Artist: Urich Lau Wai-Yuen

Singaporean visual artist Urich Lau Wai-Yuen, born 1975, works with video art, photography, printmaking and installation art. He has exhibited in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, China, Japan, Australia, Serbia and the USA. He has also curated and organized projects on video art – Displacement Project: Bandung-Singapore 2006 with Singaporean and Indonesian artists in 2006; Episode5: 12-Hour Performance, Sound and Video Festival, organized for The Artists Village (Singapore) with South-east Asian and European artists in 2006; Videology with Singaporean artists, presented by the Substation in 2008; OPEN - Autumn Party 08, in conjunction with The Artists Village: 20 Years at Singapore Art Museum 2008. He holds a Master of Fine Art degree from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and works as an art lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts.

Artwork Data

Title of work: Video Demonstration: Life Circuit – 1.1

Synopsis: The body is used as a circuit for video and audio electronic capabilities, replacing human senses in perceptions and expressions. The artist presents the work in a series of “video demonstrations” and using electronic media, these capabilities become an extension to the artist’s anatomy that sustains and projects the body’s altered functionality and interactivity.