Performance]]> A Passage to Dreamworld is a public programme held in conjunction with Passages, an exhibition of the second cycle of SEA AiR – Studio Residencies for Southeast Asian artists in the European Union. Featuring artists Priyageetha Dia (Singapore), Ngoc Nau (Vietnam) and Saroot Supasuthivech (Thailand) and their artworks Sap SonicVirtual Reverie: Echoes of a Forgotten Utopia and Spirit-forward in G Major, the exhibition is a culmination of their residencies in Europe.]]> Priyageetha Dia]]> Ngoc Nau]]> Nguyen Hong Ngoc]]> Saroot Supasuthivech]]> Video]]> Audio]]> Southeast Asia]]> Ritual]]> Performance]]> Artistic Research]]> Wrapping up our On AiR series for Cycle 10, we visit Artist-in-Residence Irfan Kasban in his residency studio that he affectionately calls ���� �� �����������.
He shares about the feelings of burnout that led him to his current inquiry into performance as ritual healing, and ponders upon the potential of his studio as a welcoming space that alleviates the pressures of daily life for its visitors. Irfan also opens up about the different community programmes he’s hosted such as ������� ������ and ���� ����� ���� ����.]]>
Irfan Kasban]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Race]]> Performance]]> Artistic Research]]>
Find out more about Shahmen and the research he has been undertaking at https://ntu.ccasingapore.org/residency/shahmen-suku/]]>
Shahmen Suku]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Performance]]> Technology]]> A Passage to Dreamworld  
20 January 2024, 4.00 – 5.30pm
Blk 38 Malan Road, Gillman Barracks
Singapore 109441

This public programme will start punctually at 4.00pm. Please arrive at least 10min before time to secure a space. Admittance will be on a first-come-first-served basis.  

A Passage to Dreamworld is a public programme held in conjunction with Passages, an exhibition of the second cycle of SEA AiR – Studio Residencies for Southeast Asian artists in the European Union. Featuring artists Priyageetha Dia (Singapore), Ngoc Nau (Vietnam) and Saroot Supasuthivech (Thailand) and their artworks Sap SonicVirtual Reverie: Echoes of a Forgotten Utopia and Spirit-forward in G Major, the exhibition is a culmination of their residencies in Europe.

As an extension of the exhibition, A Passage to Dreamworld takes audiences through a performative journey into a liminal realm where reality and imagination intertwine. In creating a space where creative impulses take place, fresh perceptions can be formed to give way to new possibilities.   

Priyageetha Dia will perform a reading from her work Sonified Vision, which looks into the sonification of visual material, accompanied with a live-mixing of sound samples from Sap Sonic. Ngoc Nau presents a two-channel projection drawn from additional footage alongside Virtual Reverie: Echoes of a Forgotten Utopia, and a sound performance on traditional Vietnamese instruments against a mix of soundtracks by her collaborator Dustin Ngo, a Vietnamese sound producer and instrumentalist. Saroot Supasuthivech’s video The Ritual of Life and Music shows the process of a Thai Buddhist monk making holy water and chanting the prayer Ratana Sutta, a sacred verse addressing the contemplation of the Triple Gem: Buddha, Dharma (the teachings), and Sangha (the monastic Buddhist community); followed by a live performance of Sai Samon, a Thai song featured in Spirit-forward in G Major, on the khlui (a Thai flute), by Thai musician Udom Kiattivikrai.  

In view of the public programme that is held within the exhibition spaces, Passages will not be on view while the programme is ongoing.

Singapore Art Week 2024 Late Night programme: SPIRIT WORLD 
From 7.00pm till late 
Blk 38 Malan Road, #01-05, Singapore 109441

Responding to sounds from artist Priyageetha Dia’s Sap Sonic, DJs DIA.HRD (the artist herself), FATIMAH, C2AC and ALEEZON will perform a live mix evolving into free play as an activation of the exhibition space.

19:00 DIA.HRD
20:00 FATIMAH
21:00 ALEEZON
22:00 C2AC

SPIRIT WORLD is a space for everyone, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, or background. This includes respecting personal space and boundaries. Discriminatory behaviour will not be tolerated.

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Priyageetha Dia]]> Ngoc Nau]]> Nguyen Hong Ngoc]]> Saroot Supasuthivech]]> Sound]]> Southeast Asia]]> Europe]]>
Performance]]>
Contributors: Irfan Kasban, Syaheedah Iskandar
Editor: Magdalena Magiera
Programme Manager: Nadia Amalina
Sound Engineer: Ashwin Menon
Intro & Outro Music: Zachary Chan
Cover Image & Design: Arabelle Zhuang, Kristine Tan ]]>
Irfan Kasban]]> Syaheedah Iskandar]]> Magdalena Magiera]]> Nadia Amalina]]> Ashwin Menon]]> Zachary Chan]]> Arabelle Zhuang]]> Kristine Tan]]> Podcast]]> https://www.buzzsprout.com/1845756/14463494-aircast-17-irfan-kasban]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Performance]]> Race]]>
Contributors: Shahmen Suku, Moses Tan
Editor: Magdalena Magiera
Programme Manager: Nadia Amalina
Sound Engineer: Ashwin Menon
Intro & Outro Music: Zachary Chan
Cover Image & Design: Arabelle Zhuang, Kristine Tan ]]>
Shahmen Suku]]> Moses Tan]]> Magdalena Magiera]]> Nadia Amalina]]> Ashwin Menon]]> Zachary Chan]]> Arabelle Zhuang]]> Kristine Tan]]> Podcast]]> https://www.buzzsprout.com/1845756/14418127-aircast-16-shahmen-suku]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Performance]]> Rosemainy Buang]]> Southeast Asia]]> Performance]]> Residencies Studio Sessions

Second Heaven Revelations (working title)
open rehearsal by Artist-in-Residence Zachary Chan, in collaboration with Rosemainy Buang, voice and sound and, Ricky Lee, visuals.
Duration: approx. 50 minutes

Friday, 27 January 2023
7.00-8.00pm
Block 37 Malan Road, #01-01

During his five-month residency, Zachary Chan has been researching the religion that most influenced the early stages of his spiritual upbringing, Pentecostal Christianity. After resulting in the installation recently presented at Residencies OPEN (14-15 January 2023), this research continued to evolve organically and is now taking the shape of a performance. Staged in the artist’s Residencies Studio, this collaborative work-in-progress shines new meanings onto the installation itself lending voices, sounds, and visuals to personal narratives, historical anecdotes, religious texts, demonological doctrines, and spiritual mapping theories related to this specific religious denomination. The spoken part, recited by Zachary Chan, will be punctuated by sulukan—the mood setting songs of the gamelan tradition—performed by both the artist and Rosemainy Buang and it will accompanied by the kaleidoscopic visual sequences of Ricky Lee.

Free entry in order of arrival until full capacity.

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Zachary Chan]]> Rosemainy Buang]]> Ricky Lee]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Performance]]> 5 Apr 2014, Sat 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Visual Snow (2014) is an important installment in Shubigi Rao’s ongoing biographical study of S. Raoul1, which, for the first time, will examine his work in the context of the disappearing film.

1 S. Raoul acted as if the world needed obscure scholarship, freed from economic and nationalist imperatives, liberated from any agenda save that of furthering said scholarship, a form of quiet activism that has numerous historical precedents and antecedents. S. Raoul was also a mentor and patron of sorts to the younger Rao, who eventually became his biographer.

A public programme of The Disappearance.]]>
Shubigi Rao]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Ways of Seeing]]> Performance]]> Jean Cocteau]]> Europe]]>