Alexandre Singh’s practice is restless and discursive, encompassing a wide range of media, including installation, performance, literature, collage, and video. Underlying his multifaceted approach is an interest in challenging traditional, linear modes of storytelling. Inspired by figures such as Aleister Crowley, an early twentieth-century British occultist; Giordano Bruno, a seventeenth-century Italian friar and mystic who was renowned for his mastery of the art of memory; and writers of comic works such as Molière and Laurence Sterne, Singh has developed a process that bears no small resemblance to Internet hypertext. Throughout his work, one subject branches off to another in unpredictable ways. His novel about the founder of the sporting goods company Adidas, The Marque of the Third Stripe (2010), is tinged with decidedly Gothic elements of mystery, horror, and the supernatural. He collaborated on Hello Meth Lab in the Sun (2008), an immersive, large-scale installation, with artists Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, and he has also delivered lectures that subvert the traditional academic format in entertaining and provocative ways. His play, The Humans (2013), which was accompanied by a group of photographs, sketches, watercolors, and bronze sculptures, presents a fantastical creation story that draws on the literary and philosophical cannons. Whether Singh’s work takes the form of a lecture, a novel, or an installation of framed photocopy collages, as in Assembly Instructions (An Immodern Romanticism) (2009), it has the feel of a journey with many unexpected detours, leading not to a neat conclusion, but to an open-ended platform from which many potential interpretations and ideas may be discerned and pursued for further investigation. Singh has had solo shows at White Columns, New York (2007); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2011); and The Drawing Center, New York (2013). Collaborations include Hello Meth Lab in the Sun at the Ballroom, Marfa, Texas, and UNCLEHEAD (with Rita Sobral Campos) at the Museu da Eletricidade, Lisbon (both 2008). His work has been included in group exhibitions at The Drawing Center, New York (2009); Contemporary Museum, Baltimore (2009); Performa Biennial, New York (2009); Manifesta, Murcia, Spain (2010); New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2010); Museo Marino Marini, Florence (2010); Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong (2010); Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada (2010); Torrance Art Museum, California (2010); P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA PS1), New York (2010); Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels (2013); Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (2014); the Lyon Biennial (2014); and The Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum Biennial, Beijing (2014). The Humans (2013) has been performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York (2013), and the Festival d’Avignon, France (2014), among other venues. Singh lives and works in New York.