My new work titled Carmageddon.

Now I need to get the cars to fly, to crash and to explode.

Then I will take stereo-photographs (3D).

(Photographs: Michael Lee Hong Hwee)

Pencil Marksman (Pencil crossbow with attachment-heads)

Mixed media
Dimensions variable
2008
 
To fiddle:
Influenced by the Surrealists’ exploration of the subconscious, I seek a heightened state of drawing-making that co-engages the physical and the instinctual.

- Chun Kai Qun (Singapore)

被 迫 裸 體 工 作 室 舉 行 展 覽 ， 展 出 八 個 本 港 同 新 加 坡 藝 術 家 作 品 。

王 子 俊 攝

http://www1.appledaily.atnext.com//template/apple/art_main.cfm?iss_id=20090112&sec_id=4104&subsec_id=15333&art_id=12078599

Choon Lin and I built this work together.

It’s huge!

Sungei Roadsters

Artists: Chun Kai Qun and Joo Choon Lin

We are interested in examining the peripheral and the insignificant as a means of rebutting a certain dominant hierarchical value system.

Making do with “poor” materials and combining them together using roughly-tied knots, the work may evoke the crudely, yet much imaginatively and resourcefully built push-carts or vehicles used by old folks to scavenge for discarded goods, piles of old cardboard and empty drink cans in the streets of Singapore, just to make ends meet.

Our work celebrates the transformation of adversity into strength, a process most evident at our present times of declining economy, which embodies human creativity, invention and hardship emerging from the most straitening of circumstances.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sungei_Road

This is a short preview clip.

Choon Lin and I tried living life on the road for a day.

It’s quite intense bringing the works in there and we were scolded so much.

We ran out of video-memory and didn’t manage to find a good spot.

I guess you have to fight for a space there.

It’s finally done! Remember the pencil-crossbow, 4 x pencil-sharpener and the various attachment-heads?

They are made for Drawing Out Conversations (PART II Hong Kong).

Hello all,

Choon Lin and I will be collaborating on an artwork at the SMU Arts Festival.

It’s from 9-24 January 2009.

Our work will be titled SUNGEI ROADSTERS.

We are going to build a beefed up version of a Karang Guni cart.

A Worldly View

My drawings are usually generated by imagination, naivety and an incapability to understand difficult issues. I wonder how the world will be if everyone can enjoy pure pleasure without mulling over costs and benefits.

A Worldly View perceives terrorists as spoil-joys who have clearly forgotten how to have fun and rather carry out elaborate pranks just to dampen the mood.

Printed on advertising banners and in red-yellow just like McDonald’s, the drawings seem to be calling out loudly for audiences to receive its messages.

I’m actually making works for Zoukout. It’s weird to be doing it because I have never understood the clubbing culture.

Anyway, I’m making five drawings. It has to be drawings because it’s the easiest thing to do when you have three shows from now till New Year. They are going to be printed huge on banners (6 x 2m) and hung, of course, on coconut trees. I’m worried about the lighting. I hope they have floodlights.

I hope they like it because they look rather gory. It’s about playing with guns and weapons when you have so many other fun stuff in this world.

I’ll probably turn them into t-shirts. I think they will be cool. Maybe I can get someone to do it, heat transfer printing has really got to that stage that it’s so much convenient and looks just as great as silkscreens. I am tempted to try.

Mr. Molotov

And The Whole World Lost Their Warheads

I Seek and I Destroy Kites

It can even be 10 x pencils.

Freshly shaved!