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SUMMARY:The Return of Raja Durian
DESCRIPTION:Penang is a durian kingdom. A rich\, storied connection with the fruit has made the island one of the centers of durian cultivation in Malaysia\, if not the world. At the heart of this durian empire is a family-run conglomerate\, Durian King.  FAMEME\, heir to this empire\, has led a fabulously colourful\, nomadic life abroad as an entrepreneur and entertainer. He finally returned to the land of his birth in 2017\, rejoining the family business. \n“ The Return of Raja Durian” marks FAMEME’s homecoming\, and an introduction to a figure otherwise little-known in Penang. The exhibition presents a collection of objects and documents that reveals the vicissitudes of his personal history\, and his creative transformation of his family’s durian business. Artist and filmmaker Yu Cheng-Ta has produced a new documentary about FAMEME’s life\, screening for the first time in this exhibition. The film offers an intimate look at his life\, told through the gaze of a Taiwanese director. It delves behind his signature oversized sunglasses to trace the history of the Chinese immigrant community in Penang\, and details FAMEME’s relationships with his family and struggles with self-identity\, as he carves out his own durian empire.
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LOCATION:Blank Canvas\, 2\, Argus Lane\, George Town\, Penang\, 10200\, Malaysia
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SUMMARY:What It Is Of
DESCRIPTION:At the age of seven\, Éric Baudelaire participated in laboratory experiments designed to investigate the existence of telekinesis\, the ability to move objects using the power of one’s mind. The experiments used a tychoscope\, from the Greek tycho for chance and scope to see\, a tin-can-sized robot that ‘makes chance visible’ by drawing random patterns on paper. During half-hour sessions\, human participants were instructed to “bring the tychoscope towards them with their thoughts” and influence the drawings it made. These specimens were then compared to control drawings made without human subjects in the room\, to see if they deviated from pure chance and potentially demonstrated the existence of telekinetic phenomena. \nThe experiments were overseen by Isabelle Baudelaire\, Éric’s mother\, as part of a programme run by the Trasbior laboratory at the French industrial conglomerate CGE from 1980 to 1981. The programme set out to perform and analyse 1\,000 experiments\, but was closed down after only 215 sessions when the company was unexpectedly taken over. The tychoscope was lost to science. In 2020\, Éric began exploring his family’s history of parapsychological research\, including the work of his Nobel-prize-winning great-great-grandfather\, and recreated a contemporary replica of the original tychoscope. \nWhat It Is Of continues the Trasbior experiments\, aiming to create an archive of drawings from around the world far larger than the 1\,000 originally intended. Participants are invited to engage in a 25-minute session where they seek to influence the tychoscope’s movement with their consciousness. The resulting drawings become part of the exhibition and are displayed alongside control drawings made without a subject present. Visitors can compare the specimens and draw their own conclusions. This ever-expanding archive\, which probes notions of belief\, chance\, parapsychology and the interplay between mind and matter\, constitutes the work What It Is Of. \nWhat It Is Of\n24 August – 3 November 2024\n12pm – 7pm (Friday\, Saturday and Sunday) \nOpening\n24 August 2024\, Saturday\n6pm – 8pm \nArtist Sharing\n25 August 2024\, Sunday\n2pm – 3pm\nRSVP to +60 16 246 6814 \nTychoscope sessions\nWhat It Is Of is a participatory work. Visitors are welcome to sign up for a free half-hour session to create a tychoscope drawing which will become part of the exhibition and project archive. \nDuring each session\, a single participant is invited to sit at the drawing table with the tychoscope placed on a blank sheet of paper. For 25 minutes\, they are requested to sit quietly and focus on the tychoscope\, trying to bring it towards them purely with the power of their thoughts. The resulting drawing is numbered and displayed alongside a control drawing created without a human participant. \nSessions are held every half an hour while the exhibition is open. Participants are requested to arrive ten minutes before the session\, as late arrivals may not be able to participate. All are welcome to sign up\, as long as they are able to sit and focus for 25 minutes. \nSessions can be signed up for at: https://www.cloudjoi.com/shows/2190-what-it-is-of
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LOCATION:Blank Canvas\, 2\, Argus Lane\, George Town\, Penang\, 10200\, Malaysia
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SUMMARY:It depends...
DESCRIPTION:Dan Lie\, Ser Serpas\, Chiharu Shiota\, Tan Zi Hao and Danh Vo \nCo-Curated by sputnikforest \nFor It depends …\, Blank Canvas invites you to experience artworks in the gloaming. \nThe artworks in this show are all physical works by artists from various cultural backgrounds and spanning diverse artistic practices. A taxidermied bird encased within an intricate web of black strings. A rusting section of a spiral staircase. A copper section from a 1:1 replica of the Statue of Liberty. The spectral form of draped fabric recalling a disembodied outfit. And close-up micro photographs of the casings of household casebearers (or plaster bagworms). \nIndividually and collectively\, and in any conventional white cube setting\, these artworks would appear to suggest questions such as mortality and grieving\, of entanglements and relationships\, of power and societal arrangements\, and of home and belonging. \nYet\, are these questions amplified or distorted in\, or otherwise affected by\, the unique setting in which these artworks are now presented? Very deliberately\, the gallery space has been transformed into an imagined scape betwixt dusk and dark\, and redolent of the sounds and smells one might experience on a walk in the woods. The viewer is invited to stroll in this setting to encounter the five presented artworks. \nThe materiality of these artworks stands in sharp contrast to the sheer intangibility of the ambience\, which provokes the question – Does it matter how a viewer encounters artworks? Put another way\, the show asks whether context matters. The answer is probably it depends. \nIt depends … is presented by Blank Canvas in collaboration with co-curator sputnikforest\, a Penang-based spatial designer. This show continues the practice of drawing upon the personal collection of the founder of Blank Canvas to explore societal and aesthetic concerns through contemporary art. \n  \n 
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