The second programme launched under Monzoom.xyz in 2022 with support from the National Arts Council Singapore SEP Grant, the platform invited twelve Singaporean and Singapore-based artists to explore notions of identity, translocal histories, pop culture, and the unraveling of often private emotions and intimacies through the modern phenomenon of karaoke. Comprising six duets of newly commissioned video art that play with the format of karaoke videos and its attendant aesthetics, the idea for Total Eclipse Plumage stemmed from Kenneth Constance Loe’s video installation, am i e riddim 2 yr blues?, first presented at Ikkan Art Gallery, Singapore in 2016.
Karaoke’s potential to draw people outside of the identity markers and echo chambers they more often than not find themselves boxed in sparks unexpected affinities while disrupting capitalist and imperialist logics, forming fertile ground for self-determined aspirations and collective reverberations. Total Eclipse Plumage extends on this, with the duet as basis for the collaborative pairing of its artists.
The twelve participating artists, whose creative practices span across the disciplines of visual art, performance, poetry, animation, music, and photography, are Kai and Xafier Yap, Ryan Benjamin Lee and nor, Stephanie Jane Burt and Elsa Wong, Kenneth Constance Loe and Farizi Noorfauzi, Weixin Quek Chong and Aran Atsuo, Phoo Myet Che and Aqid Aiman.
The second programme launched under Monzoom.xyz in 2022 with support from the National Arts Council Singapore SEP Grant, the platform invited twelve Singaporean and Singapore-based artists to explore notions of identity, translocal histories, pop culture, and the unraveling of often private emotions and intimacies through the modern phenomenon of karaoke. Comprising six duets of newly commissioned video art that play with the format of karaoke videos and its attendant aesthetics, the idea for Total Eclipse Plumage stemmed from Kenneth Constance Loe’s video installation, am i e riddim 2 yr blues?, first presented at Ikkan Art Gallery, Singapore in 2016.
Karaoke’s potential to draw people outside of the identity markers and echo chambers they more often than not find themselves boxed in sparks unexpected affinities while disrupting capitalist and imperialist logics, forming fertile ground for self-determined aspirations and collective reverberations. Total Eclipse Plumage extends on this, with the duet as basis for the collaborative pairing of its artists.
The twelve participating artists, whose creative practices span across the disciplines of visual art, performance, poetry, animation, music, and photography, are Kai and Xafier Yap, Ryan Benjamin Lee and nor, Stephanie Jane Burt and Elsa Wong, Kenneth Constance Loe and Farizi Noorfauzi, Weixin Quek Chong and Aran Atsuo, Phoo Myet Che and Aqid Aiman.