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  • This work involved a rewiring of Block 72E, which used to be a dental centre in Tanglin military medical camp. About 4 years ago the plug was finally pulled on Tanglin Camp, a former colonial military installation. The plumbing, electrical and
  • COLAB Art and Architecture, Bangalore Two-person show with Christoph Schäfer, who lives and works in Hamburg, Germany. Not long ago, architectural modernism presented the glass facade as equivalent to participation and empathy with the
  • Changes of State -
    Elgin Talkies is a 110-year old theatre in Shivaji Nagar. This electrical installation, mostly held up with cellotape and binding wire and reconfigured almost every day, was up for 5 evenings at the theatre and on the street outside it. The
  • There are many ways to "locate" a city, and oneself within it. One way is to distance oneself from it - to look it up in an atlas, a picture, or to go out to sea or up a hill to watch the twinkling lights, and point out the sights we know. Another
  • Conclusive Evidence -
    Conclusive Evidence is the title of one of Vladimir Nabokov's novels, which deals with his experience of emigration. In the Russian version, which appeared a few years later, the same novel was called Other Shores. This play on the titles is all the
  • World Wide VIP -
    Three accessories identify a VIP: his/her passport, cell phone and international credit card. One sculpture condenses these three products into one. To attain this trophy, visitors must take a journey dotted with contradictory messages vaunting the
  • Windscreen -
    Windscreen is an experimental, wind-driven physical interface, 2001. Any physical scale habitable by the human body is also "inhabited" by massive levels of sensory data, equivalent to perhaps millions of analog-to-digital inputs a second. My
  • Extruder -
    The automobile is a fascinating machine. Since its inception the automobile has driven us faster and faster into the future. Carving out the modern world, it has done brilliantly, reproducing itself by the multi-millions. Along the way it has
  • Carry On -
    Paranoia is the state of the world. Propelled by our media, we have re-assumed our place in the jungle, afraid of the invisible predator all around us. Constantly watching and watched, what is it that we look for? Consisting of six vintage
  • Elevator's Music -
    The site-specific installation “Elevator’s Music”, visits the topic of synthetic creatures becoming sentient. What if centuries from now, we had the technology to make any machine self-aware? In this distant future, if an elevator could be