Coping Mechanisms (2019) is a collaboration with Pooja Nansi, a poet, and Kult Studio, a collective of designers for the Singapore Biennale 2019, 22 Nov 19 to 22 Mar 20. It is on display at 8Q@SAM on Queen Street, Singapore.
Commissioned by the Singapore Art Museum to produce a work for the exhibition, Pooja reached out to collaborate on a visual artwork based on a poem of the same name.
The poem takes snippets of conversation from a group-chat where people share their joys, triumphs, trials and tribulations of every day life. The visual translation of this group-chat as a coping mechanism is a cacophony of text and typography which leads the viewer to weave in and out of the shared space.
Kult Studio was responsible for the AR experience of the work. This virtual dimension of the work brings it full circle back into the mobile device, where the poem was first conceived.
More information on Pooja Nansi and the commissioned artwork can be found here: https://www.singaporebiennale.org/art/pooja-nansi
