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Free Jazz IV. Geomancers Screening Programme: Inventing Miracle: The Rice to Power, Chu Hao Pei (Singapore)
Blk 38 Malan Road, The Single Screen2021, Single Channel Video, HD, 9'59"A dietary mainstay across Asia, rice is the common grain which is familiar to all. Inventing Miracle: The Rice to Power unpacks relations between rice and politics in Southeast…
Free Jazz IV. Geomancers Screening Programme: And a Great Sign Appeared, Robert Zhao Renhui (Singapore)
Blk 38 Malan Road, The Single Screen2021, HD video, sound, colour, 4 min 52 secIn ancient times, the observation of birds in flight was used in divinatory practices to decipher the present and foretell the future. And A Great Sign Appeared captures…
Free Jazz IV. Geomancers Screening Programme: earth, land, sky and sea as palimpsest, Zarina Muhammad & Zachary Chan (both Singapore)
Blk 38 Malan Road, The Single Screen2021, video, colour, sound, 17 min 37 secFilmed in Singapore, earth, land, sky and sea as palimpsest is an invitation to cross thresholds and observe the unobservable: to see with our skin, hear with our feet, and…
Free Jazz IV. Geomancers Screening Programme: Cheopcheopdamdam Iyagigeuk Mountain Storytellers, Storytelling Mountains: A Tale Theatre, Rice Brewing Sisters Club (South Korea)
Blk 38 Malan Road, The Single Screen2020, HD video, colour, sound, 15 min 37 secRealised in collaboration with local residents, the first experimental video of the collective Rice Brewing Sisters Club weaves together oral histories, folk tales,…
Free Jazz IV. Geomancers Screening Programme: Semente Exterminadora, Pedro Neves Marques (Portugal)
Blk 38 Malan Road, The Single Screen2017, video, 2K, colour, sound, 28 min
Semente Exterminadora (Exterminator Seed) is a piece of speculative fiction that envisions a near future where human life unfolds among ecological disasters, transgenic…
Free Jazz IV. Geomancers Screening Programme: Can Sound be Currency?, Liu Chuang (China)
Blk 38 Malan Road, The Single Screen2021, video, 2K, colour, stereo, 19 min 43 secSince time immemorial, mountains have been regarded as sacred sites across different cultures and they have inspired a wealth of myths, rituals, and religions. In Can…
Free Jazz IV. Geomancers Screening Programme: The Teaching of the Hands, Caroline Caycedo (United Kingdom/United States) & David de Rozas (Spain/United States)
Blk 38 Malan Road, The Single Screen2020, HD panoramic video, colour, surround sound, 47 minThe Teaching of the Hands is an experimental documentary that overwrites colonial cartographies and extractivist economies with the cosmological consciousness…
Free Jazz IV. Geomancers Screening Programme: Acoustic Ocean, Ursula Biemann (Switzerland)
Blk 38 Malan Road, The Single Screen2018, video, 4K, colour, sound, 18 minAcoustic Ocean explores the underwater soundscape of the Lofoten Islands in Northern Norway bringing us closer to the acoustic life of this “insomniac territory” for long…
Free Jazz IV. Geomancers Screening Programme: Panangatan 11°09’53.3”N 123°42’40.5”E 2019-10-24 Thu 6:42 am PST 1.29 meters high tide, 2019-10-12 Sat 10:26 am PST 1.40 meters high tide, Martha Atienza (Philippines)
Blk 38 Malan Road, The Single Screen
2019, HD video, no sound, 9 min
The short cut of a mesmerizing 307-minute long video, Martha Atienza’s work is a coastal circumnavigation of Panangatan, a small island off the shores of Bantanyan Island, at…
2019, HD video, no sound, 9 min
The short cut of a mesmerizing 307-minute long video, Martha Atienza’s work is a coastal circumnavigation of Panangatan, a small island off the shores of Bantanyan Island, at…
Residencies AiRCAST Episode #5: Han Xuemei
For our fifth episode of AiRCAST, we entrusted curator and scholar Hsu Fang-Tze to pick the mind of our Artist-in-Residence Han Xuemei. In their insightful exchange, Xuemei discusses how her urgency for engagement steers her fluid theatre practice…