Key: (1) Civilian War Memorial (Memorial to the Civilian Victims of the Japanese Occupation, WW II). (2) from Lee Wen's Lucid Dreams in the Reverie of the Real , Singapore Art Museum. (3) Also from Lee Wen, "Deviant: ten days nine not seen, enter mountain meet big worm." (4)-(5) Seen from the rooftop garden of Dover Parkview on a sunny late afternoon.
2 comments:
I like the dream one. Hallways always have a surreal feeling to them. I don't get the meeting the big work one though. What is that supposed to mean?
Lee Wen is a performance artist primarily, and you know how weird they can be...
In Singapore where there is press censorship and limits to public self-expression, 'deviant' artists are either strictly limited or outright banned.
These 10 chinese characters form two composite characters that translate (one by one) into the phrase: "ten days, nine not seen, enter mountain, meet big worm" or in a northeastern Chinese dialect ben lou, the word for deviant behaviors of foreigners or of foreign influence.
What got me super jazzed about this piece is that I could read several of the characters! I randomly know the characters for 'big', for several numbers, for 'mountain' and for 'enter'. That is the sum total of the characters I know. How cool that here they were all in one phrase! See if you can find them.
(Oh yeah, I also know the characters for 'China'.) Total.
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