A visual/audio installation commissioned by the Singapore Art Museum for the Singapore Night Festival.

Drawing inspiration from the communities, buildings, architecture
and art that once was on Armenian Street, PALIMPSEST is a
poetic expressions of the artists’ contemporary take into the
history and evolution of the now pedestrianised street.

This collaborative work by William Chan and Brandon Tay
combine digital images, text and sound that celebrates the
pulsating energy of Armenian Street – a site steeped in
discoveries, experimentation and discourse.

Comparing the evolution of Armenian Street to a Palimpsest – a medieval
wax tablet or parchment from which writing has been partially or completely
erased to make space for another text, these multiple translucent screens
can be seen as a series of connections, presenting the Street as a
palimpsest both literally and metaphorically, inscribed with layers
of meaning of “here and then” and “then and now”.

Meanwhile, the deconstructed cube is a reference and critique to
the ‘white cube’ paradigm which alludes the move away from the
traditional confines of the museum and art gallery spaces.