What happens when a residency experience becomes one of sheltering-in-place? Since January I have been collaborating again with fellow artist Andy Yang in Singapore, where we are the inaugural artists in residence at Yale-NUS College, through the generous support of the Tan Chin Tuan Foundation. Here, we have been teaching a course called “Culturing Nature” and responding to the biodiversity of Singapore in many forms. Needless to say, there is a whole lot of biological phenomena to respond to these days, not all of it so good for humankind. While the spaces of studio and community have gotten noticeably smaller recently, our artistic work is expanding to engage the novel coronavirus as part of the complex social ecology of “the garden city” and the ecosystems within our own bodies. So for now stay tuned, stay healthy, and take care.
Singapore studio research and an “atlas of uncertainty.”