RUNDOWN: I am hyperactive by default and design. I refuse to stay still or stay in my/one place. Where there are ceilings/walls/labyrinths, where places are inaccessible, or where I am / my kind are disallowed, I trespass/mock/knock my way through, so that others can join and run riot with me. Why be/do one thing or adhere only to one school of thought when you can be many, a chimera, a monstrous, glorious Octopussy? My tentacles are everywhere. My mind is full. I mobilise /activate my body and mind in motion and commotion as a form of creative and critical intervention and interrogation of and amid a place (often urban) or world in motion and commotion. I trespass boundaries/borders/silos (disciplinary/cultural/geopolitical/neuro-normativity and more). The approach is ill-disciplined, playful, mind-full, and artful, in productive antagonisms with other bodies and minds. This restlessness is existential, political, neurological (some say clinical), personal, professional.
INTERTEXTUALITY + INTERPRETATIONS + INTERSECTIONS: Come roam with me within and beyond this website:
- Various projects and research under the tags body/mind/place in (com)motion and mobilities on this site
- Trustee work, such as at Hear Me Out
- Visiting Fellowship, Centre for Mobilities Research and Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Arts (2017-2018)
- 2 book chapters: “Run Riot!”. Chapter structured in 10 runs (after Rousseau’s Reveries of a Solitary Walker). In Handbook on Methods and Applications for Mobilities Research, edited by Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Monika Büscher, and Sven Kesselring. Edward Elgar Publishing.2020) and Palgrave (2019)
- My art movements: flying (the nest), swimming, drowning, running, jumping, hula-hooping, rolling …
- Claustrophobia in Singapore (pre-1994), urban interventions and cine-essay in Singapore (1998-2001) and Singapore as a theme park (2005-2009)
- Coming to life in London (1994-1998, including 4 months in Chicago 1996)
- ISLANDHOPPING (pre-cursor to productive antagonisms) and Tokyo (2002-2005)
- Running/reading/’riting in London (2009-2013), roaming in flooded Leeds (2014-2017),
- Running as a creative discourse (since 2009), RUN! RUN! RUN! International Body for Research website (2014-2020), RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale website (2014-2018), Running Cultures Research Network (since 2014), Running Artists Network (RAN, 2020), PhD thesis and practice (2009-2013)
- (Dys)Service (Battle)Cat(suit) for Covid (2020), and in Wellcome Images Library (since 2016)
- Art-psychiatry commission #MagicCarpet (2017-2019), #MagicCarpet website (2017-2019), booklet, and Neurodiversity In/& Creative Research network (from 2020)
- Being a curator, consultant, academic, artist, agitator, octopussy, running-messenger …
- Interview: In Live Art Developmental Agency Study Room Guide (p 92 onwards, 2018)
- Interview: In Leonardo Almanac (2011) Curators: Lanfranco Aceti, Christiane Paul. With Teri Reub, Mez.
- Interview: In House of World Cultures, The Manic Collector (2005)
- Interview: In entrepreneurship and ADHD (2019)
- Free-thinking and intellectual promiscuity: collaging/bricolaging/mixing-and-mismatching diverse schools of thought
- Working with diverse members of different species: runners, philosophers, geographers, laptop composers, dancers, psychiatrists, mental health experts, computer scientists, and even noisy children, across diverse sites including galleries, museums, film festivals, streets, academia, third sector, online, in between
- Working across diverse media/modes and articulating that restlessness within each media/mode: Missing In Action (performance-photographic series 2017, one of which is shown above), speed date and open-mic (participatory art 2018), Of Meanderings and Wanderings (film, 2018), I Ran and Ran, Let Out An Earth Shattering Roar, and Turn Into a Giant Octopussy (tapestry, 2018), mY uNOFFICIAL dUMPPINGGROUND (hypersexualised hypertext, 1997), badges, texts, people and more
- Non-linear narrative, travelogue, the essay film, creative non-fiction, video art
- And more…
Caption: From Missing In Action. Performance-photographic series (Kai Syng Tan 2017, photograph by Enamul Hoque)