SALTY - NG XI JIE 黄晞竭 - THE COSMOS WAIT FOR YOU
  • ----- homeship
  • ----- about
  • ----- writing
  • ----- store
  • Buangkok Mall Life Club
  • 82 Questions For Being The Artist-In-Residence At A University Art Department
  • The Alternative Moby-Dick Marathon
  • A Whaling Descendant Performs In Four Acts
  • Faculty Relations
  • Words of Support
  • UMassD CVPA Artist in Residence
  • The Inside Show
  • It's lucky when you can find something
  • The Grandma Reporter
  • Canton Grill Degustatory Research
  • KSMoCA Brave Rose Midwifery Department
  • Grandparents Residency
  • Ritual for something
  • How are you? I'm good, how are you? I'm good.
  • Autumn Weaves
  • I would sit on his lap
  • The City Seal of Portland, Oregon
  • Portland Tropical Gardens
  • Long-Distance Calls
  • Pickled 菜心相印
  • It has been suggested that more is known about the moon than the deepest parts of the ocean
  • bunion2bunion
  • Funeral in 25 Objects
  • Naming Me 自己取名字
  • Cafeteria Staff Exchange Program
  • Daily life video assignment
  • The Braiding Association
  • How to play by the creek
  • Orbicularis Ouroboris
  • Mimpi Manis
  • Bindi Roadside Spa
  • Sab Kuch Milega
  • Singapore Minstrel
  • Falling in love with a stranger
  • Energy is always conserved, never created or destroyed
  • The Handbook of Everyday Secrets
  • Lintukoto
  • The Swan of Tuonela
  • The Silence Experiments
  • Museum of Things I Want to Forget
  • I am a beautiful beached whale by the Straits
  • Oomoonbeings
  • Wishmoon
  • Leo XIII Dream
  • Post-Love
  • experiments & some images
I am interested in the primal self and our connection to a larger cosmic consciousness. I explore how art can facilitate an encounter with the wilderness inside by creating immersive interactions that take audiences away from busy, everyday reality, deep into silence and contemplation. Through my work audiences are invited to inhabit and question a primordial state of being, thereby examining the human condition and its possibilities for connection to an unseen natural world.
 
A vital part of my practice is an inquiry into the modern role of Clown, involving themes of innocence, melancholy and the search for self. Jesters have always been fascinating fools speaking truths, unashamedly portraying humans in the circus of life, a display at once grotesque and blissful. My on-going performative persona is Pierrot, a forlorn clown from the Italian Commedia dell’arte tradition. Pierrot is childhood, the longing for love and adoration of the unattainable, characterised by moon worship. A conduit for larger themes of existence, I explore numerous incarnations and interactive possibilities of Pierrot in various mediums, from collaborative film to interactive performance art. The Silence Experiments is my on-going one-audience encounter where intuition and intimacy meet under a sheet. Lintukoto (Finland, 2014) painted a journey of metamorphosis in the Finnish forest, while Leo XIII Dream (Singapore, 2011) was an interactive site-specific performance-installation where tiny audience groups played silently in the basement of a cosmically transformed old electrical station cum art centre.
 
I believe in the elegant collision of reality with fantasy to illuminate larger truths, especially in filmmaking. Drawing upon my deep fascination with personal histories, eccentric characters and the abyss of aging, my experimental documentaries have been about offbeat topics like elderly love and sex and being female and growing old. In 2015, I premiered my first feature film at the 26th Singapore International Film Festival. Singapore Minstrel is about the trying and beautiful universe of my romantic partner Roy Payamal, the wildest busker of a country ranked the world’s most emotionless society.
 
I work to deepen the dialogue between life and art by creating collaborative projects that are robust, communal exercises in reinvention. Recently, I conceptualised and made an experimental short with people in Sarecha village, Rajasthan, India, about a circus visiting their village. In The Handbook of Everyday Secrets (2015), a group partook in weekly experiments like reading obituaries and researching their neighbourhood, eventually producing a book encapsulating a reimagination of everyday life as well as the people and spaces around.
 



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