Cane

Cane
By Loo Zihan
Sunday 19 February 2012, 8pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: $19 available from SISTIC, contact 6348 5555 This Performance has been sold out.
Rating: R18
This is an InHouse Event 

This event is part of the M1 Fringe Festival 2012: Art & Faith

In 1993, Singaporean artist Josef Ng’s performance Brother Cane resulted in a public debate over obscenity in performance art and a subsequent ten-year restriction of the licensing and funding of performance art in Singapore.

Cane by Loo Zihan consists of a re-enactment of Brother Cane based on an eyewitness account by artist Ray Langenbach, a performative lecture reconstructing incidents surrounding the event based on various oral accounts, and pre-filmed segments with individuals involved in Brother Cane and performance art in Singapore. The work seeks not only to commemorate and honour the memory of this performance, but also to explore the possibility of representing performance art, a form often perceived as ephemeral or transient.

Loo Zihan is a Singaporean moving-image, performance and installation artist. He received a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his BFA from Nanyang Technological University. His films have been screened in various film festivals including AFI Fest (L.A.), Pusan International Film Festival, Newfest (New York City) and Frameline (San Francisco). He has had recent exhibitions and showings at NEXT / Art Chicago, Zhou B Art Center (Chicago) and Defibrillator (Chicago). He is the recipient of a James Nelson Raymond Fellowship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Photo Credit: Miao Jiaxin