flyer
16 October 2022 - 19 March 2023
Woodlands Regional Library
9 November 2022 - 26 December 2022
Jurong Regional Library
28 December 2022 - 26 February 2023
Tampines Regional Library
1 March 2023 - 9 April 2023
Singapore Biennale 2022
features over 50 artists and collaborators embarking on a collective journey with Natasha. It will take place from 16 October 2022 to 19 March 2023.