A disproportionate number of the greatest experiences of art that I've had in Australia have been in the MCA, but the current offerings didn't offer me much.
"Ultra Unreal" had a few cool pieces, and I watched the whole of Lawrence Lek's "Geomancer" (2017; 48 minutes) even though I found it more interesting for its surface and style than for its substance in its depiction of artificial intelligence in a future Singapore where much of the world has been drowned by rising sea levels, and quite a bit of Club Ate's (Justin Shoulder, Bhenji Ra and collaborators) "ANG IDOL KO / YOU ARE MY IDOL 2022" (29 minutes) which had a real warmth in its storytelling of Filipino mythology melded with queer, trans and animist ways of being.
Some of the Vivienne Binns paintings were interesting and nice enough, but nothing really stuck with me, across the wide field that she's covered in her career.
