Li Ran
China
 

For his research, Li will work closely with Singapore Management University faculty Rowan Wang to understand the dissemination of protestant ideals in Singapore, not only through the lens of theology, but as a form of ideological management


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China

Li Ran

7 September - 13 November 2015

Li Ran provides exhibitionary structures in which to look at wider dynamics of fabricated structures in narrative and history. In Beyond Geography (2012) he looks at the National Geographic style of the anthropological but with the caricature of the natives and anthropologist played by the same race. Li has also looked at the idea of re using elements from projects and what it means to re contextualising work to comment on the circulation of cultures bringing to attention forms of mis/communication. For his research, Li will work closely with Singapore Management University faculty Rowan Wang to understand the dissemination of protestant ideals in Singapore, not only through the lens of theology, but as a form of ideological management. Li will build an open platform, re purposing works and structures from past work, incorportated into an interviewing structure.


Li Ran, 7 September – 13 November 2015, Courtesy the artist.
Li Ran, 7 September – 13 November 2015, Courtesy the artist.
Li Ran, 7 September – 13 November 2015, Courtesy the artist.
Li Ran, 7 September – 13 November 2015, Courtesy the artist.
Li Ran, 7 September – 13 November 2015, Courtesy the artist.

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Li Ran
Li Ran
Artist-in-Residence
China

Li Ran is a performance and video artist. His practice tests the line between fact and fiction, questioning assumptions of cultural cliché and challenging the idea of the self. Between September and November 2015, Li was Artist-in-Residence at NTU CCA Singapore where he started the work It is not Complicated, A Guide Book (2016). As part of the work, Li juxtaposed recordings of Singapore’s popular attractions, Gardens by the Bay and Marina Bay Sands, with quotes from the Chinese version of the Centre Pompidou museum guide, whose account of modern art resonates with Singapore’s contemporary landscape.