Gravity

• Date: 1/10/2004 - 28/11/2004
• Curator: Kim Machan
• Venue: Singapore Art Museum
• Artist: Paul Bai, Ji-Hoon Byun, *Candy Factory, Shu Lea Cheang, Xing Danwen, Kim Kichul, Yves Klein, Paul Lincoln, Marcus Lyall, Tim Plaisted, Grant Stevens, Tsunamii.net, Tan Teck Weng, YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
• Institution: SENI Art, Singapore Arts Museum, Queensland University of Technology, Creative Industries, The Gallery, Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts Singapore, The Substation, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, p-10, Nanyang Technological University, SIGGRAPH Singapore, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Art Center Nabi, Videotage, Experimenta
• Sponsor: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia Council for the Arts, National Heritage Board Singapore, National Arts Council Singapore, Arts Queensland, Brisbane City Council, Arts Victoria, Australian Film Commission, NEC, Touche, Apple, Tourism Queensland, Nie, Esplanade, Asialink, Switch Media

Gravity is a MAAP-initiated exhibition that forms the cornerstone of the MAAP in Singapore 2004: GRAVITY festival.

Held in four gallery spaces of the Singapore Art Museum, the exhibition opens in two stages.

The first stage (1st-21st October, 2004) presents Yves Klein’s photographic work Le Saut dans la Vide (Leap into the Void) (1960) alongside an empty screen projection in its default state – ultimate electronic blue.  For the two weeks of stage one, the remaining gallery spaces remain purposefully empty, signalling a dramatic pause as well as a reference to Klein’s 1958 exhibition Le Vide (the Void).

The second stage (27th October – 28th November) disrupts the quiet, meditative state of stage one, as the Singapore Art Museum fills with media art works from thirteen artists based predominately in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.  The exhibition considers the collective weightiness of the artists’ conceptual expression against the weightlessness of their medium: digital code.