ARTS BEYOND DISTANCE SEASON 2
Sharon Chin
INXO Online Talk Series
Guest Speaker:
Sharon Chin
About her:
Sharon Chin (b.1980, Petaling Jaya) is a visual artist and writer living in Port Dickson. She has made paintings, performances, objects, installations and videos, and worked across a variety of fields, including fine art, art criticism, illustration, film, and journalism. Her work has been shown in museums and galleries, on sidewalks and in shopping malls, in Malaysia and around the world. Recently she illustrated Zedeck Siew’s short story collection Creatures of Near Kingdoms, available now from Maple comics. Her work is in the permanent collections of Singapore Art Museum and Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). Her most recent project is ‘In The Skin of a Tiger: Monument to What We Want (Tugu Kita)’, a participatory performance and installation commissioned by Singapore Biennale 2019. In two separate events – one at National Art Gallery in Malaysia and the other at National Gallery Singapore , she invited members of the public to sew freely on 13 banners made out of recycled fabric. The fabric was reclaimed from used political party flags she collected after the historic 14 General Elections in Malaysia.
Host:
Tan E-Jan (CEO of INXO Productions)
Date:
02/05/2020 (Saturday)
Time:
8pm – 9pm
Language:
English
Key Takeaway:
- Sharon shares the reason she moved from Petaling Jaya to Port Dickson and how it changes her creation of art works.
- Sharon enjoys the freedom of being an artist. She likes that artists have the freedom to pursue something they like. Artists could follow, find out and question things, she believes by questioning ourselves, we will become more solid as a person. When we become solid, we can do more things for the world, but the freedom will also come with responsibility.
- She thinks that for art exhibition and shows, we should think more about the basic accessibility for the public, such as transportation and facilities for disabled.
- It is useful for artist to hear from audience honestly. It is okay to be ‘wrong’ or different in the world of art interpretation, its an open field to experiment.
- Regarding time management, she shares about thinking the relationship to time means relationship to deadline and relationship to productivity. But meaning of productivity is a personal thing, it’s a thing that we need to question ourselves.
- We need to differentiate the progress of the industry of visual arts or visual arts itself.
- It is a challenge that we do not have enough peer to peer dialogue, even before MCO.
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Podcast Intro & Outro Music Credit:
ACOUSTIC BREEZE | ROYALTY FREE MUSIC
Composer: Benjamin Tissot
