it’s the end of the world, let’s dance is an exhibition built around these frissons, that we enjoy on our own or within our circles of kin, lovers and friends. These are bodies shaking in the face of a ceaseless stream of apocalyptic endism that both supplies a paralytic shock which is useful for the those who capitalise on the status quo to maintain it as such, and also suggests the end of resistive joy. The wiggling, contorting, gesturing, munching, riding, posing, vibrating, undulating, touching that are supplied by Channatip Chanvipava, Samak Kosem, Fangas Nayaw, Tseng Chien-Ying, Lu Wei, Caroline Wong, and myself hold two realities together at once in the same space – that our misgivings and unease about the crises of our world are not unfounded, while at the same time we are still learning and rediscovering our capacities for how to move through this world. it’s the end of the world, let’s dance is not suggesting an epicurean withdrawal from civic concerns and wider ecologies into domesticated relations and spaces, or into notions of ‘community’ that are gated or worse, policed. Rather, this is an exhibition as a public dance, and an invitation to consider pleasure as a public concern. Two seemingly contradictory things are possible at once – I have invited these artists and friends to dance with me, anyone can enter the gallery floor to dance together.
Artists: Channatip Chanvipava, Samak Kosem, Jason Wee, Lu Wei, Fangas Nayaw, Tseng Chien-Ying, and Caroline Wong
Venue: Ames Yavuz Singapore
When: 15 Feb - 12 Apr 2025,
By: Ames Yavuz
