{"id":2640,"date":"2014-08-23T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/post-museum.org\/root\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2020-07-23T15:57:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T15:57:21","slug":"continuum-automatic-itineraries-yen-phang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/post-museum.org\/root\/2014\/08\/23\/continuum-automatic-itineraries-yen-phang\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuum (Automatic Itineraries) (Yen Phang)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In &#8220;Continuum (Automatic Itineraries)&#8221;, Yen Phang explores the body not merely as a vessel for existence and consciousness, but also as a destination. Over 200 postcard-sized tiles have been created for this performance-installation, each documenting the artist&#8217;s daily awareness of his bodily reactions to the sub-zero winter temperatures of Montreal, Quebec, where this series was developed. &#8220;Continuum&#8221; is an attempt at &#8220;knowing thyself&#8221;, or at least our physical selves, in a time when the rationalist quest for scientific understanding of the body becomes a substitute for actual bodily experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in 1979, Yen Phang works primarily across the mediums of painting and performance. His thematic preoccupations have mainly included how we attempt to understand each other&#8217;s subjective experience through the creation of negotiated sign systems. While having painted since the age of 10 under the tutelage of Dr Chen Xiu Min, Phang&#8217;s turn to a full-time visual arts practice may be traced primarlly to a hospitalisation stint in 2003, wherein he found that his only viable means of communication was non-linguistically through pencil and paper. Through painting and gesture, Phang explores the fluidity of meaning, and the boundaries between representation and abstraction, between chaos and man-made semiotic order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This performance-installation is part of More than [show] business &#8211; Post-PopUp at CCA. 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