Jurong West Street 81

Jurong West Street 81 is an artwork about neighbors discovering neighbors looking at each other from across a void. In a synchronized event that took place in a housing estate in Singapore, 16 residents in opposing flats agreed to have video cameras placed in their kitchen windows. Although the architectural forms are mostly uniform, the project exposes a rich diversity within the buildings via the simple intervention of recording video and sound. The project allowed residents and neighbors to view and be viewed with tacit recognition and permission thus revealing a surprising series of funny, idiosyncratic and even moving vignettes.