About
Lucas is a Singaporean art practitioner specialising in conceptual sculpture and installation. Parallel to his fine arts practice, he also engages in illustration and design to explore topics of interest.
His artistic practice inquires into, comments on and speculates about the human present and future through the lens of semiotics. He draws on ideas and aesthetics from online image boards and forum culture and has a firsthand understanding of digital subcultures as a long-term participant in fringe, internet-based communities. He leverages this knowledge to build frameworks that reflect the subtly violent and pervasive atmosphere of existing in a post-internet world, while concurrently offering a unique perspective on parts of the online experience that are often hidden or ignored.
This is combined with a lifelong interest in categorisation and labels, informing research-based artworks that are both clinical in execution yet chaotic in conception. His work blends the voyeurism, brutality and delusion of early "wild west" online collectives with the minimalism and rigidity of fine art spaces. These layered structures function as a form of subterfuge, for audiences to confront and consider ideas they might find reprehensible, forcing interaction between disparate topics and individuals.
Lucas also engages with different underground music subcultures by attending live events to supplement his practice, and has performed as part of an experimental harsh noise act. For him, the concept as a construct matters above all else.
He can be found on Instagram as @kaemirikon and @kragehul.
Crackles can be heard from the microphone picking up the ultrasonic sound.
Tracks featured in this video are as follows:
Alone/A/Cross/Abyss by Trepaneringsritualen (2014)
Salivate on Cue by Uboa (2018)
They serve as placeholders in this demonstration as the closest approximation of the actual recording.
(Simulacrum, amplified) Of a riflescope
Simulacrum is an abstract material manifestation that explores a feedback loop of paranoia, where isolation leads to erratic emotions and further alienation from society. Using sound as a medium, it engages with ideas of "opsec," conspiracy theories, psychotic delusions, dissolution and desensitisation.
The work presents a study of mental breakdown through technology used for suppression, control and waging war. It asks the audience to consider how much of suffering is personal and how much of it is manufactured.
Operating within a framework of control and violence, the word reflects on a generation born with the internet acting as a constant panopticon and sphere of influence.
Have you ever watched a man dissolve?
Guenevere Emmelia Claire Goh
Vera Ananda Binte Muhamad Shaiful
Chyanne Goh Hui Lin
Maya Ellena Binte Stephan Da Silva
Hu Hanyin
Ei Myat Phyu Sin
