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Gallery - Art Jam

Art Jam, Green, 2009

Art Jam, Black, 2009

Art Jam, Blue, 2009

Art Jam, Light Green, 2009

Art Jam 01, 2009

Art Jam 02, 2009

Art Jam 03, 2009

Art Jam 04, 2009

Art Jam 05, 2009

Art Jam, Purple, 2009

Art Jam, Long paper, 2009

Art Jam, Long paper, 2009 (Detailed)
Gallery Description ART JAM statement
by Shih Yun Yeo(Singapore) and Katja Pal(Slovenia)

Jam session one,
Singapore, Sept 2009

'To jam' is an expression used by musicians to describe performing together without a set purpose or itinery. a 'jam session' is often between musicians who do not usually play together and just play one-off for the fun of it.  Their intent is to make music. A jam session is a musical act where musicians gather and jam without extensive preparation or predefined arrangements; improvisation. This is the same way that these two artists, Shih Yun Yeo and Katja Pal create this collaborative series of paintings. The artists meet together at a proposed place and time and then they 'jam' with brushes, paints..etc instead  of musical instruments.

There will be canvases as well as papers on the floor, this specified surfaces are the official record of the jam session. Music is the main catalyst. Music is the voice of the world. It speaks universal tones.

A 512MB RCA mp3 player will be a collaborator in every artjam session. This mp3 player stores songs that both artists love at a specific point in their lives. Each artist has the freedom to delete or add the songs once the mp3 player is in her hands. The mp3 player takes a plane to and fro from Singapore to Lendava. The songs in this mp3 player offers magic, joy and inspiration to each artjam session. We regard this process as conversations. The process of mailing the mp3 player, the distance these songs travel, and the openness of sharing, all become mixed into our various ways of communicating with each other and knowing each other a litttle better through music. We are interested in using references to daily life. Ordinary and easily recognizable things seem to carry the most meaning and work the best as material for our conversations.

Evidently, it is music that they love, the element of chance and the haphazard nature in which this collaboration is fashioned that makes it impossible to predict exactly where it will go on once it has started. Indeed, this painted surface will outline a hurried aesthetic dialogue between two creative impulses commonly seperated by miles and miles of land, but for one session they are bound by a single lapse in space and time. The method of painting involves the willingness to let something become better in ways that we expect and to become better in different or unexpected ways. By working together, we give up control to each other. The reward is uncertainty and surprise. We let the paintings grow, change, drift apart and come together. Randomness cannot be avoided, nor do we want to avoid it.