j a s s i n g h
jas singh is a Leicester-based artist whose practice blends durational performance, digital technologies and installation to create work that directly engages with socio-political events. Collaging found footage from media and news outlets, archival material and generative AI, jas creates work that replicates the chaos of the world today through overloading the senses with fast-moving visual imagery and sound.
Life changes in 2014 resulted in neurological complications that forced jas to take a break from his work. Since 2018 he has returned to making and has become increasingly interested in questioning the mechanics of identity. Through embracing his disabilities and his own identity as a British-Asian artist, jas asks us to look more closely at the ways in which language and identity are constructed in relation to the push-and-pull of global politics and mass media.
jas also performs as S A B O T A G E using live online streams to assail the audience, who are placed within the spectacle of a news culture that reflects and amplifies the chaos of contemporary politics and events. The backdrop to this visual cacophony is the uncertainty and constant BREAKING NEWS.
Exhibitions & Performances
2024 1984, Phoenix (Leicester)
2023 hippocratic / hypocrite, Attenborough Arts Centre (Leicester)
2023 S A B O T A G E 'hippocratic / hypocrite', Attenborough Arts Centre (Leicester)
2022 S A B O T A G E The Breaking Borders, GOMA (Waterford, Ireland)
2021 Words, Interact Digital Arts (Leicester)
2021 S A B O T A G E AAC & DAO, Attenborough Arts Centre & Disability Arts Online
2021 BLKHLCLB: S A B O T A G E #212121, Vivid Projects (Birmingham)
2020 S A B O T A G E II: The Aftermath - PhyloCode, Pallas Projects (Dublin)
2020 The Idle Index, Phoenix (Leicester)
2020 S A B O T A G E - Live 10, Pallas Projects (Dublin)
2020 S A B O T A G E - Neurotransmission, Vivid Projects (Birmingham)
2020 Black Hole Club present: S A B O T A G E 09, Vivid Projects (Birmingham)
2020 S A B O T A G E 08, Digital Arts (Leicester)
2020 MayDay Reader - [Live News Broadcast], Vivid Projects (Birmingham)
2020 S A B O T A G E 07, LCB Depot (Leicester)
2019 S A B O T A G E 6 Day, CVAN East Midlands (Online)
2019 S A B O T A G E 05, LCB Depot (Leicester)
2019 Trauma [Audio Recording], Rua Red Gallery (Dublin)
2019 S A B O T A G E 04 - [24hr Live Performance], LCB Depot (Leicester)
2018 S A B O T A G E 03, Modern Panic, Archive Gallery (London)
2018 S A B O T A G E 02, Loop, LCB Depot (Leicester)
2018 S A B O T A G E 01, LCB Depot (Leicester)
2018 Fitter Happier OKNOTOK and Copper Brain, Destress Fest, Attenborough Arts Centre (Leicester)
//hiatus//
2015 Thee Sunday Sonics, The Old Chemist (St. Leonards-on-Sea)
2014 UNTOUCHABLE curated by Franko B, Mori + Stein Gallery (London)
2014 Interzone: 100 Years of William S Burroughs, Guerrilla Zoo (Greenwich)
2013 Tempting Failure, The Island (Bristol)
2012 Streets for Elephant Man, LCB Depot (Leicester)
2012 Fine Art Degree Show, Central St Martins (London)
2011 Shoreditch Magistrates’ Court: Occupy London (Old Street, London)
2011 Speaker Box, Moment One KX Launch Central Saint Martins (London)
2010 Montage In Space, Trinity Buoy Wharf (London)
Residencies & Awards
2022 Disability Arts Online Instagram Takeover
2021 Artist Support Commission, Disability Arts Online & Attenborough Arts Centre
Texts
2023 Jas Singh’s hippocratic/hypocrite explores the mechanics of British-Asian Identity, Disability Arts Online
2022 Livestream | Breaking Borders, Andy Harper
2020 S A B O T A G E, Pallas Projects
2020 S A B O T A G E, Pallas Projects
2020 S A B O T A G E, DublinArtLife
2019 Meet the Artist, CVAN East Midlands
2013 Jas Singh: Experimenting with the interaction of sound and space, CLOT Magazine