Who is Jeff Hong. Artists and Waste. Art + Sustainability | Singapore – Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett. Written in May 2014 by Caitlind Brown Amidst all our recent business, I wrote this blog in early April and never posted it. The title is borrowed from “Art + Sustainability,” a book by Professor Sacha Kagan, keynote speaker at the I Light Symposium in Singapore. Moving now into our twenty-third hour of air travel, we reflect on the ideas and themes of the festival we are moving away from – I Light Marina Bay, Asia’s first light art festival championing a theme of sustainability.
(The irony is noted, of course, that we must travel via the prolonged burning of jet-fuel to and from said festival, but that is a way of life for artists based in the less-occupied geographic regions of North America. For now, at least). We were fortunate to participate in the I Light Symposium somewhere in the last several days (understandings of time melting as we slip between time zones).
Sustainability is irrevocably tied to an obsession with “The Future.” According to Prof.