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Mathhew Ngui

Shiraishi

SCAI The Bathhouse founder and president Masami Shiraishi takes a break on the opening day of the Singapore Showcase art fair to speak to Common People. Having set up SCAI in a historic former bathhouse in Ueno in 1993, he has introduced Japanese artists to the world as well exposed the Japanese public to artists of an international scale. More recently, he dedicated a smaller loft space in Roppongi to showcase young, emerging artists. Shiraishi shares his insights on public art, aesthetic pre...

Spell#7

Common People get into a Singapore Flyer capsule to interview Spell#7 and sound artist Evan Tan about Sky Duet, their collaborative Singapore Biennale 2008 artwork in the form of an audio guide to be experienced on the Flyer.Since 1997, Paul Rae & Kaylene Tan have been devising performances and new media artworks, including an audio tour of Little India with Evan Tan which immerses the visitor in a sensory experience of the neighborhood.Here, they talk about returning to fundamental and mundan...

Hans Peter Kuhn

Hans Peter Kuhn (b. 1952, lives in Berlin) chats with Common People in front of his sound & light installation at the Esplanade Bridge for the Singapore Biennale 2008. Originally a sound designer in theatre, Hans Peter Kuhn creates sound and light environments where he uses simple lines, color, and minimalist constructions to harmonize with the surroundings dramatically. In this interview he talks about past work, the properties of light and sound, responding to architecture and the site in hi...

Hans Op de Beeck

Multidisciplinary artist Hans Op de Beeck sheds some light on Location (6), an installation created for the Singapore Biennale 2008 that one enters to experience an infinite snowscape.Hans Op de Beeck creates scenes that are both recognizable and anonymous, distilled to their barest elements. From an empty scene at traffic lights in the middle of the night, to a scene in a motorway restaurant, his universal landscapes reverse the viewer's view towards themselves, evoking a kind of unconscious ...