1000 Rubber Seeds and One Mutant – now at SAM
If you are in Singapore and haven’t been yet, do go and catch UNEARTHED, a show about Nature, environment and how Singapore-based artists approach the subject in their work, currently showing at SAM. For this exhibition, I was invited to display the work recently shown at the Substation. However, many constraints were different and the … Continue reading
Science as Contemporary Art – How I Do it.
– “How do you transform a 1m x 1m x 3m space into contemporary art?” – “I would like to propose to install a scientist’s research cabinet in the 1m x 1m x 3m space allocated. It involves shelves. And 1000 specimens on which the research is done.” In 2009, Failomics. In 2010, Laboratory of … Continue reading
EEG-based artwork for the Constant Self-Recording Mode (COS•MO) exhibition.
I propose to walk around the art exhibition wearing an EEG recording cap as I walk around the gallery, looking at the artwork. The EEG cap captures my thoughts directly from the brain and (after processing) whispers in my ear what I are thinking. This is called the “Know What You Think” cap, and the … Continue reading
All Other Things Being Equal… I Could Have Stayed in Bed
The conversations with scientists from Cambridge is materializing into an exhibition, opening on the 16th of August at the Alliance Française de Singapore… SOCIETE GENERALE GalleryAlliance Française de Singapour 17 August – 8 September 2012 Mon to Fri, 11am to 7pm Sat, 11am to 5pm Sun and PH Closed Admission is free. “Being a scientist means … Continue reading
Laboratory of Waste Management is now online
The exhibition took place in February, in Tiong Bahru. For those who could not see it or did not have enough time to view it all, here are some pictures of the bathroom. Now is the time to focus on reviving Buang, the lost Malay scientist for my exhibition happening in August at the Alliance Française. … Continue reading
The Laboratory of Waste Management
Coming soon to a bathroom near you: The Laboratory of Waste Management, at Open House! in Tiong Bahru. A description of the mechanism used for recycling scientific waste can be found on the Failomics website.
First Artwork of the Year 2012
“Diverting a light fixture and a lab microphotograph, I have re-created an imaginary eye. The piece plays on the popular notion that light must come from the eye to create vision.” Technically, this is my last artwork of 2011, having been completed on the 30th of December. It will be auctioned on the 8th of … Continue reading
Same pursuit, new projects…
Having won first prize at the French Singapore New Generation Artists 2011 , I now have to come up with the goods for a large SOLO Exhibition at the Alliance Française in March 2012. So, here are some of the on-going projects that will lead to this exhibition: Scientist-led discussions on their production of leftovers. I am … Continue reading
The Scientist is in…
The Laboratory of ‘Pataphysics returns to the white cube, as part of the 3 rd French – Singapore New Generation Artists at The Societe Generale Gallery of the Alliance Française de Singapour, 2 Sept – 1st Oct. Opening 1st September 2011, Alliance Francaise De Singapour, 1 Sarkies Road Singapore 258130, 7 pm – 10 pm … Continue reading
Isabelle Desjeux 