At The Royal Society, April 7 - June 22, 2011
CHOOC LY TAN
Chooc Ly Tan, born in France, living and studying in London. She is currently completing an MFA at Goldsmith, London. Tan's practice is multi-disciplinary, varying from sculpture through to live art. Common to all of her work is a mischievous enquiry into our experience of the physical laws and constants that are invisibly omnipresent., for example gravity and momentum, and how they act upon us.
She has a profound admiration for physics yet finds herself compelled to attempt to disobey its laws. It is almost as though she is a single valiant crusader trying to enlist us in her viewpoint that physics is the perfect conduit to enabling her to express a quasi-anarchic art, challenge the status quo because within that effort we might yet discover something that further helps us to understand our place in our world.
She has already found a simple and aesthetic language through which to communicate. "Problems", "The World That is Everything That is the Case" and "Eminent Matters" all share a pared down visual language that is beguiles the viewer into believing the accuracy of what is being shown, but it is with further viewing that what seems eminently possible is probably not. Tan likes to challenge us, yet at the same time reward us with her subtle playful humour. It is as though she knows that much of her subject matter is unintelligable to most people yet wants to seduce them, as well as herself, into realising that we are all capable of questioning the status quo, to check it out, to see whether it is still relevant, plausible, relevant. A candid delight of enquiry is often present in her work, particularily in her videos, Jokull, a friend and momentum and Hill falling experiment .....or nonsense
Ingrid Hinton 2010
Problems
2010, Metal rod, pile of A4 printed paper
150 cm x 130 cm x 30 cm
New Materials in the Reading of the World
2011, Digital film, 5.20 min
Background
Lives and works in London
Born in La Roche sur Yon, France
EDUCATION
2009-11 Goldsmiths, MFA Fine Art, London
2003-6 Central Saint Martins, BA (hons) Fine Art, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
‘Beyond Ourselves – in the spirit of scientific enquiry', The Royal Society, London - curator: Ingrid Hinton
2010
‘Uncertain Ratio’, Imperial College, The Institute for Mathematical Sciences,
London
'Beyond Ourselves', Lace Market Gallery, Nottingham - curator: Ingrid Hinton
‘Gesamtkunstwerk 2012 Debut Salon Show’, Hackney Rose, London - curator:
Corinne Mynatt
2009
‘PAUSE AND EFFECT (1.5) RART’ Manifesto Series, Work Dalston, London -
Leanne Elliott and Ita Wooller
2008
‘The Third floor video experience’, The Winter Lights Fest, Reykjavík
‘Drawing affinities’, Menier Gallery, London - curator: Valérie Jolly and Amélie Mourgue d’Algue
‘Persisting Uncertainties’, Showroom, Berlin - curator: Julia Prezewowsky
2007
The Lost Horse Gallery for Sequences Real-Time Art Festival, Reykjavík - curator: Alex Zaklinsky
‘Reyfi’ Festival, The Nordic House, Reykjavík
'East@Westwing’ Festival, Slough, UK
2006
‘Grotto’, Studio 1.1, London - curator: M. Keenan
‘Central Saint Martins Degree Show’, London
'Direction’, Lethaby Gallery, London - curator: John Carson
2005
‘Just visiting’, Camberwell Arts Festival, London
2004
‘55’, WLTM Audience show, across London - curators: E. Ivanissevich, A. Wildblood and C. Mynatt
2003
‘Planted’, Cottage Garden - London, curator: Gail Bird
PERFORMANCES
2010
‘I Was There’, Stedefreund gallery, Berlin - curator: Julia Prezewowsky
‘Parlour Ecole Loqueteuse’, Ragged School Museum, London - curator: Jack Catling
‘C-sides’, Goldsmiths university, London
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2009
KNSTHS FMR # 2, Ybl Palace, Budapest, Hungary, curators: Anna Deli and Nicolás Vass
2008
Optica Festival, Gijón, Madrid and Nuit Blanche, Paris
OneMinute Film & Video Festival, Aarau, Switzerland
The Independent Film Festival, homage to François Truffaud, Tjarnabíó, Reykjavík
2007
'Xtend-Dance For Camera', South Hill Park, Bracknell, UK
2006
700 IS Reindeerland Video and Experimental Film Festival, Egilsstaðir, Iceland
AWARDS
2007 PAD Scheme, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
2006 Shortlisted for the 'Alcoa' prize, 700IS, Egilsstaðir, Iceland
RESIDENCIES
2009 Skaftfell, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2008 Galtarviti, The Westfjord, Iceland
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007 Chinese Arts Centre, PAD scheme, artists catalogue
‘Somethinginterestingkit (SIK)’, Issue 2, by Veronica Kavass
2006 Central Saint Martins Degree Show catalogue
Eminent Matters
2010, Printed paper, mirrored card, micro space in the wall, polystyrene, white paint, resin, clamps
dimensions variable
detail (left)
Hill Falling Experiment.....or Nonsense
2007, Digital video, 1 min 23 sec
The World is Everything that is the Case
2010, Magnets, plaster, nylon thread, bottle of water
300 x 270 x 100 cm
An Airship Enters Nothingness
ink drawing on paper
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