One Man Nation

“Chia’s artistic identity is one that defies the artificial borders and boundaries of the modern nation state. Going beyond the notion of the individual simply as a constituent of a nation and its projected cultural identity, he bypasses the need for mass appeal or approval and instead subscribes to the independent nature that characterizes folk – the resistance to a canon.” June Yap

Marc Chia a.k.a One Man Nation (b.1982, Singapore) is a musician with a background in media and sound art who graduated from the Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam, NL). He investigates social and psychological situations related to tradition and its progression, the future through the eyes of history, and spirituality in technology via the medium of sound and performance.

He currently splits his time between Europe and Asia where he is developing The Future Sounds Of Folk in collaboration with Steim as well as co-directing The UnifiedFieldcollective and art space in Granada (Spain) with Marta Moreno Munoz.

Past and current collaborations include but not limited to Pierre Bastien, Shaun Sankaran, C-drik Fermont, Tarek Atoui, Kato Hideki, Damo Suzuki, Hilary Jeffrey, Olaff Kehler,Richard Scott, Katie Duck, Alfredo Genovesi, Soopa Collective, Iman Zimbot, Bambu Wukir and has performed internationally at festivals such as ISEA (Ruhr), Mapping (Geneva), Piksel (Bergen), MEM (Bilbao), STEIM Jamboree (Amsterdam), Makeart (Poitiers), Fete 0.1 (OrlÈans) and SummerLAB (Gijon).

Check out his website www.onemannation.com