Being Together by John Clang

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这系列家庭肖像不同于以往的常规肖像。通过互联网将新加坡的影像传输到其它国家的亲人所在空间中，然后用投影仪放大，这些国家的亲人突破时间和空间与在新加坡的家人完成了合照。

艺术家在新加坡出身，在其它国家生活工作，与家人两地分居，因此现今普遍存在的，与家人分隔千里的人群情况有着切身体会。最终他希望将这个时代的这个特征记录下来。人们，突破时间和空间相聚，虽然这有些怪诞，但却富有感染力。汪春龙在中国的代理商是北京艺门画廊，同时他将在2013年初于新加坡博物馆开展自己的个展。

an image from the series ‘be here now’ by john clang, 2012 ‘paris (and, projected, singapore): stephanie chi-weng tsui; her mothr, alexia wai-chun tye: alexia-s partner, pierre de fouquet’

wetport, connecticut (and singapore): deedee lim; her brother boonleng lim, and his wife, yi chen; their children, eolantha and bryan lim; deedee’s mother, tionghua koh; deedee’s sister, meideelim, and her husband, terence oh; their children, gavyn and lenard oh’

 

Being Together, 2010 – 2012

In this series, webcam was used to do live recording of families in Singapore. The recording was then transmitted via skype to countries where the main sitters are located and projected onto their living space. This is how families, dis(membered) through time and space, can be re(membered) and made whole again through the use of a third space, a site that is able to reassemble them together within the photographic space that we call a family portrait.

Drawing upon my own experiences of being separated from my family as a New York- based Singaporean, this work documents and examines our condition of new-wave diaspora – Singaporean families of various races and ethnicities grappling with the same predicament of separation through time and space.

I also want this project to document and interpret a contemporary social- historical blueprint as it happens, allowing the future generations to reflect on it.

In addition, this is also an extension of one of the recurring theme of my works: the fascination with the expressions of time and space and how we negotiate our human existences within these two dimensions. this work specifically addresses the phenomenon of differing time zones, the different dimensions of our human representations, and how we can finally coexist, albeit in pixilated and two- dimensional forms.

John Clang is represented by Pekin Fine Arts and is preparing for his solo show at the National Museum of Singapore in early 2013.

‘hong kong (and singapore): back row: brandon wong and his wife, belinda long; belinda’s brother, donald leong; front row: donald’s daughter, jeanette long; belinda’s mother and father, helen ang and robert leong; belinda’s sister, jessie leong, and her daughter megan marsh’

‘tokyo (and singapore): ros lee; her brother, kelvin lee, and his wife, hazuki lee nakano; ros’s mother and father, tan gek kee and lee choong kean; ros’s sister, melissa lee’

‘bellevue, washington (and singapore): edwin goh; his sisters alvina goh and siew lin goh; their parents, per ching goh and pe chou sui; edwin’s sister alina goh and her husband, justin woo’

‘new york (and singapore): john clang（汪春龙）, the photographer for this project; his parents, ang ching seong and NG gek choo; his brother, joe ang; and, in the chatwindow on the laptop at the bottom of the photo, john-s wife, elin tew’

‘london (and singapore): simon milward and jacqueline lim (husband and wife) and their son, oscar milward; jacqueline’s sister gwendoline lim; jacqueline and gwendoline’s parents, irene lim and cheng hoe lim’

‘seattle (and singapore): lee siew tim and chua chim sim, her son’

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