Laurens Tan b. 1950

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The minute you walked in the joint......
Description

[Vegascana® & Vegas Noir® : an Ecstatic Eclecticism] The Game begins as soon as you set eyes on the sign, as you park the car, enter the elevator ...

Type
Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/3465
Note
Spoke at
exhibited at
Laurens Tan: adapt enforce
Date
2002
Place
Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, NSW
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Wollongong City Gallery Annual report

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Super poke 1 (Lawyers, guns & money 3)
Date
1997
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Laurens Tan used a monitor as the central focus of a piece that was essentially a non-operational poker machine, borrowed the form of a futuristic poker machine, beautifully crafted out of formed plywood to carry an animation that used the iconography of gambling and money in a sort of hallucinatory visual mantra.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
EAF annual report; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Lawyers, guns & money: a project of the Experimental Art Foundation. Adelaide, SA: Experimental Art Foundation, 1997
ISBN 0949836338

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Just a memento
Date
1995
Place
Project Contemporary Artspace, Wollongong, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Just a memento
Date
1995
Place
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula, NSW
Description

Expanded version of an exhibition first staged by Project Contemporary Artspace, Wollongong.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Just a memento
Date
1995
Place
Project Contemporary Artspace, Wollongong, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Just a memento
Date
1995
Place
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula, NSW
Description

Expanded version of an exhibition first staged by Project Contemporary Artspace, Wollongong.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Adapt/enforce IV: an installation by Laurens Tan
Date
1993
Place
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Supported by the Blanche Louisa Buttner Bequest.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
QAG annual report; State Library of QLD catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Laurens Tan: adapt /enforce IV. [Wollongong, NSW: Wollongong City Gallery], c1992. [4] p : ill ; 30 cm. 6p: col and b&w ill

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Laurens Tan: adapt enforce IV
Date
1992
Place
Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, NSW
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Wollongong City Gallery annual report; State Library of QLD catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Laurens Tan: adapt /enforce IV. [Wollongong, NSW: Wollongong City Gallery], c1992
[4] p : ill ; 30 cm

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Laurens Tan: re-sited references
Date
1991
Place
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
State Library of QLD catalogue

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Australian Perspecta
Date
1991
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
A craving for authenticity: an installation
Date
1990
Place
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, WA
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
State Library of QLD catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Tans, Laurens, A craving for authenticity: an installation. Perth, WA: Perth Institute for Contemporary Art, Curtin University of Technology, 1990
ISBN 1863420967

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Installation

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