Artist Talk with artists Din Chan and Prumsodun Ok
Wednesday, 9th May 2018, 6:00-7:30pm
In English with Khmer translation
Sa Sa Art Projects, #47 St 350 (off 95)
Din Chan (b. 1989, Singapore) is an artist, designer and overall a maker. He graduated from Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore, where he was intrigued by electronics as an artistic medium. His work tends to be based on interactions with the audience through movement and senses. Din is fascinated by synaesthesia, a perceptual phenomenon in which a stimulation of one sensory or a cognitive pathway leads to an automatic, involuntary experience in a second sensory or another cognitive pathway. For example, he is keen to produce and share an experience that allows us to see sound, taste music or hear colours. He uses everyday items to create works, such as a pencil that sings, a weighing scale that produces music, or lights that paint. Din hopes to bring the interest of art and technology closer to people around the world.
More about Din Chan at: http://fewergrey.wixsite.com/madlab/portfoli
Prumsodun Ok (b. 1987, Long Beach) is a bridge building artist, teacher, writer, and director committed to the positive transformation of our world. His interdisciplinary performances contemplate the “avant garde in antiquity,” and have been presented at the Department of Performing Arts (Cambodia), Bangkok Theatre Festival Asia Focus (Thailand), Za Koenji (Japan), Teatro Benito Juarez (Mexico), bhive (Greece), and REDCAT (United States). Beloved, his latest project was described by The Bangkok Post as “Radical Beauty.” Ok is the recipient of grants and fellowships from TED, MAP Fund, and Surdna Foundation, and has been a guest speaker and choreographer at California Institute of the Arts, UCLA, Santa Monica College, and Rajabhat University among others. He was formerly associate artistic director of Khmer Arts, a member of the Alliance for California Traditional Arts’s Board of Directors, and an artist in residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York. Ok is the founding artistic director of Prumsodun Ok and NATYARASA, Cambodia's first gay dance company, which has been described as “a vision of elegance and grace” (The Phnom Penh Post) and one of Cambodia’s “most revolutionary dance troupes” (ChannelNews Asia). His celebrated TED Talk has been viewed more than 2.5 million times based on counts from TED and Facebook.
More about Prumsodun Ok at: www.prumsodun.com
