Stills from a video – A Lapse of Memory, 2007 – by Fiona Tan.

Fiona Tan is currently showing “The Changeling” at Wako (HERE) for one more day – July 24th. She has also been working on a project in Japan for the upcoming Architectural Biennale in Venice, which i am looking forward to seeing.

While in Australia i wrote a review of Tan’s set of two exhibitions called ‘Coming Home’ – one video work (Disorient, 2009) was shown at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation and the other work (A Lapse of Memory, 2007) was projected at the National Art School Gallery. The review was for Art Asia Pacific (Issue 69) and the ending said:

“In 1983, historian Geoffrey Blainey feared that Australia would become a “cluster of tribes,” as waves of migrants from Eastern Europe, the middle east and Asia poured into the country. Tan’s work supersedes such antiquated notions surrounding multiculturalism, by offering a psychological portrait of the realities of contemporary interculturalism – geographical spaces (or people) as carriers of hybrid cultures rather than simply hosts of an assortment of disparate traditions.”