Singapore

Zachary Chan

Singapore

Zachary Chan

2 September 2022 - 31 January 2023

Branching out from previous collaborative projects where map-making was practiced to illuminate the entanglements between spirit ecologies, environmental histories, and embodied archives, Zachary Chan’s research project for his residency entails developing maps and diagrams that chart instances of spiritual mapping and warfare in the context of Singapore.

In some religious traditions, techniques of spiritual mapping and warfare are employed to identify ‘territorial spirits’ (demons) in specific locations and to fight their malignant influences. In visualising the historical manifestations of these spiritual beliefs within the social and physical fabric of the city, the artist aims to adopt an autoethnographic angle and to create a layered, subjective framework wherein multimedia expressions, such as performance, installation, moving image, and sound, interrogate practices of demonisation and the dichotomy between the demon/the demonised.

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