Steel, plywood, concrete, hay, taxidermied goat, tyre, tools, farming tools, antlers and performers with typical German-style farmers costumes by Elmgreen and Dragset for Singapore Biennale 2011. Elmgreen and Dragset have worked collaboratively since 1995. They have become internationally renowned for their witty and evocative sculptures and installations that critique power structures in architecture, institutions and public space. A recurrent subjects of their work is the art system itself, with the supposedly neutral white cube of the gallery a regular motif for investigating economic, social and representational forces. A number of their projects displace objects and buildings into unlikely contexts, as in their SB2011 project, which transplants a traditional German barn into the tropical urban environment of Singapore. Creating slippages in meaning, the work unsettles our sense of what is ‘normal’, and uncovers hidden dreams and desires.

......Jean-Herve Peron. Behaving as if the Health And Safety Act never happened and making the show truly frightening and all the better for it. It's been a long a time since I have seen power tools on stage and this one was completely in tune!