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Toggle Boggle
Mixed media, 2021

256 x 30 x160 (cm)

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Toggle Boggle is a statement on how objects are perceived and treated by people, and how technology has altered the idea of normality, drawing parallels and possibilities of interpretations based on the motif of the rat. Since time immemorial, the rat has been regarded as a nuisance, a vector of disease. Rats are used by scientists in laboratories to study human diseases. The computer mouse as digital parallel, is a device that controls the user interface within a computer. The evolution of digital age has elevated the mouse to a point, where it becomes a tool that humans cannot live without. The artist relates the physical similarities of rats with long tails to wired cables, fashioning it into a fantastical creature that resembles a lab rat but is actually, a computer mouse. The “mouse” is hung unceremoniously in an array, dangling by its tail and the work comes with instructions, to pick a unit and insert it into a prepared game console. This activates a game to start with a mission to catch the virtual rat. Toggle Boggle looks into presenting the potential of interactivity in the digital and tactile medium of artmaking. The nature of the work, which is a digital game that requires a physical tool to operate, allows one to navigate between the two works in terms of senses and attention experienced.

 

This work is created under the one-year long mentorship programme held by Yeo Chee Kiong and exhibiting
show curator Tan Yen Peng, for six young artists namely Ang Xue Ning, Chen Yanyi, Nyan Soe, Ong Si Hui,
Subashri Sankarasubramanian, and Wong Gin Ming. 

—  A Special Project: NAFA x Sculpture Society (Singapore)


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