This catalogue accompanies Persistent Visions (2005), a 24-minute three-channel video installation by Erika Tan, presented at both the NUS Museum, Singapore and the Vargas Museum, Manila. Produced entirely from fragments of films the artist selected from The British Empire & Commonwealth Museum archives, it grew out of her "desire to create an interpretative space, activate personalized readings, allowing for the failure of comprehension and to compromise and make difficult, total consumption". By distancing each fragment from a specific context, Tan is attempting to take them "away from servicing of narrated histories...specific ideologies". Artist's biography is included.
Access level
Onsite
Location code
MON.TAE
Language
English
Keyword
Publication/Creation date
2009
No of pages
36
ISBN / ISSN
978981083856
No of copies
1
Content type
artist monograph,
catalogue
Chapter headings
Reeling - Patrick D. FLORES
Persistent Visions | In Dialogue with Erika Tan - Shabbir Hussain MUSTAFA
'Hopping Around' within Time and Space: Transportable Modernity and Escaping the Archive - Teren SEVEA
Persistent Visions | Erika Tan
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