ABSTRACT

With his on-going, and probably endless, series Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia, Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen questions today’s representations of South East Asia and attempts to embrace the region’s plurality, fluidity, complexity and intangibility from an artistic perspective. Based on academic research, the series embodies the artist’s effort to convert and transform the outcome of his research into multisensorial and empirical art forms. As such, the Critical Dictionary brings forth new creative possibilities and innovative epistemological languages that challenge today’s modes of knowledge production, and in particular a form of rational and scientific knowledge that dominates our society.

摘要

新加坡艺术家何子年（Ho Tzu Nyen）不断出版且可能无休无止的《东南亚批判词典》（Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia）质疑当今东南亚的代表性，并试图从艺术的角度接受该地区的多元化，流动性，复杂性和无形性。该系列作品以学术研究为基础，体现了艺术家将研究成果转化为多种感官和经验艺术形式的努力。这样，《重要词典》带来了新的创造可能性和创新的认识论语言，这些语言挑战了当今的知识生产方式，尤其是一种主导我们社会的理性和科学知识形式。