Lightbulbs were smashed! A computer was smashed! There was booze aplenty for everyone to get smashed! Heck, some people were getting smashed on tea while plucking towgay! Ah, don’t you just love visual artists? Last Wednesday, your Resident Art-Throb (caretaker of this newly-wrought space for ramblings on the visual and performing arts scene) gatecrashed the opening party for two art exhibitions at Tanjong Pagar Distripark’s Artspace @ Helutrans. Curating Lab: 100 Objects (Remixed) and Valentine Willie’s annual Singapore show Air-Conditioned Recession kicked off this year’s Singapore Art Show. It’s also known in certain circles as the Singapore Biennale With A Smaller Budget. But I digress. For a Wednesday night at an out-of-the-way venue, the place sure was packed. And it wasn’t just the visual artists. Spotted were folks from the NAC, students, film-makers, the odd Czech professor, and theatre peeps. [1] Everyone sing! Kumbaya … *** Of course, what’s a party without some live action? At 100 Objects (Remixed), performance artist Amanda Heng’s Let’s Chat had people gathering around a table to catch up on the latest goss while sipping tea and plucking towgay. Meanwhile, over at Air-Conditioned Recession, performance artists Lynn Lu and Jason Lim had their own respective thing going on. Lynn’s (Untitled) Groundless was a work consisting of a block of ice over which she poured salt and laid a paper boat. Before that, she showed a handwritten message to the audience. It said: “Think of the moment when the ground vanished beneath your feet”. Sublime words, indeed, Lynn. Too bad I was thinking of that fateful night in uni where I had one too many beers and … Let’s not go there, shall we? Jason, meanwhile, re-enacted a version of his Venice Biennale 2007 piece. Just Dharma (destroyed) saw him, among other things, hugging and crushing a chandelier made of porcelain pieces, fabric and lighbulbs.