liquid territory
2019, wood, inkjet prints, glass, concrete board, collages, sand, 360 x 290 x 120 cm
'liquid territory' 2018- ongoing consists of archive materials, correspondences with UN Environmental Program, Global Witness reports, imported sand, collages and scientific texts. The installation was created during the research residency at the NTU Centre of Contemporary Arts Singapore in collaboration with ETH Future Cities Laboratoy.
One quarter of Singapore's current island-state’s land area has been artificially built. Starting under British colonial rule, land reclamation quickly became key to Singapore’s development with newly produced land areas.
The installation investigates sand mining and land reclamation practices in the South China Sea. It evokes the metropolis as global hub that is stripped from historical and cultural peculiarity. The installation reflects on alternate hinterlands, their shape shifting qualities and the manner through which we can think of them as a multi-layered, three-dimensional structure.
