solitude
Siew Wai Kok

Malaysia

Video art, sound & improvised music

I work with video and sound (mostly using the human voice) as my artistic practice. My work is mostly personal, starting from the very private self and moving towards understanding humanity in general. I believe that as human beings, we share the same human nature and face similar human problems. We have a common ground. Therefore, to understand oneself is ultimately to understand others, whom we live and work with everyday. This inquiry requires great effort, courage, persistence and genuine honesty, in which sometimes is not easy, as our modern human lives have become quite complicated and confusing. Along the way, we have forgotten “how it all get started” and the very thing that is dear to us. “Finding the true nature of the self and bravely giving it a voice” is what I’m interested in art making.