BADMINTON TRAINING

(2015, 3-channel video installation & live performance, Dimensions/duration variable)

BADMINTON TRAINING presents Malaysia's national sport, badminton, as an illusionary box. Contorting the sporting spectator's point of view from a stadium format to a multi-dimensional one. The ground level of the space is occupied by a live training session by the country's top young players and coached by a former national doubles player. National ambitions, youthful ambitions, and physical ambitions; to strive and to show one's strength and might; the tallest buildings and the greatest heights; to extend and to over-extend. For a professional athlete, the body must over-extend in order to surprise the mind. And perhaps, the mind must over-extend in order to surprise the body. (Curated by Saidah Rastam, and commissioned by the Khazanah Foundation)

BADMINTON TRAINING

(2015, 3-channel video installation & live performance, Dimensions/duration variable)

BADMINTON TRAINING presents Malaysia's national sport, badminton, as an illusionary box. Contorting the sporting spectator's point of view from a stadium format to a multi-dimensional one. The ground level of the space is occupied by a live training session by the country's top young players and coached by a former national doubles player. National ambitions, youthful ambitions, and physical ambitions; to strive and to show one's strength and might; the tallest buildings and the greatest heights; to extend and to over-extend. For a professional athlete, the body must over-extend in order to surprise the mind. And perhaps, the mind must over-extend in order to surprise the body. (Curated by Saidah Rastam, and commissioned by the Khazanah Foundation)