It is why the artists of the project (some alongside new collaborators) have been invited to return to the forested areas that they had once dwelled. To engage with the other-than-human domains of the forests through their own practices and predilections be it through foraging, ritual-making or movement. In the process opening up possibilities to …
The pandemic has given forests a new lustre in our newly-confined worlds. The lush green openness a balm to our Corona-weary minds. “When your eyes are tired from the monitor, look out to the big green tree to rest your eye” – a trope, a stereotype revived to reinvigorate us in these pandemic times. As …
In a tropical rainforest, durian trees are often a tell-tale sign of the proximities of bats. Twines and branches point to possible simian superhighways. While holes in the ground suggest the presence of wild boars. Semiotically, if we were to expand upon the notion of selfhood by explaining life as a sign process, then as …
I sit here in front of my laptop with the temptation to begin this text with an assortment of platitudes; about the wondrous nature of forests, what they are, what they mean and what they represent. Platitudes that are like dewdrops condensed from the sheer complexities that forests constitute through their roles in the story …
Curator
Kent Chan
Artists
Kray Chen
Melinda Lauw
Nina Djekić
Zarina Muhammad
Zachary Chan
Yeo Siew Hua
