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Total Output featuring Aleezon, berukera, billyX, Jasim, Lee Khee San, Lé Luhur and rawanXberdenyut, 2023
Plexiglass (Tiger), polyurethane clear coat, archival ink (molotow), polyvinyl chloride and polyacrylate adhesive - salvaged and artist vinyl (ORACAL 651 and Ri-Jet Mono), carbon fibre polyvinyl chloride and polyacrylate adhesive (Vvivid XPO) on anodized aluminium alloy, honeycomb retroreflective polyvinyl chloride (Grip-On), non metalized micro-prismatic reflective tape with resin (Steve & Lief), polypropylene film (Hunter), on plexiglass with xylene, silicone and 6061 aluminium alloy secondary support
(total) 400 x 300 x 6 cm, (each) 100 cm x 100 cm, support measures at 10 x 5 x 10 cm
Total Output is an exercise in remixing visual vocabularies drawn from open source archives. It ventures into experimentation of patterns as glitches, acting on collected, sourced and recognised motifs in...
Total Output is an exercise in remixing visual vocabularies drawn from open source archives. It ventures into experimentation of patterns as glitches, acting on collected, sourced and recognised motifs in cultural and industrial circulation. Through sampling (taking fragments from a whole), a process of extraction, analysis and repetitive labour ensues, where a collective of artists work simultaneously on the same set of sources, each creating within their own system and rhythm of control against the backdrop of a shared grid. Formally, the work resembles modular LED screens but one that is in the process of being composed. This alludes to grid technologies as a system of digital organisation and distribution, an arena within which the visual remixes and glitches stage an ongoing cacophony of discordances between the digital and analogue.
The work’s title references the measurement of productivity in an economy but while the method of quantifying labour outputs obliterates individuality, Total Output proposes speculative and productive forms of artistic labour that is premised on the cumulation of independent agency – the sum of the creative energies amassed in the artist’s studio.
The installation witnessed 3 sets of variation updates which will be updated by end August 2023. The work was a proposal and commissioned as part of the inaugural biennale project focusing on emerging practices and generative trends in Singapore, titled SAM Contemporaries: Residues and Remixes presented by Singapore Art Museum.