Open Studio interdisciplinary event. Part of Unlimited/Arts Council England commission 2017 #MagicCarpet: detail of tapestry design. See kaisyngtan.com/magiccarpet for details.
2005: Every now and then, the video monitors are all synched-up to show a flood of big pink Japanese characters. Like an exuberant, absurd manga flood!
Artist and Slade senior Lecturer Jo Volley with her hand-made map depicting her running routes where she also picks up oak apples that she makes into pigment for her paintings.
Running up a wall by Dr Carali McCall, who was a co-curator of the RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale 2016.
A masterclass in (re-)cultivating playfulness. Kuopio Market Square. ANTI Festival 2015. Photo by Pekka Mäkinen.
Photo from Badge-wearing Mind Wanders In Action series. Unlimited/Arts Council England commission 2017 #MagicCarpet: detail of tapestry design. See kaisyngtan.com/magiccarpet for details.
Series of stills from video art Feeling So What. Music composed by Philip Tan. 1999. Exhibited at Open 2003 6th International Exhibition of Sculpture & Installations. Venice, Italy.
Immersive and interactive: audience as co-creators of the performance when they sing and sign with their hands.
Unlimited/Arts Council England commission 2017 #MagicCarpet: detail of tapestry design. See kaisyngtan.com/magiccarpet for details.
Running: life, death, protest. Astounding performance-lecture by Eddie Ladd based on the late IRA member Bobby Sand and his running and hunger strike. National Indoor Athletics Centre, at the RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale 2016, curated by Annie Grove-White. Photograph by Phil Martin.
2008: A Fool On A Stool… New commission by contemporary art gallery 8Q for its inaugural show. Music by Philip Tan. Some of the videography was by Michael Larsson.
ISLANDHOPPING 2002-2005: a postcard that attempts to summarise the range of genres, topics and works that she created over the 3 years in Japan.
Hand-in-Hand: moving across the city tethered with a stranger and sharing hopes for the future. Premiered at Fete de Tuile, a street festival in Grenoble. Invited artist by Florent Cholat in his 6-hour looped run.
Robert Pennanen (10), one of the Masters, captured mid-action. ANTI Festival 2015. Photo by Pekka Mäkinen.
2008: A FOOL… installation view.
Final year students from Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s Infocomm department filming behind the scenes at the 8th ASEAN Para Games, led by lecturer Christina Mok.
Participatory art at UK Adult ADHD Network Congress 2017. Part of Unlimited/Arts Council England commission 2017 #MagicCarpet: detail of tapestry design. See kaisyngtan.com/magiccarpet for details.
Stretching the boundaries, a rotoscope animation by the acclaimed Kleopatra Korai, in the official selection of the renowned Annecy International Festival of Animation, commissioned for and premiered at the 8th ASEAN Para Games.
2009: On live TV in Beppu to talk (in Kai’s rusty Japanese) about her Japan Foundation-sponsored artist-in-residency.
The pair of Pihla-s as hosts/ringmasters of the Masterclass. ANTI Festival 2015. Photo by Pekka Mäkinen.
Running: life, death, protest. Astounding performance-lecture by Eddie Ladd based on the late IRA member Bobby Sand and his running and hunger strike. National Indoor Athletics Centre, at the RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale 2016, curated by Annie Grove-White. Photograph by Phil Martin.
Unlimited/Arts Council England commission 2017 #MagicCarpet: detail of tapestry design. See kaisyngtan.com/magiccarpet for details.
2013: The brave dancers SOKA Singapore on stage (with cameraman on steadicam). Closing Ceremony of the Handover Performance, 27th South East Asian Games, Myanmar. Directed by Philip Tan.
Publicity photo for The Rather Terrible Slaughter of the Tour Guide! A mobile art piece with two (im)possible outcomes, for audiences to stroll around the shopping / historical district of City Hall in Singapore. Curated by Joselina Cruz.
RUN! RUN! RUN! International Festival of Running 2014 at the Slade Research Centre, which the Guardian applauded for its ‘positive atmosphere’.
Maze/Amazed. Drawing from Kaidie’s 1000-day Trans-Run 12.12.2009 – 09.09.2012 (2012 ) Second life figure, watercolour, ink.
Artist Granville Lythe speaking at the opening of the Roam! Roam! Roam! Movement II exhibition at Leeds Art College’s Blenheim Walk gallery. Photograph by Ian Hinchcliffe.
Singapore national shooter Aishah Samad as photographed by Ngee An Polytechnic students led by lecturer Christina Mok for the 8th ASEAN Para Games.
RUN! RUN! RUN! Leeds 2014-2015. Run with Crossing Borders cluster, then for a period of time in collaboration with Leeds Art Gallery in 2015.
Unlimited/Arts Council England commission 2017 #MagicCarpet: detail of tapestry design. See kaisyngtan.com/magiccarpet for details.
From Dr Alan Latham’s Museum of Running. RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale 2014, Slade Research Centre.
Installation, exhibition et al. This is a documentation of a 2010 work I showed – nicknamed MetaMegaMap as it is a rather large immersive map – with other PhD students of the Slade at the Slade’s Research Centre.
RUN! RUN! RUN! Stratford, performed in Stratford, London, as part of the AHRC-funded ‘Pop-Up, pop-up’ by Dr Hilary Powell.
Hyphen-hyperlink: running across digital worlds. From Kaidie’s 1000-Day Trans-Run 12.12.2009-09.09.2012
Performance directed by Philip Tan for the handover from Myanmar to Singapore to host the Southeast Asean Games. Myanmar, 2013. Kai worked on the video projection with Philip.
RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale 2016: Cardiff Leg. Photo by Gordon Plant.
2016 November: 3 UK-wide events on running as methodology and metaphor #r3fest
Discussion led by Dr Andrew Filmer with artists Dr Carali McCall, Anna Brazier, Eddie Ladd. National Indoor Athletics Centre, at the RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale 2016, curated by Annie Grove-White. Photograph by Phil Martin.
Dance by Redeafination, installation by Michael Larsson in collaboration with Timothy Chan, music Philip Tan, choreography Puah Jin Wen. Opening Ceremony, 8th ASEAN Para Games. Creative Director: Philip Tan. Photograph: Tucky’s photography.
Running as a child-like act of defiance. Performance by former psychotherapist Anna Brazier, National Indoor Athletics Centre, at the RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale 2016, curated by Annie Grove-White. Photograph by Phil Martin.
Run (In) Your City, performance-lecture
Nondon Ambassador. From Kaidie’s 1000-day Trans-Run 12.12.2009 – 09.09.2012. 2012.
Visual artist Tan Kai Syng holds two portable DVD players for her “interactive” art walk “The Rather Terrible Slaughter of the Tourist Guide” as part of the You Are Not A Tourist exhibit at Citylink and Raffles City for the Singapore Art Show 2007. Photo by TREVOR TAN.TR310707. mmtourist0806, mmtourist.
In the artist’s studio or rather museum of ink.
2000: I Am Fit For Life! Commissioned installation at the Singapore Art Museum.
Kai’s conceptual map, next to a cast of a running human skeleton.
Installation, Slade Research Centre, 2010
Still from film by Annie Grove White exploring running and ageing. Annie was co-curator of RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale 2016.
A Plethora of Histories. On the pacific war. All different, all valid? Zoom in/zoom out. Macro/micro. Island/archipelago. Clash/crash/new meanings.
RUN! RUN! RUN! Warsaw. Trial run took place at 11am, 27 February 2015.
Explosive performance by artist Erkembode with PiLGiMiMiH. The opening of the ROAM! ROAM! ROAM! Movement II exhibition at Leeds Art College’s Blenheim Walk gallery. Kai was curator of exhibition, and exhibiting artists were Granville Lythe and Erkembode. Photograph by Ian Hinchliffe.
Kaidie Dies. From Kaidie’s 1000-day Trans-Run 12.12.2009 – 09.09.2012. 2011.
Unlimited/Arts Council England commission 2017 #MagicCarpet: detail of tapestry design. See kaisyngtan.com/magiccarpet for details.
Nondon A-Z: Kaidie’s the Trans-Runner’s Final Expeditions 2 (61.5cm X 50cm, 2012, London. Signed print, only 1 offline copy in existence! Price negotiable. Unframed, C-type Lambada print. )
A small fraction of Dr Alan Latham’s extensive collection of vintage Adidas trainers and first editions of the Runners’ World magazines.
Nondon A-Z: Kaidie’s the Trans-Runner’s Final Expeditions 4 (61.5cm X 50cm, 2012, London. Unframed, C-type Lambada print. Signed print, only 1 offline copy in existence! Price negotiable.)
Still from film scored by Professor Christophe Charles from the ISLANDHOPPING 2002-2005 Japan series.
Revolting runners: running as sight/site of protest. From Kaidie’s 1000-day Trans-Run 12.12.2009 -09.09.2012 durational performance and PhD thesis run at the Slade School of Fine Art.
Annie Grove-White, co-curator of RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale 2016, speaking at the Leeds Leg which focused on running and borders. 2016.
2015 February 25: Artist Joanna Geldard and her hands-on workshop on edge lands and kite-flying.
‘A spectacular ceremony’, says Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong.
Hiroshima Mon Amour. Victim/victor?
Photo from Badge-wearing Mind Wanders In Action series. Unlimited/Arts Council England commission 2017 #MagicCarpet: detail of tapestry design. See kaisyngtan.com/magiccarpet for details.
Unlimited/Arts Council England commission 2017 #MagicCarpet: detail of tapestry design. See kaisyngtan.com/magiccarpet for details.
2008: Generations, poster. Kai created the video installation and played Chekhov’s Masha (!) in this multimedia production which played in Moscow.
Participatory art at UK Adult ADHD Network Congress 2017. Part of Unlimited/Arts Council England commission 2017 #MagicCarpet: detail of tapestry design. See kaisyngtan.com/magiccarpet for details.
1997: mY uNOFFICIAL dUMPINGGROUND. Large hypertextual click-happy site (with traps).
Press kit for Stretching the boundaries, a rotoscope animation by the acclaimed Kleopatra Korai, in the official selection of the renowned Annecy International Festival of Animation, commissioned for and premiered at the 8th ASEAN Para Games.
Teacher Minja, 10, teaching adults how to stretch. #antiadultrun, ANTI Festival 2015 – Photo: Pekka Mäkinen.
Kaidie’s 2012 Nondon Olympics Photo Finish (76.2 × 101.6 cm. Edition of 5. Digital C-Type Lambda Print). *NOTE: buy this not from my website but LENSONTWELVE DOT COM. Unframed GBP£1500 Framed GBP£1650
Running-Discourse. Performed at EARN conference, Documenta 2012.
Running Discourse at Earn conference, Documenta, Kassel, 2012
The fartlek-derive or speedplay-drift, a technique that you can use when moving through the city. Image from Kaidie’s 1000-Day Trans-Run 12.12.2009 -09.09.2012, London.
RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale 2014, Slade Research Centre
Open Studio interdisciplinary event. Unlimited/Arts Council England commission 2017 #MagicCarpet: detail of tapestry design. See kaisyngtan.com/magiccarpet for details.
Exhibit by Amelia Johnstone of her incredible drawing device in her Run to Draw performances. RUN! RUN! RUN! International Festival of Running 2014, Slade Research Centre.
The whole world in your hands. From Kaidie’s 1000-Day Trans-Run 12.12.2009-09.09.2012. 2011.
Hand-in-Hand: moving across the city tethered with a stranger and sharing hopes for the future. Premiered at Fete de Tuile, a street festival in Grenoble. Invited artist by Florent Cholat in his 6-hour looped run.
2008: Can’t go on. Don’t go on. A Fool On A Stool… New commission by contemporary art gallery 8Q for its inaugural show. Booming noise soundscape by Philip Tan.
Dr Alan Latham speaking next to a human ancestor, RUN! RUN! RUN! International Festival of Running 2014, Slade Research Centre.
Still from Making a Living Of Sorts In (Y) Our Theme Park: Here/There/Where, a video installation at the Guangzhou Triennale 2008, China. Size: Variable. Videography by Michal Larsson.
A centrespread from the Closing Ceremony programme booklet, featuring original photographs (of a badminton player from Malaysia, and javelin thrower from Brunei) texts and interviews created by the Creative Team.
Hampstead Heath: where artist Jo runs, and provider of ingredients for art.
Running Discourse at Earn conference, Documenta, Kassel, 2012
Unlimited/Arts Council England commission 2017 #MagicCarpet: detail of tapestry design. See kaisyngtan.com/magiccarpet for details.
Kaidie Dies. From Kaidie’s 1000-day Trans-Run 12.12.2009 – 09.09.2012. 2011.
RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale 2016: Leeds Leg.
Download 2016 post-event report PDF here: http://bit.ly/2fkdOog
Running and creativity workshop commissioned by UCL Art Museum. Artist Jo Volley demonstrates processes of her ink-making from oak apples collected from her runs at Hampstead Heath. 2014.
Installation also known as Tokyo Tremour Triplet at the President’s Young Talent Exhibition, Singapore Art Museum, 2003.
ANTI Adult RUN! RUN! RUN! 10 local school children teach 40 adults (top age 82) how to recapture fun in running. Commissioned by ANTI Festival, led by Kai with Alan. Kuopio, Finland, 2015.
Download map (focus on wellbeing) at http://kaisyngtan.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/2016feb26_Overview_DrKaiSyngTan.jpg
Still from permanent video installation, Bras Basah station, at the Arts and Heritage District of Singapore, commissioned by Land Transport Authority.
The opening of the Roam! Roam! Roam! Movement II exhibition at Leeds Art College’s Blenheim Walk gallery.
Ian Hinchliffe / www.ianrichardhinchliffe.co.uk
2008: A Fool On A Stool… New commission by contemporary art gallery 8Q for its inaugural show. Curator: Kowk Kian Chow.
A Fool On a Stool… work commissioned for opening of 8Q contemporary art space, Singapore. 2008.
What a rousing start to what could be a new chapter in the ASEAN Para Games as well as Singapore.
Daoist ways. From Kaidie’s 1000-day Trans-Run 12.12.2009 – 09.09.2012. 2012.
2004: People watching the laptop performance Kai held with Christophe Charles and Carl Stone at her solo show at Gallery Surge.
The Art of Endurance Seminar. To Kai’s left is artist Cassils. Screen capture from video by Anti Festival’s Kim Saarinen.
Swimming. Kleopatra Korai’s stunning rotoscope animation commissioned for the opening ceremony of the 8th ASEAN Para Games, Singapore.
Flyer for the RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale Cardiff Leg, which explored running and ageing. Curated by Annie Grove-White, this took place in the beautiful National Indoor Athletics Centre in Cardiff.
RUN! RUN! RUN! Warsaw. On memory-jogging. 2015.
For the first time, an Athletes’ Parade that wasn’t a dip in energy, but a lively performance featuring music created by Philip Tan and Lui Chee Chau, as well as a few hundred volunteer dancers. Photograph by Tuckys Photography.
Games torch at Opening Ceremony by Associate Visual Director Yan Tuck Hong.
Drawing by artist Erkembode, one of the artists of the ROAM! ROAM! ROAM! collective that explores movement, memory and mapmaking.
3-screen video installation Spring. Beauty.Love. 2000. Exhibited at the Earl Lu Gallery with artists including Song Dong and Zhang Pei Li.
Photo from Badge-wearing Mind Wanders In Action series. Unlimited/Arts Council England commission 2017 #MagicCarpet: detail of tapestry design. See kaisyngtan.com/magiccarpet for details.
Nondon A-Z: Kaidie’s the Trans-Runner’s Final Expeditions 5 (61.5cm X 50cm, 2012, London. Signed print, only 1 offline copy in existence! Unframed, C-type Lambada print. Price negotiable.)
Running to the Exotic East. From Kaidie’s 1000-day Trans-Run 12.12.2009-09.09.2012. 2010.
RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale 2014, Slade Research Centre
Unlimited/Arts Council England commission 2017 #MagicCarpet: detail of tapestry design. See kaisyngtan.com/magiccarpet for details.
CYCLE! CYCLE! CYCLE! Leeds. Curated by Chris Graham, Leeds College of Art. Cycle (along the canal from Leeds-Saltaire), art appreciation and food. 2015.
Concept maps. From Unlimited/Arts Council England commission 2017 #MagicCarpet: detail of tapestry design. See kaisyngtan.com/magiccarpet for details.
A service cat, or (dys)service cat(suit), for people with, and without ADHD. In the Wellcome Trust Images library.
Still from Prezi of Run (In) Your City, first performed at the American Association of Geographer’s meeting at Chicago, USA, 2015.
