Dana Goh (b. 2001, Singapore) is a Vice-Chancellor’s Global scholar at Newcastle University, pursuing a Fine Art BA Hons degree. She is the Visual Arts Coordinator and curator for AMADEUS Festival.
She spent her adolescent years in Vienna as a student at Amadeus International School Vienna and was part of the AMAA Advanced Art Programme (Amadeus Music and Arts Academy).
Notable achievements include Guest Performer at the Singapore-Austria 50 Years Friendship Celebration Ceremony (2016); Commissioned Collaborative Artwork for IBO 50th Conference (2018); Vice-Chancellor’s Global Scholarship (Newcastle University, 2019); Visual Arts Coordinator (Amadeus Festival Vienna, 2022). Her artwork was selected for the cover of AMADEUS Festival Vienna 2022 and she has been commissioned a permanent installation to be on the ground.
My multidisciplinary practice contemplates the fragmented identity of self, material and environment. We are made of fragments that unite into a unique self through individual experiences and influences. We perceive our surroundings and identities as a whole yet it is co-construed and far from their entirety. I intend to further scrutinise the fragility and semi-ephemeral states of material in relation to my conceptual direction where the likelihood of destruction can happen but are not certain. Humans have the ability to meld and disintegrate materials, comparable to the continuous building and destruction of self-identity and memory in the contemporary world. Hence, I emphasise materiality and treat it as a break from exhaustive conceptual imagery. Materiality accentuates the importance of the physical encounter to piece. It is a thought-provoking confrontation that corresponds with the physical self and the fragmented identity.
