About Project Glocal 2014: TRANSI(EN)T
Dayang YRAOLA
During the last artist talk for Project Glocal 2012 in 8Q Singapore Art Museum, sponsored by the Singapore International Foundation, an artist suggested that the next best step for the project is to have the artists make the work in the city that they are visiting. That suggestion was coming from what the artist observed as an oscillating development in Project Glocal.
From hauling-in finished works for exhibition (either actually the work or the idea for site-specific work,), the project on its last-leg, braved to present collaborative works done by participating artists while they were in their respective cities and remotely located from their collaborators. It was a good exercise that allowed the artists to become more intimate. The artists though, in the latter creative exercise, still carried with them issues of their own city. A sort of residency format was then suggested.
2013 is the year we write the book for Project Glocal. It is ideal because this is the year between the first public run of the project and the year that we drastically change the format. The book is intended to come out in December 2014. It will have the benefit of hindsight for the activities in 2012 and the anticipation for the activities in 2014.
Project Glocal 2014 will be a series of short-term residency. A number of artists from the Project Glocal artists (old and new) will be sent to a city for 10 days to 1 month. They are tasked to: 1. get to know the artists in that city; 2. find those whose practice suits theirs; 3. create an artwork with them. Preference is on the ephemeral non-sellable art, as this would create the causal feeling of connectedness and then longing. By this it is hypothesized that the artists who would collaborate will continue to seek each other as partners in their creative endeavors, hence strengthening ties.
It will happen in Taipei co-hosted by the Digital Art Foundation focused on technology+performative art in March; in Kuala Lumpur co-hosted by Digital Art Media Interactive focused on heritage+community, happening in August; and in Manila co-hosted by 98B focused on technology+heritage+people, which is happening in November. Participating artists are from HongKong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and the Philippines.
