Fyerool Darma (Singapore)

CORE MEMORY: §ænt❤️‍🔥§hæaa~

A presentation by Fyerool Darma

Absolute Space AIR is proud to present its inaugural Artist-in-Residence Program 2024:  'Summon! Dance! Carnival!' with a presentation of a research conducted by Fyerool Darma titled ‘COREMEMORY: §ænt💥§hæaa~’ [shan-to-sha-aa~].

What is data mapping? What are the literatures that would be data-mined and recognised or ignored in such an exercise when prompted with a keyword? What limitations of art, technology, science, and society could one draw then when spaces of display like the gallery are employed as a domain, all this amidst the celebration of a quadricentennial of a city that are in parallel, in relation, and in consonant economy, culture and its forecastings of futurity alongside elsewhere? What derivations would the reader, here the exhibition viewer perceive just from the screenshots, covers, surfaces or interfaces of literatures amidst this map?

The title of the project derives from Fyerool's 'random encounter' with a t-shirt reading “Santosha Research Dept.” at Dadong Night Market in Tainan. This chance encounter becomes an extended exercise, one that is belated, yet one that interrogates structures of epistemology, core memory, fabulation, and an imagination that is entangled in the cloud of computation and Artificial Intelligence.

The presentation includes a book written by the artist during his time in Tainan. Alongside a text animation by Darius Ou, interspersed with textual archives from web 2.0 that are extended here, and translated into wall coverings. This choreography mines a nucleus of essays, articles, news - literature that are intertwined with the keyword 'malayo-polynesian,' in parallel with artefacts related to 'Anu’ (or Eric Flower?), whose contributions synthesised into a multiple-species, a formless being, a nobody, a friend, whose acoustics reverb beyond the archival vaults of the internet, the computer and core memory, inspired the book.

The presentation is a dedication to a poem, in as much a it too interrogates the enquiries above that are entanglements of big data, the open access, the intangible, and the limitations of imaginative limits of the relationship between art, science, technology, and society. In turn, questioning celebratory moments of being and existence within the complexities of the world.

The artist wishes to extend his gratitude to Yi-Min, Yen-Yi, Tze-Ting, Chia-Hsuan, Yi-Ting and Sally. Additionally to Wardah, for nurturing Dahlia and Pipi amidst his distance, and his extended family. to jonathan tan and Brandon Tay for the peer support and the reverb, additionally to RN for the reading and care in distance and CikguG$ for the necessary renders.