Fiona Tan
Fiona Tan was born 1966 BirthPekan Baru, Indonesia.
Lives and works in HomeAmsterdam, Netherlands.
Categories: Multimedia Venice Biennale
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The commissioner of the Dutch presentation in Venice Saskia Bos (Dean of the Cooper Union’s School of Art) chose FIONA TAN to represent the Netherlands. Tan’s new audio-visual installation “Disorient” was especially conceived for the Dutch entry. Her project, which refers to Venice’s pivotal position in the history of geostrategy before the city’s power diminished, attempts to bridge the centuries by creating connections with both contemporary day-to-day reality and the symbolic past that every Venice visitor wants to grasp
Tan’s films, photographs, and audiovisual installations almost always focus on images of people. In Correction (2005), she portrayed prisoners and guards in various American prisons, and Countenance (2002) consisted of four video projections portraying all manner of people in Berlin. For Vox Populi, Tan travelled to Norway, Tokyo and Sydney, among other locations, in search of pictures from personal photo albums, which she then included in various publications…
Home country and place of living are an important factor in the work of the artist: Indonesia as the former colony of holland and Amsterdam as the capital of the colonial empire…
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Fiona Tan is celebrated for her film and video installations which explore the nature of archives and the truth claims of ethnography, and which also reflect on the nature of place and time…
Rain, 2001, video installation (still)
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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