THE POSSIBILITY OF PUBLIC SPACE
4 sets of Batik on cotton
Bedok Reservoir Park, Singapore
2015
A pavilion in a park serves as a meeting point for park strollers. It can also serves as an inviting point to the artist village during the festival or a flirting point for dating couples who stroll around the park. Anyone can enter, stop, rest, take nap, have a temporary private space, meet someone, wait for someone, hang out, have a serious chat, steal a kiss and so on. These strollers will be immerse in a performance as they unawarely participate in the acts.
To create ‘a public space more private’, I hang batik curtains covering the interior of pavilion. The curtains are multi-coloured with amalgam of patterns, invoking the strollers’ emotion to feel hesitation, thrilled, eye-popping, intrigued, responsive and so on.