KYTV: Company Profile Kill Your Television (KYTV) formed in early 2002 as the brainchild of Aaron Kao, Jeremy Sharma and Rizman Putra. In order to explore other artistic interests other than music and visual arts, hence, the formation of the collective. The concept of KYTV is exploring the boundaries of various art forms like visual arts, installation, writing, movement, music/sound, and multi-media. Essentially, KYTV is a collaborative effort of artists with different aptitudes and experiences each time a new work is created. Under the direction of co-artistic directors RIZMAN PUTRA and CHOY KA FAI.KYTV is moving towards hybrid territories of contemporary arts, whereby boundaries are constantly disappearing. Interactivity and experiences are now the main focus of KYTV’ works constantly experimenting and exploring regardless of forms. KYTV seeks to create works that relates to our spontaneous and complex structures of urban existence, communicating with people within the ever-changing landscape of time, space and cultures. Choy Ka Fai is a young video artist, performer, theatre and film director. He graduated from LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Media Arts in 2004. While studying at LASALLE, he has been actively involved in the theatre scene. Video has always been his strong point of collaboration and basis of experimentations. One of his major work as collaborating video artist with Theatrework in ‘Sandakan Threnody’ ,directed by Ong Keng Sen. The production was presented in Singapore, Brisbane, and Melbourne Arts Festival 04. As the Co-Artistic director of KYTV, he was actively involved in performing and creating multi-media design for KYTV performance since 2002.He had directed KYTV most recent short films and three performances of ‘Design For Death’ in Singapore and Korea 04. He also works as the Multimedia Artist for KYTV’s P.O.P Station, which had toured Singapore, London, Indonesia and Berlin. In 2005, ka fai presented a performative audio visual project- Controlroomliveunitand directed KYTV’s ‘Not available On Print date’ for the 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale. He is now undertaking research on interactive media design and a upcoming collaboration with Director Ong Ken Sen for “Diaspora” in September 2006. RIZMAN PUTRA Since 1997, Rizman Putra has been actively working in per formative experimentation, crossing between different genres, including poetry, photography, video, music, burlesque, and dance. He is also a founding member of a multi-disciplinary art group KYTV (Kill Your Television), and front man of local music group, Tiramisu. Rizman has made his name as a performer both in his solo work as well as various collaborations; he has performed and exhibited his works in Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, Korea and Japan. He received the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology’s (RMIT) Most Outstanding Award 2002-2003. Recently, Rizman collaborated with TheatreWorks in their new production, ‘Sandakan Threnody’ under the direction of Ong Keng Sen. A cross-disciplinary performance in collaboration with Australia, Japan and Singapore. As the founding member of KYTV, he is the main creative source of the performance elements and interdisciplinary project. Rizman had performed in all the KYTV performance, short films and interactive project. He was awarded the President’s Young Talents Awards 2005 and presented his solo exhibition/performance at the Singapore Arts Museum. Recently, he was selected as one of the participant artist for the upcoming Singapore biennale 2006. |
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