A common vernacular within the reading and understanding of media systems and parallels in modes of living that are driven by the evolution of communication systems and manufacturing of desires for the purpose of financial progress and competition run through the artworks by Butler in this exhibition. The two artists have taken their own approach, not as Asian or European, but as artists who live in very similar societies on different sides of the planet.Īlan Butler has made a series of artworks based around the idea of how economic, media and political forces are interchangeable and how their ubiquitous nature allow resulting artworks exist comfortably within East and West platforms. The works on show in both Flat Earth Society exhibitions investigate various ideas related to communication, consumerism, mass production and information control. Rather than creating artworks that investigate the nature of globalisation in contemporary art practices, Lim and Butler, have instead created a series of artworks which themselves are testament to these theories. The initial premise for the project set out to investigate how parallels in communications, information technology and media systems in the East and West affect the styles, mediums and trends in contemporary art practice, Flat Earth Society began to take a different shape, resulting in the two exhibitions taking place in Dublin (the Lab Gallery) and Singapore (the Substation Gallery) in January/February 2008. The idea for this exhibition is based on a series of concepts, which stemmed from a symposium hosted by ASEF, in Paris 2003, loosely themed around the idea of the ‘globalisation of contemporary art’. Flat Earth Society Alan Butler and Hazel Lim
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