Naldi, Pat Despair is Always Under Deep Cold. [Show/Exhibition]
Type of Research: | Show/Exhibition |
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Creators: | Naldi, Pat |
Description: | For Singapore Art Week, The Performative Practices Lab 2025 presents boundary-pushing performance works by students and alumni from the Faculty of Art & Design’s School of Fine Art (SFA), Nanyang Academy of Fine Art, University of the Arts Singapore and Central Saint Martins (CSM) – University of the Arts London. SFA students, under the mentorship of Singapore artist Pat Toh, will collaborate and present alongside CSM students', alumni, and faculty performance works curated by David Koh exploring the intersections of identity, place, and artistic relevance in today’s fast-evolving global landscape. The performance to camera video work 'Despair is Always Under Deep Cold' takes place in Oxfordhalvøya, Nordaustlandet, Svalbard. The video features a reading to the melting glacier of poetic passages generated by a specially created AI model named Polar Bear that has been fed the text of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. Published in 1818, the novel begins and ends with the ship trapped in the pack ice of the Arctic Ocean. While Victor Frankenstein dies on the ship, his creation Frankenstein floats away on an iceberg towards certain death. Shelley uses the inhospitable landscape of the Arctic as a space for the critique of heroic masculine endeavour and as metaphor for the creature’s internal trauma. The Svalbard archipelago in the high Arctic at only 500 miles south of the North Pole is now warming four times faster than anywhere else on the planet; in the 21st century this landscape is ground zero of climate change. |
Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > Central Saint Martins |
Related Websites: | https://www.artweek.sg/event-detail/performative-practices-showcase |
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Locations / Venues: | Location From Date To Date Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA, Singapore 17 January 2025 18 January 2025 |
Material/Media: | Video |
Measurements or Duration of item: | 03:51 |
Date Deposited: | 27 Jan 2025 10:18 |
Last Modified: | 27 Jan 2025 10:18 |
Item ID: | 23318 |
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/23318 |
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