Kai Syng Tan

The artist Tan Kai Syng, who was born in Singapore in 1975, makes video-recordings of folk recalling events, though versions of these may differ from person to person. She prefers to leave the question of historical truth open at the cost of a narrative thread and questions hegemonic narrative structures as well as the Oral History school, which tries to reconstruct history by collecting subjective memories…

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