Spiders
Lai Yu Tong
Neighbourhood: East Coast Park
There is a spider that lives in my bathroom and one that lives in my head. It eats at me a little bit each day like a mid-range screaming rage played back at a muted volume. This society is sick. We are plagued by the sickness of collective guilt. Overabundance and under distribution. Eating and starving. Histories of violence compounded then repressed. The ghost in the corner lurks like some insidious creep. It doesn’t kill but keeps on sucking away.
Lai Yu Tong
Neighbourhood: East Coast Park
There is a spider that lives in my bathroom and one that lives in my head. It eats at me a little bit each day like a mid-range screaming rage played back at a muted volume. This society is sick. We are plagued by the sickness of collective guilt. Overabundance and under distribution. Eating and starving. Histories of violence compounded then repressed. The ghost in the corner lurks like some insidious creep. It doesn’t kill but keeps on sucking away.
BACKYARD explores the phenomenon of how events become news. This collection of reports seeks to create a spatial tapestry of “news” contributed by artists living in different parts of Singapore. By inviting them to document the happenings within their neighbourhoods within specific windows of time, BACKYARD presents artists’ documentations as news reports spanning across 12 months. Each report contributes to a year-long narrative map of Singapore, positioning the artist as reporter. BACKYARD is an art space that takes place in the form of dossiers containing news reports by Singapore based artists.