Artist Talk: Brian Gothong Tan

Brian Gothong Tan is best known for his cutting-edge and highly engaging works in theatre, film and installation art, which have toured successfully in many countries like Italy, USA, Korea and the UK.

His work Hypersurface was featured in the 9th Venice Architectural Biennale in 2004. In 2006, he was the youngest artist participating in the Singapore Biennale with the installation Living Dangerously. In 2010 he created the anchoring video installation for the Singapore Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo.

His film project with Ekachai Uektrongtham, Pleasure Factory, was screened in Cannes Film Festival 2007 under the Un Certain Regard section. He has worked as Director of Film and Visual Effect on numerous National Day Parades, as well as the opening and closing ceremony of Youth Olympic Games in 2010.

His eclectic use of multimedia in theatre earned him the Best Use of Multimedia Award in the 2005 Life! Theatre Awards, as well as Best Multimedia Design in 2008 and 2012. He was conferred the Young Artist Award in 2012 and the Singapore Youth Award in 2015.