TRANSMISSIONS #2
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Sunday, October 27, 2002
Artist Feature
Courtesy of National Arts Council 2001 Nokia Singapore Art Press Release
EAT AWAY by Margaret Tan Ai Hua
Hilton Singapore (10 - 12 Dec 2001)
An interactive work about the breakdown of gender stereotypes and an embodied experience of art. In Eat Away, Margaret Tan offers to her audience the act of tasting and eating. For the artist, the sensual quality of chocolate conjures notions of richness, excess and indulgence. Shaped into male and female figures, Tan invites the audience to test out their own responses, being suddenly made aware of possible choices and thoughts that may be conjured up by the act of consuming.
For Tan, the aesthetic experience is to be induced by way of facilitating audience to act out and think up possibilities and meanings. Chocolate is chosen, according to the artist, as it is a sensual ingredient. The work, which also extends to the actual “eating” of the chocolate figures, suggests a place of indulgence, away from the cooking hearth that is a private space, into a more social space (the hotel) that is yet, a “home”.
Eat Away is sponsored by Hilton Singapore.
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