Walking Performance : 'Everything (Wikipedia)' by Heman Chong. Performed by Tysha Khan 11.6.2021

Everything (Wikipedia) Durational performance involving a performer, Wikipedia, a mobile phone, 2019 by Heman Chong An individual moves around a room. It is revealed that that this individual is reading from a screen off their own phone. Beginning with the article of the day on Wikipedia, the reader reads that article, without any emotion, and moves onto the next article, which is a link that they can choose from within this page. They repeats this action, over and over, until the pre-defined hours of the performance has ended. This is a durational performance that is a futile attempt to vocalise a representation of the entirety of human knowledge. The hyperlinks across a multitude of entries written by the everyday person eventually spirals into the depths of irrelevance from the original daily suggested article. - In Everything (Wikipedia), artist Heman Chong proposes a futile attempt to vocalise a representation of the entirety of human knowledge through a performance of Wikipedia entries. Recited by a single individual, the performance begins with the Wikipedia page of the day and follows the website’s links as a means to navigate the encyclopaedic resource. Using an electronic mobile device to access the servers of Wikipedia in real time, the performer advances across a multitude of hyperlink entries, deciding on the choice of links to follow. This action is repeated until the pre-defined hours of the performance has ended. The performance of text is experienced spatially (while in the vicinity of the performer) and durationally (the amount of time spent experiencing the artwork, with content received based on the juncture that one encounters the performer), resulting in new capacities for the reception of information. In making the visitor’s experience of Wikipedia contingent on the performer’s chance encounter with information presented on the online encyclopedia, the artist acknowledges the exploratory and propositional nature of such digital infrastructures. Moving between hyperlinks and descending into rabbit holes (in the manner of Lewis Carroll’s Alice), information consumption quickly turns into excess. Recalling the conditions of an information age, Everything (Wikipedia) reckons with information presented and consumed in seeming infinitude. How does the boundlessness of virtual interfaces measure against the human limits of knowledge inquiry? Selene Yap Everything (Wikipedia) (2019) involves an individual reading aloud from the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia accessed in real time on an electronic mobile device. The individual performing the work always begins with the featured article of the day. Once they reach the end, they select another hyperlink from within the page to read from, and continue repeating this action for a predefined amount of time. Once relevance with the original suggested article is lost, the action of repeatedly going from entry to entry becomes a futile attempt to vocalise this representation of the entirety of human knowledge. Claudia Pestana - This performance was recorded at National Gallery Singapore, as part of a group show 'Wikiclicki' that was shown at National Gallery Singapore between 22 Apr to 11 Jul 2021. The six artists featured in this exhibition exemplify this new development in contemporary art referred to as the “aggregate,” a qualitative approach to collecting, organising and interpreting the frenzied array of images and data that increasingly govern our everyday lives. Their works activate anachronisms, fictions, improvisations, and sympathies that articulate the predicaments of our current times. As the audience for art shifts its attention from the gallery space to the smartphone, these six artists stand at the centre of these new technologies of image circulation, highlighting the multi-faceted experience of Singapore’s industrial present and technological future. Artists: Heman Chong Chua Chye Teck Debbie Ding bani haykal Amanda Heng Charles Lim Yi Yong Curatorium: Selene Yap Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol Shabbir Hussain Mustafa Kenneth Tay Teng Yen Hui Cheng Jia Yun WATCH NEXT : Another thunderstorm rain walk in Geylang, Singapore :    • 4K GEYLANG RED LIGHT DISTRICT SUPER HEAVY ...   Here is a list of my gear : DJI Osmo Pocket 2 : https://amzn.to/3gjZRXc Zoom H5 Sound Recorder : https://amzn.to/3x5jdoz Sandisk 256GB Micro USB : https://amzn.to/3amcLjz Boya MM1 Microphone : https://amzn.to/3gjLiCP Sennheiser Ambeo Binaural Microphone : https://amzn.to/2QC8p0r Wanderlust : A History of Walking : https://amzn.to/2OWArDw Support me on Ko-fi! : https://ko-fi.com/ambientwalking Check out my merch : https://society6.com/ambientwalking The carbon footprint generated by this YouTube channel is offset through Ecologi, an organisation dedicated to planting 10 billion trees. Donate to Ecologi via my referral link : https://ecologi.com/ambientwalking?r=...