Karaoke Court Coat of Arms, Institute of Contemporary Arts (Singpaore, 2015)

Karaoke Court by Jack Tan

About• An evening performance and arbitration

conceived by artist, Jack Tan. Presented as part of his exhibition How to do things with rules, the performance features local participants performing their own versions of songs in order to resolve neighbor, friend or family disputes. Overseen by a real-life lawyer and arbitrator, the performance also invites audience members to judge which participant should win for each case.

Jack Tan

List of cases and litigans

Jury voting card

Case 1: piano teacher and piano student

Client: Fran-Ho

A piano teacher, wants her daughter to practice piano daily while students only

wishes to practice 3-4 times per week.

Case 2: band manager and member

Client: Olivia Kwok

A piano teacher, wants her daughter to practice piano daily while students only

wishes to practice 3-4 times per week.

Case 3: contemporary art and traditional art

Client: Mary He

Mary He is modern, moving forward wants to include contemporary music into

classes, whereas Mary Qiu prefers traditional music and

only wishes to practice traditional music.

Case 4: curfew issue

Client: Pamela Ng

Pamela Ng likes to party and hang out with friends till

late, but her mum, Pauline Ng, wishes her to come back

before midnight.

Case 5: Cold weather and Warm weather

Client: Emilee

Emilee wants to visit a tropical climate area while her friend, Fiona wants to

visit a country that has cold weather for their upcoming

holiday trip

Case 6: Jazz music and Pop music

Client: Nicole

Nicole loves jazz music while Gregory loves pop music.

Who will be able to convince each other to try out their favourite music over the

dispute?